Fire Exit / David Leddy

Long Live The Little Knife, Fire Exit/David Leddy

Long Live The Little Knife is a fast-paced, absurd and uplifting theatre piece about forgery, castration and blind drunkenness.

Multi-award-winning ‘theatrical maverick’ (Sunday Times), ‘site-specific genius’ (Scotsman) and ‘Fringe institution’ (Independent) David Leddy presents this dynamic, uplifting escapade about art forgery, castration and blind drunkenness.

Liz and Jim are small-time con artists who need £250,000 fast. They decide to become the world’s greatest counterfeiters. There’s only one problem. They can’t paint.

This boisterous caper finds the absurd connections between verbatim theatre, free-market economics and a castrated labradoodle in a classic Chanel clutch bag.

Developed with support from Royal Shakespeare Company and British Museum.

City of the Blind, Fire Exit / David Leddy

Epic political thriller available anywhere via smartphone or tablet. Imagine a downloaded book that comes alive with audio, photos and video.

Emotionally complex and intellectually provocative drama from multi-award-winning writer/director David Leddy, ‘maverick’ (Guardian), ‘genius’ (Scotsman), ‘leading innovator’ (Times). Follow U.N. investigator and whistleblower Cassie Al-Khatib caught in a web of surveillance, violence, and counter-intelligence. Throughout six thirty-minute chapters you access secret files to hear Cassie’s voicemail, intercept emails, and watch CCTV. Based on research into shocking real-life abuse committed by UN peacekeepers.

Warning: Sexual violence.

Double-billed with live show Horizontal Collaboration.

“ Theatrical maverick” with “a propensity for fearless experiment.” - Financial Times

“ Star Scottish playwright David Leddy.” - Metro

Horizontal Collaboration, Fire Exit / David Leddy

Performed daily by four new actors, always reading blind. Intense drama where sex, power and politics meet emotion, seduction and destruction.

From multi-award-winning writer/director David Leddy, ‘leading theatrical innovator’ (Times), ‘genius’ (Scotsman), ‘Fringe institution’ (Independent). Four lamps, four laptops. Four U.N. lawyers present explosive tribunal transcripts from Judith K, an African warlord’s wife. After her husband’s assassination, Judith becomes leader. She takes her people on a treacherous path towards peace… or does she? Lawyers turn down lamps one by one, then laptops, until we’re all left in darkness.

Warning: Sexual violence.

Double-billed with downloaded drama City of the Blind

Presented with Portuguese and Spanish surtitles.

"Scotland's leading theatrical innovator"  Times

“Edinburgh Fringe institution.”  Independent