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.
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
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
Fire Exit presents international, multi-award-winning theatre that aims to innovate, illuminate and invigorate. The company was set up in 2002 by artistic director David Leddy, who writes and directs Fire Exit's shows. He has been described as a 'leading theatrical innovator' by The Times as well as a ‘maverick’ (Guardian), an ‘institution’ (Independent), a ‘genius’ (Scotsman), a ‘master’ (Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil) and a 'theatrical iconoclast' (The List). The shows combine the emotional drive of dramatic new writing with the intellectual stimulation of performance art and the dynamism of new technology.