Festival Guide l8

playwrightsstudio.co.uk This guide aims to provide listings of shows by playwrights, and occasionally other theatre-makers, based in or from . 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 or events can be booked through the Fringe Festival box office edfringe.com unless otherwise indicated.

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Visit our Bookshop & Information Point in the Traverse Bar, where, along with stocking an exciting range of plays and books about theatre, we will be celebrating 30 years of our Festival sponsor Nick Hern Books. Davey Anderson Alistair Beaton The Abode The Arsonists Pepperdine Scotland under | tow Underbelly Big Belly Greenside @ Infirmary St 2nd - 16th, 12.30 3rd - 11th, 12.50 Blackout Maddie Beautyman PQA Edinburgh PQA Venues @ Riddle’s Court Ah Dinnae Ken 3rd - 7th, 13.00 Student Theatre At theSpace @ Niddry Street 3rd - 18th, 16.15 Davey Anderson, Phillippe Ducros Linda McLean Alice Birch, Tanika Gupta First Snow (Première Neige) Linda McLean, Gary McNair National Theatre of Scotland, * Théâtre PàP & Hôtel-Motel James Tait Black Prize for Drama: Canada Hub @ Kings Hall Award Ceremony 1st - 26th, Times Vary The , Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland Peter Arnott and Traverse Theatre Janis Joplin: Full Tilt 20th, 16.00 Regular Music Assembly Rooms Ballroom 2nd - 26th, 19.45 Alan Bissett The Moira Monologues James Beagon Bissett/Kyle Productions Scottish Storytelling Centre Antigone na h'Éireann 1st - 11th, 18.30 Aulos Productions Paradise in the Vault More Moira Monologues 3rd - 26th, 18.00 Bissett/Kyle Productions Scottish Storytelling Centre 2nd - 11th, 20.00 Cora Bissett Apphia Campbell What Girls Are Made Of Woke Traverse Theatre Company * James Seabright & Traverse Theatre Play the Spotlight 3rd - 26th, Times Vary Teviot 20th - 27th, 18.45 Jess Brodie, Victoria Bianchi I’ll Have What She’s Having Andy Cannon Jess Brodie & Victoria Bianchi Is This a Dagger? Assembly George Square The Story of Macbeth 2nd - 27th, 12.15 Andy Cannon & Red Bridge Arts Scottish Storytelling Centre Morna Burdon 22nd - 26th, 12.30 Gie’s Peace Morna Burdon Pamela Carter Scottish Storytelling Centre The End of Eddy 17th - 19th, 24th & 25th, 13.00 Based on the book by Édouard Louis * Unicorn Theatre, Untitled Projects, Stephen Callaghan Stewart Laing, Pamela Carter Mungo: Legend of Glasgow’s Saint The Studio, Potterow AGAP Theatre 21st - 26th, 14.00 & 19.00 St Patrick’s Church 11th & 12th, 13.30 Glen Chandler Kids Play The Pew With a View Boys of the Empire Productions AGAP Theatre theSpace @ Niddry Street St Patrick’s Church 13th - 25th, Times Vary 9th - 11th, Times Vary Alice Mary Cooper Ewan Downie Waves Achilles Independent Arts Projects Company of Wolves Scottish Storytelling Centre 2nd - 15th, 11.00 3rd - 26th, 16.15

David Cosgrove Carol Ann Duffy In for a Penny Grimm Tales Gilded Balloon & Otago Theatre Crook and Ivy Gilded Balloon Teviot theSpace on the Mile 1st - 27th, 14.45 6th - 11th, 17.30

Stephanie Dale Nathan Dunn A World Beyond Man 1902 Tobermory Main Street Players Saltire Sky Productions Quaker Meeting House Wee Red Bar - Main Space 20th - 25th,14.30 3rd - 27th, Times Vary

Michael Daviot Jack Elliot Don Quixote Unbound Death is the New Porn Michael Daviot Blazing Hyena Sweet Grassmarket the Space @ Venue45 3rd - 26th, Times Vary 14th - 18th, 22.40

