Das Clarks - A Brief History of Difference
Being different is a complicated business. It can be exciting, distressing, temporary, permanent, liberating, dangerous, painful, a cause for celebration. It's about bodies and language, memories and labels, perceptions and assumptions, acceptance and resistance. Join DAR, a queer, neurodivergent, curious, middle-aged Talking Heads fanatic, to consider some tricky questions around the subjects of difference, identity, positioning, labelling and belonging. A Brief History of Difference is an interactive theatre piece rooted in conversation, knowledge sharing, questioning, personal narrative and performance.
Written and Performed by DAR Rogers
Directed by Jo Fong
Designed by Becky Davies
Dates: 13 – 25 August
Time: 16:15
Location: Summerhall – Fromer women’s locker room (Venue 26)
Duration: 1 hour
Luke Hereford - Polly & Esther
A high-camp, chaotic drag cabaret written and performed by iconic Welsh mother and daughter drag-duo Polly Amorous and Esther Parade. Join Polly and Esther as they navigate chosen family, adolescence and villainous low-fat yogurt-based probiotic gut-health brands – all whilst serving intergenerational c*nt! A celebration of self-expression, a joyfully queer blend of drag, musical theatre and cabaret, and a tale of finding family in unlikely places.
'I'd give this six stars if I was a reviewer!' (Polly Amorous).
'Drag? At Fringe? Groundbreaking!' (Esther Parade).
Dates: 31 July & 1 August (Previews); 2-26 August (except 12 & 19 August)
Time: 19:40
Location: Pleasance Courtyard – The Green (Venue 33)
Duration: 1 hour
Frankie Walker - Angry Snatch: A Reclamation Job in 15 Rounds
"MADE ME LAUGH, MADE ME CRY, MADE MY HEART SWELL AND MY MUSCLES FLEX"
A provocative and captivating piece of physical theatre set in a boxing ring, telling a story of reclamation and recovery from intimate partner abuse. The story is told with compassion and insight by a solo artist with lived experience, mapping the traumatic effects of controlling and coercive behaviour and quite literally moving through the healing process using dance, spoken word and boxing. A cutting edge interrogation of the legacy of abuse and a window into understanding who we become as a result.
A profound and powerful piece of work performed, written and devised by Frankie Walker, a Wales based multidisciplinary performing artist, in collaboration with Meg Fenwick and Cai Tomos: funded by Arts Council Wales and supported by Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
Although this piece of work tackles coercive control and domestic abuse you will not see any depictions of violence.
Dates: 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 August
Time: Varied 15:00 / 18:00 / 21:00– check specific dates
Location: Port O’Leith Boxing Club (Venue 331)
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes