2ND COMING. AGAIN. DI & VIV & ROSE (IN AN HOUR) HENRY IT’S NOT CUTE ANYMORE 2nd Hand News Theatre Handmade Theatre Blind Summit Written by Bel Knight and Clare Hoey / Mum Brigade PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court (Venue 277) C venues – C cubed (Venue 50) Pleasance Dome (Venue 23) Underbelly, Cowgate (Venue 61) 16-23 August, 9.00pm 2-14 August, 5.55pm 11-26 August, 3.30pm 2-12, 14-26 August, 1.20pm Two people are led to believe they are the second A courageous look at the enduring bond of friendship. Multi-award winning puppetry innovators Blind Summit present Giving up on your dreams isn’t always the worst thing in the coming. They (and you) need to work out who Together three women rollercoaster their way through Henry, a three person, one puppet theatrical memoire from beyond world…This fresh and vulgar comedy follows two deluded girls it is using evidence and stories told by people life, encountering sex, loss and all kinds of love. Following the grave. Set within a masterclass on ‘puppetry possession’, who face the indignities of reaching for the stars and fears of from their past in this (slightly) immersive party a sell-out run in , Handmade Theatre’s new master puppeteer Mark Down, flanked by two sinister, hooded waning potential. performance. condensed version of Amelia Bullmore’s Di and Viv and puppeteers, tears up the puppetry rule book again. Rose is their debut.

3 YEARS, 1 WEEK AND A LEMON FALKLAND – THE WAR THE WORLD JUST THESE, PLEASE DRIZZLE FORGOT HOW TO SPOT AN ALIEN Just These, Please Written by Georgia Christou / Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd Alexandra Donnachie Tasty Monster Productions Teviot (Venue 14) Roundabout @ (Venue 26) Underbelly – Bristo Square (Venue 302) Greenside – Nicolson Square (Venue 209) 1-19, 21-27, August, 12.15pm 1-12, 14-27 August, 2.45pm 13-18, 20-25 August, 1.50pm 4-5, 11-12, 18-19, 25-26 August, 11.30am Charming new sketch group seek friendly audience for their Why isn’t anyone allowed in the attic? Jelly and Jonjo are Explores Alexandra and her sister Kate’s relationship at a time Two unlikely friends find a camaraderie against a backdrop of Edinburgh debut. Looking to share one hour of passion followed suspicious. Maybe Aunt Leina has something to hide. A when Alexandra was living with anorexia. When Alexandra bitter conflict, questionable politics and moral debate waged by a lifetime of mutual appreciation. 25 cleverly crafted sketches fantastical search for alien life in a quest full of fun, friendship (finally) asked Kate what ‘that time’ was like for her, she began overseas. The extraordinary story of the ordinary people of a in 55 minutes from an ensemble with chemistry that would and flying saucers. cooking up ideas for this autobiographical show – before Kate tiny island at the bottom of the world and the war that changed impress your old A-Level teacher. agreed to be in it. their lives and landscape forever. Inspired by real events.

ADVENTURERS WANTED: REBELLION I’LL HAVE WHAT SHE’S HAVING Total Party Kill! in association with Sweet Productions FALLOUT LADYKILLER Katie Richardson Jess Brodie and Victoria Bianchi Sweet Novotel – Novotel 1 (Venue 188) The Thelmas Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix (Venue 146) Assembly George Square Studios (Venue 17) 2-26 August, 10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, 1.30pm Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) 2-26 August, 2.45pm 2-12, 14-19, 21-27 August, 12.15pm Tabletop role-playing games meets live storytelling in an 1-12, 15-27 August, 1.00pm It’s not the end of the world! Join the last survivors of the Victoria and Jess LOVE. THEIR. LIVES. Honestly. They just want a improvised epic brought to life over a whole month. Witness A chambermaid, a hotel room and a dead woman. It’s not global catastrophe in Lotta Quizeen’s boutique bunker. bit of what the other has. That doesn’t mean they’re unhappy, the legend unfold over 100 individual hour-long shows, or what it looks like, really it’s not. It was self-defence….Ladykiller With endurance skills and strategies for planet repopulation, right? This darkly funny, deeply moving and brutally honest play yourself! Adventurers Wanted is designed to be open and is a blood-soaked tale about social responsibility, zero hours Lotta is in control. Or is she? She’s under a lot of strain: being devised performance explores contemporary womanhood and accessible. The story that gets told is down to the players: there’s contracts and ‘victimhood’; a jet-black comedy in a gig economy. locked underground may not be the sanest idea… asks why every decision we make can feel like the wrong one. no way of knowing what will happen!

