SCOTLAND THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 115

Son of a climate scientist, Australian theatre maker David Finnigan has always made work about climate change – then his country caught fire.

This July, Theatre Deli presents the best upcoming fringe theatre before it hits the world famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival next month.

Acclaimed Irish actor Gabriel Byrne's solo show Walking with Ghosts, joins the Edinburgh International Festival programme as a UK premiere from 24 to 28 August in this, the Festival's 75th anniversary year.

Following a critically acclaimed run at Soho Theatre earlier this year, audiences will take centre stage as work.

In her debut solo show, Opal Fruits, Holly Beasley-Garrigan asks what it means to be making theatre as an artist who grew up skint: to have a stake in two worlds but to feel as though you don't really fit into either.

Named one of the 19 Unmissable Online Theatre Experiences by American Express Essentials Magazine, Lag: A Zoomsical Comedy is the world's first original musical created to be performed over video conferencing.

In an autobiographical performance, the audience is invited to join Daniel as his family and friends as he eulogises his deceased dad and observes the legendary life of Dave Gill.

Contrasting the anonymity of recording births and deaths in Excel spreadsheet with furtive moments of human intimacy, interactive show from Dutch Kills Theater and Wolf 359 examines mortality, capitalism and the value of a human life.

Nica Burns, the longstanding Producer and Director of Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, has unveiled the judging panel for the coveted Awards at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.

On a rare night off from her four-week Festival run with Fascinating Aida alongside fellow cabaret queens Dillie Keane and Adele Anderson, Liza Pulman will bring songs from her new album The Heart Of It with her brilliant six-piece band led by Musical Director Joseph Atkins.

Dan Kelly will present How I Came in Third in the North Korean Marathon at an Edinburgh Fringe show at Just the Tonic at The Caves running 4 - 28 August 2022.

The loud, raucous hit of Dublin Theatre Festival 2021 comes to the Edinburgh Fringe.

The universal hilarity of the hospitality industry and its quirks are revealed in this tightly performed physical theatre work.

Claire-Louise Cordwell (Casualty, BBC; Bodyguard, BBC; A Kind of People, Royal Court) and Helena Antoniou (Call The Midwife, BBC; The Snow Queen, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre) will star in Love Them To Death by Max Dickins (author of newly published Billy No-Mates).

Pre-pandemic Rosy Carrick became the world's first female time-travelling doctor in her multi-award-winning theatre debut 'Passionate Machine'.

Told by one musician and one performer using puppetry, theatrical objects, stage lighting and non-traditional music, Theatre Moksung brings together the residents of two worlds to explore themes of prejudice.

Delving into amateur stand-up culture and trying to make peace with a messy brain, the new documentary-theatre show from Victoria Melody sees her in wearable tech, scanning her brain as she delivers jokes.

Hanna Vahtikari asks if being temperamental, impulsive, senseless and flaky disqualifies you from the ‘good mother’ category.

Mischief, the award-winning company behind The Play That Goes Wrong, Magic Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery as well as BBC comedy series The Goes Wrong Show, announced the full cast for the return of Mischief Movie Night, the improvised movie live on stage.

Perth-based Celtic big band for young people, the Gordon Duncan Experience is holding free 2-hour masterclasses in Perth and Glasgow for school-aged musicians this summer.

After a childhood obsession with history, blood and period dramas – of both kinds – Heather Milsted became increasingly frustrated by the lack of discussion of all things menstrual in both the history books and popular culture.

Muse brings together spectacular stunts including FLIP Fabrique's much-loved trampoline wall alongside a live singer in a joyful celebration of being yourself.

Blending physical theatre, miniature set design and puppetry, along with a melancholic live score, Trunk Theatre Project's family-friendly adventure takes place entirely in outer space.

A one-woman show in which Lea Whitcher plays with the absurdities of the idealised and toxic images of motherhood through her own personal experiences.

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.