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Miriam Attwood

Man Up!

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The world’s biggest and most exciting DRAG KING battle comes to Edinburgh

2019 Man Up! Winner Louis FU C.K.

Man Up! Scotland Heat
22nd March @ Summerhall, Edinburgh
19:00 – 23:00

London’s legendary drag king battle Man Up is coming to Edinburgh this month! 

For the first time ever, Jonny Woo, creator of Man Up! and star of Fringe favourites A Night at the Musicals and All Star Brexit, is on the look-out for the next (drag) King of Scotland. 

Kings will battle it out at Summerhall this month for a place in the Grand Finale at the Glory in London on Thursday 9 April, where they’ll get a chance to win a cash prize and be introduced to London’s queer performance scene. 

This queer, trans, AFAB (assigned female at birth), female-led tournament is at the centre of East London’s unstoppable gender revolution, attracting over 100 contestants year on year, commanding an audience of 1000s and bringing together some of the capital’s best breakthrough female, trans, non-binary and intersex artists.

Kings entering have 4 minutes to impress the judges and can lip-sync, sing live, play with a band, do stand up, dance or a performance, this is a multidisciplinary tournament. Hosted by London drag legend Jonny Woo alongside local troublemakers Oasissy, and a judging panel of Scotland-based performers, journalists, Man Up alumni and celebs. 

JUDGES

Heather Marshall – multi award winning, socio political artist and writer, often for Creative Electric www.creative-electric.org/ (she/her)

Arusa Qureshi – Editor of The List www.list.co.uk/ @arusaqureshi (she/her)

Eli Buck – Edinburgh’s top Drag King extraordinaire @EliBuck82 (he/him)

Miriam Attwood – Director of Storytelling PR storytellingpr.com @miriamattwood (she/her)

Claricia Parinussa – artist, producer, House of Revlon @clariciakr

Jess Brough – writer, producer and psycholinguistics PhD student at the University of Edinburgh and founder of Fringe of Colour @Jessica_Brough @FringeofColour (they/them)

Oasissy – Drag clowns Biff and Cooper are the world’s first and only queer Oasis tribute act/cabaret hosts. “Madferrit monobrowed mayhem with a lairy twist”- The List 

Man Up! Scotland Heat
22nd March @ Summerhall, Edinburgh
19:00 – 23:00
Tickets; £5 www.summerhall.co.uk/event/man-up-scotland-heat/
FB event; www.facebook.com/events/224406298736479/ 

Images; https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-uiD9tJhkbyOKyA9MeObqcOS7DrsvwBt 

To take part, email drag@glory.co. 

Weekly heats; Feb 12th – April 1st @ The Glory, London
Grand Final 2020 – Thurs 9th April at EartH
£12 – £15, earthhackney.co.uk

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Christopher Green: No Show

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Presented by Christopher Green and The Yard Theatre
25th February – 8th March 2020

(c) Holly Revell

Olivier Award winner Christopher Green (The Home, Tina C, Office Party) has, for once, got cold feet.

Renowned for creating spectacle after spectacle which have wowed, intrigued and beguiled audiences internationally, this time the responsibility may become a little bit much.

‘Christopher Green: No Show’ has been over two decades in the making. It’s the culmination of 25 years of entertaining tens of thousands of audience members and learning exactly what makes them tick, what they want.

For his next trick, our hero toys with what keeps an audience in the room. Tension? Anticipation? Entertainment?

Christopher Green: No Show

In an moment when political leaders fly to Hawaii while their country burns; would rather play golf than actively govern; and where hiding in a fridge is a better option than allowing press to see you are vastly unprepared; Christopher Green asks who will step in when the person who’s meant to be ‘running the show’ just doesn’t. Is this the perfect metaphor for the state of everything – or just another gimmick?

Christopher Green has decades of experience in the industry – creating bespoke, immersive and experiential work around the accepted areas of live art like The Home – an overnight stay in a nursing home – Office Christmas Party, a massive night out in, well, an office. He is a Music Hall cabaret legend, has had a successful career in comedy and play writing for BBC Radio 4 and has really lovely hair.

Join Christopher Green, the reluctant performer. So what if he’s a No Show?

On ‘Ida Barr’s Mash Up’

“Marie Lloyd meets Missy Elliott. Awe inspiring” – The Guardian

On ‘The Home’

“an unforgettable feat of emotional engineering.” – ★★★★ The Guardian

On ‘Prurience’

“… a disorientating, provocative experience….  Theatrically the piece is audacious, springing a series of head-spinning surprises.  This is the kind of art that leaves its mark on you.  Unnerving, and uncomfortably compelling” – The Times

Green creates “..a deeply unsettling experience; one that gets right to the core of contemporary life” – ★★★★ What’s On Stage

“Tests the limits of theatre…. Very funny and genuinely discomforting…at its fiendish, exhilarating best it makes you question not just attitudes to porn but how we experience reality.” – Lyn Gardner

Tickets are available here

MANIPULATE Festival 2020: Young Critics Programme

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A Wire Apart, Manipulate Festival 2020

MANIPULATE Festival is piloting a young critics programme this year, offering free tickets to a full day of shows, lunch and travel expenses on SAT 1 FEB. 

For more information on what’s on that day, visit the website and we will work with you to design a programme for your day!

The aim of this pilot programme is to invite five younger and emerging writers to engage creatively and critically with the wide range of visual theatre performances on offer at the festival.

Puppet Animation Scotland work incredibly hard to support visual theatre makers, puppeteers and animators in Scotland, and their work has paid off – the 2020 programme is 90% Scottish. This Young Critics Programme is a move towards fostering critics and critical language around visual theatre, supporting the rich culture there now is in Scotland.

The Summerhall cafe turned cabaret space will provide a space to reflect and we are hoping to invite some Scottish critics to come and talk about writing on visual theatre, puppetry and animated film.

We have outlets available to host content, and StorytellingPR can also support with pitching elsewhere.

Interested? Get in touch with Mim Black!

Marlon Wobst and Will Knight lead Autumn/Winter Season of Visual Art at Summerhall

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Will Knight, Summerhall, front door elevation drawing, 2019. Scale 1:20 giclee print on art paper, 380 x 510mm © Will Knight

Quirky felt tapestries by Marlon Wobst and charming architectural drawings by Glasgow’s Will Knight plus Out of Sight Out of Mind presents work by hundreds of artists as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival

October 2019: the nights are closing in and the days are getting nippy, so we’re cosying up with an outstanding programme of visual art throughout Autumn and Winter here at Summerhall.

On 15 November we open a UK first exhibition of Berlin-based artist Marlon Wobst’s (b.1980) mischievous, colourful felt tapestries. In FRIENDS, Marlon walks the fine line between fine art and craft with wool-felt tapestries that recall Joseph Beuys’ subversive felt sculptures of the 1960s and 70s. Known as a colourist working predominantly in oils and on paper, these new felt tapestries will bring the Meadows and Corner Galleries to life with cheeky bathing scenes, football games and wild, naked horse rides direct from Marlon’s gallery in Berlin, SCHWARZ CONTEMPORARY. With humour and intelligence, Marlon presents us with human figures locked into complex and often sensual shapes, drawing us into a colour drenched, almost hyper-real world.

On 30 November, Glasgow artist Will Knight (b.1988) will invite us to look at Summerhall in a new way with his quirky, beautifully wrought architectural drawings. Will studied at the Glasgow School of Art, where he began investigating domestic, commercial and civic buildings through recording, measurement and drawing by hand. But Will’s drawings resist the sterile, static nature of architectural drawings. Instead they record the building just as it is, with all the furniture, objects and ephemera that we live and work with every day. With this exhibition, Summerhall will join the Assembly Hall in Edinburgh, Dumfries House in Ayrshire and Renfield St. Stephens Church in having our ‘portrait’ drawn by Will.

On World Mental Health Day (Thursday 10 October) we welcomed Out of Sight Out of Mind to Summerhall as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF). Now in its seventh year, Out of Sight Out of Mind presents a feast of film, sculpture, installation, photography, painting and drawing, it continues to be supported by SMHAF and the Mental Health Foundation as part of their year-round arts programme. This year the exhibition will consist of almost 400 works by artists from across Scotland and the UK and will fill more than an entire floor of the extensive gallery spaces at Summerhall in Edinburgh.

Closing on 27 October, there isn’t much time left to catch Alan Smith’s (1941-2019) The New World: Retrospective exhibition. After a life threatening illness, Smith completed this new body of work prompted by Tiepolo’s Il Mondo Nuovo – a fresco depicting everyday life in Venice in the 1790s – when The Venetian Republic of a thousand years found itself in its death throes. In The New World, Alan used digital images to draw parallels between this fading Venice and our own Brexit Britain. A selection of the earlier works is presented along The New World.

All exhibitions are free, and we can’t wait to welcome you to Summerhall this winter.

Find out more about the Summerhall visual arts programme.