2Nd Coming. Again. Catherine Bohart
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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 London, 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 Edinburgh 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 Gilded Balloon Teviot (Venue 14) Roundabout @Summerhall (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 of Séance. 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 Traverse Theatre (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.