In Bed With My Brother Returns To Edinburgh Fringe With PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD
Performances run 31 July - 25 August.
By: Stephi Wild Jun. 13, 2025
IN BED WITH MY BROTHER are back in Edinburgh. This August, Nora, Dora and Kat - the team behind such anarchic hits as WE ARE IAN (2017), TRICKY SECOND ALBUM (2019), and PRIME_TIME (2021) - present their first fringe show in six years: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD.
Inspired by the best worst band of all time, The Shaggs, PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD is named after their 1969 album - a work of accidental genius described as a classic by the likes of Kurt Cobain and Frank Zappa. IN BED WITH MY BROTHER will play the band, the audience will play the audience - it'll be perfect, just don't tell Tom Cruise.
Fremont, USA. A boy receives a palm reading from a psychic. The prophecy predicts his fate:
1. He will marry a woman with strawberry blonde hair.
2. His first two children will be boys.
3. His daughters will form a world famous rock band.
When the first two come true, he makes the third a reality.
Ridiculed then revered, The Shaggs defied categorisation. Now, IN BED WITH MY BROTHER attempt to wrangle their story into a three-act biopic. Part tribute act, part feminist reclamation, part rambling and incoherent flight of ideas, PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD is about fate, freewill, power, patriarchy, band t-shirts, daddy issues, and the best and worst album ever made. It's about who holds the power to define you - who gets to say whether you're a legend or loser - who owns the right (and the rights) to tell your story.
Featuring questionable mime, high-intensity dance sequences, awkward crowd work, cheap wigs, jump scares and a well trained actor, IN BED WITH MY BROTHER twists Rock ‘n' Roll history into a sticky, sweaty, searing rebellion. It will be a laugh. Or it might hit a bum note. We'll let fate decide.
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