
With so many venues, and countless shows to go and see at the fringe festivals I thought this would be a great opportunity to make a must see list, this will be bias as several of my friends are performing so I will obviously be helping to plug their shows (because they are awesome actors/ directors/producers/ all-round amazing people and they deserve to be supported with sold out shows).
Firstly though, from a directors point of view, if you want to take a show up to Edinburgh Fringe we have Harry, an amazing director from Aberystwyth who I have had the pleasure of working with on multiple occasions and who has taken shows to Edinburgh fringe the last few years and has had great successes.
Now onto the shows themselves:
The National Theatre of Scotland
Assembly Roxy
This year NTS is putting on a musical about an AmDram society who, in seeking to win the Scottish Amateur Dramatic Association’s One-Act Festival, decide to produce a stage adaptation of the Christie Brown’s autobiographical My Left Foot, made famous by a film starring Daniel Day Lewis. Problems begin when the society realise they don’t actually know any disabled actors, but that never stopped DDL!! Be prepared for lots of silliness.
Website for more info plus your link to buy tickets.
Look out for Matthew playing Chris.
Orwell That Ends Well: The Musical is a brand new comedy musical combining ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’ with contemporary satire, farcical humour, and arguably too many ABBA references, featuring original music. The show will be at 11am at Just the Tonic @ La Belle Angel from Tuesday 14th to Sunday 26th August, excluding Monday 20th, and is £5 to book in advance or pay what you want on the day.
More info can be found on their Facebook page and tickets can be ordered from https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/orwell-that-ends-well-the-musical
Look out for Andy the writer/co-director/co-producer/drummer and Ellie playing Napoleon
Fourth Monkey
The SpaceTriplex-Big (end on)
Malvern Theatres Young Company- Antigone
The Space on the Mile – Space 3
Edinburgh Tickets (13th-19th August)and for more info about the company and how to take part check out their website.
Old Joint Stock Theatre- City Love
C venues- C cubed- main space
Co-produced by one of my university friends, it follows two people navigating London, life, work and love. City Love focuses on young city workers and how expectations today of what is considered to be a “real man” or a “successful woman” can devastate lives and destroy relationships.
Facebook page
Tickets
For the full Edinburgh Fringe guide, here’s the link. There are literally thousands of shows being put on throughout the fringe, but don’t worry you can search the guide by performer, genre, dates, venues, special pricing and accessibility.
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- Rachel Parkerhttps://www.indecisiveoverthinker.com/author/rachpepper/
- Rachel Parkerhttps://www.indecisiveoverthinker.com/author/rachpepper/
- Rachel Parkerhttps://www.indecisiveoverthinker.com/author/rachpepper/
- Rachel Parkerhttps://www.indecisiveoverthinker.com/author/rachpepper/