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Edinburgh Festival 2019 We hope you find this guide helpful. It aims to provide listings of shows by playwrights, and occasionally other theatre-makers, based in or from Scotland. Please double check any details with the relevant box office as details may have changed since this guide went to print. Booking Tickets All plays can be booked through the Fringe Festival box office edfringe.com unless otherwise indicated. * TalkFest 2019 panelist or workshop Leader * Part of Made in Scotland Showcase * Please contact venue for booking details * Play published by Nick Hern Books For details of BSL interpreted, audio described, captioned and relaxed performances, please visit accessscottishtheatre.com

Talkfest is an opportunity for you to meet with and discuss the *work of artists behind the wider Festival programme, as well as an opportunity to network with your peers and share practice. The lively, engaging discussions and practical workshops interrogate the themes and issues raised within this year's Festival and how they feed into and are reflected in the creative process.

Find out more about Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland and Scotland’s playwrights at playwrightsstudio.co.uk or visit our Bookshop & Information Point at the . Jack Anomaly Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir Surveillance Kit Kat Anomaly Theatre Company Traverse Breakfast Plays theSpace on North Bridge Traverse Theatre 12th - 24th, Times Vary 13th, 17th, 22nd, 9.00

Keighly Bell Ben Blow Pan Bried Cadaver Synod Central Belters RFT theSpace on the Mile Sweet 2nd - 10th, 17.50 19th - 25th, 21.00

Alan Bissett Mikey Burnett The Red Hourglass In Her Corner Kyle/Bissett Productions Tearin' the Tartan Theatre and Scottish Storytelling Centre New Celts Productions 1st - 14th, 18.00 theSpace on the Mile 3rd - 23rd, 15.20 Cora Bissett What Girls Are Made Of Apphia Campbell Raw Material and Traverse Black is the Color of My Voice Theatre in association with Apphia Campbell presented by Regular Music James Seabright and Play The Assembly Hall Spotlight 1st - 25th, 14.30 Teviot 12th - 26th, 16.00 Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir Woke (Can This Be) Home Apphia Campbell presented Brite Theater by James Seabright and Play Scottish Storytelling Centre The Spotlight 15 - 19th, 12.00 Gilded Balloon Teviot 13th - 25th, 16.00 Debbie Cannon Stevie Creed, Liam Rudden Green Knight The Brooklyn Scotsman Debbie Cannon Loose Endz Entertainment Hill Street Theatre 7th - 14th, 19.30 2nd - 25th, 19.30

John Casey Francisca da Silveira, Ansley Echols, Heimatmann Joanna Glum, Davey Goodwin 11:87 Theatre Company * Bar Bados Amy Rhianne Milton, 3rd - 24th, 16.15 Ahmad Musta’ain Bin Khamis, David Colvin Karolina Oleskiewicz, Morgan Powell Thunderstruck Pre-View The David Colvin Traverse Theatre Assembly Checkpoint 5th & 12th, 19.30 31st July - 26th Aug, 14.45

Susie Coreth Christine Devaney Ivory Wings And the Birds Did Sing Curious Seed Coreth Arts Assembly Rooms 2nd - 11th, 14.15 1st - 24th, 11.50

Isla Cowan Nathan Scott Dunn Daphne, or Hellfire 1902 Saltire Sky Theatre BoxedIn Theatre Wee Red Bar Pleasance Pop-Up: 2nd - 26th, 19.30 Dynamic Earth 2nd - 26th, 17.15 Nathan Scott Dunn Graham Eatough Candy Factory A theatrical response to Saltire Sky Theatre This is Memorial Device by David Keenan* Wee Red Bar Edinburgh International Book 2nd - 26th, 17.00 Festival The Cecile Durel 10th, 15.30 There is No Problem (Here) Rove St. Productions Catrin Evans theSpace on North Bridge Sugar 3rd - 24th, 17.35 Lip Theatre Company Sweet Novotel Kiki Dy, Megan Taylor, 14th - 24th, 19.45 Ian MacMenamin Rachel Flynn Toothbrush University of Aberdeen - Creative Being Liza Writing 2019 Interbang Productions * theSpace on North Bridge Just Festival @ St John’s 12th - 17th, 15.35 6th, 13th, 20th, 16.00

Taylor Dyson Bill Forsyth Ane City Gregory’s Girl Elfie Pickett and Assembly Captivate Theatre Assembly Roxy Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre 31st July - 26th Aug, 14.20 1st - 25th, 19.00

