Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down with Iain Mackechnie, guitarist of The Other. The Other is an extraordinary hour of music and images from a pool of 8 musicians and visual artist, Shatha Altowa, some who have an experience of forced displacement and migration, from Scotland, Chile, Iran, Brazil, Syria and Yemen.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlcohol disguised in plastic fizzy drink bottles, the yellow iPhone 5c and the sweet sounds of “Dynamite” by Taio Cruz - Tit(s) for Tat does a great job of bringing me back to my adolescence where the biggest concern I had was which top and jeans I was going to wear to whatever party was happening that night.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn Jewels, writer and performer Tanwen Stokes brings a fresh, fun, and lovingly irreverent story of mediaeval womanhood onto the stage.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBased on writer-performer Sam Ipema’s lived-experience of finding she had a brain aneurysm at the ageof 20, and ditching her scheduled life-saving surgery until after her All-American Spring Break, Dear Annie, I Hate You is a duologue between Sam and her aneurysm. Visualising her rare brain aneurysm as an unexpected ‘other’ from the subconscious voice inside her head, Sam Ipema’s dark comedy explores the struggles of processing such a diagnosis at an early age, when most people are still figuring out who they are and what they want to do with their lives. She meditates on the events that brought her to the present after deciding that the best thing to do before getting the surgery was to go out with a bang at Spring Break, but intrusive ‘Annie’ had other plans. This is a true story, not necessarily a smart one.
Reading Time: 3 minutesExploring existentialism, ego and unrequited love, Beyond Krapp is a dark comedy that follows Cormac, a dead man, as he overhears his own funeral from the void of purgatory. The writer and performer, Peter McCormick, was also recently named on the longlist for the David McLennan Award with A Play, A Pie, and A Pint, for which he is writing a new play about love and manipulation.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWritten and performed by BAFTA nominee Yolanda Mercy, Failure Project is a “Comedy drama... Or “dramedy” about Ade. Ade is a successful writer, or so it seems. She has everything she has ever wanted; her career is flying, she’s (kinda) moved out of her mums house, her situationship isn’t as complicated as she expected. Life is perfect?! But things don’t always go how you plan, and Ade is about to find that out?
Reading Time: 3 minutesDARKFIELD create innovative immersive 360 degree audio experiences at the forefront of technology and theatre.
Reading Time: 4 minutesFAMEHUNGRY is a helter-skelter nosedive into the TikTok universe and a grudge match with the attention economy.
Flipping the script on the mentor/mentee relationship, acclaimed UK performance artist Louise Orwin has enlisted Gen Z TikToker Jax Valentine (20yo, queer, 80k followers) to guide her (37yo, queer, 4k followers) through a brave new world of dance trends, 24 hour live-streaming, enforced face filters and endless monetizable content.
FAMEHUNGRY will be showing at Edinburgh Fringe from 1 - 26 August. Check it out here.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAcclaimed multi award winning poet Luke Wright is taking his brand new show Luke Wright: Joy! to the Edinburgh Fringe, performing every day at Pleasance Dome from 31 July to 13 August at 14.55.
Reading Time: 3 minutesGood Boy is a dark comedy drama following Boy in the throes of first love with his first, older boyfriend. Based on writer and actor James Farley’s own experiences this play explores the dangerous effects of misogyny within Gay Male relationships.