ZOO Venues 2016
ZOO Venues’ 2016 season Welcome to ZOO Venues’ 2016 programme. This year home grown talent rubs shoulders with international innovators in a carefully curated and richly diverse programme that is guaranteed to hold some surprises in store. We’ve handpicked 54 shows from around the globe which represent some of the most exceptional work being made right now. Stunning dance and physical theatre sits alongside vital new writing by companies from as far afield as Brazil and as close to home as the Midlothian. In a year so far defined by ever-increasing uncertainty, you’ll find opportunities for both escapism and searching reflection on our world past, present and future. This is an unforgettable line up of unique, exciting and essential performances. With shows from 10am till late every day, great bars and all new café, ZOO is the perfect place to experience the extraordinary at this year’s festival. James Mackenzie, Artistic Director
Tickets for any ZOO Venues’ show can be bought from our box offices at ZOO and ZOO Southside, or via our booking hotline 0131 662 6892.The box offices are open from 10am each morning. Check www.zoofestival.co.uk and our @ZOOVenues twitter feed for the latest ticket deals.
Food and Drink New for this year at ZOO Southside is FEEDING TIME our awesome bar and cafĂŠ serving a delicious menu of hot and cold bites, proper coffee and all your favourite tipples from 10am till late each day. Plus enough free Wi-Fi to check out all the latest reviews, download your ticket report for nine millionth time that morning or just remind yourself there is a whole world outside of the festival. For those who prefer your beer with a little sun (or maybe a little rain) the ZOO Southside patio bar is back with its usual offering of great local ales alongside all of the gin.
Access We are committed to making ZOO as accessible as possible. As our venues are temporary and in some very old buildings not all of our spaces are fully accessible. Below you will find information about which spaces have step free or lift access. If you would like more information about the accessibility of particular events or spaces or would just like to chat to us about how we can best help please call 0131 662 6787 or email mike@zoovenues.co.uk ZOO Southside All spaces are fully accessible. The Studio and Cabaret Bar have level access from the rear of the building, the Main House has lift access. ZOO The Aviary is accessible via a very slight ramp. The Monkey House and Sanctuary spaces unfortunately do not have step free access.
ZOO Venues 2016
ZOO Box Office
childrens
Colourful Games Dansema Dance Theatre Bursting with vibrant colour and delightful surprises, this interactive performance invites its young audience to explore the world around them with the help of a dancer. Self-discovery and wonder await. A beautifully crafted immersive experience for little ones.
Preview £5 (£12 F) £5 (£16 F) 11:00 (0 h 40 m) Venue: ZOO
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Fraxi Queen of the Forest Asylon Theatre Home provider, oxygen producer and No 1 BFF: Fraxi the Ash tree is guardian to forest dwellers. But when tragedy strikes, friends Woody and HB Caterpillar must choose how to save their beloved home!
Preview £6 £8 (£6.00) (£24 F) 13:00 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO
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James and the Giant Peach UCLU Runaground UCLU Runaground presents a fantastical retelling of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel. The tale follows James Henry Trotter as he encounters giant talking insects, wicked aunts and travels across the Atlantic in a humongous peach. m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04
Preview £5 (£4 concs) £9 (£7.50 concs) 14:45 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO
How does the world look to a small child? Is it round or angular, yellow or blue? Renowned Lithuanian choreographer Birute Baneviciute pieces together a puzzle from these coloured shapes in a vibrant performance exploring a child’s developmental stages.
Preview £5 (£12 F) £5 (£16 Fa) 12:00 (0 h 45 m) Venue: ZOO
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Tortoise and Rabbit Three Feathers Theatre Company
£8 (£6 concs) 13:40 (0 h 40 m)
It’s race day! Tortoise vs Rabbit: who will win? Join their adventure to be crowned the fastest of them all! Three Feathers presents an interactive, multisensory retelling of this timeless classic with music, puppetry, bubbles and more!
