theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall

Events at theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall (Nicolson Street, Edinburgh)

Age of the Geek

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	Hayden Cohen. Dictators have fallen. Empires have been won and lost. Now geeks rule the world. Combining spoken word, music and comedy, Hayden shows how the geeks have inherited the earth. Staring longingly into the heart of all things geeky, this is a show that will entertain you through our impending technological doom. Age suitability: rated 'PG'. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	3 Aug–4 Aug Fri & Sat 3.05–3.55pm Preview performance.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 3.05–3.55pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	8 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 3.05–3.55pm	0131 226 0000

Daughters of Lot

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	Brain Melt Consortium. A modern day burlesque act with a twist. The entertainment begins as a sexy and silly retelling of an ancient story, until the performers do a trick that requires more than flexibility. Part Brecht, part Bible, part Suicide Girls, Daughters of Lot is 'exciting, conscientious, and visually stimulating … a special production in the indie theatre rep' (Theasy.com). Brain Melt Consortium presents this titillating, perplexing and vexing exploration of the ways women are… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	13 Aug–15 Aug Mon–Wed 11pm–12.15am Preview performance.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	16 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 11pm–12.15am	0131 226 0000

From Houdini to Potter

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	Great Grandmother Productions. Hi, I'm Chris and I'm dishonest. Unlike anything you've seen before and on the back of a sell-out tour, Yorkshire sensation Chris Cassells brings his debut act to the Edinburgh stage. Uncover the darkest secret of magic, the driving force behind why so many performers choose to live a life of deception. Can you keep a secret? 'Simply magic' (York Press). 'Superb show' (Pateley Bridge Dramatic Society). 'Stylish and captivating' (James Ward, The Magic Circle). View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	3 Aug–4 Aug Fri & Sat 8.05–9.05pm Preview performance.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 8.05–9.05pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	8 Aug–11 Aug Wed–Sat 8.05–9.05pm	0131 226 0000

Gotcha!

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	Suspect Moustache Theatre. Gotcha! is a new one-man play which presents Ernie, a prickly Glaswegian traffic warden, and seven other intertwined characters. Tragedy strikes, but Ernie's indomitable Scottish spirit triumphs over adversity with humour and courage. This play will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you richer for the experience. It is unashamedly Scottish, and tackles our national weaknesses and strengths, in equal measure. Narrow-mindedness, sectarianism, and our love of… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	13 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 8.15–9.50pm	0131 226 0000

A Grave Reunion

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	Stage Write Productions. A 'poetrical' - a play containing poetry that's interwoven into the dialogue. Four university graduates reunite at the wake of a disreputable former acquaintance 10 years after graduating. The deceased has taken a disturbing secret to his grave that has had a profound effect on one of their lives without them even realising. This dark revelation was dead and buried until now! Adapted from a radio play it challenges the traditional notion of respect for the dead. It… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	20 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 5.05–5.55pm	0131 226 0000

HURT

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	Aztikeria Teatro. Tragi-comical musical solo show where Melanie and her alter-ego Veronika (a Barbie doll) take an ethereal journey permeated with abandonment, obsolete memories and reproaches in search of sympathy and atonement. This show invites the audience to enter the uncomfortable world of personality. Should we necessarily overcome what has hurt us in life? Do we have to forget everyone that has harmed us? Must we withhold self-pity? Poetry, dance, video art, pop music and plastic… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	3 Aug–4 Aug Fri & Sat 8.10–8.55pm Preview performance.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 8.10–8.55pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	8 Aug–11 Aug Wed–Sat 8.10–8.55pm	0131 226 0000

The Jhiva of Nietzsche

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	Theatro Transcendental. Combining live action and multimedia, the performance traces the life of German philosopher Frederic Nietzsche through the eyes of his Jhiva (soul). We see his mind (represented on a digital screen) and soul confront each other in a fascinating debate modelled on Nietzsche's real-life writings. As the two opposing entities come head-to-head, reason and intuition collide in an in-body roller coaster to madness… but only one of the two can find freedom in death. ★★★… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	3 Aug–4 Aug Fri & Sat 12.05–12.55pm Preview performance.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 12.05–12.55pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	8 Aug–18 Aug Mon–Sat 12.05–12.55pm	0131 226 0000

Laurent Piron - Unusual Day

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	Laurent Piron. With a touch of magic and a pinch of comedy, Laurent welcomes you into his unique world. Through this view into his daily routine, Laurent reveals the beginnings of his journey as a magician, uncovering and exploring the age-old questions asked by artists - what are my influences, what makes me unique, and, if they exist, how have luck or fate shaped my life? This reflection, narrated with comedy and punctuated with magic, takes unusual twists and turns into an introspective… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	13 Aug–18 Aug Mon–Sat 8.10–8.55pm	0131 226 0000

Locked In

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	Homo Promos. Play based on the journals of Keith Vaughan (1912-77), a great British painter and friend of Hockney, Sutherland, Bacon etc. These great diaries are vivid, funny, angry, erotic, despairing. Whether Vaughan is rescuing wounded soldiers in an air raid, standing trial as a spy, having a holiday fling with a sexy young Mexican, writing to the Times about the joys of pornography, or demolishing the claims of pretentious conceptual artists, you are always right there with him. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	13 Aug–14 Aug Mon & Tue 12.50–1.40pm Preview performance.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	15 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 12.50–1.40pm	0131 226 0000

Metamorphoses: Fables from Ovid

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	Hecate Theatre Co. Not for the faint-hearted. Six myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses are retold by four girls and their Matron, in a Victorian boarding school dormitory. The night before their debutant ball, where they will transform (in the eyes of society) into women, they recount stories of transformation to each other, using only bed linen to weave their tales. Horror blends with comedy through inspired staging and a darkly twisted script. 'Simplistically clever and slick storytelling… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	13 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 4.25–5.10pm	0131 226 0000

The Most Dangerous Toy

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	Playades. When Nietzsche meets Lou Salome, he feels he has found 'a voice, for which I have waited and waited since childhood'. One year later, he has retreated to a remote mountain village, madly scribbling Thus Spake Zarathustra. And advising men to take a whip, when they go to women. Working exclusively with original texts, Playades Theatre Company explores what happened in that seminal year of 1882: philosophy versus reality, society versus individual fulfilment, man versus woman - and… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	3 Aug–4 Aug Fri & Sat 7.05–7.55pm Preview performance.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 7.05–7.55pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	8 Aug–18 Aug Mon–Sat 7.05–7.55pm	0131 226 0000

The Property Known As Garland

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	Snapdragon Theatre. Judy Garland fans rave over Billy Van Zandt's fictional backstage account of Garland's final concert. Her talent is legendary! Her true story more electrifying than you'd ever imagine. Sandra Thomas stars in a non-singing role as Judy Garland in this off -Broadway hit play. Meet Judy the storyteller, the raconteur. With her wicked wit, Judy dishes the dirt on her co-stars, husbands and studio. Neal Beckman plays Ed, the naive stage manager struggling to meet the… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	3 Aug–4 Aug Fri & Sat 11.20am–12.40pm Preview performance.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 11.20am–12.40pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	8 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 11.20am–12.40pm	0131 226 0000

Rob James: Magicana

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	Rob James. A retro-modern magic show. Elegant sleight of hand, baffling magical apparatus and inexplicable illusions presented with humour and flair. See the original version of the beautiful Marvellous Orange Tree as romanticised in the film The Illusionist. From the House of Commons in London to the Magic Castle in Hollywood, Rob James is a veteran of over 2000 performances. 'Rob James was excellent. Dry humour, classic magic and some elegant sleight of hand wowed the audience' (Magicseen… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	3 Aug–4 Aug Fri & Sat 1.05–1.55pm Preview performance.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 1.05–1.55pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	8 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 1.05–1.55pm	0131 226 0000

Seussical

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	Caught in the Web Productions. Seussical - a dynamic, spirited family musical which brings together Dr. Seuss' best-loved stories and characters in one amazing adventure, through the beautiful music and lyrics of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. In The Jungle of Nool, Horton struggles against the odds to save the tiny world of the Whos from destruction. During his journey, he encounters many colourful creatures, including the Cat in the Hat, who either help him or create mischief. An… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	13 Aug–18 Aug Mon–Sat 12.40–1.55pm	0131 226 0000

Seven Against Thebas

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	Cali Teatro Colombia. Cali Teatro from Colombia presents its own version of this piece by Aeschylus, adapted and directed by Alvaro Arcos. Protesting against Colombian armed conflict, displaced persons, explosions and the drama of the fight for power between two brothers, descendants of Oedipus. Where the violence, invasions, tortures and human rights violations are not only in the past. All ages. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	20 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 5.05–5.50pm	0131 226 0000

Sex Ed: The Musical!

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	Out Write Productions. Ever wondered what a prostatic utricle was? A urethral sponge? A scrotum? Have you ever tried hand-to-gland combat? Playing the clitar? Spelunking? Have you ever been vaginally tardy? Forging a path through the jungles of sexual ignorance, this team of titillating teachers explain everything you never wanted to know about sex. You will finally understand why sex is like bread, why AIDS is like cheese and why rejection is like chicken. Your mind will be blasted open by… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	3 Aug–4 Aug Fri & Sat 6.30–7.45pm Preview performance.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 6.30–7.45pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	8 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 6.30–7.45pm	0131 226 0000

Streets the Musical

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	New Musical from Young Scottish Writer/Composer Finn Anderson. The contemporary new musical from young Scottish writer/composer Finn Anderson. Gritty, fast-paced and hard-hitting, Streets follows a group of young people and their descent into the dangerous world of street crime and addiction. Following an extremely well-received premiere in 2011, the cast of emerging young Scottish performers are delighted to be bringing the production to the Fringe for 2012. Featuring an entirely original… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	3 Aug–4 Aug Fri & Sat 2.40–3.55pm Preview performance.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 2.40–3.55pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	8 Aug–11 Aug Wed–Sat 2.40–3.55pm	0131 226 0000

Tim Honnef: Life

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	. Poetic, funny, sweet, unique and wonderful' (Tim Honnef's lego), 'an unguided missile, you never know what happens next' (Tim Honnef's playmobil), 'raw' (Dinosaur Rex), 'clean up your room, you tw*t!' (Tim Honnef's dad). Tim Honnef is 21. Tim Honnef is Dutch. In 2011, he won a Dutch comedy award and published a book of short stories, poetry, jokes and thoughts. Audiences and press label him as 'a little bit strange'. His girlfriend labels him as 'mad sexy'. Come and judge for yourself… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	3 Aug–4 Aug Fri & Sat 3.05–3.55pm Preview performance.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 3.05–3.55pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	0131 226 0000
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall	8 Aug–18 Aug Mon–Sat 3.05–3.55pm	0131 226 0000

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