Tag: Summerhall
2019 Sit-up Award Won by ‘Who Cares’
The 2019 SIT-UP Award has been awarded to LUNG and The Lowry in partnership with Gaddum for its production Who Cares currently moving audiences at Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
'Who...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – One Two, One Two present ‘Everything I Do’.
Irish live performance company, 'One Two, One Two', is making its debut at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer with its award-winning theatre show 'Everything I Do'.
Based on personal material, 'Everything I Do',...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – PASSENGERS
Max wants to tell you a story. He’s not entirely sure why or even who he is. Is he savage, peacekeeper or critic… or all of these? He’s hoping you’ll be able to help....
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – Footnotes & Phrases
Lewys Holt brings two companion shows, performed on alternate days, to Summerhall’s Anatomy Theatre for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019.
Footnotes is a dance/ theatre comedic parody of a lecture driven off course bythe repeated intervention...
Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North)
Very funny, mostly true cabaret-style survival guide to an unbelievably mad life in Canada’s frozen north
Canadian born Jennifer Irons is an award-winning choreographer. She choreographed a number 1 hit single for Olly Murs and...
At Summerhall in September – Scotland’s first Kung Fu Film Festival
Summerhall launch Scotland’s first Kung Fu Film Festival
Summerhall announces Scotland’s first ever Kung Fu Film Festival - coming to the venue in September 2019. With a population of over 3,000 South-East Asian students at...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – Army@TheFringe
Army@TheFringe is returning for a third year with another programme of shows that explore life in and out of uniform.
This year’s productions embrace everything from opera and drama to queer theatre.
The themes include the...
369 Remembered at Summerhall – Living by the Tide
At Summerhall until this weekend there is a fascinating memorial exhibition.
Alan Watson comes from a long line of fishermen and seafarers. In the early 19th century, two of his whaler relatives perished when...
At Summerhall: Visible Girls: Revisited and Invisible Spaces*****
What makes a space invisible? Perhaps it is behind a door, on the other side of a wall, or even under the sea. Perhaps it is in plain sight, a place that is so...
The 369 Gallery – a glorious movement in Scotland’s cultural landscape
It was a remarkable movement in Scottish art which emerged in Edinburgh in the latter part of the last century. Now the 369 Gallery has sprung to life again with the first of two...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW : How to Keep Time: A Drum Solo for...
‘When we drum together it’s like we’re having a conversation through time….it doesn’t make much sense if there’s only one drummer.’
Antosh Wojcik’s grandfather has vascular dementia. When Antosh visits him in hospital, he tries...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW : A Fortunate Man***
What do we want when we visit a doctor? To be cured, but also – perhaps more importantly – to be listened to, to be understood. Throughout New Perspectives Theatre Company’s interesting ‘guided tour’...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – REVIEW – Baby Face****
‘Being told I have the fragile arms of a ten year old - I’d take that as a compliment.’
Women always want to look younger than they are, don’t they? Adverts, social media – everything...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – My Kind of Michael
Very funny exploration of the rise and fall of Nick Cassenbaum’s hero, Michael Barrymore
Ever since his Nanna Sylvie bought him ‘Barrymore’s Best Bites’ on VHS when he was seven, Nick has loved Michael Barrymore. Now, in...
Summerhall signs up to landmark hospitality charter with Unite
Europe's biggest private multi-arts complex signs landmark recognition agreement with Unite the union.
Unite the union and Summerhall have today agreed to a voluntary recognition agreement which will be the first of its kind in...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – BACKUP
Climate change takes centre stage at Summerhall as Belgian companies land on the North Pole.
The Focus Company and the Chaliwaté Company collaboratesfor the first time on BACKUP, a physical theatre performance hybrid exploring social...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Valerie
Valerie - To All The Women Who Hold On For The Ones They Love
Valerie reaches deep into the guts of families and their mythologies and also honours all the women, down the generations, who...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Army@TheFringe
Army@TheFringe returns to the world’s largest arts festival with an international line-up of shows that focus on diversity and mental health.
The venue, at the historic Hepburn House drill hall, is run by the Army...
Juniper Festival Returns to Edinburgh
Hailed as ‘the biggest celebration of all things gin’, the Juniper Festival will be in full flow at Edinburgh’s Summerhall from 1st-3rd June. This will be the fifth consecutive year the festival will be...
At Summerhall – Satellite
This summer from 26 May to 13 July 2018 a display of work from both emerging and established artists will be hosted at Summerhall.
The Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) Graduate Showcase celebrates the best work...
Bio Artists at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
Summerhall hosts Bio Art Exhibition 'Synthetica'
A special contemporary art exhibition co-curated by Edinburgh International Science Festival, Summerhall and ASCUS Art & Science, 'Synthetica' will showcase the work of established international artists working in the...
Pick up a Pickering’s gin bauble while you can
Last Christmas the 30,000 gin baubles which Pickering's Gin harvested were simply not enough to meet demand. 30,000 sold out in 82 seconds.
This year they have managed to collect 1,000,002 baubles by hiring more...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Binge Culture
Performance alchemists Binge Culture are a New Zealand based group of artists who are working to renew theatre for the information age by giving spectators real stakes in their experiences.
What if you could step...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Power Ballad
After her inaugural visit and a highly successful presentation of If There’s Not Dancing at the Revolution, I’m Not Coming at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Julia Croft is returning to Summerhall for the 2017 Fringe with...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017- All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Aspirational in entitlement and ambition an award-winning theatre company from Hull is preparing to bring the end of the world to Edinburgh Fringe in August with an unmissable piece of gig theatre.
Written by Luke...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Crossing Place – Romantika
“Three strangers meet in the middle of nowhere, in a Crossing Place far from the communications network of civilisation. In their meeting, the last untouched space is tarnished forever”.
The first ever English-speaking production, based on...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – A MACHINE THEY’RE SECRETLY BUILDING
Part of the 20th Anniversary British Council Showcase
Proto-type Theater speak up, speak out, and blow the whistle on global surveillance in A MACHINE THEY’RE SECRETLY BUILDING at Summerhall this August – part of the 20th Anniversary...
At Summerhall – Grow Wild!
Young artists each with a budget of £500 have created artworks which will highlight the importance of wild flowers and plants in the Youth Takeover exhibition which begins tomorrow at Summerhall.
There will be poetry,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Preview: Jonny & The Baptists: Best of 2012-2017
The musical comedy stars celebrate five years of silly songs and satirical anthems for one week only at the Edinburgh Fringe
Multi-award-nominated, nationally acclaimed musical comedians JONNY & THE BAPTISTS are thrilled to announce THE...
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