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Welcome to our 2019 Festival

WELCOME to our 25th meant to be, every genre of live Festival Fringe. 1995 doesn't seem performance in one spectacular that long ago and the memories are programme. still strong of our first venue hosting 8 shows in what is still the most Above all we are very pleased enchanting venue in town 'Venue 45'. to be able to offer an experience that gives The fringe has moved on since those everyone coming to the fun days of the mid 90's when venue Fringe that unique and special staff and performers alike all mucked time that can only be found in in to embrace the ethos of the fringe Edinburgh during August. as a platform for passion and Whether it be at our very performance, the one aim to get the stylish venues or at work on and deliver one's very best our state-of-the-art hub at performance. theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, complete with its newly Whilst so much else has changed it’s designed court yard bar and with great pride that our ethos brand new spaces. absolutely remains buried in the roots of the Fringe as a platform for all. We We welcome you continue to offer the largest and most to our festival. diverse programme for new and original work and we encourage all to step away from the predictable fringe to experience the festival how it was

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2019 Programme 1 theSpace @ Venue45 Yards from the Royal Mile, the original fringe venue - 'the hidden gem of venues'. Enjoy an array of theatre, musicals, physical work and children’s shows. A must for all - and the original Fringe experience.

American High School Queen Mary Theatre Cathy: A Retelling of American High School Theatre Festival Company Wuthering Heights Theatre Festival ALMOST, MAINE AUTO-NATION CATHY: A RETELLING HEARTS LIKE FISTS In a fictitious town in Northern On the verge of a natural disaster, OF WUTHERING A female superhero-noir comedy Maine, the harsh realities and a prison guard is called into work HEIGHTS about the dangers of love. Full of absurd fantasies that defines love and discovers a newcomer to the This new musical tells of exciting stage combat, this live- in this day and age are explored team – an artificial intelligence Heathcliff and Cathy, two lovers action comic book follows the under the watchful eye of the named Sally. When the city is thwarted by family, society and adventures of the elite Northern Lights. evacuated, what happens to the God. A storm of vengeance brews Crimefighters in their attempt to prisoners? over the moors as their passionate defeat Doctor X. Aug 2 @ 5:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) romance transcends life and Aug 3 @ 7:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 12, 14, 16, 20, 22, 24 @ 6:05 PM - Aug 2 @ 3:50 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) death itself. Aug 5 @ 9:45 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 4 @ 6:20 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 6 @ 3:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 5 @ 9:50 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 19-24 @ 10:20 PM - £12.00 Aug 7 @ 1:50 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) (£10.00) Bubble Show for Adults Queen Mary Theatre Only Company Queen Mary Theatre BUBBLE SHOW FOR International Collegiate AT THIS STAGE Company ADULTS ONLY Theatre Festival presents Have you ever loved a show so IF I DIE ON MARS Bubble artistry, neo-burlesque Pan African Theatre much that you wished you could NASA, SpaceX and Mars One hope and a soapy concoction of kinky, Ensemble KSU kidnap all the actors, keep them to send the first humans to Mars, in-your-face theatrics. A raucous in your basement and get them to DIGITAL MASKS TO but will anyone ever be ready? and raunchy bubble affair with a perform it again for you? No? Just AFRICA – CHEIKH Meet the five candidates who story arc full that showcases the Rupert? ANTA DIOP: POEM have to decide whether space technical prowess of bubble art on FOR THE LIVING travel is worth the risk. a first-class level. Aug 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 @ 5:05 PM - Come experience a repatriation to £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 12, 14, 16, 20, 22, 24 @ 5:05 PM - Aug 12-15 @ 10:50 PM - £9.50 (£8.50) Africa with digital masks, the £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 16-17 @ 10:50 PM - £10.50 (£9.50) performing body, and multilingualism featuring African languages: Lingala, Twi, Yoruba, Wolof, representing a disembodied, yet unified, African diaspora.

Aug 3, 5 @ 3:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 6 @ 7:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 7 @ 9:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00)

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

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KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

Cat-Like Tread We Draman Group Cat O' Nine Tales American High School IOLANTHE Limited RESERVOIR DUGS Theatre Festival Expulsion, electioneering, LIFE. IN HONG KONG Scotland’s answer to a Tarantino THE HUMANS enchantment. Iolanthe takes Inspired by daily life: collaged classic. How will four criminals At Thanksgiving, the Blake family Gilbert and Sullivan into everyday scenes show the react when their jewellery heist gathers at the run-down parliament. Strephon loves different faces of Hong Kong. goes horribly wrong? Manhattan apartment in Phyllis, but dubious heritage Impressive work with laughter Chinatown of Brigid Blake and obstructs their happiness. Can his and tears touching the heart of Aug 9-17 @ 8:20 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) her boyfriend Richard. The family suspiciously youthful aunts win the metropolis. Full house at first members must deal with aging, the girl? Cat-Like Tread return for run! Best for first-time mime Queen Mary Theatre illness and a changing economy. the Fringe 2019 to elect a fairy explorers! Company member. Aug 2 @ 9:45 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 19-20 @ 12:50 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) ROCK'N'ROLL GIRLS Aug 4 @ 8:15 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 19-24 @ 8:25 PM - £12.00 (£10.00) Aug 21-24 @ 12:50 PM - £11.50 (£9.50) Meet the women behind Aug 5 @ 5:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) rock'n'roll’s most famous songs: Aug 7 @ 11:45 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) Lola, Eleanor Rigby, Brown Sugar, Champions Z Theatre Company Roxanne and Monica. This fast- Shakespeare: Reloaded ISIQALO – THE LUMINESCENCE paced, surreal comedy drama THE IMPORTANCE OF BEGINNING Luminescence, or Can You Spare a discovers the women behind the BEING EARNEST Through traditional dance, music Moment to Talk, displays a series names and the stories behind the Fresh from a sell-out run in Berlin and storytelling, 'Isiqalo' tells the of scenarios centred on the lyrics. comes this lively reimagining of story of young South Africans and anxieties of people and their Oscar Wilde’s sardonic comedy. the struggles they have faced in discussion of problems; stories Aug 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 @ 6:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Introducing a dash of rebellious recent decades. that range from awkward first dates to being sat outside a German counterculture to the Aug 12-17 @ 11:30 AM - £10.00 (£5.00) nightclub. proceedings, one should expect Cambridge University frivolous antics and shameless Aug 9-10, 12-16 @ 4:05 PM - £5.00 Musical Theatre Society high jinks. Susie K Taylor (£3.00) RUST JEWBANA ‘When you leave here, everything Aug 19-22 @ 10:10 AM - £8.00 (£5.00) The thrills and spills of a Miami else will be exactly the same. The YASPLZ LLC escape artist only thing that’s changed is you.’ US High School Right before your very eyes, Susie NOIR The company behind SiX brings THE LIAR K. Taylor will attempt an act like Wild new comedy by John this moving and life-affirming Lovers, gossips, duels, jealousy, no other: an escape... from Minigan reimagines Hamlet as a original musical about addiction, clowns and, of course, lies. The herself. This ego-defying thrill will wise-cracking 1940s detective up mental health services and Liar, by David Ives, is a feast for leave you breathless and to his neck in a comedic case with recovery to the Fringe. the eyes and a deluge for the ears laughing. Come watch her scale more twists than a gallows Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 1:55 PM - £10.00 in rhyming pentameter. great heights and crawl out of necktie. Boston Globe Critics' Pick! Edge Media's Best of Boston (£8.00) abysmal lows. Experience a Aug 2 @ 7:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) hurricane of cultural clash! Watch Aug 12 @ 12:40 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 3 @ 9:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) this Miami native navigate her Aug 13-17 @ 12:40 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) US High School Aug 6-7 @ 5:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) crazy Cuban and Jewish family. SHE KILLS MONSTERS Who will she be without She Kills Monsters tells the story The American High everything she was? Xiao Bai Art Co of Agnes who, after the death of School Theatre Festival QING SNAKE her sister, delves into a world of Aug 8-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 7:05 PM - THE PILLOWMAN Qing is a woman with multiple self-discovery and recovery by £9.50 (£6.00) An dark comedy personalities who is transformed means of her late sister's that illustrates the power of from a green snake. You will Dungeons and Dragons journal. storytelling when a writer in an explore the aesthetics of Chinese Let the adventures begin! folklore with her. Your shadow, unnamed totalitarian state is puppet and the relationship with Aug 2 @ 9:50 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) interrogated after the gruesome each other will be combined. Aug 3 @ 5:50 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) content of his stories are acted out Aug 5 @ 11:50 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) in real life. Aug 12-17 @ 10:15 AM - £12.00 Aug 7 @ 3:50 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) (£10.00) Aug 3, 5 @ 1:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 6 @ 9:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 7 @ 7:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) 4 2019 Programme 2019 Programme 5 theSpace @ Venue 45

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

American High School Jim Slips American High School Shenzhen Dramatic Theatre Festival THE WIND IN THE Theatre Festival English Theatre THE STINKY CHEESE WILLOWS WAIT WAIT BO BAIT Company MAN... AND OTHER Will Badger, Ratty and Mole keep Waiting, waiting.... What are you XCHANGE FAIRLY STUPID TALES Toad out of trouble? Will the waiting for? Christmas to come? A musical combining a traditional The Stinky Cheese Man and Other weasels be evicted from Toad Class to be over? The man of your Chinese story Raccoon for Prince Fairly Stupid Tales turns our most Hall? Stolen cars, prison breaks dreams? To be yelled at for and Mark Twain’s Prince and beloved fairy tales on their heads. and a cross-dressing amphibian setting the toilet on fire? Watched Pauper with different genres of Follow poor Jack the narrator for make for a fun family show. Poop- clocks never boil, you know... Chinese music and humorous this hilarious trip through poop! sense. Performed by children Aug 2 @ 12:00 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) fractured fairy tales. from Shenzhen, China. An artist Aug 19-24 @ 3:25 PM - £8.00 (£8.00) Aug 3, 6 @ 10:00 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 4 @ 2:30 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) atmosphere and different cultural Aug 3 @ 12:00 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) heritages. Aug 4 @ 10:30 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 6 @ 2:00 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) The Rhythm and Booze Z Theatre Company Aug 8-10 @ 5:40 PM - £10.00 (£6.00) Aug 7 @ 10:00 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) Project WHAT DOES LOVE TWO GUYS, THREE MEAN TO YOU? DRAMS: THE UP to something Grief is a tricky business and can ULTIMATE LIVE THE VILLAGE FATE make you do irrational things. But AND WHISKY Yes Fate! Let this laugh-out-loud what would happen if you had a nostalgic affair take you to a little EXPERIENCE human conscience or friend to village whose once traditional Join duo The Rhythm and Booze help you through the tough times fête has been turned on its head Project as they play a set of and help you? by vegan and new-age ideas. Has stomping blues music and serve family fun had its day? you three superb single malt Aug 9-10, 12-16 @ 3:05 PM - £5.00 scotches. Expect whisky, music (£3.00) Aug 20-24 @ 11:35 AM - £7.00 (£6.00) and mischief.

Aug 8-17 @ 9:25 PM - £16.00 (£15.00)

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The festival’s perfect location, right in the middle of it all. A selection of new-writing, theatre, comedy, musicals, improv and music across 3 quite fabulously smart spaces, all with glorious air conditioning!

Double Edge Drama Minotaur Theatre Avoiding the Dustbin Space One BACON Company CONSCIOUS Love that gives – and takes. BOTTOMS UP! Held captive in the laboratory Millennials and other Francis Bacon, the famous Shortly after discovering that where she was first conceived, the terrible things painter, forms a passionate leaders of religions don't have to AI Alice was created to serve. But 10:31, MCR relationship with a violent, pay taxes, Wayne realises he is when Alice doesn’t play into the 22nd May 2017, 10:31 pm. volatile young man named Jesus Christ reincarnated. In just goals of the investors, she Arena. A multitude of George Dyer. Bacon is roused one night, Wayne must convince threatens to dismantle the system voices and stories crowd the from his creative paralysis, yet this his swarm of new followers he is she was born to uphold. space, highlighting the socio- comes at a terrible price. the Son of God. Aug 12-17 @ 3:05 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) political consequences of the Aug 2-10 @ 3:05 PM - £12.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17 @ 4:05 PM - £8.00 attack. Navigating these is Girl (£6.00) One, and her need to make sense NeonBox Theatre of it all. The Biscuit Barrel Company BISCUIT BARREL: Cathy: A Retelling of DARK PLAY OR Aug 12-17 @ 2:10 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) DOUBLE STUFFED Wuthering Heights STORIES FOR BOYS Biscuit Barrel return to Edinburgh CATHY: A RETELLING An outsider at age fourteen, Nick A Drunken Sailor with an even naughtier 69 OF WUTHERING discovers the pleasures of BABY-GO-ROUND sketches in the space of an hour! HEIGHTS inventing fake personalities in the Time is ticking for Kate to have a Mercilessly outrageous; always This new musical tells of chat rooms of the World Wide baby. Georgia has a baby on hyperactive. 'Fast, slick and very Heathcliff and Cathy, two lovers Web and charms the gullible board. Amy just wants to feed her funny' ★★★★★ (The Derek thwarted by family, society and Adam into a cyber love affair. baby. Come aboard baby-go- Awards, Special Merit Award God. A storm of vengeance brews Aug 19-21 @ 10:00 AM - £6.00 (£5.00) round airlines and the fertility winner 2018). over the moors as their passionate rollercoaster of being – or not romance transcends life and Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 10:50 PM - £8.00 being – a mother. death itself. (£6.50) Elektric Apple

Aug 12-14 @ 6:05 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-4 @ 9:50 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) DEAR MR DEAD HEAD Aug 15-17 @ 6:05 PM - £12.00 (£10.00) Aug 5-10 @ 9:50 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Elektric Apple Theatre Company Aug 2-3, 8-10 @ 12:05 PM - £12.00 present Dear Mr Dead Head. Ten (£10.00) friends. One murder. Do they get Aug 5-7 @ 12:05 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) away with it? Let us show you what the learning disabled community can do!

Aug 2-3 @ 6:05 PM - £6.00 (£6.00) Aug 5-8 @ 6:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 9-10 @ 6:05 PM - £10.00 (£8.00)

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

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Open Barn Productions Drunken Brainstorm Jason Harvey Cruyff Turn Theatre DO YOU EVER GET HOW TO MEND THE MCNAUGHTON Company SCARED? WORLD (WITH A Steve Gooch’s piece centres MR NICE GUY Six actors. Six parts and the roll of STUDENT PLAY) around Daniel McNaughton, Local celebrity Jeremy Shaw is a dice. How can an accusation CATEGORY: THEATRE imprisoned for his botched shot on his way to work one change a life? This new comedy gives the attempt to assassinate Prime morning. He finds himself audience a fly-on-the-wall view of Minister Robert Peel. Lawyers questioning his morals whilst Aug 12-17 @ 1:05 PM - £10.00 (£5.00) the EATSONH university mixed want to use him as a test case for simultaneously bleeding out. Mr arts and performance society pleas of insanity in murder trials Nice Guy follows Jeremy's impact which became The McNaughton Lossie Elite Dance trying to (misguidedly) on others and his last hours of Rules. life. Company modernise Arthur Miller's The Crucible. See the production DODICI BALLERINI Aug 19-24 @ 7:00 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 5:15 PM - £6.00 meeting unfold in real time and Prepare to be dazzled by the (£4.00) witness the variety of concepts magical adventures of 12 masked and ideas put forward. dancers as they step into a All That I Am Company MEDEA SPEAKS PacArts Alumni mystical world where colour Aug 12-17 @ 9:55 PM - £8.00 (£7.00) means power and sparkle means Medea Speaks is a rallying cry to RELATIONAL, OR A everything. Super powers, super take the conversation begun by WRITER'S MISGUIDED heroes, super sparkle, super Opera Kipling #MeToo deeper and further. GUIDE TO LOVES LOST show! LOVE ME OUT: THE Franca Rame’s acclaimed AND FOUND OPERA interpretation of Medea is A writer puts together a series of Aug 12-17 @ 12:15 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) 100% my type on paper... or so directed by author and interactions between varying they thought. Opera Kipling campaigner Jennifer Nadel. characters to explore the present an innovative re- legitimacy of platonic Goat Theatre Aug 19-24 @ 12:10 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) relationships between men and EVERYMAN imagining of Mozart‘s classic women, which leads him and his A contemporary re-telling of the opera Cosi Fan Tutte set on the characters to examine these 15th-century morality play which island of Ferrando. Rebis / Performers: relationships and find new truths. visits three lost souls at their final Virginia Morini, Lorenzo Aug 19-23 @ 1:15 PM - £12.00 (£10.00) judgement. In the depths of their Travaglini Aug 6 @ 1:05 PM - £4.00 (£3.00) immorality all they have left is the MIRROR CANON Aug 7-10 @ 1:05 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) light, and it is getting darker. Hyacinth Theatre Where does your mind go while LOVE/SICK life happens? This performance Aug 19-24 @ 9:30 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) Ray Stafford and Andrew For the romantic, the cynic and will lead you on a journey inside the sick of heart: Love/Sick is a of your own self, with an Lake SECTION 28: THE Westonbirt School play about the kind of love you interactive approach to theatre with electronic music. LEGACY OF A GHOSTLY TALES won’t find in fairy tales. Dark, HOMOPHOBIC LAW Ghostly Tales are adaptations of funny and heartbreaking in equal Aug 19-24 @ 4:15 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) 1988. David, struggling to hide Victorian supernatural short measure, happy endings are far his sexuality, confides in his stories. Inspired by The Woman in from guaranteed. English teacher – until the Local Black, join pupils from Westonbirt Twisted Tales Aug 5-17 @ 10:00 AM - £7.00 (£5.00) Governments Act drives a wedge School as they take you on a MOBILE PHONE SHOW between them. And so David spine-chilling journey, combining 'Ladies and gentlemen, the makes a bold push back. live music and drama. Raiser Theatre performance is about to begin, MACBETH could I please ask you all to turn Aug 19-24 @ 8:20 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 19-22 @ 6:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Brave Macbeth and his wife plot your mobile phones ON. Thank to kill King Duncan and take the you.' Twisted Tales bring Jim Scottish throne. This fast-paced, Cartwright's provocative black stripped-down production of comedy to the Fringe. Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Aug 5-9 @ 11:05 AM - £6.00 (£4.00) speaks directly to our own divided times, where 'things bad begun make strong themselves by ill'.

Aug 19-24 @ 2:40 PM - £8.00 (£6.00)

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KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

University of Bristol Carthage College Redwood Productions Eastend Theatre Pantomime Society Theatre Program BEYOND GLORY Company SHAKESPEARE! THE UP AND AWAY Set against the backdrops of the CRUISE TO HELL PANTO Aspiring YouTube star Madison Vietnam War, World War II and Cruise to Hell: a dramatic true A side-splitting flashback to the McDoogle's attempt to rise out of the Korean War, Beyond Glory story. A family's holiday becomes 16th century, where the Bard of poverty and isolation is tells the stirring, emotional, and a nightmare. A path of discovery: Avon is holding auditions for his threatened by drug abuse and heroic true stories of eight how medicines and anaesthetics newest show. Fusing classic addiction and serves as a timely recipients of America’s highest can affect our mental health. pantomime with the works of the call to action about the rising military award, the Medal of Directed by Barbara Houseman. nation's best-loved playwright, heroin epidemic and its impact. Honor. Ticket proceeds donated to it's so bard it's good. charity, APRIL (www.april.org.uk). Aug 2-3, 5-7, 12-14 @ 8:15 PM - £6.00 Aug 2-3 @ 4:20 PM - £5.00 (£5.00)*Aug 5-7 @ 4:20 PM - £9.00 (£7.00)*Aug 8-10 Aug 2-3 @ 7:05 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) (£4.00) Aug 12-17 @ 5:45 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) @ 4:20 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 5-10, 12-17 @ 7:05 PM - £7.50 Aug 8-10, 15-17 @ 8:15 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) (£6.00) White Dog Theatre Fuzed Theatre Company Productions Life of Reilly Productions Hoghead Theatre BLOWN FUSE DEGREES OF GUILT THE LIFE OF REILLY Company 'It‘s becoming a status symbol Jade is a much-loved baby, but Growing up with autism can be VOLPONE today, the need to have a her young mother is unprepared difficult. Growing up with autism, Powerful forces of greed and problem.' A debating competition for motherhood and lacks a stressed mother, a father in deception clash in this explosive looms, and six characters all have support. Eventually, 17 floors up, denial and a granny who believes adaptation of Ben Johnson’s their arguments ready. Blown Jade suffers catastrophic injuries. all you need is a smacked classic comedy. In an outrageous Fuse is a fast paced, witty and But is the question of culpability backside is far worse... ploy to scam the wealthy elite of moving insight into life in 2019. as straightforward as it seems?

Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 11:05 AM - £8.00 Venice, Volpone finds himself Aug 5-10 @ 2:00 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 19-24 @ 5:50 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) (£6.00) overwhelmed not only with riches, but betrayal. Light UP HiveMCR Steve Rathje Aug 2-10 @ 5:05 PM - £8.00 (£5.00) CHATROOM EAST THIS PLAY IS NOT Six teenagers communicate EAST provides a vivid snapshot of ABOUT ME online. They talk about JK working-class East End life in the This play is about dreams, where Space Two Rowling, Stephen Hawking, Willy 1970s as Mike, Les and Sylv fight forgotten memories go and that Wonka and... suicide. Jim’s the torrent of their youth. Their sense you get when you can tell PPHTC – Putney High depressed and wants to end his violent escapades are told against someone is staring at you – but it life. Eva and William want to see the backdrop of their parent’s is not about me. Theatre Company A him do it. A touching, funny and domestic lives in London. Aug 23-24 @ 6:05 PM - £5.00 (£3.00) thought provoking play. MYSTERY: THE BAKER Aug 12-17 @ 1:00 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) STREET IRREGULARS Aug 20-24 @ 9:50 AM - £7.00 (£5.00) Johnians XIV AND THE CASE OF The King's Players TOP TRUMPS THE STOLEN Time & Again Theatre FEAR HERE AND A curious assortment of guests PORTRAIT Company TERROR THERE attend a dinner party hosted by a Come and join Sherlock Holmes CLOUDS What would you think of if I told mutual acquaintance. When one and The Baker Street Irregulars as In 1913, Winifred Baxter is you this was a play about of them disappears things quickly they crack the case of the stolen determined to become the first radicalisation? Who would you turn farcical to find out what portrait in 1887 London! Englishwoman to enter an air picture? Where were they from – happened. A debut at the Fringe Aug 5-10 @ 10:00 AM - £8.00 (£8.00) race, learning to fly amidst the here, or there? featuring live music. chaos of the suffragette Aug 19-24 @ 11:05 AM - £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 5-9 @ 2:10 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) movement, a glorious garden party and far too much nephology, the study of clouds.

Aug 2-3 @ 7:55 PM - £7.00 (£7.00)*Aug 4-10, 12-17 @ 7:55 PM - £10.00 (£10.00)

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KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

HiveMCR Blue Fire Theatre Sophie Rocks Central Belters HER Company NOTES FROM PAN BREID Who can be a mother? What KEMP'S JIG SHETLAND TO Welcome tae Camby! If ye need makes them a mother? Do we Join Shakespeare's clown and SHANGHAI tae know anyhin' aboot roon actually need one? On a day that Elizabethan superstar Will Kemp Following her stunning 2018 here, there's five hings ye need was meant to be their mother's on his comic adventure as he Fringe debut, Sophie Rocks' tae remember: neds, fitbaw, 50th birthday, the sisters are Morris dances from London to audiences can be wowed by a shite, shoaps n' the cooncil. Stuck burdened by the notion of Norwich. An Elizabethan moving musical and spoken here when yer alive, trapped here commemoration. roadshow based on Kemp's own narrative Notes from Shetland to when yer deid. book, The Nine Days Wonder. Shanghai. A homage to Aug 12-17 @ 12:05 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 5:50 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) #kempsjig immigrants worldwide which will leave you spellbound. Aug 2, 4 @ 6:55 PM - £8.00 (£6.00)*Aug www.madeinscotlandshowcase.c Drunken Brainstorm 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17 @ 6:55 PM - £9.00 Blackheath High School HOW TO MEND THE (£7.00) om GDST

WORLD (WITH A Aug 19-20, 22-24 @ 12:10 PM - £9.00 RHINOCEROS STUDENT PLAY (£7.00) ‘Fear is an irrational thing. It must yt2 Theatre This new comedy gives the yield to reason’. All over town, LOVE AND SEX AND audience a fly-on-the-wall view of people are turning into the EATSONH university mixed ALL THINGS IN- Oskar Schortz rhinoceroses. One by one. arts and performance society BETWEEN NOTHING REALLY Unexpectedly. Noisily… But why? trying to (misguidedly) Verbatim stories of "love" in all its MEANS ANYTHING Why? And who’s left to save the modernise Arthur Miller's The magnificence and ANYMORE SO SHUT world? Crucible. See the production monstrousness. UP, TIM? Aug 5-9 @ 11:00 AM - £10.00 (£8.00) meeting unfold in real time and After receiving a scathing Aug 12-15, 19, 22-24 @ 4:25 PM - witness the variety of concepts £10.00 (£7.00) audience review, failed performer and ideas put forward. Oskar Schortz attempts to explain The Ivy Players why his arch-critic, Tim, was SHE Aug 19-24 @ 9:00 PM - £8.00 (£7.00) Blue Fire Theatre completely wrong – because in What does it mean to be a woman Company the 21st century, nothing really in today’s society? How does she University College MARIE LLOYD STOLE means anything anymore. tackle the obstacles life throws at MY LIFE her? Who is She? She explores London Drama Society Aug 2-11 @ 9:10 PM - £5.00 (£3.00) JAMMY DODGERS How did a music hall sweetheart what it is to be a woman, from the A world with no problems, no and pantomime star end up bloody to the beautiful. power struggles, no Trump... but nothing more than a small blue Raiser Theatre Aug 5-10 @ 12:10 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) a system. Can we have a world plaque in Islington? Nelly Power ONE GOOD BEATING with no issues, or is history takes you through a life lived in Linda McLean's short play One the shadow of Marie Lloyd. destined to repeat itself? Jammy Good Beating is a blackly comic Polly Waldron #upinthegallery Dodgers explores how capable we account of a grown-up brother SHIVER are of starting over. and sister who exact revenge on Aug 3 @ 6:55 PM - £8.00 (£6.00)*Aug 5, Based on the totally unfounded 7, 9, 12, 14, 16 @ 6:55 PM - £9.00 their violent father. Locking him tale of her great-great- Aug 12-17 @ 11:10 AM - £10.00 (£8.00) (£7.00) in the coal shed as retribution for grandmother, 'magnetic' years of sniping, bullying and (Telegraph) Polly Waldron serves pain, they are both aching to use Momento Sounds up this rags-to-radicals tale. their fists on him for once. But Buckets of horse sh*t, aristocrats MOMENTO SOUNDS he's not defeated. Yet... on the run and irresistible urges Graduates of the Guildhall School overflow into the London of 1913. of Music and Drama, multi- Aug 19-24 @ 1:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) instrumentalists Momento will Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 2:10 PM - £8.50 take you on a journey with (£6.50) upbeat, original and popular melodic tracks. Their set-up includes acoustic and electric violins, synths, sample pads and loop-station.

