JUST THESE PLEASE: SUITABLE PIZZA SHOP HEROES SHIVER Just These Please Phosphoros Theatre Polly Waldron Gilded Balloon Teviot (Venue 14) Summerhall (Venue 26) theSpace on the Mile (Venue 39) 31 July, 1-11, 13-26 August, 12.15pm 3-11 August, 5.40pm 12-17, 19-24 August, 2.10pm You may be one of the 22 million people who watched their Dynamic, political theatre starring four refugee young Set in late Edwardian London, viral online sketch When You Order Coffee With An Irish Name, men who came to the UK on their own as children from this action packed one-woman or perhaps you caught their five-star Fringe debut in 2018. Afghanistan, Eritrea and Albania. Having told their stories monologue sees ambitiously Just These Please are back with 25 fresh new sketches repeatedly in the asylum system they are now reclaiming independent Alice forced into and will knock your socks them. A unique exploration of masculinity and forced domestic service. Her employers off. Then neatly fold them. migration. Powerful, funny, resistant, revealing. have strange habits and even stranger friends. As war explodes across the sea, rebels rise and Alice’s ambitions are thrown off course. With everything spiralling NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS out of control, the strength of her TESS Spare Tyre will is put to the test… Ondervinden Zoo Playground (Venue 186) theSpace@Surgeons Hall (Venue 53) 13-17, 19-24 August, 3.15pm 2-10, 12-17 August, 10.40pm Part mythical, part real, four characters emerge from darkness Told by an all-female cast and a live folk band, old West defining their own sense of sexuality and identity. Combining Country traditions meet a jolt of contemporary feminism in mythological with grotesque, funny with provocative, NIGHTS a production that breaks the bounds of Hardy’s original text. AT THE CIRCUS is a provocative performance created by award- This new production turns its eyes on both 2019 and 1890 winning learning disabled and non-disabled artists, which with equal scrutiny, asking how far we have truly come. enthrals and disrupts and tests the limits. Central AT NOT QUITE RICKY RIDDLEGANG AND THE SMOKE Thick ‘n’ Fast RIDDLE GANG Bound By Theatre Gilded Balloon Patter Peracals Productions ZOO Playground (Venue 186) the fringe 2019 2-26 August, 1.35pm Hoose (Venue 24) Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre (Venue 76) 31 July, 1-12, 14-26 31 July, 1-14, 16-25 August, 3.15pm John meets Julie at a kink-play party in New York City. The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is August, 1.30pm Join hip teen detective Ricky Riddlegang and his trusty She’s an aspiring college dropout living in the shadow of a world-leading conservatoire at the forefront of A fast-paced comedy Riddle Gang as they solve the mystery of the haunted manor her famous artist parents; he’s her father’s intern. The two training and research in the Dramatic Arts. Each exploring the interview and put the perpetrator to death. Spectres, suspects and instantly connect and, with sex an open question, tensions year our alumni, students and staff take a wide process and the struggle shenanigans abound as the Gang delve into an enigma run high as Julie and John teeter between pain and play. range of shows to Edinburgh, and included in this to prove one’s worth. that threatens to devour them all… but which previously publication is just a small selection of those that will Eager to impress, two introduced character could the culprit actually be? be there for you to enjoy this year. naïve young hopefuls are LOVE (WATCHING MADNESS) intent on making a good These shows include involvement from our SpeakUp Theatre in association with The Actors Centre first impression.NOT community in a variety of different roles, both on QUITE follows their trials TRYING IT ON Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) Warwick Arts Centre and China Plate stage and off, and we’re very proud to share and and tribulations through 31 July, 1-17, 19-26 August, 11.35am Traverse Theatre (Venue 15) promote their work. We’re also pleased once again the dreaded interview and ‘My mum threw a trifle at my best friend and that’s when to be hosting our annual Central Party in Edinburgh the seemingly impossible 3-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25 August, times vary I first thought something was probably wrong.’ A mother. in celebration of the festival. If you’re a Central feat of cracking the job It’s 1968, the height of the worldwide student revolt. A daughter. An hour. A bond. Questions. Answers. Trifle. graduate, student, or member of staff, we’d be market. David is 20. The Vietnam War rages. Martin Luther King delighted to see you at this event – please contact Tides. Refresh. Restore. Release. Critically acclaimed is assassinated. These events will define David’s politics, [email protected] for full details. SpeakUp Theatre present a searingly honest and personal his writing and his life. 50 years on, in his professional one-woman show investigating the complexities of loving performing debut, David is confronted by his 20 year-old someone with mental illness. self. Do they still share the same beliefs? MOUTHPIECE OH YES OH NO R’n’J: THE SOCIALLY AWKWARD PENGUIN WANNABE: THE SPICE GIRLS SHOW Traverse Theatre Company Louise Orwin UNTOLD STORY OF Emmy Fyles Red Entertainment Traverse Theatre (Venue 15) Summerhall (Venue 26) SHAKESPEARE’S Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys (Venue 289) Assembly Rooms (Venue 20) 1-4, 6-11, 13-25 August, times vary 31 July, 2-11, 13-18, 20-25 1-18, 20-25 August, 2.45pm 1-11, 13-18, 20-25 August, 10.35pm August, 7.20pm ROZ AND JULES After a critically acclaimed London run, this hit about class, Do you need help navigating awkward social situations? STOP right now! Stolen Cactus culture and appropriation returns. Salisbury Crags. Twilight. This is about having sexual Ever wished there was a guide to It’s time to Spice Up Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose A woman takes a step forward into the air. A teenage boy fantasies that don’t align help you navigate your way Your Life and party (Venue 24) pulls her back. Two lives are changed forever. MOUTHPIECE with your politics. About through life’s trickier like its 1996. understanding what you 31 July, 1-12, 14-26 interactions? Do you asks whether it’s possible to tell someone else’s story without Relive the 90s want and wondering how August, 12.45pm want a penguin? exploiting them along the way. through the hits to ask for it. Award-winning Juliet is double pregnant, This show guarantees at of the Spice Girls performance artist Louise Rosaline decides she does least one of these things. on this Spice World Orwin asks the difficult indeed want Romeo dick, ‘Clever, original writing. journey; all you have to questions, taking you on but Romeo is definitely dead. One to watch!’ do is ‘Say You’ll Be There.’ a surreal joyride through Join Roz and Jules on an ★★★★ Funny Women female sexuality and epic Thelma and Louise- violence. style multimedia Best Shows of the tragicomedy adventure Fringe 2018 (The Guardian) ★★★★ The Stage in clearing their good names, healing age-old family strife and safely delivering those babies! MY MUM’S A TWAT ON THE OTHER HAND, WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF Anoushka Warden Raw Material and Traverse Theatre in association WE’RE HAPPY with Regular Music Summerhall (Venue 26) Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd 31 July, 2-11, 13-18, 20-25 August, 5.30pm Assembly Hall (Venue 35) ROUNDABOUT @Summerhall 1-6, 8-11, 13-18, 20-25 August, 2.30pm ‘My mum wasn’t always a twat. But some (Venue 26) time after I turned 10, everything changed. 31 July, 1-2, 4-5, 7-10, 12, 14-16, The true story of Cora Bissett’s journey from 90s indie-kid to wised-up woman. Touring with Radiohead, partying She stopped taking me shopping. 18-19, 21-24 August, times vary @CSSDLondon #CSSDEdinburgh with Blur; she was living the dream. She regularly forgot my birthday. A single dad meets his adopted Until she wasn’t... Performing with For a full list of Edinburgh shows featuring our alumni, And she thought she daughter for the first time. Then a live band, Cora celebrates life’s students and staff see www.cssd.ac.uk/content/ could heal people.’ he agrees to meet her birth euphoric highs and epic lows, asking central-edinburgh-2019 Anoushka Warden mother. When their two worlds what wisdom we should pass to the performs her funny collide, will what they have in next generation and which and honest account common outweigh their glorious mistakes we should STUDY AT CENTRAL of losing her mum differences? Three lives ROUGE SUPERSTAR to a cult. Highwire Entertainment Nicola Wren and Something for the Weekend let them make. Central offers an extensive portfolio of undergraduate will be changed forever Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows (Venue 360) Underbelly, Cowgate (Venue 61) and postgraduate degrees, as well as short courses in this tender, funny, 3-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-24 August, times vary and Saturday Youth Theatre. Information can be found hopeful play about being 1-11, 13-25 August, 5.30pm on the website www.cssd.ac.uk. a mum when your name A decadent blend of sensational acrobatics, operatic The hilarious true story of Nicola’s journey from is Dad. cabaret and tongue in cheek burlesque, Rouge is circus incessantly seeking her siblings’ approval, to searching for This leaflet was printed in advance of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and for grown-ups.