ZOO Southside, Mon 5–Mon 26 Aug (not 6, 13, 20), 7.45pm, £10–£12 (£8–£10). Previews Fri 2– Sun 4 Aug, £7. Hippana Theatre invites you to the distant recesses of the mind to meet the stranger inside you. How much do we know about ourselves? Are we not one person, but many? SHINE is an immersive psychological thriller that blurs the senses and tricks the mind into feeling what might not be there. HONEY Tove Appelgren, ACE-Production in association with From Start to Finnish ZOO Southside, Fri 2–Sun 25 Aug (not 12, 19), 4.30pm, £10 (£8). Honey, a freelance journalist and single mother of four (and a half) seeks control, agency, confi rmation and solvency from her rebellious daughter, disappointed mother, sceptical friends and imperfect men. A comedic one-woman show from Finland featuring Scottish actress Sarah McCardie embodying eleven triumphantly dysfunctional characters in one hour, precisely.
STYX Second Body ZOO Southside, Fri 2–Sat 17 Aug, 3.05pm, £14 (£12). An award-winning theatre-concert performed by an international supergroup of musicians. An exploration of what it is to lose the memories that make us who we are and the stories that connect them. Original songs, live sound-processing and personal recordings bring light to the experience of living and dying with dementia and the imprints that outlast us. I SWALLOWED A MOON MADE OF IRON Music Picnic (Toronto) / Point View Art (Macau) ZOO Southside, Tue 6–Sun 25 Aug (not 13, 20), 10pm, £10 (£9). A requiem for our digital age from Toronto/Macau composer Njo Kong Kie. This concert experience sets the poetry of Chinese poet and factory worker Xu Lizhi to song. Powerful, haunting and gut- wrenching, these poems give voice to millions of migrant workers worldwide whose existence is often forgotten.
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HOW TO USE A WASHING MACHINE SLAM Theatre ZOO Southside, Mon 5–Mon 26 Aug (not 14, 21), 12pm, £10 (£8). Previews Fri 2–Sun 4 Aug, £6. This original musical, featuring a live string quartet, follows Cass and James – siblings called back to their childhood home to pack up for one last time. As they box up their old lives, tensions rise and they must confront themselves and each other about who they’ve become, the decisions that led them there and what it means to be grown up. UNICORN PARTY Nick Field ZOO Playground, Sun 11–Mon 26 Aug (not 18), 6.50pm, £10 (£9). Unicorns, have you noticed they’re everywhere right now? As is the far right. This hilarious, rollicking, razor-sharp show asks what the simultaneous rise of these phenomenons tells us. Hunting the omnipresent one-horned icon across civilisations to explore how ideologies spread and our imaginations become capitalised, Nick Field envisions a dystopian Unicorn Fascist State Britain.
BLACK HOLES Seke Chimutengwende and Alexandrina Hemsley ZOO Southside, Mon 19–Sun 25 Aug, 2.20pm, £14 (£12). An Afrofuturist history of the universe from the Big Bang to dreamshout death. Propelling lived experiences onto a cosmic scale, Chimutengwende and Hemsley shapeshift through poetic text and movement. Step into an alternative speculation on how to orbit bodies which carry histories of marginalisation and anti-blackness. ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA Ontroerend Goed, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Vooruit, Richard Jordan Productions, BiB with ZOO ZOO Southside, Tue 6–Sun 25 Aug (not 5, 12, 19), 11am, £14 (£12). Previews Fri 2–Sun 4 Aug, £10. Like its title, this performance is a palindrome; you can see it forwards and backwards. Some people believe humanity is moving forward, while others believe the opposite. Some say the world’s coming to an end, others call them doomsayers. No matter who’s right, our quest for progress has dramatically changed the world we live in. Are our actions irreversible or can we undo them?
SHINE Hippana Theatre in association with From Start to Finnish STYX
B O X O F F I C E
pleasance.co.uk 0131 556 6550
summerhall.co.uk 0131 560 1581
zoofestival.co.uk 0131 662 6892
68 THE LIST FESTIVAL 31 Aug–7 Aug 2019