Venue: ZOO
childrens
Puzzle Dansema Dance Theatre
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Andrew Carlberg in association with Ride On Theatre and AuroraNova
Two strangers, desperately seeking connection, meet in a bar. Featuring a different guest performer as the date each night, this is improvisation at its most dangerous. No scripts, no rehearsals, no two shows ever the same. m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04
Preview £8 £12 (£10 concs) 22:00 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
comedy
The Blind Date Project
Cabaret & Variety
Theatre
Simon Warner’s Viva Hypnosis Viva Hypnosis You are about to be transported to the glitz and glamour of Vegas where you have the opportunity to be the star of the show! Prepare for the most exhilarating hypnotic ride of your life. www.vivahypnosislive.com
Preview £5 £10 (£8.50 concs) 20:50 (1 h 15 m) Venue: ZOO
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Ash Bric à Brac Based on a true story, Ash explores the life of George Crozier from his first to his last cigarette. This ‘connected and playful’ Lecoq ensemble, **** (RemoteGoat.com), uses live music to underscore a lifelong love affair with smoking.
Preview £5 £10 (£8 concs) 20:00 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO
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Child’s Play Kalon
£7 (£5 concs) 20:00 (0 h 50 m)
What do people remember from the Millennium? The Millennium bug, which worked out fine. Spoken word meets theatre in asking why Millennials, a generation so visible, aren’t heard. You don’t have to agree, but maybe you should listen.
Venue: ZOO
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If someone you knew committed an unspeakable crime, did you ever really know them? In 2013, an eighteen-year-old boy was imprisoned for the possession of 50,000 indecent images of children. Daniel follows those left behind. ‘Disturbingly brilliant’ (Sunday Times).
Preview £5 £8 (£6 concs) 13:30 (0 h 50 m) Venue: ZOO
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Echoes Living Record ‘A play that makes you want to shout “Run!” at the stage’ (Paul Vale, Stage). In an isolated cottage deep in the English countryside, an estranged couple battle over their young daughter’s fate. *****(FringeGuru.com). *****(EdFringeReview.com). *****(LondonTheatre.co.uk).
Preview £8 £12 (£10 concs) 21:00 (0 h 55 m) Venue: ZOO
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Finders Keepers Hot Coals Theatre Finders Keepers is a fun-filled, touching piece inspired by the story of Moses, using music, puppetry and comic happenings in a highly visual piece with no dialogue. Accessible to deaf and hearing audience in a shared experience. m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04
Preview £7 £9 (£7 concs) 11:45 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO
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Daniel Footprint Theatre
Theatre
Generation Zero Lamphouse Theatre One young couple. One changing world. She’s certain she knows the man she loves, but he’s hiding a disturbing secret. A look at our future through the eyes of the first generation to tackle climate change head-on. www.generationzero.co.uk
Preview £5 £9 (£7 concs) 14:15 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
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Hip Kriya Arts
£10 (£8 concs) 16:30 (1 h 0 m)
Squatters find a once hip woman’s long-forgotten possessions in an empty flat above the shops of Brighton. An intimate journey exploring sex, drugs and how to avoid dying alone… losing a hip bone in the process. A true story.
Venue: ZOO
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Hummingbird Tooth+Nail Theatre Company Lonely? Single? Look no further! Eligible Bachelor seeks Like-minded Female for romance – and murder. A dark, devious love story blending acrobatics and action with a striking visual style from Lecoq-trained Tooth+Nail. ‘Incredibly skilled’ (AYoungerTheatre.com). m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04
Preview £5 £9 (£7 concs) 21:15 (0 h 55 m) Venue: ZOO
Theatre, Apparently Stephen is preparing for a hot date organised by the woman shackled to his plumbing. A hilarious, fast-paced, black comedy about a kidnapper and his victim.
Preview £5 £9 (£7 concs) 16:00 (0 h 45 m) Venue: ZOO
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I, Who Have Hands More Innocent Ines Wurth Presents Challenged by the patriarchal Balkan, this true story of Vesna Parun (the most famous female Croatian poet of all time) gives a chilling insight into all existential aspects of a woman’s life.
