Ivy Paige: Filthy Rich 6th – 30th Aug 2015, 10.00pm Want to get rich quick? Need more bang for your buck? Let Ivy show you how, in a heady mix of cabaret, comedy and song. ‘Queen of British Burlesque’ (Mail on Sunday) will teach you how to live the dream* (which quite frankly is more […]
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Seven, Germany’s Ballett am Rhein
20 – 22 August 2015 The Edinburgh Playhouse Germany’s Ballett am Rhein joins the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for Martin Schläpfer’s epic response to Mahler’s enigmatic 7th Symphony. In this full-length ballet, the anguish and poignant beauty of Mahler’s Symphony seem to be written into the bodies of the dancers. Music and movement merge into […]
Robert Lepage 887
European Premiere, Robert Lepage 887 Legendary director, playwright and ‘visual wizard’ (New York Times), Robert Lepage returns to Edinburgh to perform the European premiere of his new work. While Lepage continues to pioneer the use of technology, his work is imbued with an intimacy and humanity that few can match. 887 is a riveting foray into the […]
Dame Evelyn Glennie, The Animotion Show
Dame Evelyn and Fills Monkey, Sebastien Rambaud (glasses) and Yann Coste (beard), discovered a mutual love of performing music with Boomwhackers, tuned flexible percussion instruments and the trio will perform with the colourful instruments at the imposing setting of George Heriot’s School, said to be the inspiration for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books […]
Subterranean Haunted Blues
Jack L lights up Blair St vaults To mark the Fringe premiere of Late Night Phantasmagoria with Jack Lukeman; the multi platinum-selling artist descends beneath the city to perform for Edinburgh’s ghouls and phantoms in a candlelight vault below the Royal Mile. Striking a charismatic pose in top hat and tailcoat Lukeman (known as […]
Pajama Men: Pterodactyl Nights
Pajama Men: Pterodactyl Nights Assembly George Square, Edinburgh George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH Drawing on their huge catalogue of classic bits, always introducing new material and lacing it all together with bizarre improvised tangents, the Pajama Men create an anarchic night of jubilant and inventive comedy. Whether you’ve been watching them for years or are seeing them for […]
Vertical Influences
Dance, Physical Theatre and Circus (dance, contemporary) The Canadian iconoclastic ice skaters return to the Fringe with a new double-bill sharing their signature mix of movement, wit, speed and grace. In Influences, the performers play with how our body language can influence others, even with just a glance. In the second piece, Vertical, […]
Iván Fischer conducts The Marriage of Figaro
Iván Fischer conducts The Marriage of Figaro Iván Fischer conducts and directs a specially staged concert of one of opera’s most beloved comic creations. Mozart’s sparkling farce charts one crazy day of love and desire, deception and confusion across barriers of class and convention, as servant Figaro and his master, Count […]
Puddles Pity Party
Puddles Pity Party With more than 100k fans worldwide on Facebook and over 20 million views on YouTube, the unique and critically lauded Puddles Pity Party is a must-see for the music and comedic talents of one of the world’s most famous clowns. Star of the Olivier Award-winning production of ‘La Soiree’, Puddles continues to trot […]
FIRST WAVE OF MUSIC FUTURES 2015 SPEAKERS
GENERATOR ANNOUNCE FIRST WAVE OF MUSIC FUTURES 2015 SPEAKERS Joe Harland (Radio 1 and 1xtra) / Simon Cole (7 Digital) / Chris Price (New Slang Media) / Kim Bayley (Entertainment Retailers Association) / Martin Talbot (Official Charts Company) / Melanie Armstrong (HMV) / Lee Morrison (Believe Digital) / Alison Donald(Columbia Music UK) / Jim Chancellor (Fiction and Caroline International) / Caroline Elleray (Universal Music Publishing) / Tim Ingham (Music Business Worldwide) Further panellists to be announced […]