Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Dust gives suicide a caustic comedic treatment

Edinburgh Fringe
Dust written and performed by Millie Thomas comes to Edinburgh Festival.

  Dust a play by Millie Thomas that is a refreshing, caustic and comedic treatment of one woman’s depression, suicide and everything that happens afterwards comes to the Edinburgh Festival 2017. A woman. A suicide. A choice. A fly on the wall. A funeral. A Bakewell tart. A life. A lie. A truth. An ending. Of sorts. Alice thinks that life isn’t worth living. So she kills herself. Sort of. She is stuck, a fly on the wall. Forced to watch the aftermath of her suicide and its ripple effect on her family and friends, Alice quickly learns that death changes people. And that death is not the change she hoped for. Milly Thomas said “I’m fascinated by the way we eulogise people once they’ve died. The way we rewrite whole lives to suit our own narratives and the use of euphemism as a masking tool of the dead never … Read more

CBeebies hit Sarah and Duck heads to Edinburgh Festival 2017 in all new adventure

Edinburgh Fringe
Book tickets for CBeebie's hit Sarah and Duck at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017

The CBeebies hit animated series Sarah and Duck is headed to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer from 2 to 20 August 2017. Featuring a host of enchanting characters from the BAFTA Award-winning show, Sarah and Duck’s Big Top Adventure is a brand new adventure which had its premier ay London’s Polka Theatre. Sarah and Duck’s Big Top Adventure will take families and children on a magical theatre adventure as Sarah and Duck, along with all their favourite friends including The Ribbon Sisters, the Shallots, John and Flamingo and Umbrella, as they plan a circus-themed birthday party for Scarf Lady in their garden. Will Sarah and Duck be able to save the day when the weather turns nasty? Sarah and Duck’s Big Top Birthday will take children and families on a magical theatrical adventure through inventive puppetry, toe-tapping music and charming storytelling. Sarah & Duck’s Big Top Birthday features all the … Read more

#Instalove – The quest for love in game show format

Edinburgh Fringe
Writer performer Catherine Duquette will perform in #Instalove at the Edinburgh Fringe

Performed and written by Catherine Duquette, #Instalove is a joyful, electrifying, and at times stormy celebration of all the reasons we seek love – be they playful, pathetic, pragmatic or passionate. It also examines how identity is created through relationships transposing the search for love into a live game-like encounter; the audience votes to decide the outcome, so each performance is different. Duquette presents five different characters. Meet Clare (romantic), Kit (cynical), Cat (sensual), Kate (pragmatic), and Kris (dominant). They compete against each other for the audience’s affections – which will they want to date? In each series of dates, the audience eliminates their least favourite character. Gradually, Catherine’s characters are revealed to all be personas of the same woman. They share the same stories and previous relationships but emphasise different aspects of their lives and perceive their memories differently, taking distinct lessons from them. As the show progresses, the … Read more