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Role play
Producer Francesca Moody has shown a definite touch of fringe music (Fleabag and Reindeer baby among them). Her new collection, written by Australian Hannah Reilly, is about a female podcaster who becomes an online “slutfluencer” for easy money, but she has a price to pay.
Summerhall, 6-31 August
The fly
Andrew O’Hagan’s a novel is coming almost 1980s youth are treated to a special treatment by Edinburgh’s Grid Iron in the old ironworks that serve as Manchester’s stadium. Ben Harrison edits and directs.
Brown of Leith, 7-30 August
After the Party
Paines Plow’s Katie Posner directs Morna Young’s classic drama in which family secrets are revealed on the eve of the actress’ 80th birthday celebrations. Belgrade, Coventry.
Travel, 6-30 August
116 Grams: The Weight Loss Game
Letícia Rodrigues has put herself to the task of losing 116 grams in action as part of a negative review of the commercial. Part of this year’s São Paulo exhibition is about the pressure to conform to body image and the mental damage caused by fatphobia.
Southside Zoo, 7-30 August
Angels in America
Fulfilling the theme of the Edinburgh International Festival in the US, Tony Kushner’s story “Gay Fantasia on national themes” – five hours in total – was revived by Ivo van Hove at the International Theater Amsterdam. The director made this in 2008 and released the music of David Bowie.
King’s Theatre, 15-20 August
Cathy
Elaine C Smith of Two Doors Down and Rab C Nesbitt star as a sharp-tongued widow facing Christmas without her husband. Written and directed by Eilidh Loan, whose first play, the football comedy Moorcoftit was a very popular song.
Travel, 31 July-30 August
The Jolly Fisherman
Taking its name from a pub, John Dinneen’s drama is about two young people from east London who are drawn into politics. It stars Alex Hill, who shot the edge Why I Stopped Burning My Ass In Englandand Jonny Khan, from The Shitheads at the London Royal Court.
Down, 5-31 August
Prophets
Young Scottish playwright Jack MacGregor, who is passionate about politics, is setting his new play in a small part of Britain on the other side of the South Pacific where a cult is on the rise. The researcher arrives to find faith and power moving forward in mental entertainment.
Meeting Roxy, 5-31 August
A black box
In 1849, Henry “Box” Brown escaped slavery by entering a wooden box and sending himself to the abolitionist sanctuary in Philadelphia. Rickerby Hinds tells his story like magic, mixed with hip-hop and poetry.
Approximately, 5-30 August
Chloe and Natasha have a very high story: two actors at a low price, they arrived from New York in 2022 with artistic skills, only to finish with a cult group and the Fringe First award. One trilogy later, he’s back with a show of conspiracy theories and mischief.
Summerhall, 6-30 August
A singer
KT Tunstall provides music and lyrics for a piece of gig theater with a difference: it’s about a deaf person who “sings” with his hands and musical events with his body. The Cora Bissett show comes from his short film of the same name.
Travel, 4-30 August
Music of the Future
For just 10 minutes, you can believe you’re part of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, thanks to immersive glasses, spatial audio and 3D imaging. Ciaran Frame’s show invites you to play Beethoven’s Symphony No 7 on a fictitious instrument – regardless of musical ability.
Summerhall, 6-31 August
Rest Time
Zora Howard writes and directs this against racial violence in America. The actions of three black men while hanging in the air as if they were killed, is about the world’s history of human humiliation and the history that affects to this day.
Royal Lyceum, 20-23 August
Trials – After the Enemy of the People
Wagner Moura (Pablo Escobar in Narcos) stars in the sequel to Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, moved to present day Brazil where the judges must decide the fate of the narrator of the universe. Director Christiane Jatahy is back for good.
Royal Lyceum, 7-10 August
Captain
Last year, Adam Riches made the transition from standup to live theater with the smash-by-smash show of tennis star Jimmy Connors. Now, they are celebrating the success of Matthew Webb who, in 1875, was the first person to swim the English Channel. Riches is also sending reviewers The Opponent’s Method.
Summerhall, 6-31 August
Let’s imagine:
A Greek myth is the basis of Zinnie Harris’ new play in which, like the house of Atreus, a woman fights against a curse. If no one takes it seriously, his sense of what is true and what is false begins to fade in the production of music directed by the playwright.
Travel, 31 July-30 August
A stranger
Born and raised in Iran and now an asylum seeker in the US, Sohrab Haghverdi is betting his future on a sport that drinks his own urine. Success can mean getting a visa; failure risks offending the audience and earning a criminal record. Foriegner (intentional typo) is talking about immigration, history and politics.
Summerhall, 6-31 August
The Clown Show
Geoff Sobelle built the two-story house we see At home (2018) and turn the theater into a party hall Food (2023). Meanwhile, he finds a metaphor for modern America in a group of magicians trying to hold together a crumbling circus empire.
King’s Theatre, 27-30 August
What a surprise (The Neutral Milk Hotel Show)
In the Living Record Collection, an American cabaret artist Salty Brine Mashes-up classical albums and documentaries for a change. After performing Annie Lennox, the Smiths and Pink Floyd, they embark on a collision course between the pleasures of In the Airplane Over the Sea and Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl.
Summerhall, 6-30 August
Fuccbois: Live in Concert
It’s the end! The biggest boy band in the world is splitting up. Here’s your chance to see their latest drama and, in Bridie Connell’s comedy, you’ll also get a taste of modern dating culture. If pulling guys is your thing, check it out Man!fest.
Meeting in George Square, 5-31 August