Phil Differ Oliver Emanuel Billy Bremner and Me The Lost Things Fair Pley / The Stand Comedy Tortoise in a Nutshell Club (Commissioned by Imaginate) The Stand’s New Town Theatre Pleasance at EICC 1st - 13th, 13.45 4th - 19th, Times Vary Oliver Emanuel David Greig, Gordon McIntyre After Fear Midsummer BBC National Theatre of Scotland* Summerhall and Edinburgh International 18th, 17.00 Festival The Hub Cathy Forde 2nd - 26th, Times Vary Adapting Fat Boy Swim Jim Harbourne Visible Fictions and Edinburgh* International Book Festival The Myth of a Singular Moment The Jim Harbourne 24th, 18.30 Summerhall 1st - 26th, 19.45 Annie George Twa David Harrower Annie George & Flore Gardner Ciara Scottish Storytelling Centre Coraghy Lines Productions 12th - 27th, 18.30 The Royal Scots Club The Hepburn Suite David Greig 8th - 18th, 15.30 Dr Korczack's Example Lauren Hendry Strange Town Theatre Company Just Festival @ St John’s Tetra-Decathlon 3rd - 11th, 19.15 Showroom Summerhall The Monster in the Hall 14th - 26th, 11.55 Capsize Collective and New Celts Productions Jules Horne theSpace on the Mile 4th - 24th, 12.50 Handfast Nutshell Theatre Summerhall 1st - 26th, 19.40 Kieran Hurley, Gary McNair Dougie Irvine, Cameron Hall Square Go The Hidden A Francesca Moody Production Visible Fictions and Edinburgh* Roundabout @ Summerhall International Book Festival 1st - 26th, 20.20 Central Library 13th - 25th, Times Vary Kieran Hurley Fucking Millennials Bryan Jackson, David Belcher Traverse Breakfast Plays The Pieman Cometh: Traverse Theatre A Cautionary Football Tale 15th, 18th, 22nd, 25th, 9.00 Gilded Balloon and Insolvent Productions David Ireland Rose Theatre Ulster American 1st - 26th, 14.30 Traverse Theatre Company Traverse Theatre Mark Jeary 28th July - 26th Aug, Times Vary Blackout New Room Theatre ** Mamoru Iriguchi Summerhall Eaten 1st - 26th, 16.20 Mamoru Iriguchi * Mark Jeary and Mariem Omari Scottish Storytelling Centre will be leading V for Verbatim, 2nd - 19th, 12.30 a TalkFest 2018 workshop Mamoru will be a panelist for Every Picture Tells a Story, Belle Jones a TalkFest 2018 discussion Closed Doors Novasound and Belle Jones Summerhall 1st - 26th, 19.45 Euan Kirkpatrick Natalie MacKinnon Yer Aul’ Da Lurker Bourbon at Breakfast Traverse Breakfast Plays The Royal Scots Club Traverse Theatre 2nd - 26th, Times Vary 16th, 19th, 23rd, 26th, 9.00

David Leddy Samara MacLaren Coriolanus Vanishes Ailsa Benson is Missing Fire Exit with * Samara MacLaren Traverse Theatre Assembly Rooms 2nd - 26th, Times Vary 2nd - 25th, 14.20