Preview £5 £10 (£8 concs) 19:25 (1 h 10 m) Venue: ZOO
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Luna Park StoneCrabs Theatre Company A coming of age reverie presented in the style of magical realism through physical theatre. An inventive, visually captivating, elegiac look at the American past and the immigrant experience of the 1930s. Funny and sizzling with energy. m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04
Preview £5 £9 (£7 concs) 11:50 (0 h 55 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
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I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator
Theatre
Macbeth Fortitude Dance Theatre
£8 (£6 concs) 22:10 (1 h 0 m)
Heat, sweat and noise – same madness, new century. This original physical theatre production takes Macbeth to Manchester, 1989, combining text and movement to create a hypnotic hour of magic, greed and murder.
Venue: ZOO
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Macbeth: Without Words Ludens Ensemble A stark, stylised performance of boundless ambition and the destruction it ultimately wreaks. Three actors, accompanied by a live DJ set and dynamic projections, create a dark and potent visual language. ‘Remarkable, essential viewing’ (Herald, Scotland).
Preview £8 £12 (£10 concs) 16:00 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO
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Machina Malcostume Compagnia Teatrale From within a cliche, feel-good TV show an unexpected revolution is coming: a fight against the Tyranny of Happiness. Innovatively combining video projection and Commedia dell’Arte, Machina asks if choice is ever really free. English and Italian (with subtitles). m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04
Preview £5 £9 (£7 concs) 12:45 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO
Silly sex. Serious friendships. MOONFACE explores the formative f*ck-ups of adolescence. The intertwined stories of three girls thrust into adulthood. Fresh, incisive new writing. Monologue, movement and striking naturalism.
Preview £5 £9 (£7 concs) 16:45 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
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My Month of Mother’s Ruin Stephanie Harte
£5 19:00 (1 h 0 m)
When adult life isn’t going to plan sometimes you have to take charge and do something about it. So I took a month... a month for me... my month of mother’s ruin.
Venue: ZOO Southside
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On Ego by Mick Gordon Mind Over Matter Theatre Collective How does the brain construct a self? Neuroscientist Alex questions his identity in this dynamic exploration of love, loss and what it means to be unique. ‘Will stick in the mind days after’ (York Vision). m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04
Preview £8 £10 (£8 concs) 14:00 (1 h 25 m) Venue: ZOO
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moonface Guttersnipe Theatre
Theatre
Operation Love Story Spun Glass Theatre Mission accepted. Plot: greatest love story ever. Gadgets: flowers, chocolates, balaclava. An anti-romcom, satirising dreams Richard Curtis sells us. Poignant, imaginative storytelling set in a make believe landscape of tall buildings and lonely people. ****(BroadwayBaby.com).
Preview £8 £10 13:00 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
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Partial Nudity Fandango Productions A Bolton pub. One stag do. One hen do. Two strippers forced to share a dressing room. In this 50-minute drama, these strangers descend into a territory that leaves the audience feeling as exposed as they are.
Preview £7 £9 (£7 concs) 19:55 (0 h 50 m) Venue: ZOO
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Radpole Double Edge Drama From bell-bottoms, free love and psychedelic rock to the era of Trump on CNN, essays on The Politics of Human Fertility, and selfies on Mars. Our world is distinctly evolving but has growing up ever changed? RADPOLE is the latest work devised by Double Edge Drama. m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S m T W T F S S 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04
£7 (£5 concs) 17:00 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO
Pentire Street Productions present their two-person immersive drama exploring sex work and manipulation in abusive relationships. Join Jess and Tom in their car as they drive around Edinburgh and gain an insight into their troubled lives.
£10 11:30, 14:00, 17:00 (0 h 50 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
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Scorched Open Sky A WWII desert veteran sits in the armchair of his rest home, loves and losses tattooed upon his body. Dementia strikes. Resistance crumbles. The past drags him back to the scorched sands. Previous Fringe First, Total Theatre Award winners.
