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KVARTETTO Comes to Edinburgh Fringe Next Month
by BWW News Desk - July 11, 2022
A quartet of performers with their own unique perception of the world join together in a radically tender dance show to celebrate love and affection. Choreographed by the Helsinki-based Kati Raatikainen, Kvartetto (translation: quartet), delivers a softly pitched challenge to how society understands individuals labelled as intellectually disabled. 
Leo Reich to Debut LITERALLY WHO CARES?! at the Edinburgh Fringe Featuring Music Composed by SIX's Toby Marlow
by BWW News Desk - July 08, 2022
Leo Reich will be making his debut with Literally Who Cares?!, breaking boundaries as the first Jewish person to try standup, the first gay person to want attention, and the first Londoner to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe.* The show will run 3rd - 38th August.
Korean Yeonhee Concert Will Be Part of the Korean Showcase 2022 at Edinburgh Fringe
by BWW News Desk - July 08, 2022
Taking the Korean traditional performing arts in a new, contemporary direction, Variety E-Seo's concert takes the form of four pieces of yeonhee music and dance, with rhythmic, powerful and ritual interpretations of ancient traditions.  
JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN Comes to Edinburgh Fringe
by BWW News Desk - July 08, 2022
After a grenade hits him on the battlefield, a soldier wakes up in hospital without his limbs, eyes, ears and mouth. Based on the 1938 anti-war novel by American writer Dalton Trumbo and created by Essi Rossi, Johannes Holopainen and Pauli Riikonen, this emotionally charged new show examines the life-changing impact fighting in World War I had on the returning soldiers.
Scottish Ballet Presents COPPELIA Next Month
by BWW News Desk - July 08, 2022
Scottish Ballet's new production of Coppélia, which has its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival this August, will test the boundaries of dance, theatre, music and film in a jaw-dropping new adaptation of the classic ballet, blending location and real-time film projection with live performance, accompanied by the Scottish Ballet Orchestra.
INTELLIGENCE Comes to Edinburgh Fringe Next Month
by BWW News Desk - July 07, 2022
In a taut political play, New York theatre company Dutch Kills pick apart how women are perceived in the higher echelons of American diplomacy.
BOORISH TRUMPSON Comes to The Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August
by BWW News Desk - July 07, 2022
Experience the brilliance of Claire Parry as Boorish Trumpson at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year in the setting of the glorious Assembly Rooms.
Matt Forde Returns To Edinburgh Festival Fringe With New Stand-up Show CLOWNS TO THE LEFT OF ME, JOKERS TO THE RIGHT
by BWW News Desk - July 07, 2022
Following his biggest tour to date the UK's leading political comedian Matt Forde (Spitting Image, British Scandal, The Last Leg, Have I Got News For You) has extended with a month long run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 3rd - 28th August at 8pm at Pleasance, Beyond.
MEGALITH, The New Show From Herald Angel Award Winners, Headed For 2022 Edinburgh Fringe
by BWW News Desk - July 07, 2022
A wild, high-tech, rock-smashing journey to the Neolithic origins of mining, Megalith blends rocks, beats and geological time to create a violent, fun, loud and lyrical experience, with projection design from award-winning Limbic Cinema.
Diane Chorley Returns to the Edinburgh Fringe 2022 With MODERN LOVE and DOWN THE FLICK
by BWW News Desk - July 07, 2022
Her very own venue will be home to two very different shows this month, her acclaimed narrative/music hour Modern Love and her late-night party Down The Flick, giving The Flick's iconic stage to the best of the festival's performers.
Full Cast Announced For Edinburgh Festival Fringe Run Of Tim Walker's BLOODY DIFFICULT WOMEN RUN
by BWW News Desk - July 06, 2022
Wind of Change, in association with Cahoots Theatre Company, today announce the full cast for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe run of Tim Walker's critically acclaimed production of Bloody Difficult Women.
THE ECSTASY OF VICTORIA WOODHULL Comes to Edinburgh Festival Fringe
by BWW News Desk - July 06, 2022
This absorbing play is inspired by Victoria Woodhull's remarkable life, which tells of her rags-to-riches rise from an impoverished and exploited child to the leader of the American Suffrage movement who ran her own prosperous Wall Street firm and a liberal newspaper.
Cast Announced For WRECKAGE, a New LGBTQ+ Drama Heading to Edinburgh This Summer
by BWW News Desk - July 06, 2022
Harlow Playhouse has announced that they will be producing a brand-new LGBTQ+ drama Wreckage. Written by Tom Ratcliffe and directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE, Wreckage will be taking part in this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival performing at Venue 26, Summerhall.
