As the chains are pulled taught and the music box whirs, the stained curtain jerks and the lights flick out. Or on wind swept beach with dripping ice cream cones: an abandoned puppet booth, the Professor weeping while Punch frolics over family picnics. In the rafters, as always and forever, the stage-hands churn the monkey that grinds the wheel that makes the tendons dance. 

ANATOMY takes the music hall variety show to strange futures. It’s a brave new stage for risk-taking performance and breath-taking theatrics from artists, dancers, music makers and destroyers, puppeteers, film-makers, clowns, poets, mimes, installations, weirdos and burlesques. 

“Beyond scratch”, ANATOMY presents a series of exciting, multidisciplinary acts from around Scotland and beyond on vague threads held together by harlequinades, hat-tips and hogwash from hosts Ali Maloney and Harry Giles.