THE BACCHANALS FLIGHT THE IMPROVISED PANTO! LOST IN THOUGHT Mikra Theatricals Darkfield Very Serious People Chatback Theatre and Comedy theSpace @Surgeon’s Hall (Venue 53) Summerhall (Venue 26) Paradise in the Vault (Venue 29) Underbelly Cowgate (Venue 61) 13-18, 20-25 August, 8.25pm 1-26 August, times vary 13-18, 20-26 August, 9.40pm 2-12, 14-26 August, 6.40pm Mikra Theatricals invite you to draw back the curtain and take a In the unlikely event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, next of The panto that you control! Very Serious People use your Felicity’s on a fantastic date... except she’s stuck in the restaurant peek backstage into a world of paranoia, madness and drama. kin and an extra pillow will be provided. We’re not responsible suggestions to improvise a brand-new musical pantomime every toilet, trapped by nothing but her own alarming thoughts. If The Bacchanals is a dark comedy which toys with classical for your final destination. Flight takes place in a shipping single night. It’s a raucous night of fun and fantasy you’ll never living in her brain is this difficult, how is she ever going to live a traditions and texts while exploring the gender politics of container in absolute darkness, lasting 30 minutes. Created by forget. Boo villains, cheer heroes and beware the dame as you normal adult life? A new play from Lucy Danser about invisible theatre. A piece of new writing, inspired by Euripides’ Bacchae. Darkfield, the creators ofSéance . help your characters get their happily ever after! illness, stigma and motherly love.

GRACE NOTES LOVE SONG TO LAVENDER MENACE CATHERINE BOHART: IMMACULATE James Ley Written and performed by Becky Williams IN ADDITION Catherine Bohart / Chambers Touring Orange Skies Theatre Summerhall (Venue 26) TheSpace on the Mile (Venue 39) Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) Underbelly, Cowgate (Venue 61) 1-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-26 August, 12:55pm 1-13, 15-26 August, 4.15pm 3-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25 August, 3.05pm 2-12, 14-26 August, 10.50am After a sell-out run at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Meet Grace Miller. Gobby, brash and a talented pianist. Just out Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of an Irish Set in a near-future Britain where healthcare is privatised, Scotland’s 80s gay romantic comedy hit is back! A funny, of prison, she is determined to get her broken life back together. Catholic Deacon and she’s got a hell of a lot to say about it. BBC a young couple’s relationship is quietly pulled apart by an celebratory play about Scotland’s radical, lesbian, gay and A convicted killer, Grace still has old wounds to heal and bitter New Comedy Award Finalist 2016. BBC New Talent Hotlist 2017. aggressive lack of sleep. Shortlisted for the LET Award 2018. feminist bookshop that began in the cloakroom of Scotland’s scores to settle. A powerful and gripping one-woman show. Book ‘Pretty much the perfect comedy package’ (Beyond The Joke). ‘Powerful... surreal and original’ – Eastern Daily Press. first gay nightclub and became the beating heart of Edinburgh’s online or at the venue. LGBT+ community.