Aug 12-18 @ 9:05 PM - £10.00 (£9.00) 12 2019 Programme 2019 Programme 13 theSpace on the Mile

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Hart Players The Impi Theatre Out Cast Theatre STILL LIFE BY NOËL Company / Robyn Space Three BITCH, ANTIGONE COWARD Paterson Greece 487 BC. It's hot, dry and Hart Players present Noël THE SOUTH Out Cast Theatre lanterns up on the campest, most Coward's Still Life. Coward's AFREAKINS ADVENTURES OF BUTT outrageous telling of the classic account of flirtation, love and Gordon and Helene are stuck in BOY AND TIGGER Greek drama with some of the brief encounters shows us that South Africa and their rut. When Return of the filthiest love story worst acting on the planet. One life is full of meetings and they finally immigrate to New on the Fringe. Two boys leap from company departings and opportunities. Zealand, the result is hilariously one orgasmic, underpants- Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 8:50 PM - heartbreaking as they discover bursting adventure to the next Aug 19-24 @ 7:50 PM - £8.00 (£8.00) £12.00 (£10.00) "" is hard to find. The sell- until one asks the unthinkable: out critically acclaimed solo show. "Can we meet?" Polished, funny Quids In Theatre and moving. Cold Pizza Productions Aug 2 @ 3:05 PM - £6.00 (£6.00)*Aug 5, and New Celts Company 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23 @ 3:05 PM - Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 10:00 PM THE GRAVEYARD £9.00 (£7.00) - £12.00 (£10.00) Productions SHIFT BULL Let Kreestan Sennakie take you Three employees. Only two jobs. The Impi Theatre on a journey to the dark side of Twelve Twelve Theatre Bad day to have a stain on your magic. This Gothic, bizarre tale of Company / Robyn and New Celts shirt. This dark comedy by Mike Victorian magic is sinister and Paterson Productions Bartlett shows the cruelty of haunting, creepy and comical. THE SOUTH ARRIVALS human nature through bizarre Dare you arrive for The Graveyard AFREAKINS: THE Tony and Mel are stuck in power play, manipulation and Shift? AFREAKIN FAMILY Budapest Airport with nothing vindictive honesty. When the family reunites for but each other for company. Two Aug 4 @ 12:25 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 19-24 @ 6:50 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) strangers and four suitcases take Gordon's birthday, buried Aug 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 emotions erupt. From the creator centre stage in this twisted play @ 12:25 PM - £9.50 (£6.50) about life, death and everything Dead Duck Productions of The South Afreakins, this poignant comedic solo show in-between. THE SHAMBLES explores the challenge of finding Stage Avenue University of York's premier happiness when letting go is so Aug 4 @ 3:30 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) Performing Arts improvised comedy troupe are Aug 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 hard. DISENCHANTED back for their 12th year at the @ 3:30 PM - £9.50 (£6.50) Poisoned apples. Glass slippers. Fringe. Bringing you hilarious Aug 3 @ 3:05 PM - £6.00 (£6.00)*Aug 6, Who needs 'em?! Not Snow scenes, songs and games based 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24 @ 3:05 PM - The Biscuit Barrel White and her posse of entirely on audience suggestions £9.00 (£7.00) BISCUIT BARREL: disenchanted princesses in the – no two shows will ever be the hilarious hit musical that's same! DOUBLE STUFFED Stage Strong Biscuit Barrel return to Edinburgh anything but Grimm. Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 10:05 PM Productions with an even naughtier 69 Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 4:55 PM - £15.00 - £6.50 (£5.00) sketches in the space of an hour! WANT SOME MORE (£15.00) Want Some More explores the Mercilessly outrageous; always harsh realities of living with a hyperactive. 'Fast, slick and very whole range of eating disorders funny' ★★★★★ (The Derek The Georgian Theatre from binge eating to diabulimia; Awards, Special Merit Award Royal Youth Theatre retelling word for word accounts winner 2018). DORIAN GRAY in Stage Strong Productions' Influenced by a society bewitched hard-hitting show. Aug 2-4 @ 11:10 PM - £5.00 (£3.50) Aug 5-10 @ 11:10 PM - £8.00 (£6.50) by self-obsession, Dorian Gray trades his soul for eternal youth Aug 16-17, 20-21 @ 4:25 PM - £10.00 and beauty. But such hedonism (£7.00) has a cost, as this fast-paced thriller, set in the heady roaring 20s, so shockingly reveals.

Aug 19-23 @ 4:55 PM - £5.00 (£5.00)

14 2019 Programme Big Spirit Theatre The Fabulous TT and Seesome Theatre and Rebel Pigeon Company Lossie Entertainment New Celts productions Productions and New DOWNTON SHABBY Academy PARASITES Celts Productions Join Lord Crawley and his family JENNIFER B Expelled from school aged 15, THE 27 CLUB as they move from their country Based on the best-selling book Alicia battles for her right to exist. An art gallery: Nick's surrounded estate to a council estate. How Jennifer Brown's Journey by Welfare and charities view her as by the chaotic memories that will they survive? After being at Angie Langley, this brand-new the one thing everybody hates: a brought him there – a host of the Fringe for over 25 years, Big musical by Tish Tindall tells the parasite. But who are the real artists, jilted lovers and ghosts of Spirit are back with another five- hilariously heart-warming story of bloodsuckers? Provocative his past. As Nick’s world crumbles star performance. the break-ups, make-ups and dramedy from award-winning can he come to terms with the inspirational life-affirming f five-star playwright James Harker. pressure? Aug 12-17 @ 10:05 AM - £8.00 (£6.00) ck-ups of the adorable Miss B! Aug 3 @ 12:25 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 3 @ 1:50 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 13, 15, 17 @ 6:35 PM - £9.00 Aug 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 @ Aug 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 @ PerfAct (£7.00) 12:25 PM - £9.50 (£6.50) 1:50 PM - £9.50 (£6.50) FRAY BENTOS Inspired by true events, our story The Television Workshop explores the two worlds that war Full Breakfast Q-fun Children Theater creates, the battles at home and Productions and New Salford THE KING OF GHOSTS: abroad. From the young men Celts Productions SATURDAY NIGHT ZHONG KUI stranded in a tank in no mans LEVEL UP AND SUNDAY This story is based on Chinese land, to the loved ones left Inspired by China’s social credit MORNING traditional myth, Zhong Kui. behind. system, a near-future state strives Meet Arthur: factory worker, Aug 4-5 @ 10:10 AM - £5.00 (£4.00) for utopia by rewarding model smart talker and ladies' man Aug 19-24 @ 10:05 AM - £8.00 (£2.00) citizens. But when real love is bursting with a toxic mix of impossible to measure and doing humour, drama and sex set to Here Dance cause an explosion! BAFTA award- Lossie Entertainment good becomes an obsession, not THE MOMENT winning The Television Workshop Academy and The everyone plays by the rules. The Moment symbolises the from the Alan Sillitoe classic! longing to preserve childhood Fabulous TT Aug 4 @ 2:05 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) HORNY COO IN A Aug 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 6:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) innocence that we experience as TUTU @ 2:05 PM - £9.50 (£6.50) we move through life. Accompanied with the youthful A highland cow, a crab apple Black Ginger Productions endeavour to seek out new dance audition and a royal Chevron Theatre experiences and grow as we move wedding... What could possibly / Stuffed Puffin ONE GIANT LEAP between adolescence and go wrong? Move over Darcy Productions It's 1968 and the USA is losing adulthood. Bussell!! SHE SHALL NOT BE the space race. Under pressure MOVED from the president, NASA decide Aug 6-7 @ 11:10 AM - £8.00 (£6.50) Aug 12, 14, 16 @ 6:40 PM - £8.00 Set in a modern day witch trial, (£6.00) to film a fake moon landing this piece is a meditation on what instead. Can they pull off the it means to be a woman; the Bede's greatest deception the world has challenges we face, and how they THE RESISTIBLE RISE Tearin’ the Tartan ever seen? Theatre and New Celts shape us into the women we OF ARTURO UI become. Productions Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 7:40 PM - £10.00 Triumphant Bede’s drama is back (£8.00) with this timeless hard-hitting IN HER CORNER Aug 19-24 @ 11:10 AM - £10.00 (£8.00) Set in Scotland’s capital, Claire is comedy classic. A satirical parody trapped by family loyalty in a of the rise to power of Hitler or, circle of violence. Her heart is in well any moronic ruthless despot! boxing but is this her escape? Come and see it! What would you do if you were in Aug 19-24 @ 6:00 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) her corner?

Aug 3 @ 3:20 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 @ 3:20 PM - £9.50 (£6.50)

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Chloe Kastner Dance Front Row Theatre Three Chairs and a Hat Company UPPERCUT: A NEW VERITY UNTOUCHABLE MUSICAL Poor Verity. Ditched, hassled, A diverse evening of taboo topics Clio has three months until the threatened with the sack... and explored through dance. biggest boxing match of her life it’s still only Monday. Nia Untouchable tells the story of and must battle her emotions Williams’ musical is a glimpse of several different types of along the way. This heartwarming one woman's ordinary disasters. relationships mankind story reminds us not to compare Songs, cocktails, online stalking experiences. The story is told ourselves to others, despite and, if all else fails, a picture of a through the performance element pressures from society. cat. of spoken word and contemporary dance. Two Aug 12, 15-17 @ 4:50 PM - £10.00 Aug 12-17 @ 11:15 AM - £8.00 (£6.00) (£8.00) separate pieces result in a 40- Aug 13-14 @ 4:50 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) minute show.

Aug 2-3 @ 7:50 PM - £7.00 (£6.00) Aug 5-7 @ 7:50 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 8-10 @ 7:50 PM - £11.00 (£10.00)

16 2019 Programme 2019 Programme 17 theSpace @ Symposium Hall VENUE 43

The most comfortable venue in Edinburgh. Book early, sit in your leather armchair and see some of the best musical, cabaret and comedy shows in town.

Night Owl Shows American Performing Nightpiece Media Bookends 007 VOICES OF BOND Arts International NIGHTPIECE FILM SIMON & GARFUNKEL Voices of Bond is a spectacle like BEST OF THE WEST FESTIVAL THROUGH THE YEARS no other. Fresh from a sell-out run END Hosted by director Al Carretta and Following five consecutive sell-out at Edinburgh Fringe 2018, Sold-out and five-star reviews in its sixth year, if you love years at the Edinburgh Fringe, sensational vocalist Phoebe Katis Fringe 2016-2018. Featuring independent film, then critically acclaimed Simon & invites you on a journey following world-class voices and Nightpiece is the event to attend. Garfunkel Through the Years the captivating world of 007. breathtaking harmonies, these With submissions from across the returns this year with a full live professional performers showcase globe, our thematic programming band. Sells out fast so book your Aug 2-25 @ 3:55 PM - £14.00 (£12.50) the very best songs from the West is firmly on the film-making tickets early! End. If you love musicals, you'll pulse. Aug 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, 23-24 @ 8:45 PM - Seventh Avenue Arts love this show! Aug 19-20, 22-23 @ 11:10 PM - £10.00 £14.00 (£14.00) A TRIBUTE TO ALANIS Aug 4-8, 11-15, 18-22, 25 @ 8:45 PM - Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 11:05 AM - £10.00 (£8.00) £12.00 (£12.00) MORISSETTE'S (£8.00) JAGGED LITTLE PILL Nightpiece Media Grab a drink from the bar and sing Steve Richards Elsa McTaggart PRINCESS IN THE along to this incredible live STEVE RICHARDS recreation of one of the best EVA CASSIDY: THE CASTLE PRESENTS selling albums of all time. STORY Psychological thriller. Film ROCK'N'ROLL Includes hits Ironic and Head Over A portrayal of the life of Eva premiere. Director Al Carretta's Feet. Cassidy through video, voice and 15th indie feature since 2010. POLITICS 2019 song. Elsa Jean McTaggart returns YouTube sensation Connie A brand new behind the scenes Aug 2-25 @ 10:00 PM - £12.00 (£12.00) with a tribute to her all-time Castille had a perfect life, then guide to the latest epic and wild favourite artist. With voice and she disappeared. Re-emerging political dramas. What’s guitar she brings alive Eva years later, her tale of captivity happened? Why has it happened? American Performing Cassidy's essence. www.elsa-jean- gets the media in a frenzy. What will happen next? A Arts International mctaggart.com different show each day. BEST OF BROADWAY Aug 21 @ 11:10 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) After sold-out performances and Aug 2 @ 7:20 PM - £8.00 (£8.00) Aug 12-24 @ 11:00 AM - £12.50 (£12.50) rave reviews at Fringe 2016-2018, Aug 3-25 @ 7:20 PM - £10.00 (£10.00) we're excited to return with this revue of Broadway hits! Join us as we bring the Best of Broadway to the Fringe. A show not to be missed!

Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 10:00 AM - £10.00 (£8.00)

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Night Owl Shows John Rowe Creative Tatwood Puppets Flossy and Boo THE ARETHA THE JOHN ROWE CABARET OF NED AND THE WHALE FRANKLIN STORY SHOW CURIOSITIES A fishy tail of magic and A celebration of Aretha’s Get your groove on in this Join the one-eyed magician adventure. Sail away on a quest to incredible legacy delivered in the fabulously fun musical chat show. Count Ocular and friends for a help Ned find his courage and Night Owl signature show- A superbly silly mix of funky gothic, vaudeville experience in discover the truth behind the umentary style. Featuring music, dodgy dancing, the Cabaret of Curiosities. A mysterious Kingdom of Spies. A Cleopatra Higgins as seen in the spontaneous activities, chit-chat, unique puppetry variety show for curiously spellbinding brand of West End’s Thriller Live and the surprise guests... and donuts! the whole family, full of laughter, storytelling. finals of The Voice. 'She’s on fire' Every show’s different... every wonder and mystery. (Tom Jones). show’s a roaring hit! Aug 3-4, 9-11, 17-18 @ 2:00 PM - £9.00 Aug 3-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-24 @ 5:20 PM - (£8.00) www.johnroweshow.com Aug 3, 5-7, 9-11, 14-18 @ 11:00 AM - Aug 2-25 @ 2:50 PM - £14.00 (£12.50) £8.00 (£6.00) £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-4 @ 11:15 PM - £6.00 (£6.00) Aug 5-6 @ 11:15 PM - £10.00 (£10.00) Paul Nathan Night Owl Shows Aug 8, 12-13, 15 @ 11:15 PM - £9.00 MAGIC HOUR THE CAROLE KING (£7.00) Aug 9-11, 16-17 @ 11:15 PM - £10.00 Spend a magical evening STORY (£8.00) experiencing magic up-close. Following sell-out shows in Card and coin tricks that happen 2017/18, this uplifting show in your own hand in a tent at returns to take you on a journey Night Owl Shows dusk. This will be the most through Carole’s career and THE TINA TURNER magical evening of your life. music. Featuring I Feel the Earth STORY Move, Natural Woman, You've A celebration of Tina’s incredible Aug 2-4, 6-11, 15-18, 22-24 @ 8:00 PM - £12.00 (£10.00) Got a Friend and more. legacy delivered in the Night Owl Aug 2-4, 6-11, 15-18, 22-24 @ 9:00 PM - signature show-umentary style. £12.00 (£10.00) Aug 2-25 @ 1:35 PM - £14.00 (£12.50) Featuring Cleopatra Higgins, as seen in the West End’s Thriller Night Owl Shows Live and the finals of The Voice. THE DOLLY PARTON 'She’s on fire' (Tom Jones).

STORY Aug 2-25 @ 5:00 PM - £14.00 (£12.50) Journey with Dolly from her humble beginnings in the Smoky mountains to her arrival as Queen Tent of Country. Featuring passionate renditions of Jolene, 9 to 5, Batties Association Islands in the Stream, Here You Come Again and more. BROTHER SUN AND SISTER MOON Aug 2-25 @ 12:30 PM - £14.00 (£12.50) Join drag siblings Sun and Moon in their fairytale tent. Through sensual storytelling and live Phil Hammond music, learn to embrace your THE GREAT HEALTH inner child and all your witchy CON powers. We spend trillions on health but (Phoenix Artist Club). like Brexit, nobody knows what it means. So who’s conning who? Is Aug 15-24 @ 6:45 PM - £9.00 (£5.00) anyone sexually healthy? Is death healthy? And who’s most likely to kill you: doctors, druids or the DUP?

Aug 2-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-25 @ 6:05 PM - £12.00 (£10.00)

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The modern Festival at its best. A diverse programme of award-winning new work across 6 fabulous spaces. The cork-popping buzz of the beautiful courtyard bar with its brand new roof for 2019 makes this a must for any fun loving Fringe goer!

Bubble Show for Adults Bob Hope Theatre American Performing Grand Theatre Only Eltham Arts International BUBBLE SHOW FOR LITTLE SHOP OF LOST IN A BOOK Eastern Edge Theatre ADULTS ONLY HORRORS Too much of a good thing is still Company Bubble artistry, neo-burlesque Florist's assistant Seymour too much! When Melissa keeps BERLIN GIRL and a soapy concoction of kinky, becomes a sensation when he re-reading her favourite fairytales 1983. East Germany. In the in-your-face theatrics. A raucous discovers an exotic plant with a at the expense of family and terrifying, all-seeing Stasi police and raunchy bubble affair with a macabre craving. He is in love friends, she goes from turning state, one schoolgirl's quest for story arc full that showcases the with colleague Audrey so names pages to living them... Lost in a justice turns her friends into technical prowess of bubble art the plant Audrey Two. Audrey Two Book! spies, her family into suspects on a first-class level. becomes a bad-tempered Aug 6-8 @ 11:00 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) and pushes her over the Berlin carnivore. Aug 2 @ 11:35 PM - £6.00 (£6.00) Wall in this exciting new rock Aug 3-4, 7-8 @ 11:35 PM - £9.50 (£8.50) Aug 19-24 @ 5:45 PM - £7.00 (£6.00) musical. Aug 5-6, 9-10 @ 11:35 PM - £10.50 AllouAqui Dance Theatre (£9.50) MILAN'S GAME Aug 12 @ 9:55 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 13-17 @ 9:55 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Enebro Teatro A couple's absurd yet whimsical game of role-play, satirising the Unusual Productions LORCA: A THEATRE BENEATH THE SAND paradoxes of love, landing I HATE CHILDREN The Blueswater Two young drama school students between the real and surreal. CHILDREN'S SHOW BLUESWATER play a surrealist game of poetry 'Their off-kilter duets capture the Magic for teens, tweens and hot PRESENTS: BLUES! and acrobatics exploring the arrhythmias of sharing your space soccer mums. Be a hero and bring Returning for their 9th year, this passionate world of the Spanish and your body with another your kids to the children's show award-winning band offer a poet Federico García Lorca person' (Bryn Davies, that serves champagne for mums brand-new extended setlist including one of his best plays, ThePlace.org.uk/blogs). every day. featuring even more songs and The Public. Aug 19-24 @ 10:00 AM - £7.00 (£5.00) stories of the artists you know and Aug 12-14 @ 12:10 PM - £11.00 Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 4:25 PM - love. 'Blues-based edu-tainment' (£10.00) £12.00 (£10.00) (Stewart Lee). ★★★★★ Aug 2-11, 15-18 @ 12:10 PM - £12.50 (BroadwayBaby.com). ★★★★★ (£11.00) (ThreeWeeks).

Aug 2-24 @ 7:10 PM - £13.00 (£12.00)

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Russian String Orchestra Pumpkin Pantos Boys of the Empire Paul Nathan MISHA'S GANG RED RIDING HOOD: Productions THE NEW AND Herald Angel (2017) and Spirit of THE PANTO THE GOOD SCOUT IMPROVED I HATE the Fringe (2018) award winners, Red Riding Hood is about to Inspired by true events. In the CHILDREN Misha Rachlevsky and his Russian embark on a big adventure! 1930s, British boy scouts played CHILDREN'S SHOW String Orchestra return with a Bursting with brilliant songs, jam- host to cycling parties of Hitler More magic. More fun. More new series of captivating packed with jokes and crammed Youth. But were they cyclists or kiddy kicking madness. Treat your afternoon concerts. World-class full of colourful characters, this "spyclists"? For two scouts, it is a family and yourself to this mostly performances in intimate pantomime is so funny you’ll be visit that will change their lives totally new show for the older surroundings. 'Dazzlingly howling with laughter! forever. kids and teens. impressive and heart-warming' (Scotsman, 2018). Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 11:05 AM - £8.00 Aug 2-12, 14-24 @ 8:20 PM - £12.00 Aug 12-15, 19-22 @ 1:25 PM - £11.00 (£6.00) (£10.00) (£10.00) Aug 2-12, 14-24 @ 2:45 PM - £14.50 Aug 2-11, 16-18, 23-24 @ 1:25 PM - (£12.00) £12.00 (£11.00) American Performing John Rowe Creative Arts International THE JOHN ROWE Questing Vole SELF-CHECK SHOW Floor Five Theatre Productions Comedy? Drama? Tragedy? Get your groove on in this Company PIRACY! A COMEDY Musical? Yes! No! Maybe? It's not fabulously fun musical chat show. ZOUNDS! ON THE HIGH CS done yet! This show, based on the A superbly silly mix of funky Enough about those Trojan Hoist mainsails and prepare for theme of identity is being music, dodgy dancing, women. zounds! is a comedy thoroughly ridiculous adventures. devised as we speak. It's being spontaneous activities, chit-chat, about the Greek gods during the Blackbeard meets Blackadder: developed using Moment Work, surprise guests... and donuts! Trojan War. Welcome to Mount villainous accents, absurdly Tectonic Theater Project's (The Every show’s different... every Olympus. catchy songs, intrepid damsels, Laramie Project) devising show’s a roaring hit! Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 9:55 PM - £10.00 captains in distress... wait, is that method. www.johnroweshow.com (£8.00) right? 'An uproarious hour of nautical naughtiness' ★★★★ Aug 2-3, 5 @ 10:15 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 19-22 @ 10:00 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 23-24 @ 10:00 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) (FringeReview.co.uk). Simply Theatre Aug 19-24 @ 12:10 PM - £10.00 (£8.50) SONGS FOR A NEW Mike King Collective Ttheatre One WORLD (MKC) Pumpkin Pantos A brand-new adaptation of this THE MKC EXPERIENCE Amplify Theatre PUSSY IN BOOTS: THE rarely performed musical song After selling out in 2017, MKC BODILY FUNCTIONS ADULT PANTO cycle with fully fledged characters return to debut a new exciting AND WHERE TO FIND The world of panto will be spun and setting. Produced by vocal experience. Expect a fully THEM on its head in this hilarious, returning sell-out director (The immersive musical adventure When was the last time you innuendo-filled production Last Five Years, 2015), live music taking you on a rollercoaster of talked about poo? We're packed with sauce, smut and and a talented cast of 10. emotions and styles that will guessing not recently. Throw shocks. It's cheeky! It's sexy! It's leave you uplifted and inspired. away your inhibitions with our Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 5:55 PM - £10.00 raunchy! It's everything a panto comedy-theatre play, breaking (£8.50) Aug 12-17 @ 5:45 PM - £10.00 (£9.00) shouldn't be. down stigmas one flush at a time.

Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 11:25 PM - £9.00 Aug 2-3 @ 7:05 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) (£7.00) Aug 5-8 @ 7:05 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 9-10 @ 7:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00)

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Maggie Lalley The Malignant Humours Downing Dramatic Elsa Jean McTaggart COLD BLOODED ET THE EXTRA Society (University of JOAN BAEZ: WITCH: THE SEX TESTICLE Cambridge) PRESENTED BY MISS MUSICAL! The Malignant Humours have GRAVE CONCERN IRENIE ROSE Join comedian Maggie Lalley as written you a prescription for Only two vacant graves remain in With a voice often compared to she performs a one woman some medical-grade sketch the family plot – and Uncle John hers, Miss Irenie Rose brings a original musical comedy about comedy! Returning for their 20th will not miss out on one. Cue a sweet taste of early Joan Baez, her demented journey through year at the Edinburgh Fringe after morbid dogfight with vindaloos, one of the original giants of the teenage witchcraft and sexuality. eight years of back-to-back sell- Belgian girlfriends, and handbag- folk world... Indulge in melodic An autobiographical cabaret out shows – they'll have you in wielding octogenarians. nostalgia. about culty spells, magical stitches! 'Completely unexpected and cunnilingus, and warlock absolutely hilarious' Aug 2 @ 1:05 PM - £7.00 (£7.00) Aug 3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 1:05 PM - genitalia, this dark comedy will Aug 5-10 @ 5:10 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) (TheTab.com). £9.00 (£7.00) leave you shocked and in stitches! Marauders Theatre Aug 5-10 @ 10:25 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) Company bitter / sweet Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 11:30 PM - £6.00 KNOCK KNOCK (£6.00) FAUSTUS Doctor Faustus, a respected ARKangel Knock knock. Who's there? scholar seeking to acquire greater HARVEST MOON You've heard it before, but this Elsa Jean McTaggart knowledge, summons the Devil The turn of a season... From the time it's no joke. A knock on the ELSA JEAN and his servant, Mephistopheles. rugged Northern Isles to the arid door in the middle of the night is MCTAGGART He exchanges his soul for 24 expanse of Southern Spain, the never good news, is it? New PRESENTS years of unlimited knowledge harvest moon lays bare the writing from this dynamic young MCTAGGART SISTERS and power. As time runs out, can passions and tribulations of this company. his soul be saved? challenging season. The McTaggart sisters Elsa and Aug 2-3 @ 2:10 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) Violin/guitar/voice. Transported to youngest sister Irenie present a Aug 5-10 @ 9:15 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 5-10 @ 2:10 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) rare opportunity to hear these another time and place. highly acclaimed Aug 12-17 @ 2:15 PM - £9.00 (£8.00) NUTS Theatre singers/songwriters/multi- Full Score Barbershop KURL UP AND DYE instrumentalists come together in Chorus It's a normal day at this Yorkshire a fusion of blood harmonies, FULL SCORE: SING, Polly Clamorous beauticians until a 93-year-old original arrangements and HERSTORY SING, SING! customer dies during her bikini stunning vocals. www.elsa-jean- Herstory chronicles the tales of From Durham University, Full wax. The girls desperately mctaggart.com some of the most enigmatic and Score astonishes audiences with attempt to cover up her death to their dazzling barbershop misunderstood women Aug 2 @ 11:15 AM - £6.00 (£4.00) save their salon. Expect mayhem, throughout history. Get up close Aug 3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 11:15 AM - harmonies and infectious energy manslaughter and manicures. £8.00 (£6.00) in this a cappella extravaganza. and personal as they name, From to musical theatre, pop shame and reclaim their stories in Aug 2-3 @ 6:05 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) and , this is not one to the books that have notoriously Aug 4-10 @ 6:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Elsa Jean McTaggart miss! begrudged them of any space. ELSA JEAN MCTAGGART: Aug 19-24 @ 2:05 PM - £7.50 (£5.00) Aug 12-17 @ 10:15 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Berlingeles HEBRIDEAN FIRE LATE NIGHT CEREMONY Elsa Jean McTaggart returns with Nobody's Studios Hebridean Fire. These three top- This Berlin and Hollywood GIGOLO: BOLD, class multi-instrumentalists from showcase raises a fist with one BEAUTIFUL, BIZARRE the Isle of Lewis take you on an hand and holds a glass in the Charming. Intelligent. Murderer. eclectic musical journey through other against the fact the world is Sex Worker. Psychopath! Saint or the Islands and Highlands of a disaster. Embodied a sinner? Discover this thrilling Scotland. www.elsa-jean- performance, experimental Journey of Murli, a runaway kid mctaggart music, storytelling and a secret from India, who became one of midnight ritual. Aug 2 @ 12:10 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) the countries most notorious www.berlingeles.com Aug 3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 12:10 PM - criminal killing over 17 people. £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 12-15 @ 11:15 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 20-24 @ 10:35 PM - £8.00 (£6.50) Aug 16-17 @ 11:15 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) 2019 Programme 27 28 2019 Programme 2019 Programme 29 theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall

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Funny Bird Productions Questing Vole Queen Doris Productions Fridge Door Productions ME AND MY Productions THE DOMESTIC THREE MENOPAUSAL Tired of being ignored, attention- PIRACY! A COMEDY Tequila, violence, music, a MAIDS seeking Grief takes it upon ON THE HIGH CS puppet! Blonde, bombshell ex- Back with an all-new comedy herself to be seen. Silly Hoist mainsails and prepare for teen mother, Em, seeks sketch show after their 2018 sell- exploration of the annoyance of thoroughly ridiculous adventures. redemption by channelling her out success. It's getting hot, hot, emotions. _'One of the Fringe's Blackbeard meets Blackadder: frustration into the music of her hotter! Fasten your seat belts as greatest discoveries'_ ★★★★ villainous accents, absurdly late son. A show about paranoia, Princess and the Pee Airlines (Everything-Theatre.co.uk). catchy songs, intrepid damsels, excess, homosexuality and whisk you away for a spot of _'Think David Brent but female captains in distress... wait, is that forgiveness. pampering, pottiness and pole- and fabulous'_ ★★★★ right? 'An uproarious hour of vaulting. Aug 2-4, 9-11, 16-17, 23-24 @ 8:15 PM - (FemaleArts.com). nautical naughtiness' ★★★★ £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 7:05 PM - £8.00 (FringeReview.co.uk). Aug 5-8, 12-15, 19-22 @ 8:15 PM - Aug 5-10 @ 3:05 PM - £8.50 (£7.50) (£6.00) £6.00 (£6.00) Aug 18 @ 2:25 PM - £10.00 (£8.50) Venture Wolf Tatwood Puppets St Michael's Players VINYL ENCORE MICROBODYSSEY Literature Through Music THE LONG ROAD Join Brenda and Charles on an Bruised egos and broke, two ROMEO & JULIET: Could you ever forgive the unforgettable journey into the forgotten rock stars try to record ONE-MAN MUSICAL stranger who killed your son? A microscope as they unearth the the album that makes sense of The only musical ever made family left bereft. Can anything miniature monsters and curious their lives. With their stupidity, based entirely on the original save them? Could meeting the creatures that shape our planet. A dark secrets and excesses, join lines. Every scene of killer help make sense of it? ‘I was visual theatre experience for all two naughty boys who still refuse Shakespeare's classic love story amazed... the acting was superb' ages featuring puppetry, shadow to join the real world. performed through contemporary (Vi Donovan MBE). and an original score. song. Includes 30-page printed programme with lyrics. 'Two Aug 19-24 @ 5:35 PM - £12.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-12, 14-24 @ 10:00 AM - £9.50 households, both alike in (£7.50) dignity...' Theatre Two Ronan Dempsey from Erin Alexander Aug 2-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 9:15 PM - Nth Degree Productions Phil McIntyre £8.00 (£5.00) ON A HIGH NOTE THE WORDS ARE Entertainments presents On a High Note is a new piece of THERE / Tom Taylor operatic theatre showcasing the Stand Easy Productions Mick awaits Trish in his seaside A CHARLIE flat. Life has left him speechless, best-loved soprano arias. It THE DANDELION MONTAGUE MYSTERY: struggling to find the words for a explores how Graziella Sciutti PATCH THE GAME'S A FOOT, very important day, but in his embraced acting within her The Dandelion Patch, devised by TRY THE FISH silence lies a story. 'Hilarious, performances, and the high price a company of wounded, injured Rakish aristocrat and first-time compelling, riveting, magic' she paid for success. or sick ex-Forces and professional detective Charlie must prevent a ★★★★★ (TheArtsReview.com). actors, takes a journey, both murder. The chap dies. Sell-out Aug 12-17 @ 4:30 PM - £10.00 (£7.00) Aug 19-24 @ 4:25 PM - £10.00 (£7.00) emotional and comic, into the Aug 12-14 @ 3:25 PM - £9.00 (£8.00) show 2016 and 2017. lives of Forces families affected by Aug 15-18 @ 3:25 PM - £11.00 (£9.00) 'Gloriously silly murder mystery' issues such as post-traumatic Aug 19-21 @ 9:10 PM - £9.00 (£8.00) (Stage). stress. Aug 2-4, 8-10 @ 3:55 PM - £11.00 'Excellent... beautifully daft' (£9.00) Aug 22-24 @ 9:10 PM - £11.00 (£9.00) (Sunday Times). Aug 19-24 @ 3:10 PM - £7.00 (£4.00) Aug 5-7 @ 3:55 PM - £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 2 @ 12:05 PM - £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 3-10 @ 12:05 PM - £9.00 (£8.00)

30 2019 Programme Three Sisters Zoe Bennett Unclaimed Treasures Elite Entertainment Productions DEFYING LOGIC GINGER MASON KING – BABY, WHAT Based on a true story. We meet MONOLOGUES SLEIGHT OF MIND BLESSINGS Lily in a therapists office in Ginger Monologues is a mixture Mason King returns to the A love story between people and Manhattan. We learn about her of stand-up and song. A hilarious Edinburgh Festival Fringe for places. A play about loving and dysfunctional family, and how retelling of one ginger's journey another trip into the inner depths not loving. About politics and she ended up with PTSD. from shame to sass! of the human mind! 'Astounding' power. About passion and loss. Experience raw emotion, frank ★★★★★ (FringeReview.ca). Previous praise: 'Dromgoole's explanations and lots of laughs. Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 8:15 PM - £9.00 (£8.00) script is a work of tightly-wound Aug 2-3 @ 5:10 PM - £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 19-24 @ 11:10 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 5-10, 12-16 @ 5:10 PM - £9.00 heartbreak and delight' Kenneth Wilson the (£7.00) ★★★★★ (BroadwayBaby.com). Poetical Cellist Karen Gemma Brewer HOW TO SUCCEED IN Aug 12-17 @ 10:05 AM - £8.00 (£6.00) Alice Roberts Aug 19-24 @ 11:05 AM - £8.00 (£6.00) DISSIDENT SAUSAGE LOVE NEWS@1066 Political prisoner or sausage in a Kenneth Wilson performs Set in a TV studio, News@1066 fridge? Toad or feminist? Deity or dramatic poetry from his 2019 puts history straight! Roving Bristol Improv giant white slug? Prepare to collection, with solo airs, ballads reporters get to the bottom of BRISTOL IMPROV laugh and cry with award winning and Bach beautifully performed history's biggest stories. Fast- PRESENTS: poet/singer Karen Gemma on the cello. He tells a moving moving and wacky, this one- OFFSCRIPT! Brewer, woodworm, sheep, tale of love, hope, despair, woman comic show races across When you watch a show, you only toodles, Frankenstein's sister and adultery, and general all-round time from one breaking story to see half the action. Join Bristol more flies than Basic Insect! hopelessness. the next! Jolly good fun! Improv for the drama, both Aug 12 @ 11:15 PM - £3.00 (£2.00) onstage and behind the scenes, Aug 19-22 @ 10:00 AM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 13-14 @ 11:15 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 23-24 @ 10:00 AM - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 12:10 PM - £7.00 of a play with no script – all Aug 15-17 @ 11:15 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) (£5.00) fuelled by your suggestions! Breathe Out Theatre Aug 2-10, 12-17 @ 10:10 PM - £7.00 David William Hughes Renz ’Poet of the JUST LIKE A WOMAN (£5.00) ELIZABETHAN Impossible’ Novani The girls have worked in the Join Tobias Bacon as he lutes and factory for a long time. ORACLE lusts his way through Elizabethan From the King to Queen Assembling, checking and Does history repeat itself? Can we in this new musical CHAIN OF TRIVIA rejecting stuff. So why can't they foresee the future by looking at comedy based on genuine Russell Clarke, BBC London's remember what the stuff is? the past? Poet of the Impossible Renaissance songs. ‘It’s a hoot, a Rock'n'Roll Routemaster, takes Absurdist comedy from Best is back with his astonishing, new, bawdy entertainment, and a you on a fascinating trip from Drama winner, Greater interactive journey. Don't miss display of consummate Elvis Presley to Freddie Mercury Manchester Fringe Festival 2017. your date with destiny. 'A ★★★★ in 12 steps, each linked to the musicianship’ talented magician, very ★★★★ next by an awesome piece of (ScotsGay). Aug 2-3 @ 7:10 PM - £7.00 (£6.00) compelling' Aug 5-10, 12-17 @ 7:10 PM - £8.00 trivia. (FringeGuru.com). (FringeReview.co.uk). (£7.00) Aug 19-24 @ 10:10 PM - £10.00 (£7.50) Aug 12-24 @ 1:05 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-4 @ 6:05 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 5-10, 12-17, 19-23 @ 6:05 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) Dogfish Seventh Avenue Arts MALLETS Coppice Theatre A prissy perfect croquet lawn is SCIENCE DAN HAYNES – HAD Geoff Robb SOME FALLS TOUR forced to witness a bloodthirsty ADVENTURES GEOFF ROBB – THE grudge match between two rival Following nationwide UK and Join the science fictionaries on MUSIC OF TREES couples. Mallets is a ruthless, Germany tours, Haynes lands in their quest to find the fizziest, Geoff Robb was the winner of the marital comedy that is both Edinburgh with his Had Some flashiest, most marvellous stories 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music darkly funny and a little bit sad. Falls tour. Avoid the crowds and about science and maybe they Award. His beautiful and soulful relax with Haynes’s alternative will even tell you a few if they can acoustic guitar compositions Aug 12-14, 19-21 @ 2:10 PM - £8.00 folk. 'Stunning songwriting... get the computer to work! blend his classical training with (£6.00) acoustic guitar masterclass' Aug 15-17, 22-24 @ 2:10 PM - £9.00 Storytelling, puppets, interactive his love of Spanish and Celtic (Media Luchs, Germany). (£7.00) technology. music. Aug 2-10 @ 10:00 AM - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-24 @ 3:10 PM - £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 5-10 @ 2:05 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) 2019 Programme 31 32 2019 Programme theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall

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Open Barn Productions Bread and Butter University of Central Venture Wolf SOMETHING ELSE Productions Oklahoma VINYL ENCORE Pete and Maggie are trapped in a TEACH THE GRAVEL ROAD Bruised egos and broke, two resort filled with demonic staff The lesson that changed his life. A SHOW PRESENTS forgotten rock stars try to record and warped activities. Join us for school in struggle and strife. A OKLAHOMA, USA! the album that makes sense of a brand new absurdist comedy government that uses a knife. Direct from the Wild West, the their lives. With their stupidity, that can only be described as ★★★★ (Scotsman, Stage, List, infamous Gravel Road Show dark secrets and excesses, join Benidorm meets a paracetamol- BroadwayBaby.com, presents Oklahoma, USA!, a two naughty boys who still refuse infused nightmare! FringeGuru.com, world-premiere cabaret featuring to join the real world. TheWeeReview.com). ★★★★★ blood and thunder melodrama, Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17 @ 11:05 AM - Aug 19-24 @ 7:05 PM - £9.00 (£8.00) £10.00 (£5.00) (ScotsGay, for Canoe). 'Hidden heel-kickin’ musical theatre and a Gem' (FringeReview.co.uk). twisted history all set in the American frontier. Slipshod Theatre Aug 2-10, 12-24 @ 4:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Theatre Three SPACE JUNK: A Aug 2-10 @ 1:10 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) SOVIET MUSICAL Exeter Comedy Society The first man in space is back on Jack Finnegan Red Biscuit Theatre 2001: A SKETCH Earth and facing new THE AMERICAN'S THE VERY WELL-FED ODYSSEY temptations. Fame, fortune, DREAM CATERPILLAR Ever wondered what keeps yoga alcohol, nostalgic space anthems Ketchikan, Alaska and New York Red Biscuit Theatre bring you an instructors so calm? Or what real and sex. Can this cosmic captain City are profoundly different adult (and incredibly silly) twist magicians thought of Jesus? control his space junk? places. But in this lyrical portrait, on the beloved children's story. Answered yes or no to either of storyteller Jack Finnegan reveals Aug 2-4 @ 9:10 PM - £6.00 (£6.00) 'Fast-paced, very silly and packed these questions? Come and see that they are fraternal twins: Aug 5-10, 12-17 @ 9:10 PM - £8.00 with exceptional examples of the sketch show everyone's testaments to human ambition (£7.00) physical theatre' describing as 'happening'. and extraordinary destinations for (TheatreWeekly.com). ★★★★ (Exeposé.com). people who pursue their dreams. 'Pythonesque physical comedy' Bit on the side comedy (TheSpyInTheStalls.com). Aug 19-24 @ 3:05 PM - £6.50 (£5.00) sketches Aug 19-24 @ 9:10 PM - £10.00 (£5.00) TAMI STONE – MY Aug 12-17 @ 2:05 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 19-24 @ 8:10 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) FUNNY BITS Niall McCarthy Mike Raffone Comedy actress Tami Stone THE DUALITY OF MAN BRAIN RINSE presents her debut one-woman Brain Rinse turns the idea of Niall McCarthy is obsessed with Hopwood DePree Edinburgh show. A pick'n'mix of audience participation on its the duality in all of us: he looks THE YANK IS A MANC! sharply observed oddball head. Epic themes, semi- confident but feels anxious, he MY ANCESTORS & ME characters. Chasing fame, finding improvised, starring you, the loves questions but hates Hopwood DePree tells the true love, modelling with fruit... it's all audience. Mike Raffone is the answers, he has a restless leg and story of how researching his here. puppet master, but who's really a lazy eye... and he's funny! ancestry online led to him pulling the strings? Winner, Aug 4-10, 12-17 @ 8:15 PM - £7.00 moving 5000 miles from Aug 2-10 @ 11:10 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Buxton Spirit of the Fringe, 2018. (£5.00) Hollywood to Rochdale to rescue his ancestral home, Hopwood Aug 2-3, 8-10, 15-17, 22-24 @ 7:10 PM - Hall. £10.00 (£7.00)*Aug 4-7, 12-14, 18-21 @ 7:10 PM - £9.00 (£6.50) Aug 19-24 @ 5:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00)

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From the King to Queen The Listening Hare Poppet Theatre Breaking the 4th Wall CHAIN OF TRIVIA GILGAMESH – HE JERRY AND THE NINE MONTHS Russell Clarke, BBC London's WHO SAW ADVENTURES OF THE Nine Months is a kaleidoscope of Rock'n'Roll Routemaster, takes EVERYTHING HMS STARGAZER Irish women’s true stories. It you on a fascinating trip from One actor in 45 mins performs Original, devised TIE adventure takes you on a hilarious thought- Elvis Presley to Freddie Mercury the first story ever written down: show! London, 1773. Join the provoking and captivating in 12 steps, each linked to the an epic Babylonian poem based crew of the HMS Stargazer as they rollercoaster journey packed with next by an awesome piece of on the mythical adventures of the make their epic adventure across audience participation where trivia. King of Uruk who lived and ruled the globe, discovering big characters transform and change around 2750 BC. It charts dreams, new friends and with new each narrative. Aug 2-10 @ 3:05 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Gilgamesh’s journey from tyranny mayhem! Puppets included. Aug 12-17 @ 9:20 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) to friendship, from love to loss, Aug 2-10 @ 11:00 AM - £10.00 (£6.00) Naomi Paul from despair to wisdom. 4000 DESPITE EVERYTHING, years after it was written, Bernard Ross _Gilgamesh_ retains a poignant PRICE STILL INCLUDES The Glummer Twins PREDICTABLY message for the 21st Century. BISCUITS JUST A NUMBER IRRATIONAL Colin R Campbell performs an Satirical four-star show: original David Harmer and Ray Globe Mixing stand-up and abridged version of Robert songs, topical stories and Jewish recently turned 60. It’s just a neuroscience , five-star author Temple’s beautiful translation humour. Poignant, funny and number. Right? The irrepressible challenges assumptions about with clear, dynamic storytelling ultimately uplifting. With Glummer Twins are back to just how smart we are. Buying biscuits. Of course. 'Fine comic Aug 19-24 @ 9:55 AM - £8.00 (£6.00) celebrate the joys, absurdities wine to losing weight, food celebration of modern Britain' and indignities of getting older. shopping to dating, we overpay, ★★★★ Stand-up spoken word from the underestimate and procrastinate. (BritishTheatreGuide.info). Kenneth Wilson the Beat Generation. Laugh – and stop being ★★★★ (Edinburgh49.org). Poetical Cellist predictably irrational! Book now! ★★★★ (Chloe Alexander, HOW TO SUCCEED IN Aug 19-24 @ 2:00 PM - £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-10, 12-17 @ 4:10 PM - £10.00 Ludlow Fringe). LOVE (£5.00) Kenneth Wilson performs Pintsize Theatre Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 5:05 PM - £8.00 dramatic poetry from his 2019 (£5.00) LUVU2 collection, with solo airs, ballads Callum is confused – why has his Louise Rodgers and Bach beautifully performed classmate Lucy changed the topic RODGERS WITH A D – Troy Alan on the cello. He tells a moving for their GCSE Theatre in THE TOMMY FUNNY STORIES tale of love, hope, despair, Education project from healthy RODGERS CENTENARY ABOUT PAIN adultery, and general all-round eating to online grooming? Is it CELEBRATION Funny Stories About Pain is a hopelessness. to raise awareness, or is this a cry From rags to a bow tie! Stories of journey through some of the for help? Scottish social history, hard times Aug 24 @ 6:05 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) most painful episodes in the life and farting. 'I thought your father of comedian Troy Alan, which Aug 19-24 @ 12:55 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) was such a gentleman until I would just be a depressing TED Alan Lovell married him' (Tillie Rodgers). Talk if Troy couldn't write jokes. I PILGRIM Margherita Remotti Aug 12-17 @ 11:05 AM - £6.00 (£5.00) I Pilgrim is a funny and personal Aug 2-10 @ 10:15 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) NICO: NO REGRETS evening with Australian actor She once said: 'I have no regrets, Alan Lovell. It is a one-man show except that I was born a woman Elisabeth Flett/Traintrack based on his own experience of instead of a man'. Nico, talented Productions walking the Camino across Spain. and polyhedric actress, ROOTS It’s an uplifting piece of comic fascinating and complex woman, A new solo folk performance storytelling. reveals herself by recalling eight about loss, language and cultural men who changed her life. Aug 2-3 @ 5:05 PM - £7.00 (£7.00)*Aug identity. 5-10 @ 5:05 PM - £10.00 (£7.00) Aug 12-17 @ 11:25 PM - £12.00 Aug 12-17 @ 3:10 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) (£8.00)*Aug 2-3, 5-10, 19-24 @ 11:15 PM - £12.00 (£8.00)

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Geoffrey Brown Matt Black Dean Temple SCHOOL GAYS THE SNOOPY VOICE OF AUTHORITY Fleming Theatre Gays everywhere! What is it about QUESTION With the US government after boys and schools that have What are dogs really like? What him for $19 million, Dean's world Northern Lights: Durham encouraged same-sex attraction are people really like? Matt Black has gone sideways. He needs a University A Cappella (and rejection) on stage and entertains with surprising dog lawyer. He finds a ballet dancer. A RIFF IN TIME screen since 1890? Looking at 25 facts, inspired poems, cheap The true story of turning complete After sell-out shows in 2017 and plays and films from around the props and Snoopy's answer to catastrophe into a pretty damn 2018, Durham University's world, how have the gays world peace. Comedy, science good musical number. award-winning Northern Lights survived? and poetry collide! 'Barking return with their most ambitious Aug 19-24 @ 4:05 PM - £10.00 brilliant' (Lola). and best show yet. A fully Aug 12-17 @ 8:15 PM - £11.00 (£9.00) (£7.00)*Aug 2-3 @ 1:05 PM - £8.00 Matt Black was Derbyshire Poet (£5.00)*Aug 4-10, 12-18 @ 1:05 PM - choreographed, hugely Laureate (2011-2013)*"shining £10.00 (£7.00) entertaining show to be enjoyed Bit on the side comedy work" Ian McMillan by all. sketches Aug 2-10 @ 2:05 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) Not Jaded Aug 19-24 @ 12:35 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) TAMI STONE – MY WEST OF FRANCES FUNNY BITS Meet Frances. Over-qualified and Mismatch Theatre Comedy actress Tami Stone under-enthused, she works in a Night Owl Shows TOO-RA-LOO-RA-LUM: presents her debut one-woman newspaper obituaries section, BACK TO BLACK: THE Edinburgh show. A pick'n'mix of AND OTHER writing letters back to bereaved MUSIC OF AMY sharply observed oddball COLOURFUL TALES families. Today she is flying to WINEHOUSE characters. Chasing fame, finding Have you ever closed your eyes Dublin to spit on a nun’s grave, Back to Black premiers at Fringe love, modelling with fruit... it's all and imagined a new colour? Lucy and she wants to tell you why. to take you on a journey through here. is a grey girl who escapes to a this sensational singer’s career. land of colour. Poetry, storytelling Aug 12-17 @ 10:00 AM - £9.00 Delivered in the Night Owl Aug 2-3 @ 8:15 PM - £5.00 (£3.00) (£7.00)*Aug 19-24 @ 11:00 AM - £9.00 and music create immersive trademark show-umentary (£7.00) explosions of this topsy-turvy format. Includes Back To Black, Bony Tony turbulent world. Valerie and Rehab. THE DAFT SHOW WITH Two Girls and a Bottle of Aug 2-10 @ 10:00 AM - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-24 @ 7:20 PM - £14.00 (£12.50) BONY TONY Savvy B Come and enjoy Bony Tony YOU HAVE A MATCH performing his utter nonsense, if Suzanne Tuck Tegan is straight. Riley is gay. Hebridean Treasure you're daft enough. Why? It's the TUCK INTO POETRY – Watch this pair of best friends as HEBRIDEAN daftest show anyone's ever seen A LITE BITE OF they deconstruct their co- TREASURE: LOST AND or heard. And you can join in, if CHEESE AND PUNS dependency and swipe through FOUND you're daft enough. the universe of app dating, easy Served with a smile and a Internationally acclaimed writer www.bonyproductions.com hookups and awkwardly going sprinkling of humour, Suzanne John Philip Newell works with brings you a portion of poetry to dutch! Aug 19-24 @ 11:55 AM - £8.00 some of the most talented young tickle the taste buds. (£6.00)*Aug 2-3 @ 12:05 PM - £5.00 Aug 12-17 @ 10:15 PM - £10.00 (£9.00) artists of Scotland to tell the story (£5.00)*Aug 5-10, 12-17 @ 12:05 PM - of an enchanted Hebridean Aug 19-24 @ 8:20 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) £8.00 (£6.00) world. This is a story of beauty, pathos and hope.

Geoffrey Brown Aug 12-17 @ 12:35 PM - £12.00 THE GOOD, THE BAD (£10.00) AND THE BREXIT Brexit, eh? Join an increasingly exasperated Australian in his fourth attempt to navigate his way through the unbelievable and mind-boggling past, present and future that is Brexit…

Aug 2-23 @ 6:05 PM - £11.00 (£9.00)

36 2019 Programme Brick Fox Theatre KGS Theatre Company Night Owl Shows Night Owl Shows Company RATTIGAN'S NIJINSKY SOUTHERN NIGHTS: THE JAMES TAYLOR HOLY SH*T In 1974, playwright Terrence THE STORY OF AND In a last-ditch attempt to save Rattigan meets Nijinsky's elderly SOUTHERN SOUL STORY their dwindling church, two widow, Romola, to fight over his Journey through the American Take a journey through the priests come to the conclusion latest play. Meanwhile, Diaghliev South and revel in the incredible interwoven careers of two music that the best way they can raise and the young Romola fight over sounds and stories of Southern legends. Includes Both Sides funds is by digging up and the tormented Nijinsky. Soul. Featuring stripped-back Now, Big Yellow Taxi, You’ve Got selling bodies from their Referencing the zeitgeist of versions of classic songs by Ray a Friend and more. 'Crystal clarity' graveyard. New black comedy. celebrity, why was the play never Charles, Otis Redding, Etta James ★★★★ (BroadwayBaby.com). performed? and many more! 'Diamond' ★★★★★ Aug 19-24 @ 11:30 AM - £8.00 (£6.00) (TheUpsideNews.com). Aug 18 @ 9:50 AM - £5.00 (£3.50) Aug 8-11 @ 12:30 PM - £14.00 (£12.50) Aug 19-21 @ 9:50 AM - £7.50 (£5.00) Aug 2-24 @ 3:55 PM - £14.00 (£12.50) Hoof and Horn Aug 22-24 @ 9:50 AM - £10.00 (£7.50) Productions Ondervinden HUSTLERS Laughing Mirror TESS Night Owl Shows 'Like what you see?' Hustlers is a This brazen retelling of Hardy’s SEASONED THE JOHNNY CASH visceral and provocative portrayal Tess of the D’Urbervilles sees an PROFESSIONALS STORY of the lives of four kids making all-female cast welcome the Journey with the Man In Black When government cuts hit the their living in a world not that far audience into a semi-immersive from Arkansas cotton fields to his Department of Seasonal Mascots, from our own: the streets. pub setting, with spirited live folk undisputed seat in the Rock & Santa and friends panic – music, shocking new plot twists, Roll Hall of Fame. Powerful Aug 12-17 @ 10:15 AM - £7.50 (£5.00) sabotaging each other’s festivals and a healthy jolt of feminism. renditions of Folsom Prison, Ring Aug 9-10 @ 10:15 AM - £5.00 (£3.50) to keep their jobs safe. Watch out, of Fire, Walk the Line and more. the Claus are out! Previous Aug 2-10, 12-17 @ 10:40 PM - £12.00 ★★★★ (£10.00) Talking Toolbox shows: (Everything- Aug 2-24 @ 6:20 PM - £14.00 (£12.50) ★★★★ JEREMY NICHOLAS: Theatre.co.uk), (BroadwayBaby.com). WHAT ARE YOU Night Owl Shows Das Stück in TALKING ABOUT? Aug 12-17 @ 11:35 AM - £7.00 (£5.00) THE CARPENTERS collaboration with the This funny show is for anyone Aug 2-3 @ 5:05 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) SONGBOOK Kings Player's Aug 5-10 @ 5:05 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) who ever listens to dreadfully dull The music and career of the most THE MANNEQUIN presentations, cringe-worthy successful sibling duo of all time, From the streets of Soho to the wedding speeches or rambling Semi-Toned delivered by the sublime drag bars of Montmartre, the nonsense from "experts" and Charlotte Brereton who returns to frantic lives of these artists all thinks, ‘there must be a better SEMI-TONED the Fringe following acclaim and revolve around The Mannequin. way of communicating than this'. PRESENTS: LIFE ON sell-outs portraying Joni Mitchell They all desire validation in their MARS in 2017/18. 'Crystal clarity' lives, finding solace in each other Aug 2-4, 9-11, 16-18, 23-24 @ 8:25 PM - After two sell-out Fringe runs, the ★★★★ (BroadwayBaby.com). and their work. £12.00 (£10.00) boys in burgundy want to go Aug 5-8, 12-15, 19-22 @ 8:25 PM - further. 140 million miles further £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-24 @ 1:45 PM - £14.00 (£12.50) Aug 19-24 @ 10:35 PM - £8.00 (£8.00) – to Mars. Using stellar vocals and out-of-this-world choreography, American High School they battle to get there. Night Owl Shows Theatre Festival THE NASHVILLE Aug 12-13, 15-20, 22-24 @ 5:05 PM - STORY MATCH GIRL £8.00 (£6.00) Match Girl is musical re- Take a journey through time in imagination of Hans Christian Nashville and experience how Andersen's The Little Match Girl, Music City influenced the whole following the journey of Elin and world of music. Features hits from the Shadows. Presented by the Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Hank Janus Players of the Hun School Williams, Kris Kristofferson, of Princeton. Shania Twain, Tammy Wynette and more. Aug 2, 5, 7 @ 11:50 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 4 @ 9:50 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 2-24 @ 2:50 PM - £14.00 (£12.50)

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KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

American High School American High School Dennis Elkins with Flying SisterWives Theatre Festival Theatre Festival Solo Productions HOW TO HIDE A BODY THE SNOW QUEEN A MIDSUMMER BOX IN NEW YORK Kay has retreated with the Snow NIGHT'S DREAM In an enticing striptease of NYC's acclaimed sketch group Queen to not feel any more pain Boy meets girl, they fall in love, revelations, this poignant and travels across the pond to or sadness. To help Kay, Gerda and everyone lives happily ever funny solo performance exposes perform their outrageously funny goes on a quest, braving after. If only it were that simple. the unplanned turns, deliberate jam-packed show... and escape obstacles with the power of hope Hold on to your heart. Cupid is shifts, blind alleys and the authorities. Join their and love. armed and dangerous! devastating losses of one man's Edinburgh debut where they'll struggle to traverse the toll road prove that Americans really are Aug 2 @ 9:50 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 3, 5 @ 10:45 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) of middle age... in a box. the worst! Aug 3-4, 6 @ 11:50 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 4, 6 @ 9:15 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 2 @ 12:05 PM - £6.00 (£6.00) Aug 12-17 @ 5:25 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 5, 7, 13, 19, 21 @ 12:05 PM - Phil Hammond Rachel E. Thorn £10.00 (£8.00) VOTE DR PHIL? and Alex Keen Aug 9, 15, 17, 23 @ 12:05 PM - £12.00 David Watson (£10.00) Phil Hammond was sacked by the BETWEEN US HYPER-NICE BBC for pledging to stand against What makes us fall in love? What Aspiring to be more vacuous? his MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg, in makes us fall apart? This is the Stargaze Theatre Thanking strangers for no reason? 2022 (or next week). Can he win? inside story of one couple's BUTTERBUM, J Hyper-Nice is a new, original, one Or is he another deluded populist relationship, created in the Lost boy on a bridge, a hungry person stand-up show in which desperate for affirmation? Or moment by nationally acclaimed talking crow, old documents float David Watson mostly apologises both? You decide. improvisers. 'Moving and on the river below. A wharf for breathing and tries to be hilarious. Surpassed all building for sale, a copper sings "nice". What if we spoke to Aug 2-5, 7-13, 16-19, 21-24 @ 9:30 PM - ★★★★ people in real-life like we do on £12.00 (£10.00) expectations' reggae, the Pope sees murder in (BroadwayBaby.com). the cold light of day. Quirky, Social Media . original mystery. Aug 2-4 @ 6:20 PM - £8.00 (£6.50) Aug 19-24 @ 5:20 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 5-10, 12-17 @ 6:20 PM - £9.50 Aug 5-10 @ 2:25 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Haldane Theatre (£8.00) Great Egg Theatre Craig Stephenson Rosy Beard Comedy LE MONOCLE Cube Theatre CRAIG'S MAGIC SHOW 11+ The untold story of the 20th- BIKE Magician Craig Stephenson has century Parisian lesbian bar Le 11+ explores the strange and Karen's parents are worried. She dazzled audiences around the Monocle, its clientele and funny challenges we go through won’t come out of her bedroom. world with his exemplary sleight acclaimed athlete-turned-SS in trying to get into a grammar Which is odd, given she’s a of hand skills combined with agent Violette Morris. school, while also analysing fearless cycling champion. Odder devilish psychological illusion. He emotions to do with failure and still is what she’s doing in there... brings his latest material to the Aug 2-3 @ 7:20 PM - £7.00 (£6.00) success. A poignant rite of passage story Edinburgh Fringe for an evening Aug 4-9 @ 7:20 PM - £8.00 (£7.00) from Cube Theatre. of fun and mystery. Aug 19, 22-24 @ 4:25 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 5-10 @ 3:20 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 2-4 @ 9:30 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) Ponder Theatre Aug 20-21 @ 4:25 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 5-17 @ 9:30 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) LISTEN, YOU CAN HEAR THE SOUND OF Abling Group Ltd with David Kernick NO HANDS CLAPPING Susie Sillett GETTING TO GRIPS What happens when we bring 30 WITH MIGRAINE era-defining characters back to life? A thought-provoking avant- One room, one baby, thirty days. Dr David Kernick is an garde exploration of the self. Naomi's being tested for experienced GP and headache motherhood. If she passes, she expert who leads an NHS Aug 19-24 @ 8:20 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) can have a child, but her cousin headache clinic in Exeter. failed six times and she's feeling Understand your migraine and nervous. Will she earn the right to learn how to manage it and your reproduce? GP.

