August’s Fringe 2024 will feature a host of talented performers that came through Magnetic North’s artist development programme. Here’s a run-down of who and where our talented generation will be:
Through The Mud
Apphia Campbell, Marie Gabrielle Koumenda (sound design), Caitlin Skinner (director)
Against a stunning soundtrack of gospel and blues sung live, the story explores two generations of women activists in the struggle for black liberation in America. One, notorious Black Panther Assata Shakur, the other, a college student at the start of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014.
Stellar Quines and Royal Lyceum Theatre, Main Hall
Aug 1-25, 17:55
Price: £10, £17
https://tickets.summerhall.co.uk/event/26:6456/26:98571/
Catafalque
Amy Conway
A one-woman eulogy that looks at death through the lens of a civil celebrant. Touching on themes of loss and a lifetime of secrets, it navigates the complexities of a grieving family.
Tech Cube Zero
Aug 1-11, 12:25
Price: £12, £17
https://tickets.summerhall.co.uk/event/26:6406/26:97506/
A History of Fortune Cookies
Sean Wai Keung
Performance-maker and foodie Sean Wai Keung explores the history of fortune cookies and his own mixed-race identity while he bakes cookies live. Suitable for vegans.
Former Women’s Locker Room
Aug 1-26, 12:15, 12:50
Price: £10, £12
https://festival24.summerhall.co.uk/events/a-history-of-fortune-cookies/
Anatomy for Accountants
Sacha Copland
A high-risk, high-return dance show featuring every organ, nerve and muscle in the human body. Outrageous dancing, profit, loss, live music and the deconstruction of power at a price. For lovers of the human body and accountants!
Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Aug 1-26, 16.30
Price: £10, £17
https://tickets.summerhall.co.uk/event/26:6412/26:97610/
LIFE
Maria MacDonell
An exciting new work which wraps around an active drawing class. Pencils and papers are provided and some on-stage tickets are available seated at easels. Participate or watch as the story unfolds.
Netherbow Theatre
To Aug 26, 13:15, 17:00
Price: £8-£14
https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:5605/913:24573/
Black is the Colour of My Voice
Apphia Campbell (writer/maker)
Fringe First and Spirit of the Fringe Award winner Apphia Campbell’s stunning show inspired by the life of Nina Simone, performed by Nicholle Cherrie. Strictly limited run before a major UK tour.
Pentland Theatre, Pleasance at EICC
Aug 20-21, 23-25, 20.00
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/black-is-the-color-of-my-voice
Timeless
Katie Armstrong/Tony Mills (choreographers)
A joyful celebration of the dance of life. Featuring Dance Base’s in-house companies Lothian Youth Dance Company and PRIME, Timeless brings together dancers aged 14 to 80+ in one life-affirming showcase with four new works.
Assembly @ Dance Base, Dance Base 3
Aug 2-11, 15.50
Price: From £15
https://assemblyfestival.com/whats-on/629-timeless/performances
Man and Board
Rob Heaslip
An unlikely pairing of Rob’s moving body with a ritualised wooden board with which he sings, dances, wins and loses. An impassioned show about tradition, heritage, and masculinity where a gay father celebrates his Irish cultural heritage in passing it on to his adopted son.
Assembly @ Dance Base, Dance Base 3
Aug 13-25, 17:15
Price: From £15
https://assemblyfestival.com/whats-on/616-man-board/performances
Confessions of a Justified Sinner: New Myths
Kirsty Law
Storyteller Kirsty Logan, folksinger Kirsty Law, and harpist Esther Swift go deep on ‘the double’ for their feminist reimagining of Hogg’s Confessions in contemporary times. In their story, Gill Todd is a young woman growing up in a cult who is thrust into the disorienting, never-private social landscape of 21st-century Scotland.
EFI Spiegeltent
Aug 20, 21:00
Price: £20, Concessions available
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/confessions-of-a-justified-sinner-new-myths
Chatterbox
Lubna Kerr, Jen McGregor (dramaturg)
A humorous and touching semi-autobiographical one-woman show about a Pakistani girl at primary school in 1970s Glasgow. Lubna was labelled “stupid” because she couldn’t speak English by people who couldn’t speak Urdu. It looks at the impact of the labels we are given as children and how they persist into adulthood.
Pleasance Courtyard, The Green
Aug 1-12, 14-19, 21-25, 16:55
Price: From £10
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/chatterbox
The One Couple Show
Thabo Mokolobate and Pirita Tuisku
A collage of works of how dance and poetry wed as artists bring their personal story with its ups and downs. About starting a new life in another country and living as artists.
Zoo Playground, Playground 1
Aug 11-17, 17.45
Price: £13, concessions available
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/one-couple-show
Dear Billy
Jill O’Sullivan, Claire Halleran
Three-time Fringe First winner Gary McNair brings his love letter to Scottish icon Billy Connolly to the Festival. A collection of joyous and unique stories about The Big Yin.
Assembly Rooms – Music Hall
Aug 13, 15-20, 22-25, 16.50
Price: £25, concessions available
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/dear-billy
Desires without form: mysteries of mind, life and matter
Catherine Street, Greg Sinclair
An exhibition with performance in a new collaboration between artists Catherine Street, Neil Simpson and Greg Sinclair. The work celebrates the body amongst the brutality of the contemporary moment – austerity, conflict, ill health and anxiety.
Mote 102
Aug 7-11
https://mote102.com/events/august-residency-performance-catherine-street-neil-simpson-greg-sinclair/
So Young
Niroshini Thambar (sound designer)
An innocuous evening slides into ruin as old friends face the challenges of middle age, growing apart and losing those close to them, whether to the grave, or London.
Traverse 1
Aug 2-25,
Price: £22.75, Concessions available
https://www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event/so-young-festival-24
We’re immensely proud that these performers will be showcasing their talents to audiences at this year’s Fringe.