DANGEROUS GIANT ANIMALS THE GRIMM TRUTH [INSERT SLOGAN HERE] Christina Murdock B-Rack Theatre Company YESYESNONO MEEK Underbelly (Venue 61 & 302) theSpace @Niddry St (Venue 9) ZOO Charteris (Venue 124) Headlong in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre 2-12, 14-26 August, times vary 13-18 August, 1.15pm 3-19 August, 6.10pm (Venue 15) 31 July, 4-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-26 August, times vary A kick. A scream. A tantrum. When it comes to disability, what’s The Grimm Tales are wildly reimagined in this exciting retelling In 2016, Volvo launched their Human Made marketing campaign. allowed? What’s forbidden? This is a middle-child story of the using themes from modern Britain. From child sexual exploitation New adverts focused on individual human lives. School children. When private lives become political, Irene must make a brutal extraordinary range of experience that comes from growing to mental health and everything in between, these are fairytales Explorers. Factory workers. Global sales increased by 20%. This decision. The exhilarating Headlong (People, Places and Things) up too soon, alongside a sister who will never grow up. A for the new age. Using song, text, puppetry and theatrical play, is an attempt to do the same. With live music and video artistry, presents Penelope Skinner’s haunting vision of ruthless state provocative new solo show and a darkly comedic game of hide- this is a story from hundreds and hundreds of years ago told as a award-winning YESYESNONO return with a fevered excavation of control and one woman’s determination not to be broken. and-seek with our true nature. story for our time. adverts, objects, memory and identity.

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NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU Clare McCall / Free Festival 2018

WELCOME This Noise Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters (Venue 272)

Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) 3-11 August, 9.00pm 1-27 August, 12.30pm the fringe fringe the

Founded in 1906, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is a @izzybaby1991: You’re invited to a very special 27th birthday AT

world-leading conservatoire at the forefront of training and research in An insomniac watching TV in a language he doesn’t understand; party. One I promise you won’t forget!’ Social Media Suicide is a

a woman stood in a garden stretching her arms to the sky.

the Dramatic Arts. Each year our alumni and students take a wide range of darkly comic one-woman show about the lengths a girl will go Breaking Out winner and Charlie Hartill Award Finalist, new for online fame. Clare McCall’s debut show explores the legacy

shows to Edinburgh, and included in this publication is just a small selection play No One Is Coming To Save You is the hypnotic story of of the infamous 27 Club alongside the millennial struggle with students of those that will be there for you to enjoy this year. what we’re waiting for and why we’re waiting. social media addiction. The shows listed here include involvement from Central alumni or students and alumni

in a variety of different roles; for example writer, performer, producer,

designer, and as technical, lighting and stage management/backstage ONCE SEEN ON BLUE PETER STICKS AND STONES expertise, and we’re very proud to share and promote their work. Cahoots Theatre Company Central Written by Vinay Patel / Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd Assembly Rooms (Venue 20) Roundabout @ Summerhall (Venue 26) We’re also pleased once again to be hosting our annual Central Party 4-12, 14-26 August, 2.50pm 1-3, 5-6, 8-11, 13, 15-17, 19-20, 22-25 August, times vary in Edinburgh in celebration of the festival. If you’re Central alumni or Makes, Bakes and Outtakes. On 16 October 1958, Blue Peter Sometimes we can’t find the right words. Sometimes the wrong sailed onto our TV screens. 60 years and over 5,000 episodes a student, we’d be delighted to see you at this event – please contact word just slips out. Sometimes the right words become the later, an elite group of ex-presenters gather to receive an award [email protected] for full details. wrong words. Sometimes that ruins everything. A razor- celebrating this extraordinary anniversary. A blisteringly funny sharp satire about the search for a sure footing in an and poignant tribute to the world’s longest-running children’s PROFESSOR GAVIN HENDERSON CBE, PRINCIPAL uncertain world from BAFTA-nominated Vinay Patel. TV programme.

TWEET WITH US AT THE FRINGE PYG A TRILOGY OF HORRORS FramBag TumbleDry Theatre @CSSDLondon #CSSDEdinburgh Greenside @ Nicholson Square (Venue 209) Scottish Storytelling Centre (Venue 30) 13-18 August, 12.40pm 2-12 August, 7.30pm For a full list of Edinburgh shows featuring Central alumni A twist on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Cross- TumbeDry Theatre present three classic horror stories from and students see www.cssd.ac.uk/content/central-edinburgh-2017 dressed cast explore Shaw’s explosive use of language three great writers – Dickens’ haunting The Signal Man, Shelley’s and the impact of dress on gender. tragic The Mortal Immortal and Poe’s chilling The Tell-Tale Heart.