Aug 19-24 @ 6:20 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 5-6 @ 5:20 PM - £6.00 (£5.00)

40 2019 Programme Unexpected Places Latin Rediscovery famous by Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Everybody's Story LOOKING DOWN ON MARLENE IN Holiday, Nina Simone and of TEA?...(WITH MILK) ME HAVANA: GYPSY course Frank Sinatra. Swing jazz Tea?…(With Milk) is a fast paced, Losing someone you love is never TANGO CABARET at its best! fun, dark piece of theatre. easy, especially when you don't Latin Rediscovery presents a show Growing up with adverts that Aug 12-17 @ 7:20 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) understand why they've gone. An featuring popular music from film criticised their bodies, two enchanting, touching and and cabaret between the great women have to decide if they uplifting puppetry performance World Wars, reinventing an The Uninvited Party want to conform to society's for children aged 7+, their appearance made by Marlene PICK UP expectations. Stressed? Have a families and adults alike. Dietrich at exclusive Club Sans The Uninvited Party excavate cuppa! Souci Playa, Havana in 1956. through the dirty laundry of the Aug 20-24 @ 10:00 AM - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 3:25 PM - £10.00 direct and indirect victims of (£7.00) Aug 19-24 @ 9:20 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) dependency. An intimate piece, Adaptable Theatre Pick Up guides you through the LOOKING FOR Craig MacArthur with raucous, ecstatic highs and Y-Axis Theatre 'S Flying Solo Productions claustrophobic, desolate lows TGIF LATIN QUARTER MARROW from the perspectives of those The best worst episode of Friends. affected. Four best friends meet every A funny and self-deprecating Welcome into the hallucinogenic Friday night to play their favourite account of growing up in 1970s and feverish mind of a physically Aug 19-24 @ 7:25 PM - £6.50 (£6.50) games. This Friday, the gang has Wolverhampton. Ian looks back at traumatised dancer struggling to two new members. One of them his deluded teenage years. A make sense of his horrific has a dark secret which is about to world of the Sex Pistols, brutalisation and the aftermath as Sam Piha and Louise be revealed. Crossroads and Angel Delight. a lifetime of memories is POSTCARDS FROM unleashed. CROUCH END – PIHA Aug 2-3 @ 10:30 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 9-10, 12-17 @ 11:05 AM - £8.00 Captivating and evocative guitar Aug 5-7, 12-14, 19-21 @ 10:30 PM - (£6.00) Aug 3 @ 12:05 PM - £6.00 (£6.00) music. Sam's arrangement of £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 6, 12, 14, 20 @ 12:05 PM - £10.00 Aug 8-10, 15-17, 22-24 @ 10:30 PM - Malaguena, used in the film Joy. (£8.00) £9.00 (£7.00) Lorenzo Novani Aug 8, 10, 16, 22, 24 @ 12:05 PM - Tachi-ai record of the week (Lyric LOVING THE ENEMY £12.00 (£8.00) FM). Shinkansen Bullet Train. A young Scots-Italian struggles Crouch End Suite. Also featuring Baloney Theatre Louise on flute. with questions of identity, love American High School Company – Marissa and loyalty after Mussolini sides Landy Theatre Festival Aug 7-11 @ 5:30 PM - £8.00 (£5.00) with Nazi Germany in 1940. Hugo MONSTER SCHOOL THE CAT'S THE THING must discover where he really JURASSIC! One woman, one cat and many belongs. Starring Lorenzo Novani: Pinwheel Productions intrusive thoughts. One thing Monster School Jurassic! The kids 'A dramatist and actor of some stands between Tanya and life... in Ms Bagatha's class at Monster SWITCH WITCHETTY'S depth' (Scotsman). the door. Will she find her School are at it again! Join them ALMANAC OF freedom? An absurd comedy Aug 19-24 @ 2:20 PM - £12.00 (£10.00) on their adventures through time EVERYTHING based on the power and reality of as they learn about dinosaurs, When the Almanac's destroyed, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. history and being good monsters. Switch the Fool must chronicle Craig Stephenson every story ever told. This www.midnightsunperformingarts Aug 19 @ 11:05 AM - £4.00 (£3.00) MAGIC, MIND .com Australian production turns Aug 20-24 @ 11:05 AM - £8.00 (£6.00) READING AND original stories into folklore with TELERABBITRY Aug 3, 5 @ 9:15 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) music, mayhem and ordinary bed Aug 4, 6 @ 10:45 AM - £5.00 (£5.00) Using only a deck of cards and a sheets. Switch must choose – hero toy rabbit, magician Craig or fool? Stephenson has been dazzling Out of the Blue Jazz Aug 2-3 @ 1:25 PM - £4.50 (£4.00) audiences all over the world. His OUT OF THE BLUE Aug 4-6, 8-10, 15-17, 22-24 @ 1:25 PM - new show promises magic, mind JAZZ PRESENTS THE £9.00 (£8.00) reading and a lot of laughter for Aug 7, 12-14, 19-21 @ 1:25 PM - £8.00 GREAT AMERICAN all. (£7.00) SONGBOOK Aug 2-4 @ 8:25 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) Playing the very best of the Great Aug 5-17 @ 8:25 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) American Songbook, made

2019 Programme 41 Sincerity THE EXPERIMENT If you could cure thousands of a fatal disease by experimenting on a single child, would you do it? Sincerity have taken Mark Ravenhill's chilling monologue and expanded it... is love worth such a horrific sacrifice?

Aug 12-17 @ 2:25 PM - £10.50 (£8.00)

Damien Engelhardt UNMEETABLES We all try to avoid certain people – bros with cats, people handing out flyers, vegans. But there are some we refuse to even look at because of the giving code. A laugh-and-cry one-man show.

Aug 2-4, 9-10, 16-18 @ 4:25 PM - £10.00 (£7.00) Aug 5-8, 12-15 @ 4:25 PM - £5.00 (£3.00)

42 2019 Programme 2019 Programme 43 44 2019 Programme theSpace @ Niddry Street VENUE 9 A fabulous central venue in our Royal Mile Hub offering an explosion of diverse performance. ‘Sips in the City’, our buzzing bar in the adjacent courtyard, offers a great pre/ post-show drink too.

Edinburgh Youth Theatre Liquid Lunch Productions Cardiff University A Lower Theatre ANNIE JR BILLY JOEL: PIANO Cappella Society's Edinburgh Youth Theatre will MAN LIVE DeciBelles H&H Performing Arts knock your socks off with this The best of the dynamic songbook DECIBELLES DEBUT! A BOY AND HIS MAGIC lively, fun and charming musical of the legendary Billy Joel. The DeciBelles are a female- PEN version of Annie Jr. An loud, energetic 5-piece band re- identifying, competitive a A young boy with an enormous exhilarating theatre experience create the stadium sound iconic in cappella group who have sass, gift. Follow Ma Liang as he for all the family. Licensed by MTI the early career of the original sensitivity and power! Our queens discovers a very special skill that (Europe). Piano Man. ★★★★ in green perform songs that could help his whole village as (TheWeeReview.co.uk). capture girl power and Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 10:10 AM - £8.00 long as it doesn't fall into the independence, performing hits (£6.00) wrong hands... Aug 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, from this year, such as Salute and Bells in association with 24 @ 7:30 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Almost Human! Aug 2-3 @ 3:00 PM - £5.00 (£3.00) Mermaids Performing The Theatre Shed Ltd Aug 13-16 @ 11:15 AM - £5.00 (£4.00) Italia Conti Ensemble 2019 Arts Fund CAPEABILITY Dragtime! ALMOST, MAINE BELLS PRESENTS: CapeAbility centres around super A cold, clear, moonless night in SOUNDSCAPE powers – from X-Men to The Dragtime! Presents: the middle of winter. All is not Bells, former a cappella Avengers, every superhero has a CIRQUE DU SLAY quite what it seems in the remote champions, presents Soundscape, unique power. How do you find The drag kings, queens and in- mythical town of Almost, Maine. an immersive musical experience them? When do you get them? betweens of Cambridge’s John Cariani’s tragically beautiful providing an honest and truthful What do you do if you can’t premiere drag troupe invite you play packs wit, charm and, like insight into their creative process, control them? to a whirling cabaret of dancing, love, surprises you. staging interactive live singing, lip-sync, burlesque, Aug 10-11 @ 2:45 PM - £9.00 (£6.00) improvisation alongside music by comedy and more! Welcome to Aug 12-17 @ 1:00 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Stormzy, James Blake, Nao, Alt-J, the wonderful world of the Cirque Seats Back Theatre Sufjan Stevens and more. du Slay... Ken Wood and the Company Mixers Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 5:15 PM - £8.00 (£7.00) DANNY THE Aug 5-10 @ 8:35 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) AMAZING STORIES OF CHAMPION OF THE BLUES AND SOUL WORLD Returning after sell-out shows in Danny lives with his father and 2018, the sensational story of learns that he poaches pheasants soul, from the pounding R'n'B of from Victor. One night his father the 1940s to the smouldering doesn't return, Danny fears the sounds of Stax. Featuring songs of worst and sets off on a Otis Redding, James Brown and courageous journey to save his many more. father.

Aug 12-17 @ 5:15 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 19-24 @ 11:55 AM - £8.00 (£5.00)

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KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

Liquid Lunch Productions Illuminations A Cappella YAT Flying High Young ELTON JOHN: ROCKET MINDS ALIGHT! SENSE AND Company MAN LIVE! Illuminations A Cappella’s SENSIBILITY THE WIZARD OF OZ The best of the eclectic songbook powerful show Minds Alight!, in Sense and Sensibility tells the A new, colourful, lively adaptation of the legendary Elton John and support of YoungMinds, story of the Dashwood sisters as of Dorothy's journey to Oz with Bernie Taupin. This loud, combines their vibrant image and they navigate the world of love, original songs and music brought energetic 5-piece band re-creates uplifting music to convey a loss and society. Can one sister to you by a vibrant, talented the iconic live sound of the powerful message of adversity, learn to follow her head while the young company who had sell-out original Rocket Man. friendship, and companionship. other learns to follow her heart? shows for 2016, 2017 and 2018. Proceeds from ticket sales will be Join us! Aug 2-3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 @ donated to support YoungMinds! Aug 19-24 @ 1:55 PM - £8.00 (£6.50) 7:30 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-4 @ 12:40 PM - £6.00 Aug 19-24 @ 4:05 PM - £8.00 (£5.00) KinkyFish (£6.00)*Aug 5-6 @ 12:40 PM - £12.00 (£7.00)*Aug 7-10 @ 12:40 PM - £9.00 STAY LOYAL TO THE (£7.00) The Coily Dart Theatre Russian String Orchestra ROYALS Company MISHA'S GANG: Concerned about the future of the The Talentz GILBERT AND Commonwealth, the Queen has STRINGS ON FIRE THE WIZARD OF OZ SULLIVAN'S undertaken a world tour to A musical treat to really raise the From the company that previously IMPROBABLE NEW connect with her "people". Her spirits! Rousing and dynamic, this brought you Elf comes this Majesty will show the world that MUSICAL: LESS world-class ensemble perform a imaginative retelling of the classic the royal family spills more tea MISERABLE wide range of delightful classical tale. Featuring a live band and than the Kardashians. Using songs taken entirely from works inspired by movies, dance, sensational youth cast, delve into the Gilbert and Sullivan canon, opera and travel. 'An unashamed Aug 19-24 @ 10:20 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) your imagination and join us in this show tells the story of the crowd pleaser' ★★★★★ Oz this Fringe! world's longest-running musical, (ThreeWeeks). Ron Davis' with a few Gilbertian plot twists to Aug 19-24 @ 10:30 AM - £7.50 (£5.00) SymphRONica make it Less Miserable! Aug 19-24 @ 5:10 PM - £12.50 (£10.50)*Aug 2-11 @ 6:15 PM - £12.50 SYMPHRONICA Italia Conti Ensemble Aug 2-3 @ 11:20 AM - £7.00 (£10.50) BBC Radio 3 regulars Ron Davis' 2019 (£5.00)*Aug 5-10 @ 11:20 AM - SymphRONica return for a fourth THIS ISLAND'S MINE £8.00 (£6.00) Lund Fringe. They’ve won worldwide Passionate, lyrical, witty raves including four stars from Cup and Dagger PEARLS ensemble storytelling. 1988. The Herald and The Scotsman. IF IT DIDN'T MATTER You can’t help getting older, but Thatcher's Britain. A kaleidoscope This is the music you’ve been A tale of rebellion, self- you don’t have to get old. Pearls is of characters and their stories looking for, the jazz you want to destruction and finally realisation; a verbatim play about the appear against a backdrop of hear! Siofra Dromgoole's new play forgotten personalities, the cynicism, racism and ignored characters, and the explores timeless themes of the Aug 12-24 @ 8:50 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) homophobia. With music and teenage experience through a presumed frustrations of the song, it's a glorious celebration of elderly, told by the young. vibrant, moving and often comic Aca-Pocalypse self-discovery, self-confidence and modern text. pride. Aug 19-24 @ 12:55 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) THE ACA-POCALYPSE Aug 5-9 @ 3:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) A fun and varied set of high Aug 12-17 @ 2:35 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) RadioOctave quality a cappella intended to Eleanor Higgins / Bush RADIOOCTAVE: THE entertain all ages. Student Theatre at Productions NIGHT WE MET Glasgow (STAG) IN PURSUET Aug 19-24 @ 6:15 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) At the Fringe for the second time, TRIPS AND FALLS Based on true events. A Sue RadioOctave presents vibrant What happens when two sisters Perkins superfan, sent to therapist vocals, brilliant beatboxing and steal their mum’s car and drive to to deal with her drinking, relays captivating choreography, taking Arran to scatter their her adventures pursuing Sue. you on a journey of love. From grandmother's ashes? Trips and Fleabag meets Miranda in this jazz to pop, electronic to ballads, Falls is a road trip scattered with fierce, heartfelt LGBT there's something for everyone! chaos, comedy and family comedy/drama. 'Not to be journeys. ★★★★★ Aug 12-17 @ 6:30 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) missed!' (Red Rails www.studenttheatreatglasgow.com Theatre)* Aug 2-3 @ 4:05 PM - £5.00 (£5.00)*Aug Aug 12-17 @ 12:10 PM - £9.00 (£6.50) 5-10, 12-17 @ 4:05 PM - £9.00 (£8.00) 2019 Programme 47 48 2019 Programme 2019 Programme 49 theSpace @ Niddry Street

CYD Weegie Hink Ae That? TBC Improv Lusher Charter School TWELFTH NIGHT WEEGIE HINK AE ABSOLUTE IMPROV! Theatre Department One of Shakespeare’s funniest THAT? PRESENTS: The acclaimed five-star, sell-out BANG, BANG, YOU'RE comedies brought to you by CYD. NAE BOTHER! improvised comedy variety show DEAD These talented highly skilled The Weegie boys are back. This for all the family returns! With Written in response to three high improvisers are enjoying their time with an even bigger and comedy sketches, characters, school shootings, Bang, Bang, fourth year at the Fringe. If there bamier show! From outrageous songs and more created before You're Dead examines the was a spirit of the Fringe, this sketches to catchy songs, they'll your eyes, there’s something for aftermath of a school shooting group is it. have ye creasing from start to everyone and every performance and encourages communities to finish! So, Weegie Hink Ae That? is unique! explore why such violence occurs. Aug 19-24 @ 3:05 PM - £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 12-17 @ 10:15 PM - £10.00 Aug 2 @ 6:20 PM - £7.00 (£7.00) Aug 2-7 @ 12:35 PM - £8.00 (£5.00) SAS Productions (£8.00)*Aug 2-10 @ 9:55 PM - £10.00 Aug 3-10, 12-24 @ 6:20 PM £10.00 (£9.00) VANITY AIRLINES (£8.00) Arbery Productions Vanity Airlines holds the BULL prestigious title of Airline of the Upper Theatre A Cappella Birmingham One of three office workers is Year 2012 but how did the most ACA-LYMPICS about to lose their job. Mike popular airline lose their touch? Bartlett's razor-sharp play about Young Actor's Camp A cappella is back and this time Having not won anything in six the fine line between office A MIDSUMMER it's competitive! Birmingham years, a group of flight attendants politics and playground bullying NIGHT’S DREAM University A Cappella Society decide to take action. returns to the Fringe for their exposes the vicious side of human Actors from around the world fourth year in a sporting attempt nature and the power of words. Aug 6-9 @ 1:45 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) rehearsed via Skype for four to blow you away with all voices months and then met here in Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 5:20 PM - £10.00 and no instruments! Scotland to put on Shakespeare's (£8.00)

romantic comedy: A Midsummer Aug 12-17 @ 1:20 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) Night's Dream! Come join us for love, fairies and a donkey.

Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 11:30 AM £7.00 (£5.00)

50 2019 Programme KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

Cathy: A Retelling of Stage 32 Dingwall Players Sightline Productions Wuthering Heights GESSO MIDGES OPHELIA IS ALSO CATHY: A RETELLING A creation story about creativity Biting, irritating, in your face, DEAD OF WUTHERING itself. Gesso: a noun and a verb; a everywhere – no escape. Four Immerse yourself in the story of HEIGHTS primer for painting and to prime. women, an isolated location. Who Ophelia’s life. It's been 53 years This new musical tells of Get Gesso-ed to come along on has summoned them? Why? What since Rosencrantz and Heathcliff and Cathy, two lovers this fantastical romp through the links them? A stranger arrives – Guildenstern premiered, over 500 thwarted by family, society and art world. Interactive, visually they are made to confront their since Hamlet and no one has ever God. A storm of vengeance brews thrilling fun for everyone. pasts. Love, death, humour and asked her how she felt about it all. over the moors as their passionate bloody midges! Aug 9-11 @ 12:40 PM - £8.00 (£4.00) Aug 19-24 @ 10:20 PM - £7.00 (£6.00) romance transcends life and Aug 12-17 @ 7:25 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) death itself. The Watch This Improv Betwixt-and-Between Scruffy Mutt Theatre Aug 12-17 @ 10:20 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Troupe PETER PAN IN IMPROVABUNGA! MILKSHAKE KENSINGTON Parker and Snell Youth Improvabunga: the totally Amber. Silver. Freya. Scarlet. Four GARDENS Company improvised movie adventure. young lives. Some very big A new adaptation of JM Barrie's CHATROOM Featuring live musical problems. Like dope smoking 1906 prequel, introducing new A powerful depiction of the accompaniment and buzzers that parents. Promiscuous partners. characters and adventures in a modern world. Six teenage you can use to control the Psychotic friends. Sexting fails. family show which explores how characters communicate only via performers. There’ll be songs, Pregnancy. And blackmail. Served one child named Peter became the internet; a chilling premise is there’ll be tears, there’ll be kisses up with black humour, a sprinkle 'the boy who would not grow up'. forged to create a funny and (or slaps) and there’ll be funny. of contemporary dance and a nasty ending. Aug 2-10, 12-17 @ 10:00 AM - £10.00 compelling drama that tackles the ★★★★★ (BroadwayBaby.com). (£8.00) issues of teenage life head-on! A ★★★★ (EdFringeReview.com). Aug 19-24 @ 7:20 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) multi award-winning production! Lossie Entertainment Aug 2-3 @ 9:20 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) YASPLZ LLC Aug 12-17 @ 11:10 AM - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 9:20 PM - ROBERT BURNS THE £7.00 (£6.00) NOIR HAMLET MUSICAL HurlyBurly Wild new comedy by John Based upon an idea by David Gest DEATH BY Pac Arts Minigan reimagines Hamlet as a and Michael Jackson, Robert SHAKESPEARE IN THE HEIGHTS wise-cracking 1940s detective up Burns the Musical by Tish Tindall to his neck in a comedic case with A chorus of bawdy spirits lead you In the Heights tells the universal is the story of love, Scotland and more twists than a gallows through this physically dynamic story of a vibrant community in one man's struggle to redefine his necktie. Boston Globe Critics' amalgamation of Shakespeare's New York’s Washington Heights pride of worth. Pick! Edge Media's Best of Boston finest death scenes – a fresh look neighbourhood – mixing hip hop, traditional Latin and American Aug 12-17 @ 8:25 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) at the Bard's beautiful words. Aug 19-24 @ 1:15 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) music, performed with live music. Successfully resurrected at the Cambridge University Fringe for it's fourth outing since Aug 6 @ 4:20 PM - £4.00 (£3.00) The Bluebelles Musical Theatre Society 2013! Aug 7-10 @ 4:20 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) NOTEWORTHY RUST The Bluebelles cordially invite you ‘When you leave here, everything Aug 5-9 @ 1:40 PM - £8.00 (£6.50) The Shakespeare Edit to an awards show like no other: else will be exactly the same. The HurlyBurly LUCRECE prepare for awesome a cappella only thing that’s changed is you.’ Rape. Revenge. Hope. Following FIFTY SHADES OF covers, guaranteed to keep your The company behind SiX brings critical acclaim in India, toes tapping all night long! SHAKESPEARE this moving and life-affirming Shakespeare's Lucrece comes to Shakespeare at his most sexy and original musical about addiction, Edinburgh. 'A hard-hitting tale of Aug 19-24 @ 4:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) salacious! A physically dynamic mental health services and courage we all need to see' ensemble perform a musical, Lund recovery to the Fringe. (in.BookMyShow.com). 'A lyrical mash-up that explores love, compelling theatre production' NOTHING TO HIDE Aug 2-10 @ 3:10 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) sex and relationships in some of (Firstpost.com). 'I sat stunned and My iPhone can hear me. Alexa the Bard's most famous scenes. somehow hopeful' (Mumbai listens. They’re watching through With plenty of Grey moments! Mirror). the webcam. Is privacy dead, or are we just paranoid? Using Aug 5-9 @ 2:25 PM - £8.00 (£6.50) Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 12:15 PM - £10.00 verbatim testimony, we take you (£8.00) through an unsettling journey into who is listening.

Aug 19-24 @ 8:25 PM - £8.00 (£6.00)

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KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

Lion Theatre Company Arbery Productions Warwick Improv SKYLIGHT SUNSET WARWICK IMPROV Courtyard When Kyra receives a visit from At the end of the day a PRESENTS: ANYTHING her ex-lover Tom, the night they grandmother remembers her first YOU WANT Boogie Shoes Silent spend together forms a narrative date, the man she married and Six actors. One hour. No script. Disco Walking Tours that explores the complexities of the ups and downs of their life Watch characters collide in a BOOGIE SHOES SILENT relationships, grief, love and together. An intense and moving series of engaging narratives DISCO WALKING TOUR opposing ideologies of a modern portrait from Maggie Macleod. wound around unpredictable WITH A SCOTTISH Britain. scenes. Expect an evening of Aug 2-3 @ 5:20 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) TWIST captivating, emotionally charged Aug 19-24 @ 10:10 AM - £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 5-10 @ 5:20 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) Silent disco returns to its Scottish improv with a splash of comic roots with a magical musical absurdity. Stage Avenue Malvern Theatres Young walking tour around Edinburgh. Feel-good classics live Performing Arts Company Aug 2-10 @ 10:20 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) STEPPING OUT UNDER MILK WOOD commentary and a cheeky Scottish twist. Fun for all. Described as a funny and heart- Directed by Nic Lloyd, Malvern Bathway Theatre Company Headphones provided. warming comedy, Stepping Out is Theatres Young Company bring WE WANT YOU TO a hugely popular play, following Dylan Thomas’s exquisitely lyrical WATCH Aug 2-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25, 27-31 @ the lives of seven women and one language alive in their 'Can we just say we’re completely 2:00 PM - £12.50 (£10.00) man who meet at a weekly dance Aug 2-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25, 27-31 @ presentation of Under Milk Wood: pro sex'. The Bathway Theatre class to tap their troubles away. 3:30 PM - £12.50 (£10.00) a play for voices. Come along and Company’s unsettling and hear the secrets of the dreamers Aug 2-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25, 27-31 @ powerful performance confronts 5:00 PM - £12.50 (£10.00) Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 7:30 PM - £15.00 of Llareggub. (£15.00) you with pornography’s effect on Aug 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, 23-24, 30-31 @ society. Can Pig and Sissy find a 6:30 PM - £15.00 (£12.50) Aug 12-17 @ 3:50 PM - £8.00 (£5.00) way to pull its plug? Aug 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, 23-24, 30-31 @ 8:00 PM - £15.00 (£12.50) Aug 4, 6-8, 11, 13-15, 18, 20-22, 25, 27- Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 2:25 PM - £10.00 29 @ 6:30 PM - £12.50 (£10.00) (£7.50)

YourSPACE at theSpaceUK

Again this year we are very excited to present YourSPACE - our unique all embracing programme of one-off events presented by you - our fabulous companies. Featuring creative and skills-based workshops, post show Q&As, forums etc. All invited and its free.

Details of the programme will be listed daily on twitter.com/thespaceuk

If you want to get involved and present an event then contact us directly at [email protected] www.thespaceuk.com @theSpaceUK

52 2019 Programme 2019 Programme 53 54 2019 Programme theSpace Triplex VENUE 38 Next door to theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall we present a mixture of large scale and intimate music, dance, theatre, musicals, comedy, spoken word and a cappella.

