Summerhall » Theatre

BAC Scratch: Josie Long

Box Office — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:12:25 +0000

Josie Long is a stand up comedian whose main show at the fringe is about politics and anger. In her Scratch performance she wants to work on something that’s the opposite of that… Probably involving making some kind of papier mâché puppets.

Scratch allows artists to test ideas and get audience feedback. Come explore and be the first to discover the future of theatre.

BAC Scratch: Atomkraft

Box Office — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:55:24 +0000

Greg McLaren has been exploring the ‘Nuclear Issue’. What’s that then? The terror of accident? The mystery of the process? The deep and global energy corruption? And how does that relate to a man boiling his hand? Greg will occupy the fascinating Summerhall building for a day. Inspired by the building and working with collaborator, award winning designer Mamoru Iriguchi, Atomkraft will be let loose at 4pm on Monday 22nd August. Join us for what is likely to be an absorbing and electrifying journey into the (known) unknown.

Scratch allows artists to test ideas and get audience feedback. Come explore and be the first to discover the future of theatre.

Book Ends

Box Office — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:31:41 +0000

Savin-O’Hara Productions repesents Book Ends, a new one act play about loving books a little too much…

A tale of two book lovers who meet while browsing for romance and passion in a local bookshop.

Book Ends is a play for anyone who has ever read voraciously between the lines or fallen madly in love while perusing for just the right story.

Starring Hattie Ruffer and Richard Rowley. Directed by James Savin. Written by David K. O’Hara

BAC Scratch: Kate Tempest

Box Office — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:05:31 +0000

Kate Tempest is a poet, rapper and playwright from South East London who will be scratching new work in response to the atmospheric space of Summerhall’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre. Her band Sound of Rum have just released their debut album ‘Balance’ with Sunday Best Recordings. Her first play ‘Wasted’, a collaboration with new writing theatre company Paines Plough, previewed at Latitude festival and will tour the UK early spring 2012. She has supported Femi Kuti, Scroobius Pip and John Cooper Clarke. She has worked with Turner prize winning artist Chris Ofili, had her work commissioned by Barnardo’s children charity, has been featured on BBC TV and Radio, and performed internationally, in Berlin, Latvia, New York, Sydney, Austria and Paris, as well as all over the UK. Her debut spoken word release ‘Broken Herd’, was released on a limited edition run with Pure Groove Records, and sold out within two months of its release.

Please note that this event is taking place on Saturday, not Friday as previously advertised.

Scratch allows artists to test ideas and get audience feedback. Come explore and be the first to discover the future of theatre.

BAC Scratch: Made In China

Box Office — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:22:45 +0000

Made in China will be working on new material for a show about the impact of where we’re from and where we have been on who we are. They will be exploring how stories and memories can warp and overlap, and the impact of this on individual identity. Their Scratch performances will feature slow dances, audience data, rousing speeches and a variety of guest performers.

Scratch allows artists to test ideas and get audience feedback. Come explore and be the first to discover the future of theatre.

BAC: Artist Brainstorm

Box Office — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:04:17 +0000

If you have some creative ideas you would like to share with BAC, then come on down to Summerhall and join us for a cuppa. A chance to meet the BAC Producing team and to hear more about BAC’s new artistic model ‘Cook Up – Tuck In – Take Out’ and share your ideas with us too.

BAC Scratch: Unhappy Birthday

Box Office — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:55:40 +0000

Written and performed by Amy Lamé, directed by Scottee

Welcome to my Unhappy Birthday. My invited guest of honour is the Smiths frontman and cult global superstar Morrissey. Join us around a table set for my ultimate birthday party; a place is reserved for Morrissey …He’s running late…Will he arrive clutching a bunch of flowers and a bottle of plonk? Will he bother to turn up at all? This is an interactive “Scratch” extravaganza with sound, film, social networking, live music, a pop quiz show, lots of snacks…AND YOU! Over 3 nights we will be “scratching” 30 minutes of material; catch all three and get an idea of what the show will be like in its entirety; or just pop in for a quick one-off scratch.

Scratch allows artists to test ideas and get audience feedback. Come explore and be the first to discover the future of theatre.

(g)Host City

Rupert — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:39:03 +0000

Come walk the streets with us and find hidden, subversive works of art among the shops and cafes. (g)HostCity is a new ‘virtual festival’ – an exciting programme of audio performances that you experience on your own time using a smartphone or MP3 player. Includes new work by Momus, Alan Bissett, Jenny Lindsay, Jim Colquhoun and more. Downloads and festival map at www.virtualfestival.org.

The (g)HostCityprogramme includes Parallel Lines, an installation at Summerhall whose story continues with audio journeys and treasure hunts around the city.

Audience as Document

Box Office — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:03:35 +0000

The event invites those who have experienced the overnight Hotel Medea trilogy to share their memories, as part of an exploration of how the memory of a performance becomes a performative event in its own right.

For more information please visit: http://audienceasdocument.wordpress.com/audience-as-document/

Image credit: Flavio Rabelo

When We Meet Again (Introduced as Friends)

Rupert — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:50:10 +0000

“When I first met you, you could see me but I couldn’t see you”, the invisible woman recounts. When We Meet Again is a wearable film and one-to-one performance, a bizarre sensuous experience featuring you, your invisible friend, a 3D soundtrack, an old forgotten dance, the ocean, a flavour and me.

Video filmed from a first person perspective and displayed on video goggles replaces your point of view with… someone else’s. When you look down you see a new body, a body through which you will move and encounter ghostly presences. Through a journey of meetings mediated by technology, blinded by vision, displaced by what you hear and see around you but you know is not really there, When We Meet Again wonders about the function (and de-function) of the body in our media inundated times.