Fringe II

  • Passionate Machine

    Everyone writes to their future selves. But what happens if the future starts writing back? Passionate Machine mixes time travel, women in science, Dr Who, sci-fi, '80s pop culture, '80s time travel films, particle physics, 125th anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Bowie fandom, #MeToo and recovery from trauma. World première.

  • Heaven Burns

    The winner of the Assembly Roxy Theatre Award (ART Award), Jen McGregor's play is set in Morayshire in 1662 and tells the story of Christian Caddell, a woman who falsifies her identity and pretends to be John Dixon, a notorious witchpricker, believing that she is carrying out God’s work by torturing those accused of witchcraft.

  • Toast

    PW Productions presents The Lowry commissioned adaptation of Nigel Slater’s best-selling memoirs Toast. It is adapted by Henry Filloux-Bennett and directed by Jonnie Riordan. Slater is a chef, bestselling author, presenter of nine BBC television series, and food columnist for The Observer for 25 years.

  • Joe Palermo noir: Life and Death of a Near-Hero

    A back-to-front storytelling "nearly" comedy about life as a professional male stripper from a near-hero of the London Bridge terror attack in 2017.

  • Really Want to Hurt Me

    This is a bittersweet one-person play about growing up as a gay teenager in 1980s rural Britain performed by Ryan Price. It features a soundtrack of that decade’s greatest music including Culture Club, Eurythmics, Tears for Fears, The Smiths, Kate Bush and the Cocteau Twins and is written and directed by Ben SantaMaria and presented by Flaming Theatre.

  • BARK! The Musical

    This US musical with a story about a young Jack Russell searching for his bark with the help of five eccentric friends gets its UK première. Told and sung from the dogs’ point of view by an all-human cast made up of Jalisa Andrews, Emily Chesterton, Andrew Doyle, Laura Hyde, Brian James Leys and Dale Adams. The show has book and lyrics by Gavin Geoffrey Dillard, Robert Schrock and Mark Winkler and music by David Troy Francis. The director/choreographer is Francesca Goodridge.

  • Check Up: Our NHS At 70

    Investigative comedian Mark Thomas's new show Check Up: Our NHS At 70 asks what's going wrong in our NHS. It is based on interviews with leading experts in and on the NHS, residencies in hospitals and surgeries, and with theatre director Nicolas Kent.

  • My Kind of Michael

    Nick Cassenbaum explores the rise and fall of his hero, Michael Barrymore, in My Kind Of Michael, a comic, heartfelt and playful tribute.

  • How To Be Amazingly Happy!

    A funny, raw and immediate solo show about the experiences of childlessness and happiness looking at LGBTQ+ rights and identity and belonging in middle age. Written and performed by theatre maker and director Victoria Firth. World première.

  • Vessel

    Irish writer and performer Laura Wyatt O’Keefe's drama looks at women’s bodies and women’s rights in a compelling new drama inspired by Ireland’s recent referendum on abortion. She performs alongside Edward De Gaetano. The play was created with director Christopher Gatt with input from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, Abortion Network Support, a GP, solicitor and activist Diane Munday. World première.

  • Dysney Disfunction

    HACK Theatre Norwich Arts Centre presents this solo show from Australian writer-performer Michelle Sewell. Will love and marriage help Alice whose visa is expiring. She finds herself looking at love and her place in the world as she contemplates returning to the country of her birth when she doesn’t want to leave the country she now calls home. Directed by David Gilbert. World première.

  • Entropy

    Entropy: (noun) lack of stability or predictability; gradual decline into disorder. This fast-paced two-hander features young Scottish actor Scott Mackie and is written by Jennifer Roslyn Wingate who presents in association with The White Bear Theatre. World première.

  • Are There More Of You?

    Hint Of Lime presents Are There More Of You? which has a story of four women linked only by their shared postcode and a quest for happiness. Written by Alison Skilbeck, it features the stories of women of a certain age. Skilbeck performs and Jeremy Stockwell directs.

  • bloominauschwitz

    2015 Brighton Fringe Best New Play Award-winning bloominauschwitz is presented by Menagerie Theatre Company. The hero of James Joyce’s Ulysses, plagued by visitations, escapes the confines of the novel to rampage through 20th century European history. It mixes clownish antics with high drama, rich text and powerful imagery. Patrick Morris performs this solo show written by Richard Fredman and directed by Rachel Aspinwall.