AcadePitch Productions BCP Daniel Martinez Big ACADEPITCH ALAN AYCKBOURN'S Flamenco Company PRESENTS – ROMEO NO KNOWING ART OF BELIEVING – The Songsmiths AND JULIET: AN A After selling out last year with FLAMENCO 10 THINGS I HATE CAPPELLA TRAGEDY three Alan Bennett plays, BCP A must-see powerful flamenco ABOUT A CAPPELLA Two a cappella groups, both alike return with one of Alan performance, bursting with Pitching the honest truth of what in dignity. Inspired by Ayckbourn's most recent plays. No passion and authenticity. it's really like to be in an a Shakespeare, Academy and Pitch Knowing has never been Alongside exceptional musicians, cappella group. The highs, lows Fight return to the Fringe with a performed outside Scarborough – singers, a violinist and dancer, and off-key moments of life in the brand-new show, featuring award- where it premiered to acclaim in guitarist Daniel Martinez rehearsal room are certainly not to winning choreography and vocal 2016. promises an unforgettable be missed. An eclectic mix of percussion. flamenco music/dance show. styles, astounding musical Aug 19-24 @ 2:55 PM - £12.00 (£10.00) Vibrant and exciting, this show arrangements and Aug 19-24 @ 1:50 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) cannot be missed! enthusiastically executed dance American Performing routines is on offer. 10 Things I Aug 2-24 @ 9:15 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) The Bristol Suspensions Arts International Hate About A Cappella features ACA-RRESTED: BEHIND ALL I REALLY NEED TO fantastic singing in a fun, upbeat KNOW I LEARNED IN BBD Productions show about love, friendship and BARS BIG BAND DOES... the power of music. Fresh from The Bristol Suspensions are on KINDERGARTEN BROADWAY their 3rd place finish at the UK trial for crimes against a cappella! Based on Robert Fulghum's best- BBD Productions make their ICCA Finals, prepare to be This mixed a cappella group from selling books, this musical takes a debut at the Fringe with Big Band serenaded in your seat at The Bristol have been Aca-rrested, and funny, insightful, heart-warming Does... Broadway. Join an 18- Songsmiths' debut performance need your help to find justice. This look at what is profound in piece band and a cast of singers at the Edinburgh Fringe! show will shock, surprise, and everyday life. Presented by the deliver top-notch vocals! internationally award-winning and dancers to journey through Aug 12-17 @ 3:10 PM - £10.00 (£7.00) Caddo Magnet Players. Broadway hits from the 40s to Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 4:10 PM - £10.00 current day. (£8.00) Aug 2-3, 5 @ 12:15 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 12-17 @ 10:45 PM - £12.50 (£10.00)

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

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Bubble Show for Adults American Performing Nelson Youth Theatre Rock Choir Only Arts International Company ROCK CHOIR LIVE BUBBLE SHOW FOR DEATH OF THE GREASE Following sell-out runs in 2017 ADULTS ONLY AMERICAN TEENAGER Toe-tapping, high-energy, raw and 2018, national phenomenon Bubble artistry, neo-burlesque Today’s American high school teenage emotional power, Rock Choir – the UK's largest and a soapy concoction of kinky, students have been raised at a stunning vocals and raunchy contemporary choir – returns with in-your-face theatrics. A raucous time when school shootings have script. Grease is so irrepressibly an explosive repertoire of fun, and raunchy bubble affair with a become common. Explore how un-PC, audiences flock to see it uplifting pop and chart songs story arc full that showcases the schools have become scenes of again and again. Featuring all the performed by members from technical prowess of bubble art on violence and how that shared hits: Greased Lightning, Summer across the UK. a first-class level. experience will define this young Nights, You're the One That I Aug 2-24 @ 7:20 PM - £12.50 (£12.50) generation. Want. Aug 2-24 @ 8:20 PM - £12.50 (£12.50) Aug 19-22 @ 10:40 PM - £9.50 (£8.50) Aug 23-24 @ 10:40 PM - £10.50 (£9.50) Aug 2-4 @ 2:30 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 3-10 @ 4:30 PM - £15.00 (£14.00) Mrs Pankhurst's Players Cadenza Seckford Theatre Improv, She Wrote SHREW CADENZA: Company IMPROV, SHE WROTE Set in a nightclub populated with CAMBRIDGE DÉLICIEUX Trinity College Dublin's best and drag kings and gangsters, this radical adaptation releases UNIVERSITY'S Une bonne dose de excitement. only improv group arrive at the Shakespeare’s play from its PREMIER A CAPPELLA Une pincée de suspense. Fringe to bring you brand new comedic origins to foreground GROUP Délicieux! Manon becomes a characters, storylines and songs Kate’s journey from strength and Cadenza is Cambridge gifted chef who can affect moods every night, using nothing but independence to being trafficked University's premier a cappella with her cooking. This tantalising audience suggestions! into a forced marriage. group. The group has become tale is brought to life with music, Aug 2-10 @ 10:40 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) known for their stunning song and dance. 'Never a dull Aug 12-14, 19-21 @ 11:40 AM - £8.00 arrangements spanning a range moment' (FringeReview.co.uk). (£6.00) of genres, performing in both Aquila Youth Theatre Aug 15-17, 22-24 @ 11:40 AM - £10.00 Aug 12-17 @ 2:05 PM - £5.00 (£3.00) (£8.00) Cambridge and further afield to LORD OF THE FLIES critical acclaim. Eighteen children, one island... an Aquila Youth Theatre incredible adventure turns into a Aug 12-17, 19-23 @ 12:45 PM - £9.00 American Performing (£7.00) GOODNIGHT MISTER fight for survival. Aquila Youth Arts International TOM Theatre's compelling production SOMETIMES, JUST A Set during the dark and of William Golding’s explosive SECOND Peter Hudler 20th-century classic comes to the dangerous build-up to WWII, It’s a new millennium in the Land Fringe in 2019. Don't miss it. CELLO ON FIRE Goodnight Mister Tom follows sad of Wonder: both recognisable and Celebrated Viennese Cellist Peter young William Beech, who is Aug 5-10 @ 10:10 AM - £7.00 (£5.00) alien. This modern re-imagining Hudler returns to the Fringe with evacuated to the English of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, is a a brand-new solo show. From countryside and begins a testament to the perseverance of baroque to rock, from folk to jazz, remarkable friendship. A Sweet Nothings story, power of music, and be part of a passionate, virtuoso, wonderful and empowering OCEAN’S 9: NOTHING endurance of humanity. poetically meditative and family show. BUT TREBLE colourful musical journey. Aug 6-8 @ 12:30 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Pitch Perfect meets Ocean’s 8 in ★★★★ (Scotsman). Aug 5-10 @ 2:20 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) this a cappella quest for fame, Aug 12-13, 19-20 @ 6:15 PM - £9.00 harmonies and retribution. With (£7.00) trademark sass, Sweet Nothings Aug 2, 7-8, 14-15, 21-22 @ 6:15 PM - perform songs inspired by £10.00 (£8.00) movies, concocting a thrilling Aug 3-6, 9-10, 16-18, 23-24 @ 6:15 PM - heist when snubbed by justice. £11.00 (£9.00)

Aug 12-16, 18-24 @ 5:15 PM - £10.00 (£8.00)

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KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

Dram Viver Open Barn Productions TuFlamenco Ukelear Fusion THE YELLOW DO YOU EVER GET FLAMENCONOVA KNOWING ME, WALLPAPER SCARED? Mind-blowing fusion of samba, KNOWING UKE A visually enthralling Greek tragic Six actors. Six parts and the roll of jazz and flamenco makes up this After their sell-out 2018 debut adaptation of the classic short a dice. How can an accusation utterly talented group of five Fringe show Too Many Ukes Spoil story. In an isolated attic room, change a life? musicians and a spectacular The Broth, Ukelear Fusion are our protagonist is comforted by a flamenco dancer. A must-see back! Their new show Knowing chorus of women creeping Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 5:05 PM - £10.00 performance where the beauty of Me, Knowing Uke is full of brand- (£5.00) beneath the wallpaper's surface, flamenco and bossa nova will new ukulele covers of songs from offering insights into feminist make your senses fly away. every genre. issues throughout history. Resistance Theatre Aug 2-10, 12-24 @ 10:50 PM - £12.00 Aug 19-24 @ 12:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Company Ltd Aug 20-23 @ 10:20 AM - £7.00 (£7.00) (£10.00) DREAM OF A KING 4th April 1968. Four years after Asterglow Theatre Blue Bird Youth Musical receiving the Nobel Peace Prize The Rootless Company NEVER NONE Theatre Company for his dynamic leadership of The FROM INDIA TO (BUT SHE) TRIPLEX ADVENTURES Civil Rights Movement, Martin TRIANA These are stories of resilience. Of Devised children's musical pieces Luther King was assassinated. Set The world comes together in an dark days and bright nights. Of telling stories of a 10-year-old the night of his shooting in a embrace of music and dance that harm and healing. Of people boy's change for a healthier world Tennessee motel room. will take the audience on a vibrant sowing planets and sewing stars with help from his friends: alarm and captivating journey from the in the sky. Generations of hurts Aug 19-24 @ 2:10 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) clock, water, vegetables and most primitive sounds of India to and hopes merge in this tapestry sporty shoes. Also, a performance Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-18 @ 1:00 PM - £9.00 the fiery rhythms of flamenco. (£7.00) of tales. of Lion King's Hakuna Matata. Aug 2-10, 12-24 @ 6:10 PM - £12.00 Aug 19-24 @ 11:05 AM - £10.00 (£7.00) Aug 10 @ 12:40 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) (£10.00) Eric Davidson Aug 2-4 @ 11:55 AM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 5-10 @ 11:55 AM - £10.00 (£7.00) ERIC DAVIDSON: Studio ACROSS THE LOONY Hoof and Horn VERSE Productions Sightline Productions HUSTLERS OPHELIA IS ALSO Northern Youth Theatre One of Scotland's finest comedy poets returns with 50 minutes of 'Like what you see?' Hustlers is a DEAD Project (NYTP) classic doggerel. 'I've seen better visceral and provocative portrayal Immerse yourself in the story of [BLANK] BY ALICE looking faces on an Easter Island of the lives of four kids making Ophelia’s life. It's been 53 years BIRCH AND NYTP postcard' (Polynesian Enquirer). their living in a world not that far since Rosencrantz and BAFTA-nominated Alice Birch from our own: the streets. Guildenstern premiered, over 500 wrote [BLANK] as a series of Aug 2-10, 12-24 @ 8:45 PM - £10.00 since Hamlet and no one has ever apparently unrelated yet (£10.00) Aug 19-24 @ 9:50 AM - £7.50 (£5.00) asked her how she felt about it all. connected scenes telling stories of life when adults feel absent from TuFlamenco Aug 12-17 @ 4:55 PM - £7.00 (£6.00) it. NYTP created this challenging Viviana Zarbo fast-paced production for Fringe FLAMENCO TABLAO I AM NOT MARILYN 2019 Two passionate full-of-flavour Marilyn's icon blends innocence Mermaids Performing flamenco voices, a brilliant master with sensuality. Despite her Arts Fund Aug 19-24 @ 5:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) flamenco guitarist and two bombshell fame, Marilyn OUR SAVIOUR powerful top-class sublime contributed to set the standard of To some, Reverend Sheen is a flamenco dancers will give you a jazz and swing. Viviana Zarbo BCP walking miracle, able to heal the traditional Flamenco Tablao again recounts Marilyn's life and songs sick with the power of prayer. To ALAN AYCKBOURN with the passion, creativity and without clichés, intertwining them others he is a heartless conman. DOUBLE BILL quality they are well known for. with her own life. Either way, more lurks beneath A Cut in the Rates is a blackly his million-dollar smile than comic rollercoaster of intrigue Aug 2-10, 12-24 @ 7:30 PM - £12.00 Aug 2-10, 12-17 @ 3:55 PM - £9.50 (£10.00) meets the eye. with a wicked twist in the tale. (£7.00) Mother Figure shows an Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17 @ 9:45 PM - overworked young mother £8.00 (£7.00)

treating the nosy neighbours as A children – literally!

Aug 19-24 @ 1:10 PM - £12.00 (£10.00) 58 2019 Programme Acccidentally On Curious Dispute Accidentally On Purpose Gilded Age Productions Purpose THE FEMINAZIS THE SINNERS CLUB THE WITCH OF WALL PIANO MAN Tired of the lack of progress in Accidentally On Purpose presents STREET Accidentally On Purpose presents gender equality, Sal and Libby The Sinners Club, a fast-paced Financier? Miser? Witch? A dry- Piano Man, a play in which four decide to take things into their comedy that explores what it witted tale about Hetty Green, characters discover the true own hands in the only sensible means to make mistakes, deal once America’s richest woman. A meaning of acceptance and way they can think of: by starting with regrets and suffer from new play from the team of Bad understanding one another in a a terrorist organisation. terrible hangovers after being so Habits who make 'comedy how world where creating a perfect life hammered you couldn’t it’s supposed to be done' Aug 19-24 @ 4:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) is something we all strive for. remember your own name. ★★★★ (EdFringeReview.com).

Aug 5-10 @ 2:00 PM - £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 5-10 @ 3:00 PM - £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 2-17 @ 10:55 AM - £8.00 (£6.00) Epic Tales THE FIRST KING OF Raised Voices ENGLAND IN A DRESS Durham Improvised Polymorph Theatre RAISED VOICES Vikings, giants and magic await Musical VOTES FOR WOMEN! A play about loss, love, hope and you in this fun-packed folk tale – a THE WHEEL OF The story of Emmeline and homelessness. Developed and historical adventure with IMPROV: MUSICALS Richard Pankhurst and the performed by the members of engaging storytelling, original EDITION! suffragette movement. This Raised Voices, an award-winning music and plenty of joining in! Spin that wheel! Join us for an couple were the architects of two homelessness and mental health Find out more at evening of totally improvised of the greatest steps forward in charity, this powerful drama www.epictales.co.uk/firstking musical comedy where you create the fight for women's rights in highlights some of the reasons the show. Put your craziest Britain. Aug 12-14 @ 11:55 AM - £11.00 (£7.00) that people find themselves suggestions on the wheel of Aug 15-17 @ 11:55 AM - £12.00 (£8.00) homeless. Aug 12-17 @ 1:55 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 19-21 @ 3:05 PM - £11.00 (£7.00) improv and let the spin decide Aug 22-24 @ 3:05 PM - £12.00 (£8.00) our fates! Aug 12-17 @ 3:00 PM - £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 19-24 @ 9:45 PM - £9.00 (£7.00)

2019 Programme 59 60 2019 Programme theSpace on North Bridge VENUE 36 Another fabulous location just off the Royal Mile, here we present a programme of new, devised and original work, theatre, musical theatre, comedy, music, spoken word and sketch.

Jane Gwilliams Acting Coach Scotland Autorickshaw Argyll Theatre A MOTHER CHAIKA: FIRST GLOBAL GROOVES, What is it like to be the mother of WOMAN IN SPACE ANCIENT VOICES SHUD Theatre a terrorist? A Mother coaxes us A textile worker is plucked from Canadian-based Autorickshaw is a ...AND THEY WHISPER into her experience of anguish, obscurity to lead the Soviet genre-bending, post-fusion DOWN THE LANE guilt and anger, as she grapples mission into space, but will powerhouse, world-renowned for Four people. Four truths. One with the monster she has created. mechanical failure leave her their seamless blend of Indian judgement? This show is about stranded among the stars? classical music, jazz, pop and live Aug 20-24 @ 12:15 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) stories that pass through Discover the story of Valentina looping technology. Suba generations. With themes of Tereshkova, the first woman in Sankaran (voice), Dylan Bell (bass, power, revenge and despair, A Cappella Birmingham space. stick, beatboxing, voice) and Ed these stories reveal truths about ACA-LYMPICS Hanley (tabla, voice). ourselves, but does that make A cappella is back and this time Aug 2-3 @ 2:20 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) it's competitive! Birmingham Aug 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 2:20 PM - Aug 2-10 @ 6:30 PM - £10.00 (£7.00) them true? £10.00 (£8.00) University A Cappella Society Aug 19-24 @ 4:25 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) returns to the Fringe for their Fox and Hound Theatre fourth year in a sporting attempt UCLU to blow you away with all voices CRY OF THE GULL Company Freeplay and no instruments! Six lives uprooted by war. HINDSIGHT A CAPPELLA AROUND Displaced, desperately trying to The puzzle pieces that make up THE WORLD Aug 12-17 @ 4:20 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) protect a sense of family, their Laura’s brain don’t seem to fit. The Using only their voices and lives collide on a smuggler’s world doesn’t make sense. She is innovative live looping, The Orange Works vessel. Based on true stories, this labelled problematic. A mother in international sensation FreePlay BEING FRANK play explores the emotional denial, a frustrated teacher and sings you around the world Frank’s son Alex is facing a mental experience of becoming a Laura’s inner self move toward a without leaving your seat. New health crisis, and Frank’s got refugee. new way of thinking. York jazz, UK pop, European issues of his own. Why can't they Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 11:10 AM - £9.00 Aug 2-4 @ 8:20 PM - £7.00 (£7.00) classical, Indian ragas, Brazilian talk about it? Being Frank (£7.00) Aug 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 8:20 PM - samba... FreePlay does it all! explores men’s relationships with £11.00 (£9.00) each other, with mental health Aug 2-10 @ 7:25 PM - £10.00 (£7.00) and with flat-pack furniture.

Aug 12, 14, 16 @ 6:20 PM - £9.00 (£6.00) Aug 20, 22, 24 @ 7:20 PM - £9.00 (£6.00)

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre 2019 Programme 61 62 2019 Programme theSpace on North Bridge

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

Eleanor Higgins / Bush Beard of Zeus Aireborne Theatre The Orange Works Productions MEDIUM RARE SHUT UP, HELEN! TRANS PENNINE IN PURSUET IMPROV In this new musical comedy about Trans Pennine is a funny, fast- Based on true events. A Sue Beard of Zeus returns for their living with mental health issues, paced and emotional play about Perkins superfan, sent to therapist fourth year! Come and see this watch as Valerie and her family disagreements, gender- to deal with her drinking, relays amazing improv troupe perform unwanted companion Helen identity, and caravan holidays. her adventures pursuing Sue. their newest show: Medium Rare attempt to navigate life, love and Dad is angry, Ben is Amy, and Fleabag meets Miranda in this Improv. Be sure not to miss out! heartbreak through delightfully Mum... is in the margarine tub. fierce, heartfelt LGBT 'Distinguish themselves on sheer whimsical musical numbers and Aug 13, 15, 17 @ 6:20 PM - £9.00 comedy/drama. 'Not to be talent' ★★★★ terribly inappropriate duets. (£6.00) missed!' (BroadwayBaby.com). Aug 19, 21, 23 @ 7:20 PM - £9.00 Aug 5-10, 12-14 @ 5:20 PM - £9.00 ★★★★★ (Red Rails Theatre) (£6.00) (£7.00) Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 10:35 PM Aug 2-3 @ 12:20 PM - £5.00 (£4.00) - £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 4-10 @ 12:20 PM - £9.00 (£6.50) Orange Elephant Theatre Acting Coach Scotland Stuart Saint Company WALLS AND BRIDGES With their country plunged into Acting Coach Scotland MISFIT WARRIOR SOME THINGS ARE political crisis by anti-Government LEOPOLD VINDICTIVE Electrifying synths, beats and MEANT TO BE, ANNA strikes - a group of young East With their homeland occupied by casual choreography generate Follows one woman and her German students are ordered to the Nazis, these Belgian villagers Stuart Saint’s resplendent soul's journey through cancer, ‘persuade’ the protestors to go take on their occupiers with the testimonial gig, where Misfit and two children and a chihuahua. A home peacefully. But as a only weapon they have: pigeons! Warrior collide. His funny, poignant and honest piece battalion of Soviet tanks confronts Discover the true story of the autobiographical story of HIV and of movement theatre exploring the protestors, the students soon resistance fighters that called cancer manifest a domino effect of the rollercoaster of living with a begin to question their mission, themselves Leopold Vindictive! destruction, leaving survivor-in- terminal illness. and whether they will find crisis Stuart rescuing his mortality. Aug 2-3 @ 3:20 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 12-17 @ 7:25 PM - £10.00 (£6.00) themselves on the wrong side of Aug 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 3:20 PM - Aug 2-10, 12-24 @ 9:20 PM - £10.00 history. Discover the little-known £10.00 (£8.00) (£8.00) Gone Rogue Productions true story of the 1953 East German uprising that planted the SONGS FOR A NEW earliest seeds for the fall of the Amanda Broomell WORLD Tablespoon Theatre Berlin Wall thirty six years later. MANDY PICKS A PAINTED CORNERS It’s about one moment. This HUSBAND An eclectic blend of naturalistic innovative song-cycle brims with Aug 2-3 @ 1:20 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) Almost 40 and totally single, and physical theatre that comes gorgeous harmonies, expressive Aug 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 1:20 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Mandy takes us on a hilarious and together to tell a tongue-in-cheek lyrics and vibrant characters. raw 55-minute rollercoaster ride tale of friendship, Tinder dates Linked by the moment of as she unearths the magic elixir and heartbreak. decision, these powerful songs for her unmarried soul. WINNER examine life, love and the choices of the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17 @ 10:10 AM - £5.00 we make. Festival Encore Producers’ Award, (£4.00) Aug 13-17, 19-21, 23-24 @ 10:35 AM - NOMINEE for the Soaring Solo £12.00 (£8.50) Artist Award, and OFFICIAL Harp Theatre SELECTION in the 2019 United PASSION Solo Festival in NYC! Aireborne Theatre PERSPECTIVES TALLY HO, SECRET Aug 12 @ 12:15 PM - £6.00 (£5.00) Where do you stand on the Aug 13-17 @ 12:15 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) burning issues of today? Who do SEVERAL! you trust? Is anything so A spoof of Enid Blyton’s adventure important you'd stake your life on book series The Secret Seven. Join it? Contemporary politics and this unruly bunch of intrepid history collide in this radical explorers as they encounter retelling of an age-old story. intrigue, danger and piping hot rock buns in this high-energy, Aug 5-10 @ 4:20 PM - £9.00 (£9.00) nostalgic, tongue-in-cheek comedy.

Aug 15-17, 19-24 @ 5:20 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) 2019 Programme 63 64 2019 Programme theSpace on North Bridge

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Natalie Sternberg Blue Orange Arts Theatre With Teeth Perth Theatre BIZET TO BROADWAY: FRANKENSTEIN MARY'S ROOM Out of Bounds Theatre NATALIE STERNBERG 1818. As a bell tolls, Victor An android, Adam, is introduced 44 INCH CHEST Natalie’s stunning soprano voice Frankenstein’s monstrous to an undergraduate student, A comedic tragedy enveloped in will enchant you as she takes you creation explodes into existence. Mary, in a series of monitored extreme profanity and the stench on a musical journey. The Horrified, Victor flees into the interactions. But when an unlikely of toxic masculinity. After his classical-crossover singer night leaving his creature alone, friendship blossoms, a bigger wife's affair, Colin's world falls performs a variety of lost and confused. This faithful question is at large. What defines apart, pushing his unsavoury showstoppers from operas, telling of the classic novel brings their humanity? cohort of friends to seek revenge musicals and popular the creature’s plight emphatically as he questions his own mental contemporary songs including a to life. Aug 13-24 @ 4:10 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) health. Kate Bush classic! Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 10:50 AM £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 7:05 PM - £8.00 Aug 13-17 @ 1:05 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Grey Cardinal Studios (£6.00) MOJO Fast-paced, thrilling, dark and Spike Rose Productions MomaMomus bold. Among the slick bustling PACE Rep Company BLACK DOG LIMINALITY chaos that is 1958 Soho, Mojo In the wake of a terrible decision, A scholar and an amnesiac find AVALANCHE captures the hilarious agony Tommy is burnt out. But help is at themselves on the shore of the A story about journeys, routine, within the gang of the seedy hand in the form of the river Styx. The play follows their loneliness, irrational thoughts, Atlantic club on the edge of their mysterious Tanya. A story of bizarre attempts at crossing the screens, assumptions, fear, most profitable deal yet! memories, coffee and unlikely depression, anxiety, and second river and the unlikely friendship friendships – but mostly about chances told through theatre, that springs from it. Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 10:10 PM - £10.00 hope. It’s about how we connect belly dance and music. (£8.00) Aug 19-24 @ 6:10 PM - £12.00 (£8.00) with those around us and the Aug 2-10 @ 12:55 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) impact we have on others without KabukiMA knowing. PACE Rep Company Roo Theatre Company NARUKAMI THUNDER LITTLE WINGS Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 12:10 PM - £9.00 COME DINE WITH MR GOD (£7.00) Under the light of the moon a girl SHAKESPEARE Narukami is a Japanese tale of sees little wings flapping inside deception, seduction and Reality TV lurches onto the stage, her room. A tiny moth searching betrayal. This 17th-century classic strut and fret Theatre with four familiar Shakespearean for a glow will teach Isabella that of the kabuki theatre repertoire Company characters competing to win a she too has wings to grow. recounts a princess' quest to free thousand gold crowns. Join us for BEING AND the dragon god of rain from the a bizarre menu of bristling NOTHINGNESS An enchanting story exploring clutches of a deranged monk. comedy which hurtles inescapably Xiao’s grandma suffers from feelings towards an unforgettable Alzheimer’s. She still exists. But Aug 19-24 @ 2:10 PM - £12.00 (£10.00) conclusion... Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 11:10 AM - £7.50 she’s treated as if she doesn’t. (£7.50) Xiao suffers from her identity Aug 19-21 @ 3:05 PM - £8.00 Quids In Theatre crisis. She still exists. But she’s (£5.00)*Aug 22-24 @ 3:05 PM - £9.00 Company treated as if she doesn’t. A (£6.00) Tread the Boards journey crossing time and space, Theatre Company SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE to a small town in the south of Showdown Productions MACBETH China in the 1990s. The humidity CONUNDRUM OF ELEGIES FOR ANGELS, Something wicked this way of a melting-hot summer’s day, CONAN DOYLE PUNKS AND RAGING comes... Tread the Boards Theatre and the vague voice of grandma’s The Supernatural? Sherlock QUEENS Company presents Shakespeare's bedtime story. Through the Holmes, master of logic and Inspired by the Names Project compelling classic tragedy of fragments of Xiao’s dream and deduction, attempts to solve his AIDS Memorial Quilt, Elegies is a ambition, bloody chaos, witchcraft glimpses of her haunting final mystery – why did his dramatic and powerful and ghosts. In this dark, memory, we explore and creator, a man of science, believe celebration of monologues from psychological thriller the experience, what home means to in spirits and faeries? those who lost their lives to AIDS, breakdown of natural order is her and how she discovers what with uplifting songs from those heightened by our all-female cast. makes her who she really is. Aug 12-17 @ 9:10 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) they left behind. Aug 2-10 @ 5:15 PM - £12.00 (£10.00) Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 7:10 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 5-10 @ 9:40 PM - £8.00 (£7.00)

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Anomaly Theatre Our Star Theatre On the Brink Theatre Company Company Company Fife Theatre SURVEILLANCE THE LAST BREAD THE RUBBISH SHOW Privacy is dead. It just doesn't PUDDING On the Brink return, their name Middle-Weight Theatre know it yet. A government hacker Finalists at the 2017 All-England having a deeper relevance, with who sees too much. A university Theatre Festival semi-finals, The their alternative take on our Company forcibly chipping its students. And Last Bread Pudding is a hilarious critically fragile environment; AMENDMENTS: A what happens when social media reconstruction of an am-dram influences happily drawn from PLAY ON WORDS becomes sociopathic? Three dark committee deciding what play to Avenue Q and Robin Williams. John works in a world where comedies scrutinising the world do next. The meeting soon goes Sing, laugh and save the world! political correctness is paramount that scrutinises us. off agenda and secrets are and censorship is rife. Will he revealed! Aug 5-10 @ 1:55 PM - £7.50 (£5.00) soon be inhabiting a world where Aug 19-24 @ 9:10 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) there is nothing left to say? Aug 12-17 @ 6:10 PM - £8.00 (£5.00) 'Scarily close to reality!' (Audience Reading University review). Smirk Theatre Drama Society TAKIN' IT EASY, 1916 Ancient Pickle THE VISITORS Aug 19-24 @ 9:35 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Near Bristol, a clueless THE LIFE OF SPIES The Visitors follows a night in the Swindonian encounters a When two spies are sent on the life of addict Danny, as he is secluded town with a distaste for same mission at an exclusive visited by the stages of his Pop Heart Productions strangers. Will he adapt to their diplomatic conference, everything addiction: pain, desire, euphoria, and Happenings Theatre unusual ways in time to host their goes wrong. It's a thrilling action comfort and paranoia. This dark Company annual fete? We don’t know, but comedy filled with lies, deceit and comedy-drama is basically A ANTI-DEPRESSED? there'll be a raffle. murder. You won't want to miss it. Christmas Carol meets Fight Club. Are you okay? Mindfulness app or drunk every weekend? F Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 8:05 PM - £7.50 Aug 5-10 @ 8:35 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 12-17 @ 3:05 PM - £8.50 (£6.50) ck the pain away or yoga (£6.50) getaway? Medicate or meditate? The Chanticleer Players ArdCol Productions An unfiltered, immersive look at the vicious cycle of being human. Fundamentals Theatre THE MYSTERY OF THE UNINVITED GUESTS Poignant and so darkly funny it Company BONNIE SPORRAN ArdCol welcomes you to the world hurts. THE APOLOGY AND THE LOCH NESS of the Uninvited Guests: The first martyr. A legacy MONSTER dreamers, storytellers and liars. Aug 14-17 @ 2:35 PM - £9.00 (£7.00) unforgotten. A trial that shaped Summer hols, 1953. Young Lady You are of course invited, but our civilization. The last days of Iris Bungle and her devoted beware of those who slip through the the most famous philosopher housekeeper, Mrs Squidgyfeet, the cracks and come when we Creative Curve Theatre that ever lived. An exceptional, are in the midst of a spiffing least expect. Company thought-provoking story of adventure! Will they be able to BRANDY Socrates told through physical Aug 5-10 @ 11:50 AM - £8.00 (£6.00) solve this mystery? One favourite's descent is another theatre. favourite’s ascent. It is the 18th Aug 12-17, 19-24 @ 5:10 PM - £8.00 Reading University century: Queen Anne lays old and Aug 19-24 @ 1:05 PM - £9.50 (£6.00) (£6.00) Drama Society sick in bed, she is drinking copious amounts of brandy as she WHO KILLED BAMBI? fortifies herself in preparation for The Mezz Theatre 1850 Productions Who Killed Bambi? A punk a meeting with Sarah Churchill. Company THE PENGUIN TANGO murder mystery. Four friends and THE BRAVE In this side-splitting, screwball an unexpected visitor are thrown Aug 12-17 @ 4:10 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) ANTHOLOGY comedy, inspired by actual by a sudden death. Trust turns to A play fusing a naturalistic plot events, The Penguin Tango suspicion as secrets are exposed, with an expressionistic style features a community of penguins leading everyone to question: exploring how we identify with whose world is hilariously turned who killed Charlie? the urban environment, as well as upside down by sex, stereotypes the theme of love: where and how and soggy sardines. Aug 12-17 @ 2:05 PM - £8.50 (£6.50) we can find it. Aug 5-10 @ 3:00 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 5-9 @ 9:45 AM - £8.00 (£8.00)

