The List last year won a Fringe First award as well as a Herald Angel during last years Fringe run. It is presented by Stellar Quines Theatre company, whose aim is to ‘celebrate the energy, experience and perspective of women’. The List stars Maureen Beattie who plays a woman struggling to adapt to rural life and feeling ‘increasingly isolated, she keeps life in order through obsessive list making’.

La Merda or “The Shit” can let the awards speak for themselves: Edinburgh Fringe Sell Out Show 2012, Fringe First Award 2012 for Writing Excellence and The Stage Award 2012 for Acting Excellence. La Merda is a show that promises to make an impact on it’s audience from the get go. Silva Gallerano dominates the stage while portraying a ‘‘young’, ‘ugly’ and literally naked woman [who] reveals her bulimic, revolting and public secrets as she struggles with obstinacy, resistance and courage for her own celebrity breakthrough in the society of Thighs and Liberty’.

If you missed these two knock out performances last year, we strongly recommend you add them to your must see list for Fringe 2013.

From ritualistic horror and challenging meta-theatre, to discussions about dissection and death, we’ve put together a programme that will unashamedly nudge audiences towards the point where the worlds of art and science collide. This excites me.

There is little better than a festival environment, where there is an atmosphere of carnival, camaraderie and risk, all conducive to people trying something new, to urge them to explore more artistically intense offerings. 

We’ve worked to lay these aspects on at Summerhall this August, with joyous concerts and great bar, cafe, and children’s areas for you to come, enjoy, and surprise yourself.

Rupert Thomson – Artistic Director, May 2013