Voicebox: Edinburgh Fringe

If you're involved in a young theatre ensemble and want to perform at Edinburgh Fringe 2020, check out this opportunity from the Pleasance. 

There is a lot of preconceived notions of what Edinburgh Fringe is and isn’t! I’m here to put some of those ideas to bed.

"Being raised in a very deprived, working-class estate, you’re led to believe that these things just don’t happen to people like us."

Director Tang Wai-kit, the first Hong Kong student of mime master Marcel Marceau, offers this year’s fringe distressing theatre that uses mime to explore trials and tribulations experienced by his compatriots

An effortlessly endearing stand-up about everything, from meeting Michelle Obama to struggling with cowgirl, that also manages to touch on what is wrong with black excellence

An ever-changing dreamy performance on our ever-changing weather (and beliefs about weather)

OUT by Rachael Young is an extremely powerful physical meditation on the painful, and productive, relationship between blackness and queerness

Interview with Emma Heron, artistic director of Mrs Pankhurst’s Players as we talk the darker side of Shakespeare and how best to improve female representation on stage 

"I don’t look through newspapers and decide to write something. If an idea hits me like a ten ton of bricks and I need to drop everything to tell this story then I know it’s something important."

"Growing up in an isolated mining community there wasn’t much to see in terms of arts. Every Christmas the Nutcracker would be on CBC television and Mikail Baryshnikov was (still is) INCREDIBLE. Watch that man move. He’s unreal."

Nice.

Emotional and captivating whilst being an important and accessible oral history archive. It explores intensely individual and personal stories whilst also commenting on our diverse and wonderful 21st-century society.