Sam Eastop Jill Franklin Atlantis Hindsight Broadsword Theatre Ltd Fox and Hound Theatre Greenside @ Infirmary Street Company 12th - 17th, 13.45 theSpace on North Bridge 2nd - 24th, 20.20 Martin Franssen, Rod Grant David Greig A Man’s A Man Dr Korczak’s Example Fair Pley/The Stand Comedy Strange Town Club Scottish Storytelling Centre The Stand’s New Town Theatre 21st - 25th, 12.00 1st - 25th, 13.20 A theatrical response to Richard Gadd Under Another Sky by Charlotte Higgins* Baby Reindeer Edinburgh International Book Francesca Moody Productions Festival Roundabout @ The Spiegeltent 31st July - 25th Aug, 18.25 17th, 13.45

Kevin P Gilday Ben Harrison Suffering from Scottishness The Brunch Club Kevin P Gilday Grid Iron, SDTN and Pleasance Assembly Roxy Theatre Trust 31st July - 26th Aug, 17.10 Pleasance Pop-Up: Levels 2nd - 24th, 20.15 Harry Josephine Giles Ryan Hay Drone Harry Josephine Giles, ** a crown of laurels Rob Jones, Neil Simpson, Wanton Theatre Company Jamie Wardrop Paradise in Augustines Summerhall 2nd - 10th, Times Vary 31st July - 17th Aug, 19.10 JD Henshaw David Greig subsist Being Norwegian Sweet Productions Entity Theatre e.V. Sweet Grassmarket Venue 13 21st - 25th, 16.30 3rd - 24th, Times Vary Stuart Hepburn Leyla Josephine Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Daddy Drag Window Leyla Josephine Summerhall Fair Pley/The Stand Comedy 31st July - 25th Aug, 17.45 Club The Stand’s New Town Theatre 19th - 25th, 15.40 Bibi June, Ross McFarlane, Ellen Renton, Shannon O’Neill, Kieran Hurley The 900 Club Looping: Scotland Overdub In the Works Scottish Dance Theatre Scottish Poetry Library Zoo Southside 20th - 24th, 18.15 19th - 24th, 22.30

Mouthpiece Jackie Kay Traverse Theatre Company Red Dust Road adapted by Tanika Gupta* Traverse Theatre National / 1st - 25th, Times Vary Home Kieran Hurley, Gary McNair 14th - 18th, Times Vary Square Go Mary Erin Kinch Francesca Moody Productions Roundabout @ Summerhall Miles Behind 31st July - 25th Aug, 21.15 Lip Theatre Company Sweet Novotel Melanie Jordan, Caitlin Skinner 2nd - 12th, 19.45 A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego Lewis Lauder Jordan & Skinner in association with The 27 Club Pleasance Dome Rebel Pigeon Productions and 31st July - 26th Aug, 16.00 New Celts Productions theSpace on the Mile 3rd - 23rd, 13.50 Lewis Lauder, Calum Ferguson Sally MacAlister Heir Heads She Can’t Half Talk Pretty Knickers Productions theSpace on North Bridge Bedlam Theatre 19th - 24th, 18.35 31st July, 1st, 17th - 25th Aug, 14.00 Tom Leonard’s translation of Brecht Classic Keir McAllister Mother Courage and Her Children * Madame George Gilded Balloon and Watch This Edinburgh International Book Space Productions Festival Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose Spark Theatre on George Street 31st July - 26th Aug, 13.00 14th, 20.45

