The British Council has announced details of its Showcase at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe in which, Brendan Griggs, Head of Drama and Dance, says, the aim has been "to identify work suited to our current programmes around the world and to the interests of our partners in the different regions in which we work."
The productions, mainly drama but five pieces of dance theatre, will be:
- 1927, The Animals and Children Took to the Streets, England
- Action Hero, Watch me Fall, England
- Blast Theory, A Machine to See With, England
- Citizens Theatre, The Monster in the Hall, Scotland
- Curious, the moment I saw you I knew I could love you, England
- David Hughes Dance Productions Ltd., Last Orders, Scotland
- Dog Kennel Hill Project, The Devil and the Details / Hinterview, England
- Glen Neath and Hannah Ringham, Hannah Ringham’s free show (bring money), England
- Greyscale, Tonight David Ireland will lecture, dance and box, England
- Hetain Patel (Dance 4), TEN, England
- Idle Motion, The Vanishing Horizon, England
- Imitating the Dog, Hotel Methuselah, England
- Jessica Curry, Perpetual Light: Requiem for an Unscorched Earth, England
- Melanie Wilson and Abigail Conway (Subject to Change), ‘every minute, always’, England
- Michael Pinchbeck, The End, England
- National Theatre Wales, The Dark Philosophers, Wales
- Pachamamma Productions & Richard Jordan Productions Ltd, ROADKILL, Scotland
- Propeller Theatre Company, Pocket Dream, England
- Protein Dance, LOL, England
- Proto-type Theater, Third Person: Bonnie and Clyde Redux, England
- Quarantine, Entitled, England
- Sherman Cymru & Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, Llwyth (Tribe), Wales
- Tim Crouch / News from Nowhere, I, Malvolio, England
- Tom Dale Company, I Infinite, England
- Traverse Theatre, Futureproof, Scotland