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Tag: performance
So you think you’re funny?
Leith to host monthly new comedy night
GILDED Balloon’s comedy newcomer competition, So You Think You’re Funny?, is back in 2017. Continue reading So you think you’re funny?
Disability History Scotland secures Lottery support for Fringe shows
Leith-based Disability History Scotland (DHS) has received a grant of £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to support Unwritten, a live show written and performed by disabled artists, to premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.
Continue reading Disability History Scotland secures Lottery support for Fringe shows
Sarah impresses Broadway stars with Big Apple performance
A talented young performer from North Edinburgh has been inspired to follow her dreams after meeting and performing for two of Broadway’s biggest stars in New York City. Continue reading Sarah impresses Broadway stars with Big Apple performance
Edinburgh Music Theatre seeks new talent for Fiddler on the Roof
Local theatre company Edinburgh Music Theatre is looking for talented singers, actors and dancers to become the residents of Anatevka, the small Russian village at the heart of the much loved musical Fiddler on the Roof.
Continue reading Edinburgh Music Theatre seeks new talent for Fiddler on the Roof
Edinburgh folk get their city back!
Fireworks concert brings record-breaking Festival to a close
After 50,266 performances of 3,269 shows in 294 venues across Edinburgh, the final curtain has fallen on the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe – and it’s been yet another record-breaking year for the luvvies …
Continue reading Edinburgh folk get their city back!
Mind Bending Painting Live on Stage With Chris Dugdale!
With his 14th Royal Performance recently under his belt, there is nowhere Chris Dugdale prefers performing than Edinburgh!
In this year’s show you will see an unusual painting that plays games with the mind, a signed card penetrate a sealed bottle of wine, a hypnotic rubik’s cube and real genuine mind control…
Chris Dugdale
Full Circle
Assembly George Square – 16:10
Suitable 10+
Out of the Blue at Forest Fringe
Out of the Blue at Forest Fringe
The Forest Fringe grew from a totally independent, not-for-profit space in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival …
Out of the Blue grew from a totally independent, not-for-profit space in the midst of Edinburgh – all year round …
Now Out of the Blue and the Forest Fringe are engaged in a merging of space, ideas and productions at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall as part of as an ever audacious programme of experimentation and adventure which makes exciting, improbable, spectacular things happen.
Out of the Blue’s contribution of home grown Leith talent is wide ranging.
Tales from the Hanging Captain
Sat 13th & Sun 14th August
An exuberant theatre production – made in Leith for the people of Leith – and beyond! Having previewed as part of this year’s Leith Festival the company regroup to get their stories out to the wider world.
As locals gather in the fictional Leith bar ‘The Hanging Captain’, auld Sandy takes the audience on a voyage through time and shares the stories of the Dockers involvement in the whaling industry, the ‘Darien Scheme’ and the strikes of 1913.
As Joyce Mcmillan has said: “if ever there was a town full of stories, that knew how to persevere in telling them, it’s the venerable, beautiful and unpredictable Port of Leith.”
And who better to perform the riveting stories than two of Out of the Blue’s all year round resident theatre companies, Active Inquiry and Strange Town.
Joyce McMillan said in her 2015 review of the companies’ “Persevere” production: “difficult not to be moved and shaken by the profound sense of place, time and continuity conjured up by this fine 24-strong community company” (June 2015)
Local people involved in the production also commented:
“It was a great experience to be part of a project which engaged with the history of our local area, whilst simultaneously engaging with the community that lives here now”
Chains on sink plugs
Thu 18 & Fri 19th August, 12pm
David Nicol is a long time participant at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall who is a poet and actor, musician and painter.
Chains on sink plugs is his first solo show.
Chains on sink plugs is a personal journey explore what it like being in a wheelchair from the 1970s to 21st century. What it’s like being on wheels instead of legs. And gives people a glimpse of a world many don’t know exists.
#artcore radio plays
DEAD ENDS
Fri 12th – Fri 19th August
“DEAD ENDS” is a new radio drama serial created for and performed by 18-25 year olds, which is launching as part of this year’s Forest Fringe based at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall. It features a realistic story about a group of young people who work in a fictitious historical/ghost tour company in Edinburgh. They are poorly trained, badly paid. Some of them care about their work and others do not . . .
The current series consists of eight episodes, released at midnight each day of the run.
To find out more, to listen to the latest episode, or to subscribe to the podcast via iTunes once it goes live on Friday 12th August, visit; www.deadendtours.co.uk
“DEAD ENDS” is produced by Strange Town for #artcore
The youth arts project, #artcore is based at Out of the Blue, and is one of nine youth arts hubs in Scotland, funded by Creative Scotland’s Time to Shine Fund
www.artcore.org.uk www.strangetown.org.uk
Listing Information
All performances are at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 36 Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh, EH6 8RG
Performance dates and times
Forest Fringe: Thu 11th – Sat 20th Aug
Tales from the Hanging Captain: Sat 13th & Sun 14th August, 1pm
Chains on sink plugs: Thu 18 & Fri 19th August, 12pm
#artcore radio plays DEAD ENDS: Fri 12th – Fri 19th August
Tickets
All tickets are free by donation
To book tickets, please visit http://www.outoftheblue.org.