Jenny Lindsay John McCann This Script Come Out From Among Them Ambergris Jenny Lindsay * Sweet Grassmarket Scottish Storytelling Centre 2nd - 25th, 13.00 4th - 11th, 16.00 DUPed Liz Lochhead Ambergris Tartuffe Sweet Grassmarket Ed Littlewood Productions in * 9th - 10th, 16.00 association with The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh Caitlin McEwan Assembly Rooms 1st - 25th, 17.00 Bible John Poor Michelle & the Pleasance Tartuffe Pleasance Courtyard 31st July - 26th Aug, 15.50 Leiththeatre Inverleith St Serf's Church Centre 3rd - 17th, Times Vary Erin McGee Eve Nicol Mooning First Woman Traverse Breakfast Plays Traverse Breakfast Plays Traverse Theatre Traverse Theatre 16th, 21st, 25th 9.00 14th, 18th, 23rd, 9.00 . Jen McGregor If You’re Feeling Sinister: Grave A Play with Songs Jen McGregor Avalon and BBC Arts in Scottish Poetry Library association with 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 18.15 Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose 31st July - 26th Aug, 15.45 . Linda McLean Nicola McCartney & Dritan Kastrati A theatrical response to * How Not to Drown Women Talking by Miriam Toews ThickSkin, Traverse Theatre* * Edinburgh International Book production with Tron Theatre and Festival Lawrence Batley Theatre The Spiegeltent Traverse Theatre 24th, 18.00 30th July - 25th Aug, Times Vary . Paul Matthews Mariem Omari Svetlana The Trojans Ed Littlewood Productions Trojan Women Project Assembly George Square Studios Pleasance @ EICC 31st July - 25th Aug, 22.35 7th, 16.30 . Mara Menzies Andy Paterson Blood and Gold 3000 Trees: The Death of Mara Menzies ** Mr William McRae Scottish Storytelling Centre Andy Paterson 1st - 26th, 14.00 Sweet Grassmarket 1st - 25th, 19.30 Andy Paterson Dyan Rizzo-Busack Westminster Hour Never None (but She) Andy Paterson Asterglow Theatre Sweet Novotel theSpaceTriplex 2nd - 25th, 14.45 2nd - 10th, 19th - 24th, Times Vary Westminster Hour Part 2 Andy Paterson Raymond Ross Sweet Novotel 2nd - 25th, 16.15 Burns for Brunch Theatre Objektiv Scottish Storytelling Centre Jessica Phillippi 1st - 26th, 11.30 Illegal Scandal Theatre and Riotbox Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Productions Road Theatre Objektiv 1st - 25th, 12.00 Scottish Storytelling Centre 2nd - 26th, 20.00 Frances Poet Uncensored Liam Rudden BBC Radio Thief Summerhall Edinburgh Little Theatre 21st, 18.00 Hill Street Theatre 2nd - 25th, 18.20 Grant Redmond Daffodils Stef Smith 1875 Theatre Collective Enough The Royal Scots Club Traverse Theatre Company 20th - 24th, 13.30 * Traverse Theatre 1st - 25th, Times Vary Robert Softley Gale Meghan Tyler Purposeless Movements Crocodile Fever Birds of Paradise Theatre * Traverse Theatre Company * Company / Robert Softley Gale in association with Lyric Theatre The Studio Traverse Theatre 19th - 24th, Times Vary 2nd - 25th, Times Vary . Diane Stewart Victoria J Valliere Work-Life Hello? Hello. Traverse Breakfast Plays Rove St. Productions Traverse Theatre theSpace on North Bridge 15th, 20th, 24th, 9.00 2nd - 23rd, 17.35 . Jane Sunderland Kate Walker The Lament of Dorothy Wordsworth Dog in the Manger Penpal Productions Plain Sight Theatre Paradise at the Vault artSpace@StMarks 12th - 25th, 10.30 5th - 24th, 12.30 . Dougal Thomson Cumbernauld Theatre Arrivals LipSync Twelve Twelve Theatre and Dramaturgy by Jenna Watt New Celt Productions Summerhall theSpace on the Mile 31st July - 17th Aug, 16.05 4th - 24th, 15.30 . Martin Travers Owen Whitelaw Annville with Heather Spears and Faking It * BBC Radio Martin Travers Summerhall Edinburgh International Book 23rd, 18.00 Festival The Spiegeltent 18th, 16.00 TalkFest 2019 Discussions Workshops Traverse Theatre, except * Fringe Central @

TalkFest in Discussion What is Your Truth? Ways and Means: theatre in 2019 Led by Mara Menzies and beyond 4 Aug, 11.00 Chaired by Douglas Maxwell and This event will be BSL interpreted Jenny Lindsay 12 Aug, 15.00 What’s the Big Idea? Led by TalkFest in Conversation 4 Aug, 15.00 Anatomy of a Play: How Not to Drown with Nicola McCartney and Dritan Kastrati Symposium Chaired by Professor Sharon Cowan Fringe Central @ Informatics 19 Aug, 11.00 Forum

The Business of Playwriting * Different Stages: Scotland’s New Chaired by Emma McKee Writing Symposium Fringe Central @ Appleton Tower Keynote by David Greig 17 Aug, 14.30 9 Aug, 15.00 The keynote speech will be BSL interpreted

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