Preview £7 £9 (£7 concs) 15:30 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
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Shaedates: or How I Learned to Love Myself
Preview £5 £10 (£8 concs) 16:30 (0 h 55 m)
Shae has a boyfriend but he’s not the one. Then she notices someone else... someone different... someone who’s always been there. A tender, surreal comedy about finding true love by dating yourself.
Venue: ZOO
Shaelee Rooke
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Rubber Pentire Street Productions
Theatre
Stamp Spun Glass Theatre Hosted by Sandi Toksvig and Frank N Furter’s love child, Stamp is a cheeky, challenging game show where you make the rules. Contestants must pit their wits against your choices to battle for supremacy. Interactive cabaret for the mischievous.
Preview £8 £10 19:30 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
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Still Here Theatre for Justice A new play based on the experiences of an Eritrean refugee. Taken from an interview conducted in Calais during December 2015, Still Here documents the journey of a man as he fled persecution for his faith.
Preview £7 (£5.50 concs) £10 (£8.00 concs) 19:15 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO at St Mary’s South
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The Magnetic Diaries Reaction Theatre Makers
£9 (£8 concs) 13:00 (1 h 0 m)
Emma Bailey is a modern day Madame Bovary, battling with a stifling middle-class lifestyle, thwarted dreams and untreatable depression. In desperation, she embarks on a course of pioneering brain therapy, documenting her journey through raw, beautiful poetry.
Venue: ZOO
Site-specific, immersive and utterly devilish… Join Sleepless Theatre Company for this explosively fantastical interpretation of Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, set in St Cuthbert’s Church among the trees and graves of a ghostly, night-time Edinburgh.
Preview £10 £12 (£10 concs) 22:00 (1 h 30 m) Venue: ZOO at St Cuthbert’s
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The ME The Sun Apparatus Theatre Company A dark comedy about a woman who will do anything to stay young and a scientist who carries the perfect solution in her pocket. Four formidable women try every (im)possible means to get what they want.
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The Murderer Clown Funeral ‘I have a murderer in my house. It’s all perfectly fine.’ In a world where citizens rehabilitate criminals, the Carer and the Murderer go for coffee and play badminton. Selected for New Diorama’s Emerging Graduate Companies Programme. m T W T
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Preview £5 £8 (£6 concs) 18:00 (0 h 55 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
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The Master and Margarita Sleepless Theatre Company
Theatre
Three for Two by Phil Booth Groundswell Theatre Three plays, two actors, seventy minutes. In these sharp, funny dramas, love fights for survival in a world of hard cash and illicit pleasures. ‘Enticing, uplifting, meticulously observed’ *****(RemoteGoat.com). www.groundswelltheatre.co.uk
Preview £5 £9 (£7 concs) 18:15 (1 h 10 m) Venue: ZOO
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Undermined Danny Mellor Presents
£10 17:00 (1 h 0 m)
Outstanding (FringeReview.co.uk). ‘A strongly performed show’ ****(Scotsman). Inspired by the accounts of miners, this one-man show explores the humour and struggles of the 1984 Miners’ Strike through energetic and gripping storytelling. ‘Undermined is unmissable’ (BroadwayWorld.com).
