If you’re heading to Edinburgh this summer, there is a great range of DSL students and graduates heading there too – with some fantastic shows. We’ve listed some here for you with all the details you need to plan your trip.
Do please get in touch with your Edinburgh Fringe stories and photos and we want to wish everyone performing, producing, directing or visiting a fantastic festival!
Here’s our roundup of DSL shows (in order of first appearance):
HOW A JELLYFISH SAVED THE WORLD
From Jam Jar Theatre Company CIC
Featuring 2022 BA Graduates; Emily Lloyd – Director (Company Director), Tessa Chalmers – Writer/Actor (Company Director), Callum Read – Composer (Company Director), Nicholas Heaton – Actor and Sophie Wynn-Jones – Actor
Children’s Shows (puppetry)
Venue 33: Pleasance Courtyard – The Green
Dates: Jul 31 Aug 1-18
Time: 13:10 – 1 hour
Suitability: 3+ (5-11)
Warnings and additional info: This show contains audience participation.
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LOCOMOTIVE FOR MURDER: THE IMPROVISED WHODUNNIT
From Pinch Punch
Venue 24: Gilded Balloon Patter House – Other Yin
Dates: Jul 31 Aug 1-13, 15-26
Time: 15:00 – 1 hour
Suitability: 8+
Warnings and additional info: Audience participation. This show contains some audience participation and references to murder. Due to its improvised nature, there may be scenes of comedic violence, suggestive themes, and occasional bad language.
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MY MOTHER HAS TWO FACES: Reflections on Beauty, Aging and Acceptance
Featuring 1985 Alum; Karin Trachtenberg for Fringe Management LLC
Venue 24: Gilded Balloon Patter House – Bothie
Dates: Jul 31 Aug 1-12, 14-19, 21-26
Times: 13:20 – 1 hour
Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)
You can read more on Karin’s website here.
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TRADE (WIP)
From Richard Stott
Comedy (storytelling)
Venue 288: Just the Tonic at The Mash House – Just the Attic
Dates: Aug 1-11
Times: 14:40 – 1 hour
Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)
Warnings and additional info: Audience participation, Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes, Strong language/swearing, Buy a ticket in advance to guarantee entry or Pay What You Want at the venue.
Read a review here.
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PISKIE
From BOONDOG THEATRE
Featuring DSL Alum Lucy Roslyn
Dates: Aug 1-26
Time: 12:00 (60 mins)
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BLACK AND WHITE TEA ROOM: COUNSELLOR
From Theatre Hooam | Korean Season presented by AtoBiz Ltd
Featuring DSL Course Leader: MA, Jonathan Kemp
Venue 20: Assembly Rooms – Front Room
Dates: Aug 1-11, 13-18, 20-25
Times: 12:40 – 1 hour
Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)
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WALLIS
From BramwellBrand Productions Ltd, featuring 2009 Alum Andrew Williams
Venue 53: theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall – Fleming Theatre
Dates: Aug 2-10, 12-17, 19-24
Time: 10:40 – 1 hour 20 minutes
Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)
FIX YOUR MIND
From Fundamental Loose Screw, featuring 2023 Graduate Georgia Brooke-Hitching
Venue 24: Guilded Balloon Platter House – Other Yin
Dates: Aug 9 – 21
Time: 18:00 – 1 hour
Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)
Warnings and additional info: Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes, Strong language/swearing, Discussions of sexual violence, Misogyny
DEFECTIVE INSPECTOR: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY
From The Defectors
Featuring DSL 2021 Graduate Francesca Eldred
Venue 38: theSpaceTriplex – Studio
Dates: Aug 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23
Times vary – 50 minutes
Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)
Warnings and additional info: Strong language/swearing, Contains drug, sexual and suicide references
And from the same team:
DEFECTIVE INSPECTOR: A STITCH IN TIME
Dates: Aug 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24
Times vary – 50 minutes
Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)
Warnings and additional info: Strong language/swearing
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ACCOMO-DATING
From SELERTO Theatre Company
Featuring 2024 Graduates: Saskia Chancellor, Erin Killingray, Tom Hood and Eliza Horn and developed during their final year of training at DSL
Venue: 16 Greenside @ Riddles Court – Thistle Theatre
Dates: Aug 12-17
Time: 19:45 – 45 minutes
Suitability: 16+ (Guideline)
Warnings and additional info: Strong language/swearing
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GLASTONBURY
From Four Headed Dragon featuring MA 2019 Graduate; Jonathan Brenner
Venue 53: theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall – Theatre 1
Dates: Aug 19-24
Time: 18:35 – 50 minutes
Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)
Warnings and additional info: Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes, Scenes of violence, Strobe lighting, Strong language/swearing
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TIT(S) FOR TAT
From Knockout Productions
Featuring DSL Graduates Katie Suitor, Eva Ceroni Marti and Alice Kellar
Venue 39: theSpace on the Mile – Space 2
Dates: Aug 19-24
Time: 13:05 – 50 minutes
Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)
Warnings and additional info: Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes, Strong language/swearing
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THIS PORNO DOES NOT PASS THE BECHDEL TEST
Featuring 2023 graduates Jessie-Wren Jacobs & Paddy Lish
Venue16: Greenside @ Riddles Court – Willow Studio
Dates: Aug 19-24
Time: 14:00 – 50 minutes
Suitability: 16+ (Guideline)
Warnings and additional info: Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes, Scenes of a sexual nature, Strong language/swearing
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ALSO IN EDINBURGH!
Also in Edinburgh this August as part of a wider tour of UK venues, you can catch IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL – A NEW MIUSICAL on 23rd August at 19:00 and 24th August at 14:00, hosted by Destiny Church Leith. Produced by Handiwork Productions and featuring DSL Graduate; Henry Leigh-Hunt.