www.thespaceuk.com Welcome to our 2019 Festival WELCOME to our 25th Edinburgh 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 Royal Mile 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 Contents theSpace @ theSpace theSpace @ Venue 45 on the Mile Symposium Hall (V45) PAGE 2 (V39) PAGE 8 (V43) PAGE 18 theSpace @ theSpace @ theSpace Triplex Surgeons’ Hall Niddry Street (V53) PAGE24 (V9) PAGE 45 (V38) PAGE 55 theSpace on Venue Information PAGE 71 North Bridge Show Timetable FROM PAGE 72 (V36) PAGE 61 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 2 2019 Programme 2019 Programme 3 theSpace @ Venue 45 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 HAMLET 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 unapologetic dark comedy personalities who is transformed means of her late sister's that illustrates the power of from a green snake.