Tag Archives: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016

Théâtre de la Pire Espèce: Ubu on the Table

August 23rd, 2016 by

Adapted and performed by Olivier Ducas and Francis Monty (Théâtre de la Pire Espèce), Ubu on the Table recreates Alfred Jarry’s 19th century farce, Ubu Roi with puppetry, clowning and chaotic kitchen utensils. Two messy prop tables that look like something from Kitchen Nightmares frame a central table covered in a black table cloth. At each […]

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Java Dance Theatre: Back of the Bus

August 22nd, 2016 by

Back of the Bus is an irreverent and engaging site-specific dance performance. The audience arrive at a scheduled meeting point in the city, and when we get to the site we find a tour guide holding up a placard. So even before we reach the bus, the performance has begun – we area group sharing […]

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Zöe Murtagh and Tory Copeland: Sacré Blue

August 22nd, 2016 by

Zöe Murtagh performs a coming-of-age piece (created in collaboration with Tory Copeland), in which she talks us through her realisation of her own anxiety, and what that means, having completed a course of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She takes to the microphone and talks openly and frankly about what it feels like to know that you […]

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Show and Tell Live / Puddles Pity Party: Let’s Go!

August 22nd, 2016 by

I’m not sure that there can be much better in life than watching a clown who looks one minute away from an epic breakdown warbling out cabaret classics in a deep velvety baritone, whilst a montage of film clips in adoration of Kevin Costner plays in the background… Lets Go! contains all of this, plus […]

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Pentire Street Productions: Rubber

August 22nd, 2016 by

This is a deeply affecting, highly realistic and immersive production. The action of this incredibly intense two-hander exploring the sex trade takes place entirely in a car driven round the suburbs of Edinburgh by an actor, with one other actor in the car, plus only two audience members as passengers. This is itself obviously highly […]

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