The Shows

You just f__ked up. Now what?

Poet Hannah Jane Walker and Fringe First winner Chris Thorpe examine the poetic guts of mistakes in a bundle of words and strip lightning. F__king up is the truest, funniest, most terrifying moment you can experience. You will make a mistake, maybe you’ll learn from it.

‘The oh f__k moment’ is a conversation around a desk for brave souls to hold their hands up and admit it was them, or for people to laugh at us because we did.

www.hannahjanewalker.co.uk

Discovering she was losing her memory, Natasha wrote down her life story, only to find she couldn't remember where she had put it. An immersive multi-layered performance using dance, poetry and digital media that tells the touching story of one woman's dementia and explores the impact it has on those around her.

For this emotional new work State of Flux brings together choreographer/director Heather Eddington, poet Anna Mae Selby and internationally acclaimed video media artists KMA.

"Technically impressive... multi-media come of age" - WhatsOnStage ****

"unmissable." - londondance.com

www.stateofflux.info

BRITISH COUNCIL SHOWCASE SELECTED

Two takes on the absurd world of work. With ‘The Devil and the Details’, less is more, more or less. Taking minimalism to a darkly comical place, it reveals harsh truths in the working relationship between choreographer and dancer, using World War references and a live beat box score.

‘Hinterview’ is a wry solo quest that seeks to address notions of economic progress and collapse through the mystical medium of dance. Through a multi-layered physical landscape the piece pin-points a very contemporary angst and laughs at it gently.

Ali and Jensen, two men struggling against the riptide of their thirties, are caught in a flat as a giant wave breaks. As biblical floods rage and millions die outside, they hide under the sofa and search for the TV remote.

An epic tale of domestic proportions from The Frequency D’ici, the company behind 2008’s Forest Fringe winning hit ‘Paperweight’.

“A funny, sad, truthful and surreal piece” – Scotsman **** (on Paperweight)

www.thefrequencydici.co.uk

It’s 2003: out there is a killer heatwave and in Emergency Response Cell everything depends on the pathway you vote for. Where will you defend? Who will you feed? And what will you save?

3rd Ring Out is a provocative, multi-media immersion in a possible future, with live performance, real biscuits, computerised voting, and the future of the UK at stake.

Are you in control?

“This is a really great idea... outstanding.” – Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

www.3rdRingOut.com

When Martin Figura was nine years old, hid father killed his mother. Whistle is a multi-media depiction of a post-war British childhood using poetry, family photographs and striking visuals. Figura explores themes of identity, forgiveness, loss, adoption and family with insight and gentle humour to tell a unique coming-of-age story which is both profound and uplifting. It was shortlisted for the 2010 Ted Hughes Award.

Visuals by Andre Barreau and Karen Hall.

“Moving, brave, unsentimental...” – Jackie Kay

“Profoundly honest and at the same time joyfully entertaining.” –Independant on Sunday

A love story of long-term commitment, daydreaming and a shed, inspired by ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’. This delightful flight of fancy crosses boundaries of dance and theatre to tell its story through various physical and visual performance styles.

“Neil Paris uses James Thurber’s ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ as a springboard from which to fashion a tender, quirky and wordless look at aspirations and disappointments in life and human relationships featuring a small but wonderful inter-generational cast... There are moments of real beauty here.” – Donald Hutera

www.agnesandwalter.co.uk

Informed by his experiences in the Tectonic Theatre Project writing THE LARAMIE PROJECT, Stephen Belber now takes a deeper look into the roots of hate crimes in a play steeped in both regret and possibility about the difficulty of taking responsibility for our choices, and how life will make them for us, if we’re not careful.

HighTide returns to Edinburgh with the entire creative team behind their Fringe First Award winning ‘Lidless’ (2011)

“A superb play is given a stunningly good production.” – The Scotsman on ‘Lidless’

www.hightide.org.uk

Yann, a young Muslim immigrant, takes work that no one else will do; clearing windblown trees in a remote forest. It’s dangerous, but he needs the job and anyway he’s fallen for the beautiful Caitlin. The family he works for are deeply religious and soon Yann is confronted about his own convictions.

‘Darkness’ is Fringe First winner Jonathan Lichtenstein’s exploration of the devastating impact of religious fundamentalism. As authority figures display an absolute belief in their divine right to act with impunity, a tight knit rural family are torn apart by its destructive force.

www.essex.ac.uk/artson5

Performance poetry’s leading light Luke Wright returns to the Fringe with a new show as sharp as his tailored suits.

From obese teenagers, jaded chip shop proprietors and posh twits with the luck of the devil, Luke will lead us through the run-down shopping precincts and airless television studios of Britain, making mincemeat of his anti-heroes armed only with his rollicking, darkly comic verse. Each poem is backed by the macabre illustrations of long-term collaborator Sam Ratcliffe.

“Visceral, poignant and riotously funny.” – Scotsman

“Positively life enhancing as well as hilarious.” – Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard

Charlie is 24. By the time he was 12 he had decided that there was just one thing that he was going to do with his life. And now he’s going to do it. He’s told everyone he knows that this is what he’s going to do. That this is who he is.

Invade England and Scotland.

Inspired by the life of Bonnie Prince Charlie, ‘Young Pretender’ is an unflinching look at rebellion, told with an exhilarating fusion of the modern and the historic.

Written by EV Crowe. Fringe First 2010 winner nabokov returns to Edinburgh.

www.nabokov-online.com

In 1953, Henry Molaison emerges from experimental brain surgery without any recollection of the last two years of his life or the ability to form new memories.

In 2009 Patient HM’s brain is dissected live on the internet to a global audience of 400,000 people.

‘2401 Objects’ follows Analogue’s critically acclaimed Edinburgh shows ‘Mile End’ and ‘Beachy Head’. It tells the remarkable story of a man who could no longer remember, but who has proven impossible to forget.

“Neuron-firing, emotionally hot-wired theatre from a visionary young company” – Metro ****