66 2019 Programme PoetryHouse Karen Gemma Brewer Rove St. Productions The Swells BROKEN ENGLISH DISSIDENT SAUSAGE HELLO? HELLO. LOVE, LOSS AND A contemporary exploration on Political prisoner or sausage in a A young woman calls a helpline. CAKE the journey of the English fridge? Toad or feminist? Deity or Someone answers. A misdial. An A cabaret with songs and stories language. Interactive spoken giant white slug? Prepare to accidental friendship. Despite about love, and loss of love (and word, monologues and creative laugh and cry with award winning devious friends and right-wing cake crops up too). Performed by conversations present a story that poet/singer Karen Gemma sisters, empowering community men, of a certain age, who prize celebrates creativity and cultural Brewer, woodworm, sheep, and rebellious art persist. For the melodies and the pure poetry diversity through the various uses toodles, Frankenstein's sister and those who've felt alone. For those of the lyrics. of language. more flies than Basic Insect! who refused to leave them there. Aug 5-10 @ 6:40 PM - £9.50 (£9.00) Aug 19-23 @ 8:30 PM - £10.00 (£7.00) Aug 19-21 @ 10:40 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 2 @ 5:35 PM - £5.00 (£4.00) Aug 22-24 @ 10:40 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 @ 5:35 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) LOFT Imperial College MOMO AND THE Zuma Puma Dramatic Society INEVITABLE DECAY OF DON'T DO IT, DON'T Shellshock! COMPOST THE HOUSE IN THE DO IT, DO IT! IMPROVISERS When two disgruntled ex- FOREST Do it or don't do it? Do it, ASSEMBLE! government peons decide their Follow us into the treacherous obviously! A daring one-woman In the world's darkest hours, next mildly illegal venture is birch forest of rural Finland, into dynamo feminist physical when everything seems comedy- selling counterfeit bins that will the unreliable narrative of Ellie's comedy; with puppetry, mask, less, only one troupe of turn plastic into compost, they childhood memories. Will her music and character clown. Dare comedians can save us all. soon discover that Amersham has family make it through this to witness this odyssey of sexual Improvisers, assemble! Come and a sordid underbelly - one which summer? Someone will die. does not like to be tickled. With catastrophe. join us for a superhero movie the risk that their cover may be made up entirely on the spot, Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 4:40 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 2-3, 5-7 @ 10:35 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) blown at any minute by an ardent inspired by your suggestions! Aug 8-10 @ 10:35 PM - £7.00 (£5.00) horticulturist, a high-flying Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17 @ 9:35 PM - £5.50 Sprutt Theater journalist, a coquettish cashier, or (£4.50) a fortune-telling drag queen, the Durham University MOON WALK rubbish collectors decide to take Classical Theatre Roommates Sam and Alex struggle as mental illness and drastic action. Challenging what it HAMLET Fresh Thought Theatre masculine pretenses prevent means to call yourself a Municipal DUCT presents a modern-day twist LEVERAGE them from truly connecting—until Waste Collection Officer, on Shakespeare, inviting you into Five friends become the centre of Rowan moves in. Funny, sad, COMPOST skewers cosy and idyllic a disorderly world which mirrors a media storm as they start a uncomfortable and healing, Moon small-town life, dissects it, and the turbulence of our female feminist campaign that suggests Walk is the weirdest party and shakes it until the dirty laundry Hamlet’s madness. It draws women should use their ability to most fun funeral you’ve ever been falls out. parallels to contemporary mental reproduce as leverage against the to. health and the destructive gender pay gap in the UK. Aug 19-24 @ 12:05 PM - £8.00 (£5.00) properties it has on relationships Aug 19-24 @ 3:35 PM - £10.00 (£7.00) Aug 19-24 @ 2:10 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) and ourselves. Brightside Comedy Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 11:05 AM - £6.50 Ponder Theatre Harrison Sharpe and DEFINITELY NOT (£5.50) ROMEO AND JULIET LISTEN, YOU CAN Archie Stevens A satirical stage show poking fun HEAR THE SOUND OF REAL EYES at the acting profession. With Pretty Knickers NO HANDS CLAPPING Real Eyes is an exciting new botched lines, technical glitches Productions What happens when we bring era- drama capturing the essence of and bad acting, comedy ensues in HEIR HEADS defining characters back to life? A brotherhood. Accomplished this formally tragic play. Despite Three sisters stand to inherit their thought-provoking avant-garde young actors Sharpe and Stevens what anyone says, it’s Definitely family’s enormous wealth, until a exploration of the self. skilfully perform an engaging Not Romeo and Juliet! mysterious young man with a exploration of memories, through greater claim to the fortune Aug 12-17 @ 10:35 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) bizarre conversations and Aug 19-24 @ 4:40 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) appears. How far are they willing brotherly badinage, until truth to go to keep their wealth in the becomes darker than perceived family? reality.

Aug 6-10 @ 2:35 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 19-24 @ 6:35 PM - £9.00 (£7.00)

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Quids In Theatre William Samson and Doris Nymph University of Aberdeen – Company Samson Video Productions Creative Writing 2019 SHERLOCK HOLMES Productions THE SEVEN SECOND TOOTHBRUSH AND THE THE ADVENTURES OF THEORY A comedic tour of the sweaty CONUNDRUM OF LEONARD BISCUIT John Doe is having a bad day. (Scottish) twenty-something's CONAN DOYLE RADIO SHOW He's dead. Or close enough to it nightlife. Written by the students The Supernatural? Sherlock New to the Fringe! A hilarious anyway. This show asks if you had of the illustrious University of Holmes, master of logic and farcical radio show about Leonard seven seconds to relive your Aberdeen Creative Writing deduction, attempts to solve his Biscuit, the most put-upon man in entire life, what would you want Masters, Toothbrush is a story of final mystery – why did his the land, and his escapades. A to see? dissipating friendship, bipolar creator, a man of science, believe traditional comedy full of clever, club DJ's and growth. Aug 2-3 @ 12:30 PM - £8.00 (£7.00) in spirits and faeries? witty dialogue and outrageous Aug 5-10, 12-17 @ 12:30 PM - £9.00 Aug 12-17 @ 3:35 PM - £5.00 (£4.00) characters. (£7.50) Aug 2-3 @ 3:35 PM - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 5-10 @ 3:35 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 13-17 @ 1:40 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) And Then There Were Gone Rogue Productions Four Blackboard Theatre Woolly Sheep Theatre THE ZED WORD TRUST THE The world is ending. Max and SPECIAL MEASURES Company TEENAGERS Lawrence are doing crosswords. A classroom comedy. Delve into THE GOOD Trust the teenagers to fall too Then an unwelcome visitor turns what life is like as a teacher in hard, act too fast, think too deep, BOYFRIEND up on their doorstep and 2019. Featuring stories and drink too much. Trust the A murder mystery exploring everything goes to hell. characters that we can all relate to, teenagers and we will entertain relationships where anyone could Sometimes the monsters outside come and join us for a day in the you with a series of comedic be the perpetrator! Will Inspector aren't half as bad as the company chaotic life of a teacher. sketches of scintillating insights LeFevre, through his love of within. music, apprehend the villain? into the teenage brain. Aug 19-24 @ 1:05 PM - £10.00 (£8.00) Woolly Sheep Theatre Company Aug 12-17 @ 10:10 AM - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 12 @ 6:40 PM - £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 19-24 @ 10:55 AM - £9.00 (£7.00) return for the third year in a row. Aug 13-17 @ 6:40 PM - £6.00 (£4.00) Conor Clarke McGrath Aug 2-3, 5-10 @ 1:40 PM - £8.00 (£7.00) STANLEY Rove St. Productions Lock the door, turn up the radio, THERE IS NO ignore the voice in your head. Black Light Theatre PROBLEM (HERE) Stanley loves The Archers, and Company Ever wondered what fairy tale hates leaving the house. An THE LAST BUBBLE characters are up to off-duty? exploration into one man’s The Last Bubble tells the story of Maybe they're just like you and struggle to find his place in a football enthusiast Rhys who is me – trying to catch a break but world that’s changing around fighting a battle with cancer. The getting delayed by drama. A him. story represents the challenges thoughtful comedy exploiting Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 @ 7:35 PM - that he's facing and how this life's unavoidable concerns. £7.00 (£5.00) affects the people that surround him. Aug 3 @ 5:35 PM - £5.00 (£4.00) Aug 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 22, 24 @ Anomaly Theatre Aug 2-4 @ 8:35 PM - £6.00 (£6.00) 5:35 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) Company Aug 5-10, 12-17 @ 8:35 PM - £8.00 (£6.00) SURVEILLANCE Privacy is dead. It just doesn't know it yet. A government hacker who sees too much. A university forcibly chipping its students. And what happens when social media becomes sociopathic? Three dark comedies scrutinising the world that scrutinises us.

Aug 12-17 @ 11:20 AM - £10.00 (£8.00)

2019 Programme 69 1 Fringe, 441 Festivals

theSpaceUK presents fun, frolics, and calm across their venues in 2019

WE are very pleased to continue our Bars legendary late night weekly frivolities We have an array of fabulous bars in for Fringe 2019 at theSpace Triplex. Hosting our theatres at theSpace on the Mile and yards from Edinburgh, a quite special collection of Exclusive entry via invitation, your Niddry St. A stylish Royal Mile Bar perfect for a pre or post- stylish destination bars in the very best SpacePass or ring our box office for show drink or a bite to eat. Again offering the legendary ‘Fringe locations designed to refresh the well- more information on how to attend & Burger’ for £10 and other Fringe deals. Check the back of heeled festival goer. Come check these these evenings of festival splendour. tickets for deals. out:

Saturdays A very swish bar located at theSpace on North Bridge offering Voted top 10 festival bar. This bustling courtyard Fringe deals. A great choice of drinks and food and located bar is a must for all. Whether seeing a show at one - Party. Casts, crews, and friends right in the middle of it all. welcome in the 2019 Fringe with a great big blues of our 7 busy adjacent spaces or just taking in the explosion! (23:40-03:00). Hosted by legendary buzz, relax with a glass of fizz in the quad in the Fringe band Blueswater! On stage from 00:15 shadow of the historical college made famous by Partners nineteenth century body snatchers Burke and – Another fabulous part to end Hare. The bar and the pizzeria is open from 10:00- We are very pleased to be able to work with some of week 1 (23:40-03:00), band on stage from 00:15 00:30 and includes a wide selection of drinks and Edinburgh’s most established venues during the festival, we food. thank their teams for their constant support and advice. - Wrap Party. We say goodbye to Fringe 2019 with host DJs and live music (23:40- Enjoy this wonderful square outside theSpace @ 03:00) Symposium Hall and next door to theSpace Triplex. Away from the bustling fringe, a tranquil corner offering you that quite special eclectic mix over a glass of fizz, a cold beer or a G&T. Shows in the on-site Spacialtent make this a fun destination for all.

Here we present the ultimate Fringe pop-up bar experience. Located at the hub of the Fringe just off the Royal Mile on the cobbles off Crown Square, outside theSpace @ Niddry St. and adjacent to theSpace on the Mile. Surrounded by comedy clubs and open mic stage, Sips in the City offer a proper Fringe experience on one of the festival’s most well known and busiest streets.

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Box Offices & Bars Ticket Information The Fringe Office

Our live box offices located at our venues in Edinburgh Tickets can be purchased from the Fringe Society will be open 09:00-23:00 daily between Thursdays 1st Credit Card bookings can be made Box Office online at and Saturday 24th. directly with the Fringe box office. Venue or in person at: box offices take reservations by phone 45 theSpace @ Venue 45 260 or e-mail and should be collected at least 10 minutes before the show. 180 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1QS [email protected] Although this is up to each Daily 09:30-19:00 39 theSpace on the Mile individual show, we will generally not 0131 226 0000 (Credit Card bookings) admit people to most of our [email protected] performances later than 5 minutes after theSpaceUK Press Office the show starts.

Our Press and Promoters office is located in our 9 + theSpace @ Niddry St If you have media hub at theSpace@Surgeons' Hall on purchased tickets from the Fringe box Nicolson St. [email protected] office and arrive later than the advertised starting time of the performance then we [email protected] 53 + theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall reserve the right to refuse entry to that performance. [email protected] Performing companies retain 43 + theSpace @ Symposium Hall their own box office receipts on a show- byday basis, therefore, any queries [email protected] regarding ticket refunds need to be directed to the performing company. + theSpace on North Bridge 36 Refunds for tickets purchased from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe box office [email protected] must be collected directly from the Fringe. 38 + theSpace Triplex [email protected]

2019 Programme 71 Show timetable

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

9:00 AM CHATROOM MILAN'S GAME BEST OF BROADWAY 9:15 AM theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand theSpace @ Symposium Hall MONSTER SCHOOL Aug 20-24 - £7.00 (£5.00) Theatre) Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 19-24 - £7.00 (£5.00) JURASSIC! HUSTLERS SCIENCE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane LOVE/SICK ADVENTURES Theatre) theSpace Triplex (Studio) Aug 3, 5 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 19-24 - £7.50 (£5.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 5-17 - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 2-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) A MIDSUMMER RATTIGAN'S NIJINSKY NIGHT'S DREAM HOW TO SUCCEED IN TOO-RA-LOO-RA-LUM: theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming LOVE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Theatre) AND OTHER Theatre) Aug 19-21 - £7.50 (£5.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) COLOURFUL TALES Aug 22-24 - £10.00 (£7.50) Aug 4, 6 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 19-22 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 2-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) 9:45 AM 9:55 AM A SHERLOCK HOLMES THE HUMANS GILGAMESH – HE MYSTERY: THE BAKER 10:05 AM WHO SAW STREET IRREGULARS FRAY BENTOS theSpace @ Venue 45 EVERYTHING Aug 2 - £5.00 (£5.00) AND THE CASE OF THE STOLEN theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£2.00) ALMOST, MAINE Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) PORTRAIT

theSpace @ Venue 45 theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) BABY, WHAT Aug 5-10 - £8.00 (£8.00) Aug 5 - £5.00 (£5.00) 10:00 AM BLESSINGS WAIT WAIT BO BAIT THE BRAVE HOW TO SUCCEED IN theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Venue 45 LOVE ANTHOLOGY Aug 3, 6 - £5.00 (£5.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) DOWNTON SHABBY Theatre) THE STINKY CHEESE Aug 23-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 5-9 - £8.00 (£8.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) MAN... AND OTHER Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) FAIRLY STUPID TALES WEST OF FRANCES 9:50 AM RATTIGAN'S NIJINSKY theSpace @ Venue 45 theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) 10:10 AM Aug 12-17 - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 7 - £5.00 (£5.00) THE KING OF theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming Theatre) GHOSTS: ZHONG KUI Aug 18 - £5.00 (£3.50) DARK PLAY OR MICROBODYSSEY theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) STORIES FOR BOYS theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 4-5 - £5.00 (£4.00) THE SNOW QUEEN Aug 2-12, 14-24 - £9.50 (£7.50) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 19-21 - £6.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming PAINTED CORNERS Theatre) PETER PAN IN Aug 2 - £5.00 (£5.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll LOOKING DOWN ON KENSINGTON Theatre) ME GARDENS Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17 - £5.00 (£4.00) MATCH GIRL theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall Theatre) Aug 2-10, 12-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) (Fleming Theatre) Aug 20-24 - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 4 - £5.00 (£5.00) 72 2019 Programme LORD OF THE FLIES 10:20 AM THE ZED WORD MOBILE PHONE THE YELLOW SHOW theSpace Triplex (Big) theSpace on North Bridge WALLPAPER Aug 5-10 - £7.00 (£5.00) (Fife Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 19-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) theSpace Triplex (Big) Aug 5-9 - £6.00 (£4.00) THE IMPORTANCE OF Aug 20-23 - £7.00 (£7.00) BEING EARNEST 11:00 AM RODGERS WITH A D – THE TOMMY 10:30 AM LOST IN A BOOK theSpace @ Venue 45 RODGERS Aug 19-22 - £8.00 (£5.00) THE WIZARD OF OZ theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall CENTENARY theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) (Grand Theatre) CELEBRATION ANNIE JR Aug 19-24 - £7.50 (£5.00) Aug 6-8 - £5.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) 10:35 AM WEST OF FRANCES SONGS FOR A NEW theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) FEAR HERE AND WORLD Aug 19-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) SKYLIGHT TERROR THERE theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£7.00) NED AND THE WHALE Aug 13-17, 19-21, 23-24 - £12.00 (£8.50) Aug 19-24 - £6.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Symposium Hall (Tent) Aug 3, 5-7, 9-11, 14-18 - £9.00 (£8.00) THE ZED WORD 10:45 AM HAMLET theSpace on North Bridge (Fife MONSTER SCHOOL theSpace on North Bridge Theatre) JURASSIC! JERRY AND THE (Fife Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £9.00 (£7.00) ADVENTURES OF THE Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £6.50 (£5.50) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane HMS STARGAZER Theatre) 10:15 AM Aug 4, 6 - £5.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) RED RIDING HOOD: HUSTLERS Aug 2-10 - £10.00 (£6.00) THE PANTO theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming A MIDSUMMER theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall Theatre) NIGHT'S DREAM RHINOCEROS (Grand Theatre) Aug 9-10 - £5.00 (£3.50) Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) Theatre) Aug 5-9 - £10.00 (£8.00) SELF-CHECK Aug 3, 5 - £5.00 (£5.00) LOOKING FOR WOLVERHAMPTON'S theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand STEVE RICHARDS LATIN QUARTER Theatre) 10:50 AM PRESENTS Aug 2-3, 5 - £5.00 (£5.00) FRANKENSTEIN ROCK'N'ROLL theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall POLITICS 2019 (Haldane Theatre) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth HUSTLERS Aug 9-10, 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) Theatre) theSpace @ Symposium Hall Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 12-24 - £12.50 (£12.50) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming THE LIFE OF REILLY Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £7.50 (£5.00) 10:55 AM 11:05 AM theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) THE WITCH OF WALL THE CAT'S THE THING QING SNAKE STREET theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall THE CAT'S THE THING theSpace @ Venue 45 theSpace Triplex (Studio) (Haldane Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £12.00 (£10.00) Aug 2-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 19 - £4.00 (£3.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Theatre) Aug 20-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) 2019 Programme 73 Show timetable

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

BABY, WHAT JAMMY DODGERS 11:30 AM MATCH GIRL BLESSINGS A MIDSUMMER theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming NIGHT’S DREAM theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) Theatre) Aug 2, 5, 7 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) 11:15 AM Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £7.00 (£5.00) SOMETHING ELSE DECIBELLES DEBUT! SHE KILLS MONSTERS HOLY SH*T theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 5 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17 - £10.00 (£5.00) Aug 13-16 - £5.00 (£4.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming Theatre) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) NEVER NONE (BUT ELSA JEAN UNINVITED GUESTS

SHE) MCTAGGART theSpace on North Bridge (Perth PRESENTS ISIQALO – THE Theatre) theSpace Triplex (Studio) BEGINNING Aug 5-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£7.00) MCTAGGART SISTERS

theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£5.00) 11:55 AM BEST OF THE WEST Aug 2 - £6.00 (£4.00) DANNY THE END CHAMPION OF THE UPPERCUT: A NEW 11:35 AM theSpace @ Symposium Hall SEASONED WORLD Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) MUSICAL PROFESSIONALS theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£5.00) 11:10 AM Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming LITTLE WINGS Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £7.00 (£5.00) THE DAFT SHOW ELSA JEAN theSpace on North Bridge (Perth WITH BONY TONY MCTAGGART Theatre) THE VILLAGE FATE Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £7.50 (£7.50) PRESENTS theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) MCTAGGART SISTERS theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 20-24 - £7.00 (£6.00) THE MOMENT theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) NEVER NONE (BUT theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) 11:40 AM SHE) Aug 6-7 - £8.00 (£6.50) SHREW 11:20 AM theSpace Triplex (Studio) GILBERT AND theSpace Triplex (Big) Aug 2-4 - £8.00 (£6.00) CRY OF THE GULL Aug 5-10 - £10.00 (£7.00) SULLIVAN'S Aug 12-14, 19-21 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 15-17, 22-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll IMPROBABLE NEW Theatre) THE FIRST KING OF Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £9.00 (£7.00) MUSICAL: LESS MISERABLE 11:45 AM ENGLAND IN A DRESS THE HUMANS CHATROOM theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) theSpace Triplex (Studio) Aug 12-14 - £11.00 (£7.00) Aug 2-3 - £7.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 15-17 - £12.00 (£8.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) Aug 5-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 7 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£8.00)

SURVEILLANCE 11:50 AM SHE SHALL NOT BE THE SNOW QUEEN MOVED theSpace on North Bridge (Fife Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Theatre) Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 3-4, 6 - £5.00 (£5.00)

74 2019 Programme 12:00 PM THE DAFT SHOW BABY-GO-ROUND AVALANCHE WITH BONY TONY WAIT WAIT BO BAIT theSpace on the Mile (Space One) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 2-3, 8-10 - £12.00 (£10.00) Theatre) theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 5-10, 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 2 - £5.00 (£5.00) BOX. KNOWING ME, PIRACY! A COMEDY THE STINKY CHEESE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane KNOWING UKE Theatre) ON THE HIGH CS MAN... AND OTHER Aug 9, 15, 17, 23 - £12.00 (£10.00) FAIRLY STUPID TALES theSpace Triplex (Studio) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) Theatre) theSpace @ Venue 45 12:10 PM Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.50) Aug 3 - £5.00 (£5.00) ELSA JEAN A CHARLIE MCTAGGART: I HATE CHILDREN MONTAGUE 12:05 PM HEBRIDEAN FIRE CHILDREN'S SHOW MYSTERY: THE THE DAFT SHOW GAME'S A FOOT, TRY WITH BONY TONY theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand THE FISH Aug 2 - £6.00 (£4.00) Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 12-14 - £11.00 (£10.00) Aug 2-3 - £5.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 3-10 - £9.00 (£8.00) NEWS@1066 Aug 2-11, 15-18 - £12.50 (£11.00)

A CHARLIE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) BABY-GO-ROUND Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £7.00 (£5.00) 12:15 PM MONTAGUE ALL I REALLY NEED MYSTERY: THE theSpace on the Mile (Space One) SHE TO KNOW I LEARNED GAME'S A FOOT, TRY Aug 5-7 - £10.00 (£8.00) IN KINDERGARTEN THE FISH theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) BOX. Aug 5-10 - £7.00 (£5.00) theSpace Triplex (Big) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 2-3, 5 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 2 - £6.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Theatre) ELSA JEAN Aug 5, 7, 13, 19, 21 - £10.00 (£8.00) MCTAGGART: MANDY PICKS A BOX. HEBRIDEAN FIRE HUSBAND theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane MARROW theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Theatre) Aug 2 - £6.00 (£6.00) Aug 3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Aug 12 - £6.00 (£5.00) Theatre) Aug 6, 12, 14, 20 - £10.00 (£8.00) MEDEA SPEAKS MARROW DODICI BALLERINI theSpace on the Mile (Space One) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane HER Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 3 - £6.00 (£6.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) IN PURSUET A MOTHER COMPOST theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £9.00 (£6.50) MARROW theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll theSpace on North Bridge (Fife Theatre) Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Aug 20-24 - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£5.00) Theatre) NOTES FROM Aug 8, 10, 16, 22, 24 - £12.00 (£8.00) SHETLAND TO SHANGHAI

theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) Aug 19-20, 22-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) 2019 Programme 75 Show timetable

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

MANDY PICKS A THE SEVEN SECOND GESSO 12:55 PM HUSBAND THEORY LUVU2 theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll theSpace on North Bridge (Fife Aug 9-11 - £8.00 (£4.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Theatre) Theatre) Aug 19-24 - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 13-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) NOIR HAMLET Aug 2-3 - £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 5-10, 12-17 - £9.00 (£7.50) BLACK DOG LUCRECE theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 12 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) THE DOLLY PARTON Theatre) Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) STORY THE WIZARD OF OZ

theSpace @ Symposium Hall 12:20 PM theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) PEARLS Aug 2-25 - £14.00 (£12.50) Aug 7-10 - £9.00 (£7.00) IN PURSUET theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll SOUTHERN NIGHTS: NOIR HAMLET Theatre) THE STORY OF Aug 4-10 - £9.00 (£6.50) SOUTHERN SOUL theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 2-3 - £5.00 (£4.00) Aug 13-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) 1:00 PM theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming ALMOST, MAINE 12:25 PM Theatre) TRIPLEX ADVENTURES Aug 8-11 - £14.00 (£12.50) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) BULL Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace Triplex (Big) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) 12:35 PM Aug 10 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 4 - £6.00 (£4.00) BANG, BANG, YOU'RE DREAM OF A KING DEAD THE WIZARD OF OZ theSpace Triplex (Studio) PARASITES Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-18 - £9.00 (£7.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Aug 2-7 - £8.00 (£5.00) Aug 5-6 - £12.00 (£7.00) Aug 3 - £6.00 (£4.00) EAST

A RIFF IN TIME 12:45 PM theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) BULL CADENZA: Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming CAMBRIDGE theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Theatre) Aug 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 - £9.50 Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) UNIVERSITY'S 1:05 PM (£6.50) PREMIER A CAPPELLA RELATIONAL, OR A GROUP HEBRIDEAN WRITER'S MISGUIDED PARASITES TREASURE: LOST AND theSpace Triplex (Big) GUIDE TO LOVES Aug 12-17, 19-23 - £9.00 (£7.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) FOUND LOST AND FOUND Aug 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 - £9.50 (£6.50) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Theatre) 12:50 PM Aug 6 - £4.00 (£3.00) Aug 7-10 - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 12-17 - £12.00 (£10.00) LIFE. IN HONG KONG 12:30 PM SOMETIMES, JUST A theSpace @ Venue 45 12:40 PM Aug 19-20 - £10.00 (£8.00) JOAN BAEZ: SECOND THE WIZARD OF OZ Aug 21-24 - £11.50 (£9.50) PRESENTED BY MISS theSpace Triplex (Big) IRENIE ROSE Aug 6-8 - £5.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Aug 2-4 - £6.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 2 - £7.00 (£7.00)

76 2019 Programme VOICE OF AUTHORITY 1:10 PM THE NEW AND THE CARPENTERS THE GRAVEL ROAD IMPROVED I HATE SONGBOOK theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) SHOW PRESENTS CHILDREN Aug 2-3 - £8.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming OKLAHOMA, USA! CHILDREN'S SHOW Theatre) Aug 2-24 - £14.00 (£12.50) ONE GOOD BEATING theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand Aug 2-10 - £7.00 (£5.00) Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) Aug 12-15, 19-22 - £11.00 (£10.00) 1:50 PM Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 2-11, 16-18, 23-24 - £12.00 (£11.00) ALAN AYCKBOURN HEARTS LIKE FISTS DOUBLE BILL BIZET TO BROADWAY: 1:35 PM theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 7 - £5.00 (£5.00) NATALIE STERNBERG theSpace Triplex (Studio) THE CAROLE KING Aug 19-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) STORY theSpace on North Bridge (Perth THE 27 CLUB Theatre) theSpace @ Symposium Hall Aug 13-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) 1:15 PM Aug 2-25 - £14.00 (£12.50) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) NOIR HAMLET Aug 3 - £6.00 (£4.00)

JOAN BAEZ: theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) 1:40 PM PRESENTED BY MISS Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) DEATH BY ACADEPITCH IRENIE ROSE SHAKESPEARE PRESENTS – ROMEO AND JULIET: AN A theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) LOVE ME OUT: THE theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) CAPPELLA TRAGEDY Aug 3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) OPERA Aug 5-9 - £8.00 (£6.50)

theSpace on the Mile (Space One) theSpace Triplex (Big) Aug 19-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) THE APOLOGY Aug 19-23 - £12.00 (£10.00) THE GOOD theSpace on North Bridge (Perth BOYFRIEND Theatre) 1:20 PM THE 27 CLUB theSpace on North Bridge (Fife Aug 19-24 - £9.50 (£6.00) ACA-LYMPICS Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 - £9.50 theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) (£6.50) DO YOU EVER GET Aug 12-17 - £7.00 (£5.00) SCARED? THE ADVENTURES OF 1:55 PM WALLS AND BRIDGES LEONARD BISCUIT theSpace on the Mile (Space One) THE RUBBISH SHOW Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£5.00) RADIO SHOW theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll theSpace on North Bridge (Perth Theatre) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife Theatre) VOICE OF AUTHORITY Aug 2-3 - £9.00 (£7.00) Theatre) Aug 5-10 - £7.50 (£5.00) Aug 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 13-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 4-10, 12-18 - £10.00 (£7.00) 1:25 PM 1:45 PM SENSE AND SWITCH WITCHETTY'S VANITY AIRLINES SENSIBILITY CHAIN OF TRIVIA ALMANAC OF theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) EVERYTHING Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.50) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 6-9 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 12-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Theatre) THE PILLOWMAN RUST SPECIAL MEASURES Aug 2-3 - £4.50 (£4.00) Aug 7, 12-14, 19-21 - £8.00 (£7.00) theSpace @ Venue 45 theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 4-6, 8-10, 15-17, 22-24 - £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife Aug 3, 5 - £5.00 (£5.00) Theatre) Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00)

2019 Programme 77 Show timetable

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

VOTES FOR WOMEN! LEVEL UP KNOCK KNOCK 2:20 PM GOODNIGHT MISTER theSpace Triplex (Studio) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 4 - £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 2-3 - £7.00 (£5.00) TOM

theSpace Triplex (Big) 2:00 PM THE SNOOPY MALLETS Aug 5-10 - £7.00 (£5.00) QUESTION PIANO MAN theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) CHAIKA: FIRST theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 12-14, 19-21 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace Triplex (Studio) Aug 2-10 - £7.00 (£5.00) WOMAN IN SPACE Aug 5-10 - £5.00 (£3.00) KNOCK KNOCK theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll THE VERY WELL-FED Theatre) THE STINKY CHEESE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) CATERPILLAR MAN... AND OTHER Aug 5-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 2-3 - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) FAIRLY STUPID TALES theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 12-17 - £7.00 (£5.00) MOON WALK theSpace @ Venue 45 LOVING THE ENEMY Aug 6 - £5.00 (£5.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife FULL SCORE: SING, Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane SING, SING! Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) JUST A NUMBER Theatre) Aug 19-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 19-24 - £7.50 (£5.00) SHIVER Aug 19-24 - £9.00 (£8.00) 2:25 PM theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) BUTTERBUM, J WHO KILLED BAMBI? Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £8.50 (£6.50) NED AND THE WHALE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane theSpace on North Bridge (Perth theSpace @ Symposium Hall (Tent) Theatre) Theatre) MALLETS Aug 3-4, 9-11, 17-18 - £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 5-10 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 12-17 - £8.50 (£6.50) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 15-17, 22-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) FIFTY SHADES OF BLOWN FUSE LEVEL UP SHAKESPEARE theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) DREAM OF A KING Aug 5-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 - £9.50 theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) (£6.50) theSpace Triplex (Studio) Aug 5-9 - £8.00 (£6.50) Aug 19-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) BOOGIE SHOES SILENT DISCO GEOFF ROBB – THE WE WANT YOU TO WALKING TOUR WITH MUSIC OF TREES NARUKAMI THUNDER WATCH A SCOTTISH TWIST GOD theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £10.00 (£7.50) theSpace @ Niddry St (Courtyard) Aug 5-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth Aug 2-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25, 27-31 - £12.50 Theatre) (£10.00) Aug 19-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) 2:10 PM PIRACY! A COMEDY TOP TRUMPS ON THE HIGH CS 2:05 PM 2:15 PM DÉLICIEUX theSpace on the Mile (Space One) HARVEST MOON theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 5-9 - £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 18 - £10.00 (£8.50) theSpace Triplex (Big) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 12-17 - £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 12-17 - £9.00 (£8.00) 10:31, MCR THE EXPERIMENT

theSpace on the Mile (Space One) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Aug 12-17 - £7.00 (£5.00) Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £10.50 (£8.00) 78 2019 Programme 2:30 PM 2:50 PM TWELFTH NIGHT COME DINE WITH MR DEATH OF THE THE ARETHA SHAKESPEARE theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) AMERICAN TEENAGER FRANKLIN STORY Aug 19-24 - £5.00 (£3.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth theSpace Triplex (Big) theSpace @ Symposium Hall Theatre) Aug 22-24 - £9.00 (£6.00) Aug 2-4 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 2-25 - £14.00 (£12.50) THE SOUTH AFREAKINS WAIT WAIT BO BAIT THE NASHVILLE THE SOUTH theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) STORY AFREAKINS theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 2 - £6.00 (£6.00) Aug 4 - £5.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) Theatre) Aug 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23 - £9.00 THE SOUTH (£7.00) Aug 2-24 - £14.00 (£12.50) 2:35 PM AFREAKINS: THE REAL EYES AFREAKIN FAMILY 2:55 PM THE SOUTH theSpace on North Bridge (Fife ALAN AYCKBOURN'S theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) AFREAKINS: THE Theatre) Aug 3 - £6.00 (£6.00) AFREAKIN FAMILY Aug 6-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) NO KNOWING theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) theSpace Triplex (Big) 2001: A SKETCH Aug 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24 - £9.00 Aug 19-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) THIS ISLAND'S MINE ODYSSEY (£7.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) 3:00 PM Aug 19-24 - £6.50 (£5.00) CHAIN OF TRIVIA RAISED VOICES theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) ANTI-DEPRESSED? Aug 2-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace Triplex (Studio) CONSCIOUS Aug 12-17 - £5.00 (£3.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £7.00 (£5.00) THE FIRST KING OF Aug 14-17 - £9.00 (£7.00) THE SINNERS CLUB ENGLAND IN A DRESS

COME DINE WITH MR theSpace Triplex (Studio) 2:40 PM theSpace Triplex (Studio) Aug 5-10 - £5.00 (£3.00) SHAKESPEARE Aug 19-21 - £11.00 (£7.00) MACBETH theSpace on North Bridge (Perth theSpace on the Mile (Space One) A BOY AND HIS Theatre) BACON Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) MAGIC PEN Aug 19-21 - £8.00 (£5.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 2-10 - £12.00 (£8.00) 2:45 PM theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Aug 2-3 - £5.00 (£3.00) IF IT DIDN'T MATTER CAPEABILITY theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) THE FIRST KING OF theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) THE PENGUIN TANGO Aug 5-9 - £8.00 (£6.00) ENGLAND IN A DRESS Aug 10-11 - £9.00 (£6.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth theSpace Triplex (Studio) Theatre) THE VISITORS Aug 22-24 - £12.00 (£8.00) MISHA'S GANG Aug 5-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand Theatre) 3:10 PM Theatre) 3:05 PM Aug 12-17 - £8.50 (£6.50) THE DANDELION Aug 2-12, 14-24 - £14.50 (£12.00) WHAT DOES LOVE PATCH MEAN TO YOU? ME AND MY theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) theSpace @ Venue 45 theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 19-24 - £7.00 (£4.00) Aug 9-10, 12-16 - £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 5-10 - £8.50 (£7.50)

2019 Programme 79 Show timetable

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

ROOTS 3:25 PM SHERLOCK HOLMES 3:55 PM THE WIND IN THE AND THE THE WORDS ARE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) WILLOWS CONUNDRUM OF THERE CONAN DOYLE theSpace @ Venue 45 theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) DAN HAYNES – HAD Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£8.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife Aug 5-7 - £9.00 (£8.00) SOME FALLS TOUR Theatre) THE WORDS ARE Aug 2-3 - £5.00 (£5.00) I AM NOT MARILYN theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 5-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) THERE Aug 2-24 - £8.00 (£7.00) theSpace Triplex (Studio) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 2-10, 12-17 - £9.50 (£7.00) 10 THINGS I HATE Aug 12-14 - £9.00 (£8.00) LEVERAGE ABOUT A CAPPELLA THE WORDS ARE theSpace on North Bridge (Fife TEA?...(WITH MILK) THERE theSpace Triplex (Big) Theatre) Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£7.00) Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£7.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Theatre) Aug 2-4, 8-10 - £11.00 (£9.00) Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £10.00 (£7.00) RUST 3:45 PM ALMOST, MAINE 007 VOICES OF BOND theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) THE WORDS ARE Aug 2-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace @ Venue 45 THERE theSpace @ Symposium Hall Aug 6 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 2-25 - £14.00 (£12.50) 3:20 PM theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 15-18 - £11.00 (£9.00) BIKE DIGITAL MASKS TO THE JAMES TAYLOR AFRICA – CHEIKH AND JONI MITCHELL theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane 3:30 PM ANTA DIOP: POEM Theatre) STORY Aug 5-10 - £5.00 (£5.00) ARRIVALS FOR THE LIVING theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) theSpace @ Venue 45 Theatre) IN HER CORNER Aug 3, 5 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 2-24 - £14.00 (£12.50) Aug 4 - £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 - theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) £9.50 (£6.50) Aug 3 - £6.00 (£4.00) 3:50 PM 4:00 PM HEARTS LIKE FISTS 4:05 PM BOOGIE SHOES LEOPOLD VINDICTIVE theSpace @ Venue 45 LUMINESCENCE SILENT DISCO Aug 2 - £5.00 (£5.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll WALKING TOUR WITH theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 9-10, 12-16 - £5.00 (£3.00) Theatre) A SCOTTISH TWIST Aug 2-3 - £9.00 (£7.00) SHE KILLS MONSTERS theSpace @ Niddry St (Courtyard) theSpace @ Venue 45 TRIPS AND FALLS Aug 2-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25, 27-31 - £12.50 Aug 7 - £5.00 (£5.00) IN HER CORNER (£10.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Aug 2-3 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 - £9.50 3:35 PM UNDER MILK WOOD (£6.50) TOOTHBRUSH theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) MINDS ALIGHT! Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£5.00) LEOPOLD VINDICTIVE theSpace on North Bridge (Fife theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Theatre) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£5.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll Aug 12-17 - £5.00 (£4.00) Theatre) Aug 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00)

80 2019 Programme TEACH ACA-RRESTED: 4:25 PM 4:30 PM BEHIND BARS UNMEETABLES ON A HIGH NOTE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 2-10, 12-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace Triplex (Big) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£7.00) Aug 5-8, 12-15 - £5.00 (£3.00) BOTTOMS UP! 4:15 PM GREASE theSpace on the Mile (Space One) ...AND THEY WHISPER Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) MIRROR CANON DOWN THE LANE theSpace Triplex (Big) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 3-10 - £15.00 (£14.00) NOTEWORTHY Aug 19-24 - £5.00 (£5.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll Theatre) 4:40 PM theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) Aug 19-24 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) 4:20 PM DEFINITELY NOT IN THE HEIGHTS ROMEO AND JULIET 11+ THE FEMINAZIS theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife Aug 6 - £4.00 (£3.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Theatre) theSpace Triplex (Studio) Theatre) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 20-21 - £8.00 (£6.00) BEYOND GLORY Aug 19, 22-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) MOMO AND THE TRIPS AND FALLS theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) INEVITABLE DECAY Aug 2-3 - £5.00 (£5.00) ON A HIGH NOTE theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) OF THE HOUSE IN THE Aug 5-10, 12-17 - £9.00 (£8.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) FOREST ACA-LYMPICS Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£7.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife VOICE OF AUTHORITY theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll Theatre) Theatre) LOVE AND SEX AND Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 12-17 - £7.00 (£5.00) ALL THINGS IN- Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£7.00) BETWEEN 4:50 PM IN THE HEIGHTS theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) VERITY 4:10 PM Aug 12-15, 19, 22-24 - £10.00 (£7.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) BRANDY theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Aug 7-10 - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 13-14 - £9.00 (£7.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife UNMEETABLES Aug 12, 15-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) BEYOND GLORY theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Theatre) 4:55 PM theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) Aug 2-4, 9-10, 16-18 - £10.00 (£7.00) DORIAN GRAY MARY'S ROOM Aug 5-7 - £9.00 (£7.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth WANT SOME MORE Aug 19-23 - £5.00 (£5.00) Theatre) PASSION Aug 13-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) PERSPECTIVES theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) Aug 16-17, 20-21 - £10.00 (£7.00) OPHELIA IS ALSO theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll PREDICTABLY Theatre) DEAD Aug 5-10 - £9.00 (£9.00) LORCA: A THEATRE IRRATIONAL theSpace Triplex (Studio) BENEATH THE SAND Aug 12-17 - £7.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 2-10, 12-17 - £10.00 (£5.00) BEYOND GLORY theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) DISENCHANTED Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) Aug 8-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £15.00 (£15.00)

2019 Programme 81 Show timetable

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

5:00 PM AT THIS STAGE MASON KING – SUNSET SLEIGHT OF MIND BOOGIE SHOES theSpace @ Venue 45 theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) SILENT DISCO Aug 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 2-3 - £7.00 (£5.00) WALKING TOUR WITH Aug 5-10, 12-16 - £9.00 (£7.00) A SCOTTISH TWIST IF I DIE ON MARS CABARET OF MISHA'S GANG: CURIOSITIES theSpace @ Niddry St (Courtyard) theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 2-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25, 27-31 - £12.50 STRINGS ON FIRE Aug 12, 14, 16, 20, 22, 24 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Symposium Hall (Tent) (£10.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Aug 3-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) THE YANK IS A Aug 19-24 - £12.50 (£10.50) THE TINA TURNER MANC! MY HYPER-NICE STORY ANCESTORS & ME 5:15 PM theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane theSpace @ Symposium Hall MR NICE GUY theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Theatre) Aug 2-25 - £14.00 (£12.50) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £6.00 (£4.00) 5:05 PM DO YOU EVER GET SUNSET SEASONED SCARED? BELLS PRESENTS: PROFESSIONALS theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) SOUNDSCAPE Aug 5-10 - £9.00 (£7.00) theSpace Triplex (Studio) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £10.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Theatre) Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £8.00 (£7.00) SHUT UP, HELEN! Aug 2-3 - £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 5-10 - £7.00 (£5.00) I PILGRIM theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll AMAZING STORIES OF Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 5-10, 12-14 - £9.00 (£7.00) I PILGRIM Aug 5-10 - £10.00 (£7.00) BLUES AND SOUL

theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) TALLY HO, SECRET Aug 2-3 - £7.00 (£7.00) 5:10 PM Aug 12-17 - £9.00 (£7.00) SEVERAL! MASON KING – DESPITE EVERYTHING, SLEIGHT OF MIND OCEAN’S 9: NOTHING theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll PRICE STILL INCLUDES BUT TREBLE Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 15-17, 19-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) BISCUITS Aug 2-3 - £6.00 (£5.00) theSpace Triplex (Big) Aug 12-16, 18-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) BULL Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £8.00 (£5.00) ET THE EXTRA TESTICLE MACBETH theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) VOLPONE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth Aug 5-10 - £7.00 (£5.00) Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 2-10 - £12.00 (£10.00) 5:25 PM Aug 2-10 - £8.00 (£5.00) HOW TO HIDE A THE MYSTERY OF THE BODY IN NEW YORK SEMI-TONED BONNIE SPORRAN 5:20 PM PRESENTS: LIFE ON AND THE LOCH NESS GETTING TO GRIPS theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane MONSTER WITH MIGRAINE Theatre) MARS Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00)

theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming theSpace on North Bridge (Perth theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Theatre) Theatre) Theatre) Aug 12-13, 15-20, 22-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 5-6 - £6.00 (£5.00)

82 2019 Programme 5:30 PM 5:45 PM 5:55 PM KURL UP AND DYE POSTCARDS FROM THE HUMANS SONGS FOR A NEW theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) CROUCH END – PIHA WORLD theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 4-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Aug 5 - £5.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand Theatre) Theatre) Aug 7-11 - £8.00 (£5.00) Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £10.00 (£8.50) GHOSTLY TALES ALMOST, MAINE theSpace on the Mile (Space One) 5:35 PM theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 19-22 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 2 - £5.00 (£5.00) 6:00 PM THERE IS NO THE RESISTIBLE RISE PROBLEM (HERE) ELIZABETHAN THE LIAR OF ARTURO UI theSpace on North Bridge (Fife theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Theatre) theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 5-10, 12-17, 19-23 - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 3 - £5.00 (£4.00) Aug 6-7 - £5.00 (£5.00)

HOW TO SUCCEED IN 6:05 PM HELLO? HELLO. LITTLE SHOP OF LOVE HORRORS THIS PLAY IS NOT theSpace on North Bridge (Fife ABOUT ME theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand Aug 24 - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 2 - £5.00 (£4.00) Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 19-24 - £7.00 (£6.00) Aug 23-24 - £5.00 (£3.00) VINYL ENCORE THERE IS NO PROBLEM (HERE) CRUISE TO HELL ELIZABETHAN theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 12-17 - £9.00 (£8.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 2-4 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 22, 24 - £8.00 BABY-GO-ROUND (£6.00) THE MKC EXPERIENCE KURL UP AND DYE theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 12-14 - £10.00 (£8.00) HELLO? HELLO. theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Theatre) Aug 2-3 - £6.00 (£4.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£9.00) DEAR MR DEAD HEAD Theatre) Aug 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 - £8.00 DEAR MR DEAD HEAD theSpace on the Mile (Space One) (£6.00) 5:50 PM Aug 9-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) SHE KILLS MONSTERS theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 2-3 - £6.00 (£6.00) Aug 5-8 - £8.00 (£6.00) THE GOOD, THE BAD THE LONG ROAD theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 3 - £5.00 (£5.00) AND THE BREXIT theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 19-24 - £12.00 (£8.00) AUTO-NATION theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) PAN BREID Aug 2-23 - £11.00 (£9.00) theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 12, 14, 16, 20, 22, 24 - £8.00 (£6.00) 5:40 PM theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) XCHANGE Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) BABY-GO-ROUND ROCK'N'ROLL GIRLS theSpace @ Venue 45 theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 8-10 - £10.00 (£6.00) DEGREES OF GUILT Aug 15-17 - £12.00 (£10.00) theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 - £8.00 (£6.00) THE GREAT HEALTH theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) CON Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Symposium Hall Aug 2-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-25 - £12.00 (£10.00)

2019 Programme 83 Show timetable

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

6:10 PM BETWEEN US Aug 2-10 - £10.00 (£7.00) 6:45 PM THE LAST BREAD BOOGIE SHOES SATURDAY NIGHT theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane PUDDING SILENT DISCO AND SUNDAY Theatre) WALKING TOUR WITH Aug 2-4 - £8.00 (£6.50) MORNING theSpace on North Bridge (Perth A SCOTTISH TWIST Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£5.00) BEING FRANK theSpace @ Niddry St (Courtyard) Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 4, 6-8, 11, 13-15, 18, 20-22, 25, 27-29 - theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll £12.50 (£10.00) Aug 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, 23-24, 30-31 - £15.00 LIMINALITY Theatre) BROTHER SUN AND (£12.50) Aug 12, 14, 16 - £9.00 (£6.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth SISTER MOON Theatre) theSpace @ Symposium Hall (Tent) Aug 19-24 - £12.00 (£8.00) 6:35 PM TRANS PENNINE Aug 15-24 - £9.00 (£5.00) HEIR HEADS theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll FROM INDIA TO Theatre) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife 6:50 PM TRIANA Aug 13, 15, 17 - £9.00 (£6.00) Theatre) Aug 19-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) THE GRAVEYARD theSpace Triplex (Studio) SHIFT Aug 2-10, 12-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) 30 JENNIFER B theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) 6:15 PM Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Aug 19-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) THE ACA-POCALYPSE Aug 13, 15, 17 - £9.00 (£7.00) 6:55 PM KEMP'S JIG theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) BETWEEN US 6:40 PM Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) TRUST THE theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane TEENAGERS Aug 2, 4 - £8.00 (£6.00) CELLO ON FIRE Theatre) Aug 5-10, 12-17 - £9.50 (£8.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife theSpace Triplex (Big) Theatre) MARIE LLOYD STOLE Aug 12-13, 19-20 - £9.00 (£7.00) ABSOLUTE IMPROV! Aug 12 - £5.00 (£3.00) MY LIFE Aug 2, 7-8, 14-15, 21-22 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 13-17 - £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 3-6, 9-10, 16-18, 23-24 - £11.00 (£9.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) Aug 3 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 3-10, 12-24 - £10.00 (£9.00) HORNY COO IN A MISHA'S GANG: TUTU STRINGS ON FIRE THE JOHNNY CASH KEMP'S JIG STORY theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Aug 12, 14, 16 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) Aug 2-11 - £12.50 (£10.50) Aug 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17 - £9.00 (£7.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming Theatre) Aug 2-24 - £14.00 (£12.50) LOVE, LOSS AND 6:20 PM MARIE LLOYD STOLE CAKE HEARTS LIKE FISTS MY LIFE 6:30 PM theSpace on North Bridge (Fife theSpace @ Venue 45 RADIOOCTAVE: THE Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) Aug 4 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16 - £9.00 (£7.00) NIGHT WE MET Aug 5-10 - £9.50 (£9.00)

ABSOLUTE IMPROV! theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) GLOBAL GROOVES, Aug 2 - £7.00 (£7.00) ANCIENT VOICES

theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll Theatre) 84 2019 Programme 7:00 PM JEWBANA LE MONOCLE 7:25 PM PICK UP MCNAUGHTON theSpace @ Venue 45 theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Aug 8-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £9.50 (£6.00) Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 4-9 - £8.00 (£7.00) Theatre) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 19-24 - £6.50 (£6.50) 7:10 PM JUST LIKE A WOMAN EVA CASSIDY: THE 7:05 PM STORY MIDGES SHAKESPEARE! THE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) PANTO Aug 2-3 - £7.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Symposium Hall theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) Aug 2 - £8.00 (£8.00) Aug 12-17 - £7.00 (£5.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 2-3 - £5.00 (£5.00) BEING AND NOTHINGNESS BEING FRANK SOME THINGS ARE MEANT TO BE, ANNA BODILY FUNCTIONS theSpace on North Bridge (Perth theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll AND WHERE TO FIND Theatre) Theatre) theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 20, 22, 24 - £9.00 (£6.00) THEM Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) JUST LIKE A WOMAN TRANS PENNINE Aug 2-3 - £6.00 (£4.00) A CAPPELLA AROUND Aug 5-8 - £7.00 (£5.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) THE WORLD Aug 5-10, 12-17 - £8.00 (£7.00) Theatre) Aug 19, 21, 23 - £9.00 (£6.00) SHAKESPEARE! THE theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll PANTO BRAIN RINSE Theatre) OUT OF THE BLUE Aug 2-10 - £10.00 (£7.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) JAZZ PRESENTS THE Aug 5-10, 12-17 - £7.50 (£6.00) Aug 4-7, 12-14, 18-21 - £9.00 (£6.50) Aug 2-3, 8-10, 15-17, 22-24 - £10.00 (£7.00) GREAT AMERICAN 7:30 PM SONGBOOK BILLY JOEL: PIANO THREE MENOPAUSAL MAN LIVE MAIDS BLUESWATER theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane PRESENTS: BLUES! Theatre) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 - Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand £10.00 (£8.00) Theatre) Aug 2-24 - £13.00 (£12.00) EVA CASSIDY: THE BODILY FUNCTIONS STORY ELTON JOHN: AND WHERE TO FIND ROCKET MAN LIVE! 7:20 PM theSpace @ Symposium Hall THEM Aug 3-25 - £10.00 (£10.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Aug 2-3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 - theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) LE MONOCLE £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 9-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) ROCK CHOIR LIVE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane theSpace Triplex (Big) FLAMENCO TABLAO 44 INCH CHEST Theatre) Aug 2-3 - £7.00 (£6.00) Aug 2-24 - £12.50 (£12.50) theSpace Triplex (Studio) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth Aug 2-10, 12-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) Theatre) BACK TO BLACK: THE Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) MILKSHAKE MUSIC OF AMY STEPPING OUT theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) WINEHOUSE Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) VINYL ENCORE theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £15.00 (£15.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Theatre) Aug 19-24 - £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-24 - £14.00 (£12.50)