The Right Kind of Chaos Frances McCann, Claire McCracken Fire Exit and Edinburgh International Book Festival Project #1 via WhatsApp Wildfire 11th - 27th Traverse Theatre 20th, 20.00 James Ley John McCann Love Song to Lavender Menace in association with the ** DUPed Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh Ambergris Summerhall Sweet Grassmarket 1st - 26th, 12.55 3rd - 26th, 13.05 James will be a panelist for Martin McCormick The Business of Playwriting, a TalkFest 2018 discussion South Bend Grid Iron Theatre Company Gilded Balloon @ the Museum 1st - 27th, Times Vary Sarah MacGillivray Erica Mack, Felix Maxwell, Marie Madison Pollack, Derek Roland House of Mirth Assembly Rooms - Front Room Pre: View 2nd - 25th, 13.00 The University of Edinburgh & Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland Traverse Theatre Jen McGregor 6th, 13th, 19.30 Heaven Burns Assembly Roxy Downstairs Vincent Maguire TheSpaceTriplex Studio 2nd - 27th, 14.35 Dancing with Mrs Murphy Citadel Arts Group Dockers Club Linda McLean 13th - 16th, Times Vary A Theatrical Exploration of Signs Preceding the End of the World by * * Xana Marwick Yuri Herrera A Good Enough Girl? Edinburgh International Book Scene Change Productions Festival & Royal Lyceum Theatre Assembly George Square The Spiegeltent The Bubble 25th, 18.30 1st - 26th, 11.50 Linda will be a panelist for Ramesh Meyyappan Lost (and Found) in Translation, a TalkFest 2018 discussion Off Kilter Ramesh Meyyappan and* * Raw Material Arts Gary McNair After the Cuts 3rd - 26th, 15.30 Raw Material Arts & The Beacon Summerhall Ramesh will be leading 1st - 26th, 12.00 Hear Me, a TalkFest 2018 workshop Angela Milton, Jen McGregor Eve will be a panelist for Let Them Lead the Way, a The WW1 Wardrobe Project TalkFest 2018 discussion Immersive Response Greenside @ Nicholson Square 3rd - 25th, Times Vary Helen-Marie O’Malley InValid Voices Andy Moseley Helen-Marie O’Malley Army @ The Fringe A Beginners Guide to Populism 10th - 25th, 16.00 NoLogoProductions TheSpaceTriplex Studio 13th - 25th, Times Vary Andy Paterson 3000 Trees: The Death of Laurie Motherwell Mr William MacRae Old Enough Bedsit Cabaret Traverse Breakfast Plays * The Stand’s New Town Theatre Traverse Theatre 2nd - 26th, 12.10 14th, 17th, 21st, 24th, 9.00 Westminster Hour Laurie will be a panelist for Let Andy Paterson Them Lead the Way, a TalkFest Sweet Novotel 2018 discussion 3rd - 26th, 17.55

Ruaraidh Murray Stuart Paterson The Junkies Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke's Kingdom Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre (adaptation) 1st - 18th, 19.45 WildChild Productions * Pleasance Courtyard (Two) 10th - 26th, Times Vary Eve Nicol One Life Stand Middle Child * Roundabout @ Summerhall 1st - 26th, 21.45 Morna Pearson Thief Let’s Inherit the Earth Liam Rudden Dogstar Theatre Hill Street Theatre Pleasance Courtyard (Forth) 3rd - 26th, 19.20 10th - 26th, Times Vary James Scotland Raymond Raszkowski Ross Cambusdonald Royal Hamish Henderson: Edinburgh People’s Theatre Mayfield Salisbury Church On the Road to Radical 3rd - 18th, Times Vary Theatre Objektiv Scottish Storytelling Centre 12th - 27th, 20.00 Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir Hamlet (An Experience) Becca Robin Brite Theatre with Sweet Productions The Edge of You Sweet Novotel Off Kilter 2nd - 26th, 15.00 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn 3rd - 25th, 12.05 Donald Smith Tony Roper The Laird’s Big Breaxit The Steamie Netherbow Actors Co. * Scottish Storytelling Centre Leitheatre 2nd - 27th, 17.00 Inverleith St Serf's Church Centre 4th - 18th, Times Vary Robert Softley Gale Liam Rudden My Left/Right Foot - The Musical Birds of Paradise and * I Ran With the Gang National Theatre of Scotland Presented by Tommie Travers Assembly Roxy Le Monde 1st - 27th, 18.10 3rd - 24th, 19.00 Muriel Spark Mary Jane Wells Doctors of Philosophy heroine Edinburgh International Book * Scene Change Productions** Festival & Royal Lyceum Theatre Assembly Hall The Spiegeltent 2nd - 27th, 12.00 19th, 17.30 Mary Jane will be a panelist for Gentlemen, I just don’t belong Rebecca Sweeney here, a TalkFest 2018 discussion Squall Traverse Breakfast Plays Traverse Theatre Lesley Wilson 15th, 18th, 22nd, 25th, 9.00 Wired Army @ The Fringe * in association with Summerhall Julia Taudevin, Clare Duffy Summerhall Live Performance Piece inspired by 10th - 25th, 14.30 How to be Both by Ali Smith * Jasmine Main will be a Edinburgh International Book panelist for Let Them Lead the Festival Way, a TalkFest 2018 discussion The Spiegeltent 18th, 16.30 Claire Wood Jeremy Weller Skirt Where it Hurts EGTG The Royal Scots Club Grassmarket Projects 6th - 11th, 18.30 Summerhall 1st - 26th, 20.30 Morna Young [email protected] 0141 332 4403 Aye, Elvis Charity No: SC036767 Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre Basement 1st - 26th, 19.30