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.
Bethany Reid, Jenna Reid, Sarah-Jane Summers and Lauren MacColl, using just their fiddles, weave a tapestry of melodies, textures, colours and harmony.
Join Snigel (Leading UK disabled dancer Caroline Bowditch, Falling in Love with Frida), the inquisitive snail, in their cozy home underneath the leafy canopy; a colourful and sensory world where Snigel’s insect friends - brought to life by dancers, Welly O’Brien, Alex McCabe and performer and musician Zac Scott - come to visit. They dance, play, sing and make music in the undergrowth while uncovering secret treasures. An inviting new work for children aged 0 – 12 months and their adult.
An award-winning Scottish musician’s solo quest to heal cultural wounds. A homecoming in viola, voice, movement, animation and storytelling. From London’s classical Guildhall training, to love and danger in Mexico, discovering step-dancing in Cape Breton, Campbell “becomes a bold chameleon in her own back-story, switching characters as she goes… On a stage bare but for a rough-hewn pendulum – its flat stone culled from her family’s croft – Campbell opens her throat in a spirit of belonging that is ancient and modern, and life affirming for all of us.” Mary Brennan, Herald ****. Co-devised and directed by Kath Burlinson.
We meet a young girl who is missing her Grandad – he has gone, even though his favourite job was being her Grandad. Led by found objects and her imagination, she traces his footsteps on a magical adventure through time and space.
A luscious-looking and tremendously moving show from the new Glasgow-based company The Letter J”
****Scotman
…gorgeously detailed and nostalgic set, wonderful live music and beautifully simple projected animation.
****Herald
****Edinburgh Guide
****The Times