The biggest arts festival in the world, Edinburgh Festival Fringe is well under way. As well as attracting some of the most renowned theatre and dance companies, a whole host of new and emerging artists are among the 4000 shows in the festival. We’ve picked out a couple that might have flown under your radar to take a punt on in the last week:
Showcase Hong Kong Soul is new to the festival, just in its second year. Their dance offering It’s Not My Body: Chapter 3.5 / This Is has been and gone, but you can still catch No Dragon No Lion, which mixes beat-boxing, martial arts and tricks and parkour, and their drama Must I Cry is the story of the last male northern white rhinoceros, Sudan, whose death marked the end of a species on the brink of extinction. The brand new German showcase has three shows including Cyr Wheel show IIIII – About the Art of Letting Go. Other showcases include House of Oz with 12 shows including the intriguingly titled No Babies in the Sauna, and circus show Of the Land on Which We Meet. Dance Base is hosting an array of international dance, including Sleeper in the Korean Season and Ananta, The Eternal with classical Indian dance.
Shows from some of the more emerging artists range from tales of coming out, growing up, mental health conditions, and more. Barbies and Drillas at Gilded Balloon is a comedy about five housemates gloriously wasting their youth as they try to avoid the hell of growing up, whilst Gogo Boots Go looks at what impact the first experiences of sex, love and lust have on perceptions of sexuality growing up. There are a few shows about the absurdity and complexity of OCD including Driver’s Seat: Obsessive Compulsive Disaster and 1, 2, 3. Sh*t, that’s my OCD, and the impact of mental illness on families in Party Girl, and the mental health system itself is explored in That’s Not My Name.
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