Spotlites @ The Merchant's Hall

Zurriola Antzerki Eskola. Middle June. A flat in Bilbao. Four students facing the exam period. A hard study night ahead amongst notes, coffee and cigarettes. These are the ingredients of the story of the four young girls that will discover each other in a night full of conflicts, confessions and emotions. Friendship…

LCP Dance Theatre, Choreography by Joanna Puchala. A new dance performance from a professional company from London; hugely successful at Camden Fringe. This multimedia performance is based on human trafficking, explores the dual identity of a sexual slavery victim and trafficker. A victim can be a trafficker and…

Thermal And A Quarter. There are still fakirs and snake-charmers in India. Only now, they use iPhones and Google. Heck! Even our elephants know what RAM is. Thermal And A Quarter is the non-Bollywood musical voice from this India. Imagine a Yes meets The Beatles via The Police while out for curry vibe. Our sound is…

Practical Magic. Raucous, nerdish comedy with goblins and stuff. From the producers of Fringe smashes: 'Allo 'Allo, 'Fringe phenomenon' ****(Scotsman), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, ★★★★★ (ThreeWeeks), Sex, Lies and Eurovision, ★★★★★ (ThreeWeeks), Trainspotting, ★★★★★ (EdinburghGuide.com) and The Steamie, ★★★★…

So you want to go to Australia? New procedures mean you have to attend a briefing from Bruce to see if you qualify for a visa. This includes songs about beer, the outback and the sun. Also, the after effects of beer. He sings about missing home and tells us exactly what he thinks of poms. Sprinkle in a little…

Limb2Limb. From London to Edinburgh, Limb2Limb, a young and exciting company creating dynamic storytelling theatre brings Circles to Edinburgh. Meet siblings Alex and Kate and discover the reality of their lives through a story told with stunning physical theatre. Watch as they fight like brother and sister and fondly…

An intense play successfully performed in many Italian theatres. A story told with body and words, about a mother walking back through the tragedy of her drug-addict son. A story of love, bravery, of strength found where you never thought. A tribute to all fighting mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, friends…

Spotlites Theatre Productions. Battle mummified soldiers with real whips! Raid the tomb with the archaeologist! Crack the code and escape the traps! Professional interactive theatre for kids who don't just want to sit still and watch! Artie Flinders, Professor of Archaeology, battles against the pharaoh's curse to…

Aria DeMaris & Sherry Duggal. Weigh the opposites within yourself, as an artist and a psychologist explore the many different shades of being a woman. 'We can balance the weight of the world … even in heels'. twitter.com/evebalancingact. Ages 16+.

Picaresque Players Theatre Company. Expiration Date takes place 100 years in the future, where life as we know it is radically different. Our protagonist Mildred wants to expire on her 150th birthday but her family and friends try to convince her to transition into another entity, a People-Pod. Arguments ensue for and…

Spotlites Theatre Productions. Chop the tree to rescue the gluey goose! Stick tight to its gooey golden feathers! Sail away on the magic land-ship! Professional interactive theatre for kids who don't just want to sit still and watch! Little 'uns come onstage throughout! Join Boy as he shares his food with a starving…

Maisah Sobaihi. What do women in Saudi Arabia do when their husbands decides on wife number two? Do they fight or flee? What's life like for the second wife? How long is too long to wait for Mr Prince Charming to come galloping on his horse? In Head Over Heels in Saudi Arabia one woman takes you on a journey to…

Resuscitate Theatre. This morning Gregor woke up and felt different. She has changed. With a need to provide for her family, what can she do? She must go to work. But her body doesn't function the way it used to, and she just can't make it out the door. Will she be able to depend on her family to support her the way…

Sandro Monetti with Team Mis Les. Anne Muffaway, Jean Jackman and Inspector Crowe the singing policeman are among the characters in this hilarious musical parody set in 19th-century France. Miserable Lesbians - based on, you guessed it - 'swept the board with eight awards at the annual Toscar awards in Hollywood' (BBC…

Lorenzo Novani (aka Renz). Drawing inspiration from shamans, mystics and spiritualists, magician and mentalist Lorenzo Novani takes you on a mesmerising journey into the theatre of the mind! Expect audience involvement, and moments of deep astonishment. 'This man is a genius' (Citizens Theatre). Ages 16+.

Edinburgh Studio Opera. Following sell-out Fringe shows and five-star reviews for its latest production, Edinburgh Studio Opera returns with a revival of Tom Cunningham and Alexander McCall Smith's The Okavango Macbeth. Set in the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana, this chamber opera deals with the efforts of an…

Andrew T. Miller Music Studios. This world-premiere performance features soaring original music by American Sony/BMG Masterworks and Steinway composer Andrew T. Miller, performed by professional and pre-professional artists from Mr. Miller's vocal studio. Follow the composition process through all its ups and downs…

Carmen Garcia Lorca. A famous and glamorous actress finds herself in the worst situation: acting in Fringe theatre! And, as if that's not enough, she lives in the warehouse, which is not at all beautiful, like the one in the opera. Although she tries not to, she falls in love all over again with the audience, tells…

Center for Arts Beyond Boundaries (Korea), Hwawon Lee, Andy Kihoon-Yoon. Tells the story of a pianist at the end of her career. She reminisces with regret, the last time her fingers danced on the keyboard. The history, the past and the gifts she had, cross and interface allowing us to witness the hard conditions of the…

Durham University Light Opera Group. DULOG return to the Fringe this summer with the Gilbert and Sullivan classic Pirates of Penzance. This comic opera follows Frederic, recently freed from his apprenticeship to a crew of tender-hearted pirates, and his romance with Mabel, all set against a backdrop of beautiful…

Theatre For Africa. The secret surrounding the making of malt whisky made its way from the shores of Scotland to the eastern Cape of Africa. The excise men are hounding young Charlie Hepburn, so he escapes on a ship to Africa. While the ship is ploughing through high troughs rounding the bulge of Africa, Charlie meets…

Spotlites Theatre Productions. Defend Rapunzel's tower with real lightsabres! Master Jedi skills with Duke Skylord to rescue Trueflapper the alien! Professional interactive theatre for kids who don't just want to sit still and watch! Rapunzel Star Wars style! Rapunzel lives in an ancient rocket-ship, imprisoned by the…

BOMBSYTEtheatre. Have you ever been in a car? Then Recalculating is the show for you! BOMBSYTEtheatre took to the road and came back with Recalculating. John O'Groats to Lands' End: five people, six cases, one Peugeot, 2012 miles, seven days, seven destinations, flat tyres, fast food, toilet traumas! Wouldn't change a…

FULLfuse Theatre. World premiere of controversial new writing which explores the theme of free speech through an exciting fusion of classic and experimental theatrical styles. Composed of vignettes and based upon true stories, this collaboratively devised production also incorporates multimedia and an original score to…

FULLfuse Theatre. In the wake of Margaret Thatcher's death, Jim Cartwright's play Two continues to challenge its audiences, presenting the lives of the marginalised working-class characters from a northern pub in the 1980s. With a cast of just two, this is a play that explores the unfulfilled dreams of the pub's 14…

Akhmeteli State Dramatic Theater. I would like to travel beyond time and space to look through kindness and evil, says the young Japanese writer to the Indian philosopher and magician. With his help, the Japanese writer begins travelling through different stories. At the end of this travelling, the writer, like other…