Signed Performance Show Title: Bella Freak: Unwritten Dates: 04/08/17, 08/08/17, 12/08/17 Age Suitability: 14+ (Guideline) Venue: theSpace @ Surgeons Hall BSL Interpreter: Rachel Amey Theatre Three memoirs of disability. Three histories of a nation. The boy without superpowers. The girl who spoke to the dead. The man who broke chains. Unwritten collects the poignant, but often comical, true-life stories of three disabled individuals with wide-ranging impairments, placing them in cultural and historical contexts from the Act of Union to the 21st century as a fundamental part of Scotland's national story. Unwritten is produced by Disability History Scotland/Bella Freak with support from the HLF. The show is written and performed by Sasha Callaghan, David Nicol and Stuart Pyper. Directed by Sara-Jane McGeachy. Show Website: http://www.disabilityhistoryscotland.co.uk/bf-unwritten Signed Performance Show Title: Craig Hill: Someone's Gonna Get Kilt! Dates: 18th and 26th Aug Age Suitability: 16+ (Guideline) Venue: Venue150 @EICC BSL Interpreter: Catherine King Position of BSL Stage Right Comedy Interpreter: Flat-out hilarious... audience was in absolute paroxysms of laughter... he has a wide appeal and it is genuinely funny' ***** (Mirror). Weegie believe it? Scotland's kilted comedy treasure is back! ‘Class… Hill actually has to wait until the audience stops laughing before he can start again. It’s absolutely hilarious' (Edinburgh Evening News). 'Fantastic, laugh-out-loud-til-it- hurts comedy' (Fife Today). 'Irresistible!... High-octane attitude... His spur-of-the-minute stuff, when he shoots straight from his kilted hip, is priceless... laugh-out-loud performance from beginning to end... an hour with Hill makes for a cracking show... Hilarious!' **** (List). 'Riotously funny!’ (Independent). Show Website: MrCraigHill.com Signed Performance Show Title: Daniel Sloss: NOW Dates: 19th and 24th Aug Age Suitability: 16+ (Guideline) Venue: Venue150 @EICC BSL Interpreter: Catherine King Position of BSL Stage Left Comedy Interpreter: ‘Dazzling wit... Unstoppable!’ (Telegraph); ‘Deliciously dark stand-up’ **** (Mail on Sunday); ‘Funny, intelligent and charming’ **** (Evening News). New show from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish comedian. Star of Conan (a record seven appearances), he’s performed nine sell-out Edinburghs, two solo off-Broadway seasons, released a DVD, gave a TEDx Talk (aged 19) and tours extensively throughout UK, Australasia, USA and Europe. ‘Dirty, sweet and clever’ (New York Times); ‘Irreverent wit... devastating!’ (Advertiser); ‘Endearingly unabashed... hilarious... Intelligently and ironically calling out the hypocrisy of human nature’ **** (Herald Sun); ‘Sloss is a festival highlight. See him’ ****½ (Age, Australia). Show Website: danielsloss.com Signed Performance Show Title: Ed Byrne: Spoiler Alert Dates: 09, 16, 23 Aug Age Suitability: 16+ (Guideline) Venue: Assembly George Square Theatre Comedy I originally intended to call the show I’ll Millennial You in a Minute, but my promoter considered the title 'off-puttingly baffling'. That’s my own chainsaw in the photo, by the way. ‘Comedy’s Holy Grail’ (Sunday Times). Most recently seen on Dara and Ed’s Road To Mandalay and various Mock The Weeks, Ed has become a household name from his multiple BBC TV appearances. TV career aside, his live work has built up legions of fans. Ed remains the observational stand-up to see and his live work is not to be missed! Show Website: edbyrne.com/ Signed Performance Show Title: Frankie Boyle: Prometheus Volume I Dates: 22nd Aug Age Suitability: 16+ Venue: Venue150 @ EICC Comedy Frankie presents the first instalment of his eight volume Promethiad. If you liked his previous shows, but wished they contained different jokes said by someone with an older face, this is the show for you. Subjects ranging from the science of black holes to the history of Victorian exploration will be ignored entirely. Frankie knows that his only legacy is to have his books and DVDs form part of gasoline soaked warning pyres lit to alert the Last Ones that their foes the Crabmen have begun their final sideways march out of the sea. Show Website: https://www.frankieboyle.com/ Signed Performance Show Title: Frogman Dates: All Performances Age Suitability: 14+ (Guideline) Venue: Traverse at CodeBase Additional All shows are 80% BSL interpreted. If you Theatre Information: require a VR Headset with integrated BSL Interpretation you must make yourself known to company staff in advance. The Great Barrier Reef, 1995. Meera is 11. It's her first sleepover. Strawberry Dunkaroos, Sega Mega Drive and coral fragment analysis descends into torch-lit storytelling from sleeping bags. Lights off. In the corner, Meera’s aquarium is beginning to glow. Outside