The Edinburgh Reporter August 2024

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The Edinburgh Reporter Recommends...

Provocative, dysfunctional and tender, N.Ormes is a
circus show where the acrobats push the limits of the
expectations of their own bodies. The Award-Winning piece
overthrows all preconceptions with never seen before
acrobatic exchanges
Venue 139

From American award-winning writer Yilong Liu, a dad
arrives in NYC to visit his late son’s boyfriend to propose
an impossible mission: visit all 179 restaurants on his
son’s popular Yelp page in one weekend. Comedic and
moving drama.
Venue 33

The unmissable sell-out smash-hit comedy hypnosis
show with 80s party vibes returns! Remixed for 2024!
With multiple sell-out Fringe runs and 70 million+ views
online, enjoy from stage or audience – you choose!
All-ages friendly. 
Venue 24

N.Ormes

The Book of Mountains and Seas

Top Fun! 80s Spectacular

Cleopatra had it all. Set to an original pop score by

Laura Kleinbaum and Jeff Daye, this immersive

musical examines history’s most mysterious ruler and

will leave audiences guessing and grooving all

night long.

Venue 322

Multi-sensory, participatory one-woman show (with real

on-stage cooking) dedicated to two things: canned meat and

colonialism. Can this formerly Catholic, angry and God-fearing

woman help educate (and feed) the masses, all while

“liberating” her island?

Venue 33

Running a Food Bank is like ‘putting out fires’. Ugly

Bucket’s rallying cry is an inferno of physicality, clown, 

music and transformative personal testimony. ‘As enraging

as it is brilliant.’ (OpeningNights) (Untapped

Winners 2022)

Venue 33

House of Cleopatra

For the Love of Spam

Stuffed (Ugly Bucket)

Dolphin Orgies, Intersex snails, Gay giraffes... Join

award-winning drag king, Bi-Curious George, London’s

most loveable nature boy, on a raucous romp through the

animal kingdom; the wildest and queerest kingdom of

them all. 

Venue 23

We all make mistakes, but rarely do they change the

course of human history.  From comedian and historian Paul

Coulter a John Oliver-meets-Horrible Histories tour of five

mistakes that impacted our world. Perfect for history-lovers/

history-curious.

Venue 17

In Leni’s Last Lament, which swept top awards at the

United Solo Festival, Hitler’s controversial filmmaker,

Leni Riefenstahl, attempts to sanitise her past. Comic

and timely, this play/cabaret will shock and

delight you.

Venue 20

Bi-Curious George: Queer Planet

5 Mistakes That Changed History

Leni’s Last Lament