Production company theSpaceUK has announced over 50 new shows that will be premiering this week at Edinburgh Fringe, in their 19 theatres that span seven venues across the Scottish capital.
This week’s programme brings cabaret, comedy and cake smashing, as well as revised Shakespeare in The Macbeth Inquiry (theSpace @ Niddry St, 15-20), which propels the Scottish Play into modern times and examines the effects of power hunger on the political landscape. Midsummer (theSpace @ Niddry St., 15-27) follows an unlikely group of white collars attempting to tackle the Bard against a backdrop of ecological crisis.
Amongst the selection is More Than Tracy Turnblad (theSpace on the Mile, 15-27), a cabaret-style musical exploration of plus-sized performer Abby Rose Morris’s experiences of her craft’s unrealistic body standards; and for those seeking an out-and-out musical experience, Antigone: The Musical (theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 15-27) retells the Greek tragedy through humour and song.
The line-up also includes solo shows such as Cake and Violence (theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 15-27). Literally named, it combines monologues and cake smashing, and is delivered by creator Nat Griffen. Kill the Frippery (theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 15-27) is comedian David Watson’s new stand-up show—a comic scrutiny of an accidentally shallow life and what will hold us back (he argues vanity, pastry and Twitter).
For something closer to home, the diverse programme offers The Collie’s Shed (theSpaceTriplex, 15-27), which follows four retired miners in East Lothian as they realise how a review into the policing of the 1980s miners’ strikes affects their lives and relationships, past and present. Glister (theSpace @ Niddry St, 15-20) is a Yorkshire-based coming-of-age journey set against a Norse soundscape, that follows its protagonist from childhood to motherhood accompanied by two talking ravens and a host of Viking gods.
The full list of shows from theSpaceUK can be found on their website.
Words by Katie Ross
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