Venue: ZOO
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And Now… plan B Brilliant, visually beautiful dance theatre from one of Scotland’s leading dance companies. Four electrifying dancers and live music from sax-player Steve Kettley (ex-Salsa Celtica), playing alongside Jim Sutherland’s pulsating score. And… the biggest chair you’ll ever see! m T W T
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£10 (£8 cONCS) £12 (£10 concs) 18:30 (1 h 15 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
Love, friendship, pride: the streets of suburbia are burning as brother fights brother to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in the city. Featuring 10 dancers, innovative staging, video projections, special effects, original soundtrack. m T W T
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Preview £10 £14 (£12 concs) £12 £12 (£10 concs) 22:20 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
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Contemporary? Arts Printing House Good parody should amuse, surprise and, above all, surpass the source material. When three artists join forces to send up (and celebrate) their country’s contemporary dance scene, they tick all the boxes. A lovingly crafted, self-deprecating homage to cliché. m T W T
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Preview £8 £12 (£10 concs) 17:15 (1 h 0 m) Venue: ZOO
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Feel-Link Arts Printing House and Urban Dance Theatre Low Air A pair of dancers explore the feelings and insights evoked by a couple’s experience of love past, present and future. A free urban dance style utilising the full capability of the body breathes an expressive vitality into the performance. m T W Tt F S S m T W T F S
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Preview £8 £12 (£10 concs) 12:10 (0 h 40 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
dance & physical theatre
Bang! To the Heart NUE Dance Company
dance & physical theatre
Image – Selfie With Eggs Natalie Reckert Renowned hand balancer Natalie Reckert presents her solo show, where stand-up comedy meets electro-robotics in a feat of handstand endurance. A highly skilled one-woman experiment testing the body’s limits and the stability of eggs... m T W T
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Preview £5 £10 (£8 concs) 16:00 (0 h 50 m) Venue: ZOO
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Molhados&Secos – Wet and Dry ParaladosanjoS A poignant, poetic and comically absurd reflection on human fragility, inspired by stories of natural disasters. Four distinct scenes directed by four renowned Brazilian directors. ‘At times dramatic, at times comic, always visually enchanting’ (TotalTheatre.org.uk). m T W T
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Moscow Boys
The Independent Theatre Project in association with Aurora Nova
Combining clownesque joy with jaw-dropping skill, a string quartet of multi-talented virtuosos escapes the critical eye of their instructor and embarks on a musical journey, Tchaikovsky to Justin Timberlake, waltz to latino. Eclectic, whimsical and ever-surprising musical theatre. m T W T
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Preview £10 £12 (£11 concs) 20:35 (1 h 15 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
Em and Um: a married couple losing their identity in a plastic, robotic, grotesque world. Two dark clowns live out a tragicomic day of drudgery, until something happens which shakes their souls. Audience Award Fêtes Internationales du Théâtre, Montreal. m T W T
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Smother 201 Dance Company ‘Unparalled beauty… striking dystopian fairytale reminiscent of Jamie Brittain’s Skins’ *****(EdFestMag.com). After sellout runs in Fringe 2015, London, NYC and Europe, 201’s raw, contemporary hip-hop returns in a story of two men’s broken encounter. ‘Outstanding choreography’ ***** (Edinburgh49.org). m T W T
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Preview £8 £12 (£10 concs) 15:20 (0 h 55 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
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Taiwan Season: The Sacrifice of Roaring
Preview £5 £10 (£8 concs) 18:30 (0 h 40 m)
Hsu Chen Wei Production Dance Company Inspired by Taiwanese rituals, firebrand choreographer Hsu Chen Wei reveals the human need to release all the pain in their lives to the gods. The result is mysterious, unexpectedly seductive and vital. m T W T
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Venue: ZOO
dance & physical theatre
Petrol Fabbrica del Vento
dance & physical theatre
Tape University of Central Oklahoma Stuck between failure and fame, the artist known only as Tape invites an audience to witness the creation of a pop-cultural Frankenstein. Direct from the University of Central Oklahoma, the Gravel Road Show presents the world premiere of Tape. m T W T
