2026

Overview

Recommended Age Guideline 14+

Award-winning Fringe favourites Grid Iron present the world premiere of Mayflies, a site-specific adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s best-selling novel. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend that defines your life. This tale of 80s youth and facing mortality in middle age is a joyous and heart-breaking elegy to the young people we still carry within us. With an epic soundtrack forged straight from the heart of the 80s, a former metalworks in Leith echoes the iconic venues of Manchester’s music scene, providing an ideal setting for this love letter to friendship, and a pledge: go at life differently.

 

Based on the novel by Andrew O’Hagan
Adapted and Directed by Ben Harrison
Assistant Director – Anna Whealing
Dramaturg – Douglas Maxwell
Soundtrack – David Paul Jones
Set & Costume – Jen McGinley
Lighting – Simon Wilkinson
Video – Lewis den Hertog
Movement Direction – Vicki Manderson
Supported by Creative Scotland

Brown's of Leith, Brown's of Leith, Shore, Leith, Edinburgh, UK view map
Aug 7-9 (preview)

16:00 Daily (95 mins) | £25.00 / £20.00 Concession

Aug 10, 12-17, 19-24, 26-30

16:00 Daily (95 mins) | £30.00 / £25.00 Concession

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Brown's of Leith

Brown's of Leith, Shore, Leith, Edinburgh, UK

  • Aug 7-9 (preview)
  • Aug 10, 12-17, 19-24, 26-30

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