THE UNBINDING Mess – An Original Musical RACHEL PARRIS’ MUSICAL COMEDY CLUB Wrong Shoes Theatre Company Roar Toast Productions Rachel Parris. Live Nation in association with Troika C venues – C cubed (Venue 50) Greenside @ Nicholson Square (Venue 209) Pleasance Dome (Venue 23) 2-11 August, 4.35pm 3-11, 13-18 August, 5.15pm 14, 21, 23 August, times vary Four women accused of witchcraft are locked together awaiting Rachel’s life is a MESS and her best friend Adam always For three nights only, award-winning musical comedian and star their sentence in the shadows. They don’t know who they can seems to have his life together. Following an unexpected turn of BBC Two’s The Mash Report, Rachel Parris, presents a late-night trust or who will survive… Wrong Shoes Theatre Company invites of events, she turns up at his flat in the early hours of the jamboree of tunes, including some of her own comic anthems, you into a dark and spellbinding world, where those who dare to morning, but is she really the only one who is struggling? plus a selection of guests from the comedy and cabaret circuit. stand out from the crowd are treated with hatred and suspicion.

WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF NELE NEEDS A HOLIDAY: THE MUSICAL SKIN A CAT Traverse Theatre Company, Raw Material in association Compagnie Cornelius, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan Rive Productions Ltd with Regular Music Productions, TRP, RBC Assembly Rooms (Venue 20) Traverse Theatre (Venue 15) Summerhall (Venue 26) 2-12, 14-25 August, 4.10pm 3-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-26 August, times vary 1, 3-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-26 August, 10.15pm Follow Alana’s awkward sexual odyssey with a kaleidoscope of In 1992 a schoolgirl from Fife was catapulted to a rock star A Belgian popstar moves to London to steal the job of British off-kilter characters: from her first period freaking out her frantic life in an indie band. Touring with Radiohead, partying popstars. Luckily, austerity is there to stop her. A satirical pop mother, to bad porn with her best friend’s boyfriend, to a painful with Blur, she was living the dream. Until she wasn’t. opera about a girl who turns her life into an international mess examination by a cheery gynaecologist – all in pursuit of losing This is the true story of Cora Bissett’s rollercoaster journey Based in north London, The Royal Central School of Speech and because she wants to be famous on the other side of the Channel. her virginity and becoming a woman. Whatever that means… from the girl she was to the woman she wanted to be. Drama is an international leader for drama, performance and theatre arts. Our alumni can be found in theatre, film, television, the music industry, and in education and community arts organisations. NEWSREVUE THE SQUIRREL PLAYS USER NOT FOUND Part of the Main DanteOrDie Central offers an extensive portfolio of undergraduate and Canal Café Theatre / Emma Taylor Traverse at Jeelie Piece Café (Venue 526) Underbelly, George Square (Venue 300) C venues – C cubed (Venue 50) postgraduate degrees and short courses. 3-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-26 August, 8.00pm 2-14, 16-27 August, 5.45pm 2-12, 14-27 August, 7.10pm Newlyweds Tom and Sarah are definitely not squirrel people. So Would you delete your online legacy at the moment of your Further information is on our website www.cssd.ac.uk. Nobody is safe. Politicians and celebrities alike come under death? USER NOT FOUND is a pioneering and intimate new fire in a turbo-charged barrage of bladder-threateningly funny when they discover a critter in their attic, they’re faced with a play performed through smartphones and headphones. material. NewsRevue is a Guinness World Record-breaking, marriage-testing decision: to exterminate, or not to exterminate? Using absurdist humour and emotional truth, award-winning A collaboration with inimitable writer Chris Goode, you become This leaflet was printed in advance of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the content was accurate at the time. news-based song and sketch show, flawlessly delivered by a fly-on-the-wall of one man faced with keeping or deleting All content, including images, is the responsibility of the respective originators and not Central. outstanding performers at lightning speed. playwright Mia McCullough explores how different women approach reproductive choice. in this powerful and intimate new production.