Nocturnal Anorakophobia?
Of all the choice night-time Edinburgh Fringe venues a theatre troupe could dream for, the recently beautifully restored South Side Surgeons’ Hall has to be plot-curdlingly stage gold.
Curating one of the World’s most fascinating collections of anatomical artefacts, not least a Bible bound with the skin of one of the executed local Resurrection Men, Burke and Hare, gallows humour will provide welcome relief.
We are promised a, ‘Double Bill of Exciting New Monologues &Â Swift, Strange Scuttlings!’ The bill of scare plat d’noir servings are as follows.
Waiting for ISON
by Emma Stadon
Through a telescope in his attic, a spellbound man follows the course of the comet ISON, enthralled. But isolation starts to dissolve his reality with the arrival of some new eight legged friends
Insider
by Katherine Melmore
A spider scuttles across the ceiling of a psychiatric ward. But minutes ago this spider was a young woman. She’s once again trapped. Magical transformation or supernatural malice?
The Space at Surgeon’s Hall (Venue 53), 5 – 13th August, 20.25 (21.15) (No show 7th August)
Spiders by Night: (new writing, theatre)
They Grabs You By The Tentacles!
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall (Venue 53) 20:25 Aug 5-6, 8-13 50 minutes.
Suitability: 12+ (Guideline) – Coffee House Theatre Company and Stepping Out Theatre.
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/spiders-by-night-a-double-bill-of-exciting-new-monologues
