Building on last year’s multi award winning programme Summerhall is full of surprises this Festival. From cutting edge art to extraordinary, risk taking theatre, dance and performance. There’s plenty to do and see. Or simply soak up Edinburgh’s unique Festival atmosphere in our bars and café. We look forward to seeing you!
"Do you count yourself among the contented or the afflicted?"
An exploration of Cervantes’ novel, combining incredible visual imagery, anarchic performance and original music. The title role will be played by a secret guest performer, unique to each date.
The Council of Handmade Crap blurs the lines between gesture, voice, text and design to create dreamlike machinery, immersing the audience in a journey through the tragic love story of Edgar and Elizabeth. The Portrait Firm allows the audience to witness sparks fly and emotions soar as the life of Polish artist,
Stanislaw Witkiewicz, becomes a multidimensional fantasy, constantly questioning the artist and his art. Witness crap transform into beauty in this mesmerising promenade performance where the audience are guided through a mysterious world of terror by characters trapped in their own illusion.
Old time vaudevillian, tap dancer and acrobat, Sid Lester helped make variety great and now he wants one last shot. He is resentfully assisted by his daughter Valerie, eager to launch a new career as singer/impressionist and leave her job as a taxicab controller behind. Sid’s performance style is influenced by his old chums Tadeusz Kantor and Tommy Cooper; Valerie’s by Shirley Bassey. Together they attempt to entertain with balloons, a raffle, talking birds, toffees, some singing, jokes, a shuffle step hop, guest spots and interactive games.
A reconnaissance mission into the no man’s land where death borders with storytelling. From Presbyterian silence to the colour of the Día de Muertos, Story’s End surveys the gamut of death, and the tales we tell about it. Live music, film and spoken word brought together by folk noir pioneers The Dead Man’s Waltz, alongside a host of award-winning collaborators.
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