JESUS, JANE, MOTHER AND ME Premieres at the Edinburgh Fringe
by BWW News Desk - July 05, 2022
Award-winning writer and director Philip Stokes (Heroin(e) For Breakfast) returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the world premiere of Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me at the Pleasance Dome from 3 August. Produced by Lawrence Batley Theatre in association with KETCHUP productions and Richard Jordan Productions the show is performed by Jack Stokes in his Edinburgh debut. 
TINTED Comes to Edinburgh Fringe Next Month
by BWW News Desk - July 05, 2022
Originally written as a disabled response to #MeToo, Tinted examines bodily autonomy in the group society often leaves behind. 
OLAF FALAFEL Returns To The Edinburgh Festival
by BWW News Desk - July 05, 2022
Like the Portsmouth team who won the FA Cup in 1939 and got to hold on to it during the war, Olaf Falafel has been the holder of 'Dave's Joke Of The Fringe' for the last three years thanks to a certain pandemic that you may have heard of. Falafel's new show STOAT (STupidest Of All Time) contains more potentially award-winning jokes and also some frankly awful ones which he leans into with equal gusto.
GUIDE TO SURVIVING MASCULINIST TERRITORY Comes to Edinburgh Fringe in August
by BWW News Desk - July 05, 2022
Exploring incel culture through an interactive narrative of a young woman making her way across a city at night, alone, Guide To Surviving Masculinist Territory invites audiences on an audio walking tour of Edinburgh. 
Edinburgh International Festival Hosts UK Premiere of Aakash Odedra Company's SAMSARA Next Month
by BWW News Desk - July 05, 2022
Aakash Odedra Company's Samsara is a collaboration between the extraordinary dancers, Aakash Odedra and Hu Shenyuan, two of the world's finest exponents of dance from their countries of origin, India and China.
DANCE BODY Comes to Edinburgh Fringe Next Month
by BWW News Desk - July 05, 2022
In an uplifting, joy-filled show about where a plus-sized body fits into the world of contemporary dance, this new work challenges the assumption that only people with a certain type of body can make it as a 'dancer' and deserve to take up space on the stage or the dance floor. Written, choreographed and directed by Yolanda Mercy (Quarter Life Crisis), Dance Body reconnects with her own background in dance and unpicks how formal dance training neglects to represent the majority of body sizes.
CHANGING THE SHEETS Comes to Edinburgh Fringe Next Month
by BWW News Desk - July 05, 2022
This new comedy by Irish writer Harry Butler sees two strangers in bed together after a first date. As the two characters act out their intimate encounter with words only, it exposes the gap between romantic ideal and reality without exposing any flesh. 
Poet Luke Wright Will Present Two Shows at Edinburgh Fringe
by BWW News Desk - July 05, 2022
Luke Wright: The Remains of Logan Dankworth is the third (and arguably best) of the acclaimed poet's verse play trilogy. It's finally getting its Fringe debut after its 2020 performances were postponed by the pandemic.
Full cast announced for World Premiere Musical KATHY AND STELLA SOLVE A MURDER! at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022
by Grace Cutler - July 01, 2022
Francesca Moody Productions and Kater Gordon have announced the full cast for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 world premiere of KATHY AND STELLA SOLVE A MURDER! The five-strong cast features real-life best friends Bronté Barbé (Kathy) and Rebekah Hinds (Stella) in the title roles, playing Hull’s least successful true crime podcasters Kathy Baxter and Stella Carmichael.
HEROIN TO HERO Comes to Edinburgh Fringe Next Month
by BWW News Desk - July 01, 2022
Young Scottish heroin addict Paul Boggie was at death's door – but with incredible courage pulled back from the brink and ended up as a soldier guarding the Queen at Buckingham Palace.  
Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards Will Return at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe This Year
by BWW News Desk - June 30, 2022
DAVE’S EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARDS will return at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.  After a two-year worldwide hiatus, the renowned Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards are back celebrating 40 years of awarding comedy excellence, reflecting the rich heritage of comedy talent recognised and its status as a springboard for comedians who have gone on to become household names at home and abroad. 
Omnibus Theatre Announces Edinburgh Festival Fringe Runs of THE GIRL WHO WAS VERY GOOD AT LYING and FIJI
by BWW News Desk - June 30, 2022
Omnibus Theatre today announces that The Girl Who Was Very Good at Lying, by Eoin McAndrew and Fiji by Evan Lordan, Pedro Leandro and Eddie Loodmer-Elliott, two critically acclaimed plays previously co-produced by Omnibus Theatre, will run at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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