Don’t miss Granton Gogglebox!
You Name It! Youth Theatre present Granton Gogglebox at Granton Youth Centre tonight at 7pm.
It’s the final performance, there are a few tickets left – it’s a great show and it’s FREE!
Book your seats by emailing wendy@grantonyouth.com or by calling Granton Youth Centre on 0131 467 5854.
Don’t Miss It!
Leaf by Niggle: Tolkein at Storytelling Centre
PUPPET STATE THEATRE COMPANY presents
JRR Tolkien’s Leaf by Niggle
At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 and part of the Made in Scotland Showcase 2016
Scottish Storytelling Centre, Venue 30a
Aug 4 Preview 17:00; Aug 5-28 (not 10, 15, 22, 23) 17:00 (75mins)
Aug 17 17:00 BSL interpreted performance
Performed by Richard Medrington
Soundtrack composed by Karine Polwart and Michael John McCarthy
Directed by Andy Cannon; Lighting by Gerron Stewart; Design Support by Ailie Cohen; Movement support by Janice Parker; Stage Management by Elspeth Murray
Puppet State Theatre Company returns to the Scottish Storytelling Centre for this year’s Festival Fringe, as part of Made in Scotland, with its acclaimed new production of JRR Tolkien’s little-known short story, Leaf by Niggle.
“Exquisite … so beautifully told … completely seductive” ****The Scotsman
This solo storytelling show, created and performed by Richard Medrington, draws on Richard’s personal family history as an introduction to Tolkien’s original story. Surrounded by ladders, bicycles and heirlooms, Richard Medrington (Jean from The Man Who Planted Trees) recounts Tolkien’s miniature masterpiece with a beautiful soundtrack composed by Karine Polwart and Michael John McCarthy.
“Tolkien’s lord of small things…enchanting one-man show” ****The Guardian
Leaf by Niggle is considered by some to be Tolkien’s most autobiographical work, springing from his fear of not finishing The Lord of the Rings. In 1939, as war clouds were darkening, he woke up one morning with the story almost complete in his mind and wrote it down.
Niggle is a struggling artist who is trying to complete his magnum opus, a painting of a curious tree. He isn’t sure when he will need to set out on his journey, but he is worried that he won’t be able to finish the painting before it’s time to leave.
Leaf by Niggle is often seen as an allegory of Tolkien’s own creative process, and, to an extent, of his life. It is a tale of transformation, which examines the relationship between an artist, his creation and his community.
Richard Medrington is the artistic director of Puppet State Theatre Company and for the past nine years the company has been touring the world with its much lauded production of Jean Giono’s The Man Who Planted Trees.
This new adaptation of Leaf by Niggle is a reflection of Richard’s long held ambition to perform a staged version of the story. In 1993, Richard gave an acclaimed one-off storytelling performance of the piece at the Carberry Festival and has nurtured hopes of performing it to a wider audience ever since.
“a salve on the soul” **** The List
“As a result of appearing in the very first Made in Scotland showcase in 2009 with The Man Who Planted Trees, Puppet State’s international touring has included two tours to Australia and New Zealand. In 2013 we took part in the Sydney Opera House’s first live stream of a performance to multiple remote audiences, some over 700 miles away. I am looking forward to performing our new show, Leaf by Niggle, in this year’s Made in Scotland showcase and seeing where this unique opportunity will lead us.” Richard Medrington
“This is my first ever commission to compose for theatre and it’s a challenge and a joy to collaborate with such an accomplished creative posse. Niggle’s journey, and Richard Medrington’s beautifully personal and familial framing of it, feels quite close to the bone for me, and very relevant to our times. There are so many possible ways to receive it and get inside of it, as there are always with deep stories. But to me it’s about the fundamental human impulse to create and find meaning and beauty in life, and how duty, convention and the sheer necessity of toil can cut against this. The gap between the world as we imagine it and the world as it sometimes is – in all its reductive, mechanistic brutality – can be hard to hold in a single heart. But Niggle’s story feels hopeful nonetheless”. Karine Polwart
With thanks to the Tolkien Trust and the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Supported by Creative Scotland | Produced by Alice McGrath & Red Bridge Arts
Suitable for adults and young people aged 10 and over
LISTINGS:
Scottish Storytelling Centre Venue 30a
Aug 4 Preview 17:00 (75 mins) | £6
Aug 5-28 (not 10, 15, 22, 23) 17:00 (75 mins) | £10/£8 conc. /£32 Family (2 adults, 2 children)
Aug 17 17:00 (75 mins) BSL interpreted performance
Box Office: 0131 556 9579 www. scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk