HEADS UP

By Kieran Hurley 

directed by Julia Taudevin

SHEDINBURGH

Date: Saturday 2 August

Time: 20:00 (60 mins)

A city. Just like this. Right now. A teenage girl boils up in rage in a toilet cubicle. A finance worker preaches doom in a busy train station. An absurd coke-addled celebrity races through town on a mission. A paranoid stoner stares blankly at the endless disasters on the TV news. In just one moment, all their worlds will end.

In this stripped back reading of his 2016 Scotsman Fringe First award winning show, Kieran Hurley weaves a picture of a familiar city at its moment of destruction, asking what would we do if we found ourselves at the end of our world as we know it, 

Critics Awards for Theatre In Scotland (CATS) Best New Play winner 2017.

By Julia Taudevin 

directed by Melanie Jordan & Caitlin Skinner

Summerhall, The Dissection Room TICKETS

Date: Friday 22 August

Time: 17:30 (60 mins)

Auntie is a sweet old dear. All she wants is to regale us with tales of dear old Blighty, but her body is falling to bloody bits. Oh dear.

Gracing the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with her presence for one night only, Auntie Empire will perform on Friday 22nd August in Summerhall’s The Dissection Room. An unmissable collaboration between award winning Scottish companies Disaster Plan and Jordan & Skinner, Auntie Empire is an  outrageous contemporary satire on Britannia and the grotesque absurdity of her imperial self-regard.

Having conquered the screen in a short film of the same name, directed by Julia Taudevin and Niamh McKeown’s (BBC and Hulu’s Dinosaur), before making a sneak peek appearance as part of Snapshots at Manipulate Festival 2025, Auntie Empire makes her splendiferous return to the stage this August. Auntie has gathered us all to relive and celebrate our glorious shared past, but unfortunately she also has some tragic, terrible, and most pressing news. And she needs your help.

An absurd and rambunctious solo show blending bouffon comedy, satire and audience interaction, Auntie Empire is a bloody, messy, hilarious and timely lampoon of the myths of nationhood.

Auntie Empire has been developed with support from Creative Scotland, Paisley Arts Centre and One Ren.