over the reef, the Frogman hovers, looking for traces of a missing child. As police search lights refract through the ocean, the annual coral bloom is due, creating an underwater snowstorm. Time is running out. A coming-of-age, supernatural thriller, this is a ground-breaking, world-first theatre experience, experienced in VR headsets from double Fringe First award-winners, curious directive. Show Website: http://www.curiousdirective.com/ Signed Performance Show Title: Is This a Dagger? The Story of MacBeth Dates: 11th Aug Age Suitability: PG (8 and older) Venue: Scottish Storytelling Centre Theatre Frankie presents the first instalment of his eight volume Promethiad. If you liked his previous shows, but wished they contained different jokes said by someone with an older face, this is the show for you. Subjects ranging from the science of black holes to the history of Victorian exploration will be ignored entirely. Frankie knows that his only legacy is to have his books and DVDs form part of gasoline soaked warning pyres lit to alert the Last Ones that their foes the Crabmen have begun their final sideways march out of the sea. Show Website: Signed Performance Show Title: Jimeoin: Ridiculous Dates: 19th and 25th Aug Age Suitability: 14+ (Guideline) Venue: Venue150 @EICC BSL Interpreter: Catherine King Position of BSL Stage Left Comedy Interpreter: ‘Hilarious... It gets no better than this... Brilliant!’ (Time Out); ‘Exhilarating… ridiculousness’ (Age, Australia); ‘Jimeoin recalls the familiar at a fantastically silly level, boiling his audience down to a tear-filled, gibbering mess’ (Scotland on Sunday). Brilliantly observed, ever-evolving stand-up from Mirth’s Multi Award-winning, internationally acclaimed star of Apollo, Royal Variety, Channel 4 Comedy Gala, Palladium. ‘Comic dynamo... has his victims doubled up in agonising laughter... Exemplary stand-up’ ***** (Herald). ‘Comedy of the highest order… Inspired ramblings!’ (Independent). ‘Classic nonsense... Stand-up comedy at its best’ (Scotsman). From the sublime to the 'Ridiculousness... Hilarious... Don’t you miss it!’ (Evening News). Show Website: http://www.jimeoin.com/ Signed Performance Show Title: Jimeoin: Even More Ridiculous! Dates: 25/08/17. Age Suitability: 14+ (Guideline) Venue: Venue150 @EICC BSL Interpreter: Catherine King Position of BSL Stage Left Comedy Interpreter: Extra shows – later, ruder, sillier and absolutely full-on. ‘Exhilarating... Ridiculousness’ (Age, Australia). Brilliantly observed, ever-evolving stand-up from award-winning, internationally acclaimed star of Apollo, Royal Variety, Channel 4 Comedy Gala, Palladium. ‘Hilarious... It gets no better than this... Brilliant!’ (Time Out). ‘Jimeoin recalls the familiar at a fantastically silly level, boiling his audience down to a tear-filled, gibbering mess’ (Scotland on Sunday). ‘Comic dynamo... has his victims doubled up in agonising laughter' (Herald). ‘Comedy of the highest order... Inspired!’ (Independent). ‘Classic nonsense... Stand-up comedy at its best’ (Scotsman). ‘Ridiculousness... Hilarious... Don’t you miss it!’ (Evening News). Show Website: http://www.jimeoin.com/ Signed Performance Show Title: Lady Macbeth: Unsex Me Here Dates: 4th - 27th Aug Age Suitability: 12+ Venue: Dance Base Dance Physical Theatre and Circus Top Five Must-See Dance Shows, 2017 (Guardian). From the Herald Angel Award-winning creator of five-star Fringe hit Nijinsky's Last Jump comes a powerful new piece of dance theatre exploring the ambition, power and remorse of one of Shakespeare's most complex women. Paralleling Shakespeare’s time, a talented cast of three male dancers all play Lady Macbeth, exploring the relationship between masculinity and femininity. This co-production with Solar Bear uses British Sign Language as an integral part of the choreography, creating a unique, visceral show for all audiences. ‘A triumph' **** (Herald). ‘Fascinating' **** (Scotsman). Show Website: www.chordelia.co.uk Signed Performance Show Title: The Last Queen of Scotland Dates: 8th & 22nd Aug Age Suitability: 12+ Venue: Underbelly Cowgate BSL Interpreter: Amy Cheskin Theatre 1972, Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of Ugandan-Asians under a 90-day deadline. From Uganda to Dundee, a woman grows up knowing nothing about her homeland, haunted by Amin's impact on her destiny. Returning to Uganda years later she confronts his ghost. This is one story from a community in exile that sheds light on a unique period of untold history. Performed to a live soundtrack (Patricia Panther, Glasgow Girls) through the street sounds of Dundonian dialect as a homage to Jaimini's city: the 'D'. Part of madeinscotlandshowcase.com. Show Website: http://www.stellarquines.com/ Signed Performance Show Title: Leaf by Niggle Dates: