What we're seeing at the Fringe

It’s Fringe season! We’re sending big love to the artists in our wider Take Me Somewhere constellation presenting work across the Edinburgh Fringe this August AND offering attendance bursaries for Scotland-based artists with an experimental or contemporary performance practice.

If you don’t know where to start, here are some shows we wholeheartedly recommend:

Performance and theatre

🗑️ Horrible Things - Frankie Thompson (@franklyfrankie98)

📵 Turn Your F*cking Phones Off - Hannah Maxwell (@hannahmaxwellhere)

🙅‍♀️ Bad Lesbians (WIP) - Selina Thompson Limited (@selinatltd)

📻 Transmission - Nelly Kelly and Sanctuary Queer Arts (@sanctuaryqueerarts)

🕯️ Come Back Home - Fadi Murad (@fadismurad)

🐰 Bunny - Craig Manson (@craigmanson)

👅 Tongue Twister - Greg Sinclair (@scottishtheatreproducers)

Dance

🩶 not for glory - Jack Anderson, Charlotte Mclean (@iamcharlottemclean) and Malin Lewis (@malinlewismusic)

🐻 Anatomy of Survival - Frauke Requardt (@fraukerequardt) and Vivienne Franzmann

👁️ The Masquerade - Jj Fadaka (@jfadaka)

💃 40/40 - Katherina Radeva / Two Destination Language (@twodestinationlanguage)

🎞️ If I can't dance I'm not coming - Karl Jay-Lewin and Matteo Fargion (@artsagile)

Two nights only: Forest Fringe at Shedinburgh

🛖 Forest Fringe return to Edinburgh for the first time in a decade, with a takeover of Shedinburgh (@shedinburgh_fest) on 25 and 26 August.

  • Action Hero - A Song and Dance (WIP), 25–26 Aug, 20:30

  • Made in China - Sex Yacht (WIP), 25–26 Aug, 17:00

  • Rachel Mars - THREE QUEER DAUGHTERS (WIP), 25–26 Aug, 15:15

  • Ira Brand - Like the party has been cancelled, 25 Aug, 18:45

  • Deborah Pearson - Like You Were Before, 26 Aug, 18:45

  • Tim Etchells - Holding Pattern, 26 Aug, 22:00

  • Alisa Oleva - And then we walked, 25 Aug, 17:00

  • Andy Fielden - 99 Plays, 25 Aug, 22:00

And two at Edinburgh Art Festival

🎻 Caught Hold of Nothing + Launch Party Magnus Westwell (@magnuswestwell), with Océane Robin, The Biscuit Factory, Friday 14 August, 20:00–01:00

🌲 Serial Component Davi Pontes (@davipontttes) and Sebastião Abreu, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Sunday 23 August, 15:00–16:00

💸 We're offering attendance bursaries for Scotland-based artists with an experimental or contemporary performance practice, to help you get to the Edinburgh Festivals this year. Register by 12 noon on Thursday 13 August. Places are decided by lottery, so there's nothing to write, just get your name in!