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FESTIVAL
PROGRAMME
2024
VENUE 26
Lynn Faces
Through The Mud
Blubber
Plewds
 

We are very excited to welcome you to Summerhall’s 2024 Festival programme: a collection of beautiful work from some of the most creative and talented artists from around the world. The diversity of form and style across the performative and visual arts is better than ever and the variety of what is included here is astounding. You could spend the entire Fringe here and have no need to go elsewhere… in fact we invite you to do just that!

Winner: Outstanding Venue

The Herald Scottish Culture Awards, 2019

“Summerhall isn’t just an extraordinary place to see theatre with a programme of unequalled dimension, but a village, a community, a place to feel – however fancifully – that you belong, among all the madness.”

Andrzej Lukowski - The Stage

“You could spend the entire three weeks at Summerhall and never be bored for a second.”

Lyn Gardner - The Guardian

“It is astonishing to think that a venue which didn’t exist eight years ago is now the venue on the fringe at the moment.”

Joyce McMillan - The Stage

“Summerhall isn’t just an extraordinary place to see theatre with a programme of unequalled dimension, but a village, a community, a place to feel – however fancifully – that you belong, among all the madness.”

Mark Cousins - The Guardian

"The ethos of Summerhall is to keep faith with the founding principle of the Edinburgh International Festival, to ‘heal wounds of war through the language of the arts’, artists, scientists & others linked by shared genius to bridge over every major social divide with new & old voices of insight & protest, love & care for all of the planet & for Europe in the world, multilingual, multicultural, multi-national; the human spirit operating in crises, playful, profound, political too but never propaganda.

The purposes of the arts are to encourage all to look, listen, think & act harder, to see value in what otherwise is foolishly ignored, discarded or wasted.

Summerhall is a uniquely flexible multi-arts multidisciplinary set of exhibition and performance spaces to accommodate all creativity & cross-currents in our sciences & arts. If we are nationalist it is for all countries & people everywhere or nowhere!

Robert McDowell, Director