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Preview £5 £8 (£6 concs) 17:40 (0 h 50 m) Venue: ZOO
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Terra Incognita Temper Theatre We’re told that the end of the world is a long way off, but we all know it has already begun… ***** ‘Utterly Inspiring’ (BroadwayBaby.com, 2015). Through ensemble movement and fragmented imagery, Temper unleash the storm. m T W T
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Preview £5 £10 (£8 concs) 13:50 (0 h 50 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
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Whiteout Barrowland Ballet ‘We’re entranced’ **** (Guardian). A heartfelt dance theatre piece from choreographer Natasha Gilmore, informed by personal experiences, that gives resonance to the complexities of bi-racial relationships. Original music by Luke Sutherland. ‘Compelling emotive power’ **** (Herald). www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com m T W T
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Preview £10 £12.50 (£11 concs) 17:00 (0 h 50 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
Wunderbar Rob Heaslip and Laura Murphy A pair of dancers with an ambiguous relationship invite you to help figure it all out. Beginning with a fall and ending on a high, there are two sides to this performance. With live music and beautiful lighting design. m T W T
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Preview £8 (£6 concs) £10 (£8 concs) 18:30 (0 h 40 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
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Wooonta Trio’s innovative combination of Eastern and Western instruments – erhu, sitar and cello – distinguishes this small but choice international music ensemble. Their pungent aural flavours are unlike anything your eyes have tasted before! m T W T
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Preview £6 £10 20:45 (0 h 40 m) Venue: ZOO Southside
music
Taiwan Season: Sounds of Taiwan Wooonta Trio
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Colourful games Finders Keepers Puzzle FeeL-Link Machina Operation Love Story Fraxi Queen of the Forest DANIEL On Ego Generation Zero The ME Smother Scorched I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator
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Colourful games Finders Keepers Luna Park Puzzle FeeL-Link Machina The Magnetic Diaries Operation Love Story Tortoise and Rabbit Terra Inconita On Ego Generation Zero The ME
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Finders Keepers Luna Park Machina The Magnetic Diaries Operation Love Story Tortoise and Rabbit Terra Inconita Generation Zero The ME
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5 - 29 not 15 14 - 29 not 22 5 - 29 not 14, 21 15 - 27 not 21 5 - 29 not 16, 23 15 - 29 14 - 29 5 - 29 not 15 5 - 28 not 15, 22 5 - 27 5 - 29 not 15, 22 5 - 29 not 17
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5 - 27 5 - 29 not 15, 22 5 - 29 not 17
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Smother Scorched I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator Macbeth:without words Shaedates: or how I learned to love myself MOONFACE Undermined Whiteout Contemporary? MOLHADOS&SECOS | WET&DRY Three For Two The Sacrifice of Roaring The Murderer And Now ... PETROL Still Here I Who Have Hands More Innocent Stamp Partial Nudity Ash Viva Hypnosis LIVE Moscow Boys Sounds of Taiwan Echoes Hummingbird The Master and Margarita
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Image-Selfie with Eggs Shaedates: or how I learned to love myself MOONFACE DASH Whiteout Contemporary? TAPE Three For Two The Sacrifice of Roaring The Murderer Wunderbar PETROL My Month of Mothers Ruin Still Here I Who Have Hands More Innocent Stamp Partial Nudity Ash Viva Hypnosis LIVE Moscow Boys Sounds of Taiwan Echoes Hummingbird The Master and Margarita
Bang! To the Heart The Blind Date Project Sounds of Taiwan Echoes Hummingbird The Master and Margarita
Macbeth Bang! To the Heart The Blind Date Project
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Smother Scorched I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator Macbeth:without words Hip MOONFACE Whiteout MOLHADOS&SECOS | WET&DRY Three For Two The Sacrifice of Roaring The Murderer And Now ... PETROL Still Here I Who Have Hands More Innocent Stamp Partial Nudity Child's Play Viva Hypnosis LIVE Moscow Boys Sounds of Taiwan Echoes Hummingbird The Master and Margarita
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Bang! To the Heart The Blind Date Project
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week planner
WEEK 1
ZOO:
140 Pleasance EH8 9RR - Venue 124
ZOO Southside:
117 nicolson Street EH8 9ER - Venue 82
ZOO at St Cuthbert’s:
5 Lothian Road, EH1 2EP - Venue 122
ZOO at St Mary’s South Lawn: 23 Palmerston Pl, EH12 5AW - Venue 9
www.zoofestival.co.uk box office: 0131 662 6892