The Reluctant Fundamentalist
ONE of the Fringe’s key venues is to stage an adapted version of Mohsin Hamid’s Man Booker Prize short listed novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
It will run at Summerhall from 14-26 August, directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah and adapted by Stephanie Street.
It received its world premiere with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) in 2016 and has had two sell-out London runs and a recent appearance at the Bradford Literature Festival.
Prasanna Puwanarajah is an actor, director and writer, recently seen on television as James Mohan in the award-winning Doctor Foster and as Johnny Hall in Patrick Melrose starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Stephanie Street is an actor, writer, Literary Associate of HighTide festival and founder member of The Act for Change Project.
Street’s theatre credits include Behind the Beautiful Forevers (National Theatre), Rough Cuts, Shades (both Royal Court Theatre), and The Vagina Monologues UK Tour.
BBC Pop-Up Radio Drama Studio at Summerhall
ARTISTS, writers, musicians and performers including Frank Skinner, Katherine Parkinson, Nish Kumar, Susan Calman, Nicola Benedetti, the Takács Quartet, Paul Merton, and Chelsea Clinton will appear on the BBC’s Edinburgh Festival output this year.
The corporation will have pop-up radio studio in Summerhall, and there will be BBC recordings at Usher Hall, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo highlights from Edinburgh Castle, and a radio programme from the Book Festival.
BBC Radio 3 is launching a new series of audio dramas in front of an audience in a pop-up radio drama studio at Summerhall.