2019 Programme 85 Show timetable

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

7:35 PM UNTOUCHABLE THE HUMANS TUCK INTO POETRY – STANLEY A LITE BITE OF theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) theSpace @ Venue 45 CHEESE AND PUNS theSpace on North Bridge (Fife Aug 5-7 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 4 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 8-10 - £11.00 (£10.00) Theatre) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £7.00 (£5.00) UP AND AWAY Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) 7:55 PM 7:40 PM CLOUDS theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 2-3, 5-7, 12-14 - £6.00 (£4.00) SECTION 28: THE ONE GIANT LEAP theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) LEGACY OF A Aug 2-3 - £7.00 (£7.00) HOMOPHOBIC LAW theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Aug 4-10, 12-17 - £10.00 (£10.00) THE DOMESTIC Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 5-8, 12-15, 19-22 - £6.00 (£6.00) 7:45 PM 8:00 PM ALMOST, MAINE MAGIC HOUR LISTEN, YOU CAN TAMI STONE – MY HEAR THE SOUND OF theSpace @ Venue 45 theSpace @ Symposium Hall (Tent) FUNNY BITS Aug 3 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 2-4, 6-11, 15-18, 22-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) NO HANDS CLAPPING theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 4-10, 12-17 - £7.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane THE PILLOWMAN BOOGIE SHOES Theatre) SILENT DISCO Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Venue 45 UP AND AWAY Aug 7 - £5.00 (£5.00) WALKING TOUR WITH A SCOTTISH TWIST theSpace on the Mile (Space One) RESERVOIR DUGS Aug 8-10, 15-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) DIGITAL MASKS TO theSpace @ Niddry St (Courtyard) theSpace @ Venue 45 AFRICA – CHEIKH Aug 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, 23-24, 30-31 - £15.00 Aug 9-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) (£12.50) ANTA DIOP: POEM THE DOMESTIC HINDSIGHT FOR THE LIVING theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) 8:05 PM Aug 2-4, 9-11, 16-17, 23-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) theSpace @ Venue 45 TAKIN' IT EASY, 1916 theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll Aug 6 - £5.00 (£5.00) Theatre) Aug 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £11.00 (£9.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth GINGER Theatre) MONOLOGUES THE LIAR Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £7.50 (£6.50) THE GOOD SCOUT theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £9.00 (£8.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand Aug 2 - £5.00 (£5.00) 8:10 PM Theatre) THE VERY WELL-FED Aug 2-12, 14-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) 7:50 PM CATERPILLAR SCHOOL GAYS UNTOUCHABLE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) ROCK CHOIR LIVE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 12-17 - £11.00 (£9.00) Aug 19-24 - £7.00 (£5.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) theSpace Triplex (Big) Aug 2-3 - £7.00 (£6.00) Aug 2-24 - £12.50 (£12.50) 8:15 PM 8:20 PM STILL LIFE BY NOËL TAMI STONE – MY HINDSIGHT 8:25 PM MAGIC, MIND COWARD FUNNY BITS theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll Theatre) READING AND theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) Aug 2-4 - £7.00 (£7.00) TELERABBITRY Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-3 - £5.00 (£3.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Theatre) Aug 2-4 - £6.00 (£4.00) 86 2019 Programme NOTHING TO HIDE CIRQUE DU SLAY 9:05 PM SURVEILLANCE MOMENTO SOUNDS theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 5-10 - £9.00 (£7.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) Theatre) Aug 12-18 - £10.00 (£9.00) Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) ROBERT BURNS THE THE LIFE OF SPIES MUSICAL 9:10 PM THE WORDS ARE theSpace on North Bridge (Perth NOTHING REALLY THERE theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 5-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) MEANS ANYTHING theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) ANYMORE SO SHUT Aug 22-24 - £11.00 (£9.00) UP, TIM? MAGIC, MIND 8:45 PM READING AND ERIC DAVIDSON: theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) 9:15 PM TELERABBITRY ACROSS THE LOONY Aug 2-11 - £5.00 (£3.00) FAUSTUS VERSE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Theatre) theSpace Triplex (Studio) SPACE JUNK: A Aug 5-10 - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 5-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 2-10, 12-24 - £10.00 (£10.00) SOVIET MUSICAL

theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) ROMEO & JULIET: JEREMY NICHOLAS: SIMON & GARFUNKEL Aug 2-4 - £6.00 (£6.00) ONE-MAN MUSICAL WHAT ARE YOU THROUGH THE YEARS theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) TALKING ABOUT? theSpace @ Symposium Hall SHERLOCK HOLMES Aug 2-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £8.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming Aug 4-8, 11-15, 18-22, 25 - £12.00 (£12.00) AND THE Aug 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, 23-24 - £14.00 (£14.00) Theatre) CONUNDRUM OF ART OF BELIEVING – CONAN DOYLE FLAMENCO Aug 5-8, 12-15, 19-22 - £10.00 (£8.00) 8:50 PM Aug 2-4, 9-11, 16-18, 23-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth SYMPHRONICA theSpace Triplex (Big) Theatre) Aug 2-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) IOLANTHE theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Aug 12-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) 9:20 PM theSpace @ Venue 45 SPACE JUNK: A Aug 19-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) IMPROVABUNGA! BITCH, ANTIGONE SOVIET MUSICAL theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) 8:30 PM theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 2-3 - £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 5-10, 12-17 - £8.00 (£7.00) BROKEN ENGLISH Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) Aug 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £7.00 (£6.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife THE WORDS ARE MARLENE IN Theatre) 9:00 PM THERE HAVANA: GYPSY Aug 19-23 - £10.00 (£7.00) HOW TO MEND THE TANGO CABARET WORLD (WITH A theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 19-21 - £9.00 (£8.00) 8:35 PM STUDENT PLAY) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane THE LAST BUBBLE Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) THE AMERICAN'S Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£7.00) DREAM Theatre) Aug 5-10, 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) MISFIT WARRIOR theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 2-4 - £6.00 (£6.00) MAGIC HOUR Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£5.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll theSpace @ Symposium Hall (Tent) Theatre) Aug 2-4, 6-11, 15-18, 22-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) Aug 2-10, 12-24 - £10.00 (£8.00)

2019 Programme 87 Show timetable

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

NINE MONTHS AMENDMENTS: A 9:50 PM 10:00 PM PLAY ON WORDS HEARTS LIKE FISTS theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) THE JOHN ROWE Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife theSpace @ Venue 45 SHOW Theatre) Aug 5 - £5.00 (£5.00) Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand 9:25 PM Theatre) TWO GUYS, THREE SHE KILLS MONSTERS Aug 19-22 - £9.00 (£7.00) DRAMS: THE 9:40 PM Aug 23-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) ELEGIES FOR ANGELS, theSpace @ Venue 45 ULTIMATE LIVE BLUES Aug 2 - £5.00 (£5.00) AND WHISKY PUNKS AND RAGING ADVENTURES OF EXPERIENCE QUEENS BUTT BOY AND CATHY: A RETELLING TIGGER theSpace @ Venue 45 theSpace on North Bridge (Perth OF WUTHERING Theatre) Aug 8-17 - £16.00 (£15.00) HEIGHTS theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Aug 5-10 - £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) 9:30 PM 9:45 PM Aug 2-4 - £8.00 (£6.00) CRAIG'S MAGIC SHOW Aug 5-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) A TRIBUTE TO ALANIS THE PILLOWMAN MORISSETTE'S theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane JAGGED LITTLE PILL Theatre) theSpace @ Venue 45 9:55 PM Aug 2-4 - £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 6 - £5.00 (£5.00) BERLIN GIRL theSpace @ Symposium Hall Aug 2-25 - £12.00 (£12.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand DIGITAL MASKS TO EVERYMAN Theatre) AFRICA – CHEIKH Aug 12 - £8.00 (£6.00) 10:05 PM theSpace on the Mile (Space One) ANTA DIOP: POEM Aug 19-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) THE SHAMBLES FOR THE LIVING HOW TO MEND THE theSpace on the Mile (Space Two) CRAIG'S MAGIC SHOW theSpace @ Venue 45 WORLD (WITH A Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £6.50 (£5.00) Aug 7 - £5.00 (£5.00) STUDENT PLAY) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Theatre) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) 10:10 PM Aug 5-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) THE LIAR Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£7.00) BRISTOL IMPROV theSpace @ Venue 45 PRESENTS: VOTE DR PHIL? Aug 3 - £5.00 (£5.00) BERLIN GIRL OFFSCRIPT!

theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Theatre) OUR SAVIOUR Theatre) Aug 2-10, 12-17 - £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 2-5, 7-13, 16-19, 21-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) Aug 13-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace Triplex (Studio) Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17 - £8.00 (£7.00) ORACLE 9:35 PM ZOUNDS! theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) IMPROVISERS THE WHEEL OF theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£7.50) ASSEMBLE! IMPROV: MUSICALS Theatre) EDITION! Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife MOJO Theatre) theSpace Triplex (Studio) Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17 - £5.50 (£4.50) theSpace on North Bridge (Perth Aug 19-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) WEEGIE HINK AE THAT? PRESENTS: Theatre) Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) NAE BOTHER!

theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Aug 2-10 - £10.00 (£8.00)

88 2019 Programme 10:15 PM CATHY: A RETELLING LISTEN, YOU CAN 10:45 PM FUNNY STORIES OF WUTHERING HEAR THE SOUND OF BIG BAND DOES... ABOUT PAIN HEIGHTS NO HANDS CLAPPING BROADWAY theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) theSpace @ Venue 45 theSpace on North Bridge (Fife theSpace Triplex (Big) Aug 2-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 19-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £12.50 (£10.00) Aug 12-17 - £8.00 (£6.00)

HERSTORY 10:25 PM 10:50 PM GRAVE CONCERN GIGOLO: BOLD, BISCUIT BARREL: theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) BEAUTIFUL, BIZARRE DOUBLE STUFFED Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 2-3 - £7.00 (£7.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) theSpace on the Mile (Space One) Aug 5-10 - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 20-24 - £8.00 (£6.50) WEEGIE HINK AE Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.50) THAT? PRESENTS: NAE BOTHER! 10:30 PM THE MANNEQUIN BUBBLE SHOW FOR THE STINKY CHEESE ADULTS ONLY theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) MAN... AND OTHER theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming Theatre) Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace @ Venue 45 FAIRLY STUPID TALES Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£8.00)

Aug 12-15 - £9.50 (£8.50) YOU HAVE A MATCH theSpace @ Venue 45 Aug 4 - £5.00 (£5.00) 10:40 PM Aug 16-17 - £10.50 (£9.50) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) DISSIDENT SAUSAGE Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£9.00) TGIF FLAMENCONOVA theSpace on North Bridge (Fife theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Haldane Theatre) theSpace Triplex (Studio) 10:20 PM Aug 19-21 - £7.00 (£5.00) Theatre) Aug 2-10, 12-24 - £12.00 (£10.00) OPHELIA IS ALSO Aug 2-3 - £7.00 (£5.00) DEAD Aug 5-7, 12-14, 19-21 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 8-10, 15-17, 22-24 - £9.00 (£7.00) IMPROV, SHE WROTE 11:00 PM theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) theSpace Triplex (Big) Aug 19-24 - £7.00 (£6.00) 11:10 PM 10:35 PM Aug 2-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) BISCUIT BARREL: DON'T DO IT, DON'T DOUBLE STUFFED WARWICK IMPROV DO IT, DO IT! DISSIDENT SAUSAGE PRESENTS: ANYTHING theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) theSpace on North Bridge (Fife YOU WANT theSpace on North Bridge (Fife Aug 2-4 - £5.00 (£3.50) Theatre) Theatre) Aug 2-3, 5-7 - £5.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) Aug 22-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 2-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) THE DUALITY OF MAN

MEDIUM RARE BUBBLE SHOW FOR theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 2-10 - £8.00 (£6.00) STAY LOYAL TO THE IMPROV ADULTS ONLY ROYALS theSpace on North Bridge (Argyll theSpace Triplex (Big) Theatre) DEFYING LOGIC theSpace @ Niddry St (Lower Theatre) Aug 19-22 - £9.50 (£8.50) Aug 2-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 - £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 23-24 - £10.50 (£9.50) Aug 19-24 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 19-24 - £8.00 (£6.00) CATHY: A RETELLING DON'T DO IT, DON'T TESS OF WUTHERING DO IT, DO IT! BISCUIT BARREL: theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Fleming HEIGHTS theSpace on North Bridge (Fife Theatre) DOUBLE STUFFED Theatre) Aug 2-10, 12-17 - £12.00 (£10.00) theSpace @ Niddry St (Upper Theatre) Aug 8-10 - £7.00 (£5.00) theSpace on the Mile (Space Three) Aug 12-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 5-10 - £8.00 (£6.50)

2019 Programme 89 Show timetable

KEY: = Cabaret =Children =Comedy = Dance & Physical Theatre =Events = Music =Musicals & Opera = Spoken Word = Theatre

NIGHTPIECE FILM DISSIDENT SAUSAGE LATE NIGHT NICO: NO REGRETS FESTIVAL CEREMONY theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) theSpace @ Symposium Hall Aug 13-14 - £7.00 (£5.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 12-17 - £12.00 (£8.00) Aug 19-20, 22-23 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 16-17 - £9.00 (£7.00) LATE NIGHT THE JOHN ROWE 11:30 PM PRINCESS IN THE CEREMONY SHOW COLD BLOODED CASTLE theSpace @ Symposium Hall WITCH: THE SEX theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 9-11, 16-17 - £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 12-15 - £8.00 (£6.00) MUSICAL! theSpace @ Symposium Hall Aug 5-6 - £10.00 (£10.00 Aug 21 - £10.00 (£8.00) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 1) Aug 2-3, 5-10 - £6.00 (£6.00) DISSIDENT SAUSAGE NICO: NO REGRETS 11:15 PM theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 3) DISSIDENT SAUSAGE Aug 15-17 - £8.00 (£6.00) 11:35 PM Aug 2-3, 5-10, 19-24 - £12.00 (£8.00) BUBBLE SHOW FOR theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Theatre 2) Aug 12 - £3.00 (£2.00) ADULTS ONLY THE JOHN ROWE 11:25 PM SHOW PUSSY IN BOOTS: THE theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall THE JOHN ROWE (Grand Theatre) theSpace @ Symposium Hall ADULT PANTO Aug 2 - £6.00 (£6.00) SHOW Aug 8, 12-13, 15 - £9.00 (£7.00) Aug 3-4, 7-8 - £9.50 (£8.50) theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Grand Aug 5-6, 9-10 - £10.50 (£9.50 theSpace @ Symposium Hall Theatre) Aug 2-4 - £6.00 (£6.00) Aug 12-17, 19-24 - £9.00 (£7.00)

90 2019 Programme A-Z Index

Bacon...... 8 Clouds...... 11 Bang, Bang, You're Dead...... 50 Cold Blooded Witch: The Sex Musical! Symbols Being and Nothingness...... 65 ...... 27 F ...And They Whisper Down the Lane.61 Being Frank...... 61 Come Dine with Mr Shakespeare.....65 Faustus...... 27 [BLANK] by Alice Birch and NYTP...... 58 Bells Presents: Soundscape...... 45 COMPOST...... 67 Fear Here and Terror There...... 11 007 Voices of Bond...... 18 Berlin Girl...... 24 Conscious...... 8 Fifty Shades of Shakespeare...... 51 10 Things I Hate About A Cappella...55 Best of Broadway...... 18 Craig's Magic Show...... 40 Flamenco Tablao...... 58 10:31, MCR...... 8 Best of the West End...... 18 Cruise to Hell...... 11 FlamencoNova...... 58 11+...... 40 Between Us...... 40 Cry of the Gull...... 61 Frankenstein...... 65 2001: A Sketch Odyssey...... 33 Beyond Glory...... 11 Fray Bentos...... 15 30...... 40 Big Band Does... Broadway...... 55 From India to Triana...... 58 44 Inch Chest...... 65 Bike...... 40 D Full Score: Sing, Sing, Sing!...... 27 Billy Joel: Piano Man Live...... 45 Dan Haynes – Had Some Falls Tour..31 Funny Stories About Pain...... 35 A Biscuit Barrel: Double Stuffed...... 14 Danny the Champion of the World...45 Biscuit Barrel: Double Stuffed...... 8 Dark Play or Stories for Boys...... 8 A Boy and His Magic Pen...... 45 Dear Mr Dead Head...... 8 G A Cappella Around the World...... 61 Bitch, Antigone...... 14 Geoff Robb – The Music of Trees...... 31 Bizet to Broadway: Natalie Sternberg Death by Shakespeare...... 51 A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Death of the American Teenager...... 57 Gesso...... 51 Game's a Foot, Try the Fish...... 30 ...... 65 Getting to Grips with Migraine...... 40 Black Dog...... 65 DeciBelles Debut!...... 45 A Midsummer Night’s Dream...... 50 Definitely Not Romeo and Juliet...... 67 Ghostly Tales...... 9 A Midsummer Night's Dream...... 40 Blown Fuse...... 11 Gigolo: Bold, Beautiful, Bizarre...... 27 Blueswater Presents: Blues!...... 24 Defying Logic...... 31 A Mother...... 61 Degrees of Guilt...... 11 Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New A Riff in Time...... 36 Bodily Functions and Where to Find Musical: Less Miserable...... 47 Them...... 25 Délicieux...... 57 A Sherlock Holmes Mystery: The Baker Despite Everything, Price Still Includes Gilgamesh – He Who Saw Everything Street Irregulars and the Case of the Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking ...... 35 Tour With a Scottish Twist...... 52 Biscuits...... 35 Stolen Portrait...... 11 Digital Masks to Africa – Cheikh Anta Ginger Monologues...... 31 A Tribute to Alanis Morissette's Jagged Bottoms Up!...... 8 Global Grooves, Ancient Voices...... 61 box...... 40 Diop: Poem for the Living...... 2 Little Pill...... 18 Disenchanted...... 14 Goodnight Mister Tom...... 57 Absolute Improv!...... 50 Brain Rinse...... 33 Grave Concern...... 27 Brandy...... 66 Dissident Sausage...... 31 AcadePitch Presents – Romeo and Dissident Sausage...... 67 Grease...... 57 Juliet: An A Cappella Tragedy...... 55 Bristol Improv Presents: Offscript!...31 Broken English...... 67 Do You Ever Get Scared?...... 58 Aca-lympics...... 50 Do You Ever Get Scared?...... 9 Aca-lympics...... 61 Brother Sun and Sister Moon...... 21 H Bubble Show for Adults Only...... 2 Dodici Ballerini...... 9 Hamlet...... 67 Aca-rrested: Behind Bars...... 55 Don't Do it, Don't Do It, DO IT!...... 67 Adventures of Butt Boy and Tigger...14 Bubble Show for Adults Only...... 24 Harvest Moon...... 27 Bubble Show for Adults Only...... 57 Dorian Gray...... 14 Hearts Like Fists...... 2 Alan Ayckbourn Double Bill...... 58 Downton Shabby...... 15 Alan Ayckbourn's No Knowing...... 55 Bull...... 14 Hebridean Treasure: Lost and Found 36 Bull...... 50 Dragtime! Presents: ...... 45 Heir Heads...... 67 All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Dream of a King...... 58 Kindergarten...... 55 Butterbum, J...... 40 Hello? Hello...... 67 Almost, Maine...... 2 Her...... 12 Almost, Maine...... 45 E Herstory...... 27 C Hindsight...... 61 Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul...45 Cadenza: Cambridge University's EAST...... 11 amendments: A Play on Words...... 66 Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Holy Sh*t...... 37 Premier A Cappella Group...... 57 Horny Coo in a Tutu...... 15 Annie Jr...... 45 CapeAbility...... 45 Queens...... 65 Anti-Depressed?...... 66 Elizabethan...... 31 How to Hide a Body in New York...... 40 Category: Theatre...... 9 How to Mend the World (With a Arrivals...... 14 Cathy: A Retelling of Wuthering Elsa Jean McTaggart Presents Art of Believing – Flamenco...... 55 McTaggart Sisters...... 27 Student Play...... 12 Heights...... 2 How to Mend the World (With a At This Stage...... 2 Cathy: A Retelling of Wuthering Elsa Jean McTaggart: Hebridean Fire Auto-Nation...... 2 ...... 27 Student Play)...... 9 Heights...... 51 How to Succeed in Love...... 31 Avalanche...... 65 Cathy: A Retelling of Wuthering Elton John: Rocket Man Live!...... 47 Eric Davidson: Across the Loony Verse How to Succeed in Love...... 35 Heights...... 8 Hustlers...... 37 Cello on Fire...... 57 ...... 58 B ET The Extra Testicle...... 27 Hustlers...... 58 Baby, What Blessings...... 31 Chaika: First Woman in Space...... 61 Hyper-Nice...... 40 Chain of Trivia...... 31 Eva Cassidy: The Story...... 18 baby-go-round...... 8 Everyman...... 9 Back to Black: The Music of Amy Chain of Trivia...... 35 Winehouse...... 36 Chatroom...... 11 Chatroom...... 51

2019 Programme 91 A-Z Index

Lord of the Flies...... 57 Noir Hamlet...... 4 Romeo & Juliet: One-Man Musical...30 Lost in a Book...... 24 Noir Hamlet...... 51 Roots...... 35 I Love and Sex and All Things In- Notes from Shetland to Shanghai....12 Rust...... 4 I Am Not Marilyn...... 58 Between...... 12 Noteworthy...... 51 Rust...... 51 I Hate Children Children's Show...... 24 Love Me Out: The Opera...... 9 Nothing Really Means Anything I Pilgrim...... 35 Love, Loss and Cake...... 67 Anymore So Shut Up, Tim?...... 12 If I Die on Mars...... 2 Love/Sick...... 9 Nothing to Hide...... 51 S If It Didn't Matter...... 47 Loving the Enemy...... 41 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Improv, She Wrote...... 57 Lucrece...... 51 ...... 15 Improvabunga!...... 51 Luminescence...... 4 O School Gays...... 36 Improvisers Assemble!...... 67 LUVU2...... 35 Ocean’s 9: Nothing but Treble...... 57 Science Adventures...... 31 In Her Corner...... 15 On a High Note...... 30 Seasoned Professionals...... 37 In PurSUEt...... 47 One Giant Leap...... 15 Section 28: The Legacy of a In PurSUEt...... 63 M One Good Beating...... 12 Homophobic Law...... 9 In the Heights...... 51 Macbeth...... 65 Ophelia is Also Dead...... 51 Self-Check...... 25 Iolanthe...... 4 Macbeth...... 9 Ophelia is Also Dead...... 58 Semi-Toned Presents: Life on Mars..37 Isiqalo – The Beginning...... 4 Magic, Mind Reading and Telerabbitry Oracle...... 31 Sense and Sensibility...... 47 ...... 41 Our Saviour...... 58 Shakespeare! The Panto...... 11 Mallets...... 31 Out of the Blue Jazz Presents The Great She Kills Monsters...... 4 J Mandy Picks a Husband...... 63 American Songbook...... 41 She Shall Not Be Moved...... 15 Jammy Dodgers...... 12 Marie Lloyd Stole My Life...... 12 She...... 12 Jennifer B...... 15 Marlene in Havana: Gypsy Tango Sherlock Holmes and the Conundrum Jeremy Nicholas: What Are You Cabaret...... 41 P of Conan Doyle...... 65 Talking About?...... 37 Marrow...... 41 Painted Corners...... 63 Sherlock Holmes and the Conundrum Jerry and the Adventures of the HMS Mary's Room...... 65 Pan Breid...... 12 of Conan Doyle...... 69 Stargazer...... 35 Mason King – Sleight of Mind...... 31 Parasites...... 15 Shiver...... 12 Jewbana...... 4 Match Girl...... 37 Passion Perspectives...... 63 Shrew...... 57 Joan Baez: Presented by Miss Irenie McNaughton...... 9 Pearls...... 47 Shut Up, Helen!...... 63 Rose...... 27 Me and My...... 30 Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.....51 Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years Just a Number...... 35 Medea Speaks...... 9 Piano Man...... 59 ...... 18 Just Like a Woman...... 31 Medium Rare Improv...... 63 Pick Up...... 41 Skylight...... 52 Microbodyssey...... 30 Piracy! A Comedy on the High Cs.....25 Some Things are Meant to Be, Anna.63 K Midges...... 51 Piracy! A Comedy on the High Cs.....30 Something Else...... 33 Milan's Game...... 24 Postcards from Crouch End – Piha....41 Sometimes, Just a Second...... 57 Kemp's Jig...... 12 Predictably Irrational...... 35 Knock Knock...... 27 Milkshake...... 51 Songs for a New World...... 25 Minds Alight!...... 47 Princess in the Castle...... 18 Songs for a New World...... 63 Knowing Me, Knowing Uke...... 58 Pussy in Boots: The Adult Panto...... 25 Kurl Up and Dye...... 27 Mirror Canon...... 9 Southern Nights: The Story of Late Night Ceremony...... 27 Misfit Warrior...... 63 Southern Soul...... 37 Le Monocle...... 40 Misha's Gang...... 25 Q Space Junk: A Soviet Musical...... 33 Leopold Vindictive...... 63 Misha's Gang: Strings on Fire...... 47 Qing Snake...... 4 Special Measures...... 69 Level Up...... 15 Mobile Phone Show...... 9 Stanley...... 69 Leverage...... 67 Mojo...... 65 Stay Loyal to the Royals...... 47 Life. In Hong Kong...... 4 Momento Sounds...... 12 R Stepping Out...... 52 Liminality...... 65 Momo and the Inevitable Decay of the RadioOctave: The Night We Met...... 47 Steve Richards Presents Rock'n'Roll Listen, You Can Hear the Sound of No House in the Forest...... 67 Raised Voices...... 59 Politics 2019...... 18 Hands Clapping...... 40 Monster School Jurassic!...... 41 Rattigan's Nijinsky...... 37 Still Life by Noël Coward...... 14 Listen, You Can Hear the Sound of No Moon Walk...... 67 Real Eyes...... 67 Sunset...... 52 Hands Clapping...... 67 Mr Nice Guy...... 9 Red Riding Hood: The Panto...... 25 Surveillance...... 66 Relational, or A Writer's Misguided Surveillance...... 69 Guide to Loves Lost and Found...... 9 Switch Witchetty's Almanac of L N Reservoir Dugs...... 4 Everything...... 41 Little Shop of Horrors...... 24 Narukami Thunder God...... 65 Rhinoceros...... 12 SymphRONica...... 47 Little Wings...... 65 Never None (but She)...... 58 Robert Burns the Musical...... 51 Looking Down on Me...... 41 News@1066...... 31 Rock Choir Live...... 57 Looking for Wolverhampton's Latin Nico: No Regrets...... 35 Rock'n'Roll Girls...... 4 Quarter...... 41 Nightpiece Film Festival...... 18 Rodgers with a D – The Tommy Lorca: A Theatre Beneath the Sand...24 Nine Months...... 35 Rodgers Centenary Celebration...... 35

92 2019 Programme The New and Improved I Hate Children Children's Show...... 25 T The Penguin Tango...... 66 V Takin' It Easy, 1916...... 66 The Pillowman...... 4 Vanity Airlines...... 50 Tally Ho, Secret Several!...... 63 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui...... 15 Verity...... 16 Tami Stone – My Funny Bits...... 33 The Rubbish Show...... 66 Vinyl Encore...... 30 Tami Stone – My Funny Bits...... 36 The Seven Second Theory...... 69 Vinyl Encore...... 33 Tea?...(With Milk)...... 41 The Shambles...... 14 Voice of Authority...... 36 Teach...... 33 The Sinners Club...... 59 Volpone...... 11 Tess...... 37 The Snoopy Question...... 36 Vote Dr Phil?...... 40 TGIF...... 41 The Snow Queen...... 40 Votes for Women!...... 59 The 27 Club...... 15 The South Afreakins...... 14 The Aca-pocalypse ...... 47 The South Afreakins: The Afreakin W The Adventures of Leonard Biscuit Family...... 14 Radio Show...... 69 Wait Wait Bo Bait...... 6 The Stinky Cheese Man... and Other Walls and Bridges...... 63 The American's Dream...... 33 Fairly Stupid Tales...... 6 The Apology...... 66 Want Some More...... 14 The Tina Turner Story...... 21 Warwick Improv Presents: Anything The Aretha Franklin Story...... 21 The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar...... 33 The Brave Anthology...... 66 You Want...... 52 The Village Fate...... 6 We Want You to Watch...... 52 The Carole King Story...... 21 The Visitors...... 66 The Carpenters Songbook...... 37 Weegie Hink Ae That? Presents: ...... 50 The Wheel of Improv: Musicals West of Frances...... 36 The Cat's the Thing...... 41 Edition!...... 59 The Daft Show with Bony Tony...... 36 What Does Love Mean to You?...... 6 The Wind in the Willows...... 6 Who Killed Bambi?...... 66 The Dandelion Patch...... 30 The Witch of Wall Street...... 59 The Dolly Parton Story...... 21 The Wizard Of Oz...... 47 The Domestic...... 30 The Wizard of Oz...... 47 XYZ The Duality of Man...... 33 The Words Are There...... 30 Xchange...... 6 The Experiment...... 43 The Yank is a Manc! My Ancestors & You Have a Match...... 36 The Feminazis...... 59 Me...... 33 zounds!...... 25 The First King of England in a Dress. 59 The Yellow Wallpaper...... 58 The Good Boyfriend...... 69 The Zed Word...... 69 The Good Scout...... 25 There Is No Problem (Here)...... 69 The Good, The Bad and The Brexit....36 This Island's Mine...... 47 The Gravel Road Show presents This Play Is Not About Me...... 11 Oklahoma, USA!...... 33 Three Menopausal Maids...... 30 The Graveyard Shift...... 14 Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Lum: And Other The Great Health Con...... 21 Colourful Tales...... 36 The Humans...... 4 Toothbrush...... 69 The Importance of Being Earnest...... 4 Top Trumps...... 11 The James Taylor and Joni Mitchell Trans Pennine...... 63 Story...... 37 Triplex Adventures...... 58 The John Rowe Show...... 21 Trips and Falls...... 47 The John Rowe Show...... 25 Trust the Teenagers...... 69 The Johnny Cash Story...... 37 Tuck Into Poetry – A Lite Bite of Cheese The King of Ghosts: Zhong Kui...... 15 and Puns...... 36 The Last Bread Pudding...... 66 Twelfth Night...... 50 The Last Bubble...... 69 Two Guys, Three Drams: The Ultimate The Liar...... 4 Live Blues and Whisky Experience...... 6 The Life of Reilly...... 11 The Life of Spies...... 66 The Long Road...... 30 U The Mannequin...... 37 Under Milk Wood...... 52 The MKC Experience...... 25 Uninvited Guests...... 66 The Moment...... 15 Unmeetables...... 43 The Mystery of the Bonnie Sporran and Untouchable...... 16 the Loch Ness Monster...... 66 Up and Away...... 11 The Nashville Story...... 37 Uppercut: A New Musical...... 16

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