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Investigate > Create Weaving Demonstration by Apprentice Weaver Ben Hymers Tue 25 April, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Dovecot Studios Hearing Enhancement Come and meet Apprentice Weaver Ben Hymers. Watch him weave on a sample tapestry loom, hear about his apprenticeship experience and ask him questions about tapestry weaving. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 550 3660 Venue website: http://dovecotstudios.com/ The Torrie Collection Mon 24 April, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm Talbot Rice Gallery Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement The Torrie Collection is an exhibition of some of the finest Dutch painting and Renaissance sculpture in Scotland. The Collection represents the Grand Tour tradition of collecting and the democratic principle of gifting art to the Nation. Juliana Capes, a practicing artist and specialist VI gallery educator will lead this session with support from the Curatorial Team at Talbot Rice Gallery. The day will begin with a descriptive tour, break for lunch together in the gallery then finish with a sculpture making workshop. Portable Loop equipment will be available. If you would like to eat lunch in the gallery please bring a packed lunch – we will provide tea, coffee and biscuits! Free to attend, booking essential. Schedule 12-1 Tour 1-1:30 Coffee 1:30-3 Sculpture making workshop How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 651 4540 Venue phone number: 0131 650 2210 Venue website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/museums-galleries/talbot-rice/home The Modern Portrait Wed 19 April, 10:15 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Audio Description Descriptive tour and workshop consisting of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break and a 2.5 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Free but booking essential. This new display collates some of the highlights from Portrait Gallery’s outstanding twentieth-century collection. This rich survey of paintings, sculpture and works in other media from 1918 onwards features figures from science, politics, the arts, business and sport – it is a cross section of well kent faces from Ramsay Macdonald, Alan Cumming and Tilda Swinton to Anne Redpath, Danny McGrain and JM Barrie. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Maria Merian's Butterflies and watercolour class Tue 18 April, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm The Queens Gallery Hearing Enhancement, British Sign Language Join a BSL interpreter and a member of the learning team as you go on a tour of Maria Merian's Butterflies. Continue to a watercolour class led by a local artist inspired by the beautiful work in the exhibition. Complimentary refreshments are included. This event is free with your standard admission to the Gallery. Booking is required. Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgalleryedinburgh/about The Tweeddales | Power, Politics and Portraits Sun 16 April, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Hearing Enhancement Wealthy, influential and politically savvy the Tweeddale family was at the heart of Scottish society in the second half of the seventeenth century. At the head of the family was John Hay (1626 – 1697), 2nd Earl and later 1st Marquess of Tweeddale. Tweeddale's marriage to Lady Jean Scott (1629-1688), second daughter of the Borders landowner Walter Scott, 1st Earl of Buccleuch, brought him wealth, opportunity, and a large family - the couple had several children. Members of the Tweeddale dynasty married into some of the most noble families in Scotland and England. The highlight of the exhibition is the fascinating group portrait of the Marquess and his family, attributed to the Flemish artist Sir John Baptiste de Medina, which was painted around 1695. While several members of the Tweeddale family are acknowledged for their contribution to politics, the military and for their strategic marriage matches, their role as patrons of the arts and architecture is often overlooked. The family were enthusiastic art collectors who commissioned portraits and landscapes by established and little-known artists, particularly those of Dutch, Flemish and German origin including, Sir Anthony van Dyck, Sir Peter Lely, Gerard Soest and Sir John Baptiste de Medina. Paintings by these artists feature in the exhibition. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Storytelling for Young and Old: Masters and Apprentices Mon 10 April, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Dovecot Studios Hearing Enhancement This immersive drop-in storytelling session and workshop, inspired by the stories of The Weaver’s Apprentice exhibition, welcomes all age groups to listen and share stories with each other. Hearing loop amplifier kits can be used with T loop option. Due to limited number of kits, please let the venue know if you require one in advance. Places are free but must be reserved via the event website here. Please arrive 10 minutes before start time. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 550 3660 Venue website: http://dovecotstudios.com/ The Oregon Project Sat 8 April, 11:00 am - Sat 22 April, 5:00 pm Tent Gallery, Evolution House Music / Sound / Aural The Oregon Project is an installation by Artists Keith Salmon, Daniel Thornton, Graham Byron, and Microsoft Researcher Neel Joshi. It provides alternative insight and exploration of a landscape for those with limited sight and is centered around three new large format, abstract landscape drawings of the Oregon wilderness. This project builds on the research done at Microsoft by Kyle Rector, Neel Joshi, and Meredith Ringel Morris that addresses the challenges of visual arts access for people with visual impairments. Opening times: Open daily: 11am - 5pm, except Thursdays: 1pm - 7pm How to book BUZZCUT festival Wed 5 April, 10:00 am - Sun 9 April, 11:55 pm The Pearce Institute Captioned, No Spoken Word / Visual Only, British Sign Language BUZZCUT is a five day - community focused festival of performance and live art happening Wedesday 5th to Sunday 9th April in Govan, Glasgow. There will be discussions every morning from activists, academics and artists from all over the world - and then in the day and into the evenings we have over 50 works from artists from Mexcio, Chicago, Iceland, Switzerland and loads more. Everything in the programme has some form of BSL interpretation, captioning or is highly visual and doesn't contain text. There's BSL support in the bar, social space and on the welcome desk - and the festival is hosted by local Deaf artists. BSL info video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHNAHZoyFcw&feature=youtu.be The whole programme: https://glasgowbuzzcut.wordpress.com/programme/ The performance Silent Dinner will take place on Saturday 8th. A group of hearing and deaf performers will set-up a rudimentary kitchen and then prep, cook, serve and eat an elaborate meal together in shared silence. More info here: https://glasgowbuzzcut.wordpress.com/shannon-cochrane-and-amanda-coogansilent-dinner/ How to book Let’s talk: developing access with visually impaired people Mon 27 March, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm National Library of Scotland Touch Tour, Audio Description, Spoken Word, Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text, British Sign Language This full day training seminar is an opportunity to discuss and develop a range of approaches to working with visually impaired people. The day will be jointly led by engage Scotland, Artlink Edinburgh and Lothians and the National Library of Scotland, with sighted and visually impaired artists to share diverse experiences and ways of working. Who is it for? Arts and heritage organisations, artists, local authority officers, and anyone interested in developing meaningful, purposeful and sustainable creative approaches to improving access to their venue or programme for visually impaired people. The programme will include the following sessions: Describing visual art Artist Juliana Capes shares her approach to descriptive gallery tours with insight from participant Anne Dignan. The session includes practical exercises for participants to develop their own skills and approach. Handling artefacts Curators from the National Library of Scotland lead an example of a handling session with objects with the collection and share learning from their work with visually impaired visitors. Descriptive language Poet Ken Cockburn reads poetry and prose relating to the library building and current exhibition. Participants then have time to reflect on the space, how they might describe it or how they can use the learning in their own venues. Hands-on workshop A practical workshop led by visually impaired artists, Alan McIntyre and Fiona Powell. The artists will share their developing art practice and lead a practical workshop, exploring ways of working with visually impaired participants. Booking Booking and enquiries are with engage [email protected] Fees: £25 [engage member freelancer] £40 [Non-member freelancer] £60 [engage member organisation] £100 [Non-member organisation] For more information, including booking forms and contact details, visit the event website here: www.engage.org/scotland-events.aspx Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Venue phone number: 0131 623 3700 Venue website: http://www.nls.uk/ The Modern Portrait Sun 19 March, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Hearing Enhancement This new display collates some of the highlights from Portrait Gallery's outstanding twentieth-century collection. This rich survey of paintings, sculpture and works in other media from 1918 onwards features figures from science, politics, the arts, business and sport - it is a cross section of well kent faces from Ramsay Macdonald, Alan Cumming and Tilda Swinton to Anne Redpath, Danny McGrain and JM Barrie. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Joan Eardley | A Sense of Place Wed 15 March, 10:15 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern Two Audio Description Descriptive tour and workshop consisting of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break and a 2.5 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Free but booking essential. Joan Eardley’s career lasted barely fifteen years: she died in 1963, aged just forty-two. During that time she concentrated on two very different themes: the extraordinarily candid paintings of children in the Townhead area of Glasgow; and paintings of the fishing village of Catterline, just south of Aberdeen, with its leaden skies and wild sea. These two contrasting strands are the focus of this exhibition, which looks in detail at her working process. It draws on a remarkable archive of sketches and photographs which remains largely unknown and unpublished. The exhibition also features many loans from public and private collections, allowing the viewer to trace specific developments between the photographs, the drawings and the finished paintings. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Disabled Access Day - Hearing Impaired and BSL Taster Tour Sat 11 March, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement, British Sign Language Juliana Capes will lead descriptive tours at 1.30pm and 3pm and staff will be on hand to share information about gallery programmes for disabled visitors. This drop-in session will take place in the Farmer Education room, visitors do not need to book. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Disabled Access Day: Sense of Place Sat 11 March, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Dovecot Studios Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement Juliana Capes will lead a wonderful descriptive art tour starting in the morning at 10am at Dovecot, then onto Talbot Rice Gallery and Stills before ending at The Fruitmarket Gallery for lunch. The galleries are all located within an easy half mile walk of each other within Edinburgh's historic Old Town. The day will introduce participants to each venue, their exhibition spaces and programmes and introduce their current exhibition. It starts at 10am at Dovecot, walking to Talbot Rice Gallery for 10.45, walking to Stills Gallery for 11.45am and then onto lunch at 12.30pm at The Fruitmarket Gallery. Each Gallery will have refreshments and staff on hand for participants who wish to drop out of the tour and chat further about the galleries programmes. This familiarisation tour focuses on the galleries buildings and their current exhibitions. Juliana will take you through detailed descriptions at each venue, which will bring these creative environments to life. This event warmly welcomes people with disabilities including people with visual impairments and people who are hard of hearing. A portable hearing loop will be available at each venue. Disabled Access Day activities will continue with an afternoon session at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Juliana will lead descriptive tours at 1.30pm and 3pm and staff will be on hand to share information about gallery programmes for disabled visitors. This drop-in session will take place in the Farmer Education room, visitors do not need to book. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 550 3660 Venue website: http://dovecotstudios.com/ Disabled Access Day: You are here: A journey through maps Fri 10 March, 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm National Library of Scotland British Sign Language To mark Disabled Access Day, everyone is welcome on a British Sign Language-interpreted guided tour of the 'You are Here: A Journey Through Maps' exhibition. The exhibition demonstrates the versatility and beauty of maps, and the skill of the cartographers who created them. Maps are everywhere: on our phones, in our cars, on walls, bus stops and adverts. But how much do we really know about them? 'You are Here' explores our world through maps, asking questions about how maps are made and how we understand them. Booking is essential on this tour as places are limited. Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Venue phone number: 0131 623 3700 Venue website: http://www.nls.uk/ Disabled Access Day 2017 Fri 10 March, 10:00 am - Sun 12 March, 5:00 pm Touch Tour, Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement, Captioned, British Sign Language Award-winning Disabled Access Day returns for what will be its biggest event yet across three days over the 10th-12th March 2017. Participating businesses and attractions in the UK will open their doors to showcase their accessibility and welcome disabled people, their families and friends who will be trying new places on the day and have the potential to become part of a loyal new customer base. Disabled Access Day is powered by Euan’s Guide, the disabled access review website. Euan MacDonald, co-founder, says: “Disabled Access Day 2017 has been expanded to three days to allow even more great venues and people to get involved. We hope that a longer event will give more opportunity to try something new and see what is on offer to disabled people, their friends, families and carers. The event also provides a fantastic opportunity for businesses to build lasting relationships with disabled customers as well as raising awareness of accessibility worldwide.” In Edinburgh The Scottish Parliament, Palace of Holyrood, Dovecot Gallery, Camera Obscura and Edinburgh Printmakers will be taking part amongst other cultural venues and attractions. More details on individual events to follow! How to book Organiser: Disabled Access Day Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.disabledaccessday.com Palace of Holyroodhouse Wed 22 February, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Palace of Holyrood House Hearing Enhancement This small group tour looks at the history of the palace and how it was used by royalty past and present. A FM portable loop system is available. Venue discount information: Admission £12, concessions £7.20 All visitors who require an access companion receive a complimentary ticket. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/palace-of-holyroodhouse Colour and Light Tue 21 February, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Dovecot Studios Touch Tour, Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement This exhibition highlights the relationship between colour and light in recent Dovecot projects. From projection to pigment, there are a myriad of different ways that the weaver can use the subtle effects of light on colour to bring textile to life. The importance of light in successful colour blending is a vital element in the production of all the textile art produced at Dovecot Tapestry Studio; but with experience and skill the weaver can also make light the subject and focus for the work itself. Collaborations with artists including Tom Philips, Garry Fabian Miller, David Poston, Chrissie Clyne and Eduardo Paolozzi are represented in this exhibition. Opening times: Mon-Sat 10.30am-5.30pm How to book Venue phone number: 0131 550 3660 Venue website: http://dovecotstudios.com/ The View from Here | Landscape Photography Sun 19 February, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Hearing Enhancement, British Sign Language Exploring the theme of landscape through photographs from the 1840s to the present day, this exhibition brings together a selection of prints that transport the viewer around the world. From views of Niagara Falls to the Egyptian Pyramids many of the world’s greatest locations have been recorded by the camera. Drawn entirely from the permanent collection of photographs at the National Galleries of Scotland, this exhibition will explore the various processes used by photographers over the centuries to document locations far and wide. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org BP Portrait Award 2016 Wed 15 February, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop Selected from 2,557 entries by artists from 80 countries around the world, the BP Portrait Award 2016 represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting. From parents to poseurs, figurative nudes to famous faces and expressive sketches to piercing photorealism, the variety and vitality in the exhibition continues to make it an unmissable highlight of the annual art calendar. Now in its thirty-seventh year at the National Portrait Gallery, and twenty-seventh year of sponsorship by BP, the first prize of £30,000 makes the Award the most prestigious international portrait painting competition of its kind and has launched the careers of many renowned artists. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland: Conversations in letters and lines Sat 4 February, 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Hearing Enhancement Informal tour of the William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland exhibition every Saturday until February 11. A portable hearing loop will be available. No booking required. This exhibition brings together the work of two of South Africa’s foremost visual artists, William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland. Kentridge and Koorland come from the same generation of South African artists. Born in the 1950s, they first met as university students in the mid-1970s and have been talking about art ever since. This exhibition foregrounds a friendship of forty years and a dialogue which has been mutually enriching as the practice of each has informed that of the other. Kentridge is known for his animated films, complex narratives and beguiling imagery drawn and redrawn in charcoal, pastel and paint. Koorland makes huge paintings that are palimpsests of found and original material, both text and imagery. The works of the two artists are very different, yet there is much they share. The selection of works for the exhibition highlights the formal and thematic links between the work of Kentridge and Koorland, mapping their artistic friendship through shared artistic strategies and a common sense of the urgency and agency of art. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Colour and Light Thu 2 February, 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Dovecot Studios Hearing Enhancement This exhibition highlights the relationship between colour and light in recent Dovecot projects. From projection to pigment, there are a myriad of different ways that the weaver can use the subtle effects of light on colour to bring textile to life. The importance of light in successful colour blending is a vital element in the production of all the textile art produced at Dovecot Tapestry Studio; but with experience and skill the weaver can also make light the subject and focus for the work itself. Collaborations with artists including Tom Philips, Garry Fabian Miller, David Poston, Chrissie Clyne and Eduardo Paolozzi are represented in this exhibition. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 550 3660 Venue website: http://dovecotstudios.com/ Palace of Holyroodhouse Tue 24 January, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Palace of Holyrood House Hearing Enhancement This small group tour looks at the history of the palace and how it was used by royalty past and present. A FM portable loop system is available. Venue discount information: Admission £12, concessions £7.20 All visitors who require an access companion receive a complimentary ticket. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/palace-of-holyroodhouse Karla Black and Kishio Suga: A New Order Wed 18 January, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop A New Order brings together for the first time the work of artists Karla Black and Kishio Suga. Unaware of one another’s work before this show, what unites the two is their use of everyday materials – many of which are not commonly associated with art-making – to create works of beauty and complexity, in response to specific spaces and locations. Karla Black makes abstract sculptures with traditional art supplies such as plaster, paint, paper and chalk, in combination with everyday items including soap, eye shadow, petroleum jelly, toothpaste and lip-gloss. Although many of these materials may serve as a reminder of the intimate, daily acts that are commonly associated with women, such as applying make-up, Black does not select them for this reason. Her concern is with the physical properties of matter – texture, colour and feel – rather than any cultural associations. Kishio Suga also uses everyday materials, including rocks, pieces of wood, wire, paraffin, stones – in fact, almost anything to hand – to create what he calls ‘situations’. Bringing materials together, often in apparently random combinations and configurations, Suga aims to highlight their physical qualities, interdependent relationships and their connections with the surrounding environment. In his work, he actively rejects the illusionistic aspects common of much art (an approach most traditionally associated with Western art), and instead he strives to present the world as it is. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Colour and Light Mon 16 January, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Dovecot Studios Audio Description This exhibition highlights the relationship between colour and light in recent Dovecot projects. From projection to pigment, there are a myriad of different ways that the weaver can use the subtle effects of light on colour to bring textile to life. The importance of light in successful colour blending is a vital element in the production of all the textile art produced at Dovecot Tapestry Studio; but with experience and skill the weaver can also make light the subject and focus for the work itself. Collaborations with artists including Tom Philips, Garry Fabian Miller, David Poston, Chrissie Clyne and Eduardo Paolozzi are represented in this exhibition. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 550 3660 Venue website: http://dovecotstudios.com/ Joan Eardley | A Sense of Place Sun 15 January, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern Two Hearing Enhancement Joan Eardley’s career lasted barely fifteen years: she died in 1963, aged just forty-two. During that time she concentrated on two very different themes: the extraordinarily candid paintings of children in the Townhead area of Glasgow; and paintings of the fishing village of Catterline, just south of Aberdeen, with its leaden skies and wild sea. These two contrasting strands are the focus of this exhibition, which looks in detail at her working process. It draws on a remarkable archive of sketches and photographs which remains largely unknown and unpublished. The exhibition also features many loans from public and private collections, allowing the viewer to trace specific developments between the photographs, the drawings and the finished paintings. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org BP Portrait Award December 18, 2016, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Hearing Enhancement Selected from 2,557 entries by artists from 80 countries around the world, the BP Portrait Award 2016 represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting. From parents to poseurs, figurative nudes to famous faces and expressive sketches to piercing photorealism, the variety and vitality in the exhibition continues to make it an unmissable highlight of the annual art calendar. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Palace of Holyroodhouse December 5, 2016, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Palace of Holyrood House British Sign Language A BSL interpreted Christmas tour of the State and Historic Apartments. Venue discount information: Admission £12, concessions £7.20 All visitors who require an access companion receive a complimentary ticket. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/palace-of-holyroodhouse Colour and Light December 1, 2016, 11:00 am - 11:30 am Dovecot Studios Hearing Enhancement This exhibition highlights the relationship between colour and light in recent Dovecot projects. From projection to pigment, there are a myriad of different ways that the weaver can use the subtle effects of light on colour to bring textile to life. The importance of light in successful colour blending is a vital element in the production of all the textile art produced at Dovecot Tapestry Studio; but with experience and skill the weaver can also make light the subject and focus for the work itself. Collaborations with artists including Tom Philips, Garry Fabian Miller, David Poston, Chrissie Clyne and Eduardo Paolozzi are represented in this exhibition. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 550 3660 Venue website: http://dovecotstudios.com/ The Torrie Collection November 28, 2016, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm Talbot Rice Gallery Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement ‘The Torrie Collection’ is an exhibition of some of the finest Dutch painting and Renaissance sculpture in Scotland. The Collection represents the Grand Tour tradition of collecting and the democratic principle of gifting art to the Nation, part of the great nineteenth-century expansion of both museums and universities across Britain. For the first time in over a decade, the University of Edinburgh’s founding art collection has been brought back together to be exhibited in the Georgian interior of Gallery 2. Juliana Capes, a practicing artist and specialist VI gallery educator will lead this session with support from the curatorial team at Talbot Rice Gallery. The day will begin with a descriptive tour, break for lunch together in the gallery then finish with a sculpture making workshop that will flow from the themes of the exhibition. Meet & collect at the Talbot Rice Gallery entrance on West College Street where there is a vehicle drop off point. If you would like to discuss access further please contact Clare on the number below. Portable Loop equipment will be available If you would like to eat lunch in the gallery please bring a packed lunch – the gallery will provide tea, coffee and biscuits. Schedule 12-1 Tour 1-1:30 Coffee 1:30-3 Sculpture making workshop Free to attend, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 651 4540 Venue phone number: 0131 650 2210 Venue website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/museums-galleries/talbot-rice/home William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland: Conversations in letters and lines November 24, 2016, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement Descriptive tour led by artist Juliana Capes. Portable FM hearing loops available. This exhibition brings together the work of two of South Africa’s foremost visual artists, William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland. Kentridge and Koorland come from the same generation of South African artists. Born in the 1950s, they first met as university students in the mid-1970s and have been talking about art ever since. This exhibition foregrounds a friendship of forty years and a dialogue which has been mutually enriching as the practice of each has informed that of the other. Kentridge is known for his animated films, complex narratives and beguiling imagery drawn and redrawn in charcoal, pastel and paint. Koorland makes huge paintings that are palimpsests of found and original material, both text and imagery. The works of the two artists are very different, yet there is much they share. The selection of works for the exhibition highlights the formal and thematic links between the work of Kentridge and Koorland, mapping their artistic friendship through shared artistic strategies and a common sense of the urgency and agency of art. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Palace of Holyroodhouse November 22, 2016, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Palace of Holyrood House Touch Tour, Audio Description A guided tour of a selection of rooms in the State Apartments for blind and partially sighted visitors, Includes opportunities to get up close behind the ropes and handle historical objects. Venue discount information: Admission £12, concessions £7.20 All visitors who require an access companion receive a complimentary ticket. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/palace-of-holyroodhouse The Goldfinch November 20, 2016, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm National Galleries of Scotland Hearing Enhancement, British Sign Language The Goldfinch will travel to the Scottish National Gallery from its home in the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, in The Hague. The painting has never before been shown in Scotland, and has only been exhibited in the UK on a handful of occasions. When it was last shown outside the Netherlands, at the Frick Collection in New York in 2014, it was seen by a record-breaking 200,000 people (many of whom happily endured long queues in sub-zero temperatures). Carel Fabritius (1622-1654) is often seen as the link between two giants of Dutch painting: Rembrandt van Rijn (1609-69), in whose workshop he was a star pupil and Johannes Vermeer (1632-75), on whose work he had a considerable influence. An artist of remarkable skill, Fabritius was tragically killed at the age of 32, when a gunpowder store exploded, destroying large parts of the city of Delft and killing hundreds of its residents. It is presumed that much of Fabritius’s work was lost in the explosion, and only around a dozen of his paintings survive. Among these The Goldfinch, which was painted in the year he died, is considered by many to be his masterpiece. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org I Daniel Blake Day- Accessible screenings November 17, 2016, 6:30 pm Cameo Cinema Audio Description, Captioned The Cameo cinema is running a whole day of accessible screenings of I Daniel Blake on Thursday 17th November, culminating in a special screening in the largest auditorium at 18:30 featuring an introduction by the Trussell Trust and Edinburgh Central Food Bank. After the film there will be a panel discussion featuring the screen writer Paul Laverty, Robin McAlpine from The Common Weal and representatives from Labour and the SNP. A searing indictment of the state of the British welfare system, this film is a passionate plea for social justice, bearing all the hallmarks of its thoughtful, highly political director. Daniel (Johns) is a friendly 59-year-old joiner who is unable to work due to bad health. However the Department of Work and Pensions overrides the doctor’s report and refuses to award benefits. Daniel must be seen to look for a job although, on doctor’s orders, he cannot accept any work. It’s an absurd predicament that reaches Kafkaesque proportions as the hero becomes buried in red tape and jobsworth employees. As characters try to help each other despite their own troubles, Loach also offers humour and hope. How to book Venue website: https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Cameo_Picturehouse Palace of Holyroodhouse November 17, 2016, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Palace of Holyrood House Hearing Enhancement This small group tour looks at the history of the palace and how it was used by royalty past and present. A FM portable loop system is available. Venue discount information: Admission £12, concessions £7.20 All visitors who require an access companion receive a complimentary ticket. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/palace-of-holyroodhouse Landscape Photography, The View from Here November 16, 2016, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop Exploring the theme of landscape through photographs from the 1840s to the present day, this exhibition brings together a selection of prints that transport the viewer around the world. From views of Niagara Falls to the Egyptian Pyramids many of the world’s greatest locations have been recorded by the camera. Drawn entirely from the permanent collection of photographs at the National Galleries of Scotland, this exhibition will explore the various processes used by photographers over the centuries to document locations far and wide. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Captioning Awareness Week 2016 November 14, 2016, 12:00 am - November 19, 2016, 11:00 pm Captioned Captioning Awareness Week will take place from 14th-19th November this year. The event, led by Stagetext, aims to raise awareness of captioning and live subtitling for people with hearing loss across the UK. This year, supporters are being asked to ‘put their name in a frame’ across social media to achieve this goal. They are being encouraged to take a ‘selfie’ and upload it to Twitter or Facebook using the hashtag ‘#CAPaware16’. People with hearing loss could have their enjoyment of arts transformed with access to live captioning or subtitles. For further information about how you can get involved, visit Stagetext’s website. How to book Anno: Vivaldi's Four Seasons | Anna Meredith | Eleanor Meredith November 13, 2016, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm The Hub Music / Sound / Aural A year in an hour… Anno is Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons interspersed with newly written sounds; a year of music, condensed into an hour; a sensory experience of the passing of time; a brand new context for an old, beloved piece. Commissioned by Spitalfields Music and Scottish Ensemble, Anno is a brand new composition by one of the most inventive composers writing today. Combining and intertwining Vivaldi’s four extremely well-known seasonal concerti, The Four Seasons, with her own new electronic compositions, Anna Meredith has created one continuous, hour-long, fresh experience of the original Baroque masterpiece for string orchestra and electronics. The world premiere will add an extra dimension. Stepping into a dark, transformed world, the audience will experience a year in an hour, surrounded by musicians and projections as a circle of powerful sound and light merges, collides, intersplices and cocoons. The result will be one continuous, hour-long, live experience for the ears and the eyes. Booking website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anno-anna-meredith-scottish-ensemble-vivaldi630pm-performance-tickets-26194665951 Please note: there are two performances on this date, one at 4.30pm and one at 6.30pm How to book Organiser: Scottish Ensemble Organiser Phone: 0141 332 4747 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://scottishensemble.co.uk Anno: Vivaldi's Four Seasons | Anna Meredith | Eleanor Meredith November 13, 2016, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm The Hub Music / Sound / Aural A year in an hour… Anno is Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons interspersed with newly written sounds; a year of music, condensed into an hour; a sensory experience of the passing of time; a brand new context for an old, beloved piece. Commissioned by Spitalfields Music and Scottish Ensemble, Anno is a brand new composition by one of the most inventive composers writing today. Combining and intertwining Vivaldi’s four extremely well-known seasonal concerti, The Four Seasons, with her own new electronic compositions, Anna Meredith has created one continuous, hour-long, fresh experience of the original Baroque masterpiece for string orchestra and electronics. The world premiere will add an extra dimension. Stepping into a dark, transformed world, the audience will experience a year in an hour, surrounded by musicians and projections as a circle of powerful sound and light merges, collides, intersplices and cocoons. The result will be one continuous, hour-long, live experience for the ears and the eyes. Booking website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anno-anna-meredith-scottish-ensemble-vivaldi430pm-performance-tickets-26177402315 Please note: there are two performances on this date, one at 4.30pm and one at 6.30pm How to book Organiser: Scottish Ensemble Organiser Phone: 0141 332 4747 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://scottishensemble.co.uk Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden November 2, 2016, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm The Queens Gallery British Sign Language Explore the exhibition in a small group with a BSL interpreter and learning tour guide. Whether a sacred sanctuary, a place for scientific study, a haven for the solitary thinker or a space for pure enjoyment and delight, gardens are where man and nature meet. Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden reveals the way in which gardens have been celebrated in art across four centuries. Bringing together paintings, botanical studies, drawings, books, manuscripts and decorative arts, the exhibition explores the changing character of the garden from the 16th to the early 20th century. Includes works by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt van Rijn and some of the earliest and rarest surviving depictions of gardens and plants. Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgalleryedinburgh/about You Are Here: A journey through maps October 19, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm National Library of Scotland Audio Description Maps are everywhere – on our phones, in our cars and pockets, on walls, bus stops and advertisements. They proclaim YOU ARE HERE! This exhibition challenges our acceptance of maps, by posing questions about how they are made and how we understand them. Drawn from the Library’s collection of more than two million maps and atlases, the maps in the exhibition zoom out from the Library itself to the whole world. They include one of the finest plans of Edinburgh and the first map of Scotland, as well as more utilitarian railway, fishing and schoolroom maps. Booking is essential as places are limited to 8 people. Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Venue phone number: 0131 623 3700 Venue website: http://www.nls.uk/ Joseph Beuys A Language of Drawing October 19, 2016, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern Two Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop This exhibition will bring together, for the first time, the extraordinary group of over 110 drawings by Beuys held in the ARTIST ROOMS collection. The drawings cover the whole of the artist’s career from 1945 to the end of his life, reflecting his encyclopaedic interest in nature, science, philosophy, mythology, society, politics and religion. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Joseph Beuys A Language of Drawing October 16, 2016, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern Two Hearing Enhancement This exhibition will bring together, for the first time, the extraordinary group of over 110 drawings by Beuys held in the ARTIST ROOMS collection. The drawings cover the whole of the artist’s career from 1945 to the end of his life, reflecting his encyclopaedic interest in nature, science, philosophy, mythology, society, politics and religion. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden October 11, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm The Queens Gallery Hearing Enhancement Amplified highlights tour. Whether a sacred sanctuary, a place for scientific study, a haven for the solitary thinker or a space for pure enjoyment and delight, gardens are where man and nature meet. Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden reveals the way in which gardens have been celebrated in art across four centuries. Bringing together paintings, botanical studies, drawings, books, manuscripts and decorative arts, the exhibition explores the changing character of the garden from the 16th to the early 20th century. Includes works by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt van Rijn and some of the earliest and rarest surviving depictions of gardens and plants. Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgalleryedinburgh/about Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden October 11, 2016, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm The Queens Gallery Audio Description Verbal description tour of key works in the exhibition. Whether a sacred sanctuary, a place for scientific study, a haven for the solitary thinker or a space for pure enjoyment and delight, gardens are where man and nature meet. Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden reveals the way in which gardens have been celebrated in art across four centuries. Bringing together paintings, botanical studies, drawings, books, manuscripts and decorative arts, the exhibition explores the changing character of the garden from the 16th to the early 20th century. Includes works by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt van Rijn and some of the earliest and rarest surviving depictions of gardens and plants. Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgalleryedinburgh/about You Are Here: A journey through maps October 5, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm National Library of Scotland Hearing Enhancement Maps are everywhere – on our phones, in our cars and pockets, on walls, bus stops and advertisements. They proclaim YOU ARE HERE! This exhibition challenges our acceptance of maps, by posing questions about how they are made and how we understand them. Drawn from the Library’s collection of more than two million maps and atlases, the maps in the exhibition zoom out from the Library itself to the whole world. They include one of the finest plans of Edinburgh and the first map of Scotland, as well as more utilitarian railway, fishing and schoolroom maps. Booking is essential as places are limited to 8 people. Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Venue phone number: 0131 623 3700 Venue website: http://www.nls.uk/ Damián Ortega October 1, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Hearing Enhancement Informal tour of the Damián Ortega exhibition every Saturday until October 22. A portable hearing loop will be available. No booking required. Born in 1967 in Mexico City, Damián Ortega is one of the most prominent artists of the new Mexican generation. His work prioritises action over object, seeking to call attention to the dynamism of the world around us, and the hidden poetry in the everyday. For The Fruitmarket Gallery’s summer exhibition, Ortega is making new sculptures focusing on how the forces of nature – wind, water, earth and fire – act on the earth both independently of and in relationship to humankind. The works in the exhibition are predominantly made from clay, the most elemental of materials. Ortega uses clay to form waves, sculpt icebergs and to track the eroding power of a river on a sequence of plains made from brick. He shows us the sculptural agency of nature and also of mankind, looking at how the landscape has shaped itself but also at how mankind’s attempts to harness the land to our own purpose have played a part in the state of the world now. A major new sculpture presents a bewildering array of tools, made from seemingly unfired clay and laid out on tables as if they had just been unearthed in an archaeological dig. The tools move from the most ‘primitive’ to the most ‘sophisticated’, from representations of flint arrowheads to clay facsimiles of mobile phones in a work that is both a celebration of the skill that sets us apart from other animals and a visual history of our exploitation of the natural world. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ National Museum of Scotland: Feely Fridays September 30, 2016, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm National Museum of Scotland Touch Tour Every Friday during term time (i.e. NOT on 21 October and 30 December), the National Museum of Scotland will have a selection of objects on display which are available for handling. These free drop-in sessions, called 'Feely Fridays', generally take place in the Grand Gallery but will occasionally take place in a specific gallery within the museum. Information desk staff will be on-hand to advise of the location. It’s an informal set-up with one Enabler and an object trolley where visitors are able to carefully touch and handle the selected objects which will be based on a different theme each week. Event age suitability: All ages How to book Venue phone number: 0300 123 6789 Venue website: www.nms.ac.uk Damián Ortega September 29, 2016, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Audio Description Descriptive tour led by artist Juliana Capes Born in 1967 in Mexico City, Damián Ortega is one of the most prominent artists of the new Mexican generation. His work prioritises action over object, seeking to call attention to the dynamism of the world around us, and the hidden poetry in the everyday. For The Fruitmarket Gallery’s summer exhibition, Ortega is making new sculptures focusing on how the forces of nature – wind, water, earth and fire – act on the earth both independently of and in relationship to humankind. The works in the exhibition are predominantly made from clay, the most elemental of materials. Ortega uses clay to form waves, sculpt icebergs and to track the eroding power of a river on a sequence of plains made from brick. He shows us the sculptural agency of nature and also of mankind, looking at how the landscape has shaped itself but also at how mankind’s attempts to harness the land to our own purpose have played a part in the state of the world now. A major new sculpture presents a bewildering array of tools, made from seemingly unfired clay and laid out on tables as if they had just been unearthed in an archaeological dig. The tools move from the most ‘primitive’ to the most ‘sophisticated’, from representations of flint arrowheads to clay facsimiles of mobile phones in a work that is both a celebration of the skill that sets us apart from other animals and a visual history of our exploitation of the natural world. The tour is free but places must be reserved How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Bridget Riley September 21, 2016, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop This focused display brings together a group of major paintings by Bridget Riley (b.1931) spanning over fifty years of the artist’s career to explore the dialogue between monochrome and colour in Riley's practice. Throughout her career, Riley has created paintings that not only engage the eye, but which elicit physical sensations of flux, rhythm and energy. From the early to mid-1960s Riley worked exclusively in black and white, gaining critical attention internationally for her ‘Op Art’ paintings. In around 1967, Riley shifted her palette to grey and then to colour. For the succeeding decades, Riley has employed a rich array of pigments as she has continued her investigations into perception and sensation through several series of influential bodies of work. Over the past two years, monochromatic paintings have returned into her practice. However, rather than reviving ideas from the 1960s, these paintings function in a new way, progressing directly out of the artist’s preceding paintings in colour. Drawn primarily from a private collection, the display features several paintings that have rarely been exhibited. These works will provide a unique context for Riley’s painting Over, 1966, which has been held in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art since 1979. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Facing the World: Self Portraits Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei September 18, 2016, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Hearing Enhancement Artists have always created self-portraits. And whatever their motivation: as a showcase for their talents, a political statement or a conscious projection of their best self – the result is always the same: the creator becomes the subject. This idea is celebrated in Facing the World, which presents a breath-taking selection of portraits, in various media, spanning six centuries, from Rembrandt’s paintings to Ai Weiwei’s instagram posts. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Inspiring Impressionism | Daubigny, Monet and Van Gogh August 21, 2016, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm National Galleries of Scotland Hearing Enhancement Amplified Tour A key figure in the development of nineteenth-century French landscape painting, Charles François Daubigny (1817-1878) has never been the subject of a major international exhibition. This show will show how this relatively overlooked artist anticipated and influenced many of the practices associated with Impressionism, as well as supporting and inspiring the artists themselves. The full range of Daubigny’s output will be represented, from his major Salon paintings to his smaller oil sketches. Through a series of fascinating and often surprising juxtapositions with the work of Monet, Pissarro, Van Gogh and others, it will highlight the interactions and mutual influence between Daubigny and the Impressionists, as well as his importance for the next generation. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Inspiring Impressionism | Daubigny, Monet and Van Gogh July 20, 2016, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm National Galleries of Scotland Audio Description Descriptive tour and workshop A key figure in the development of nineteenth-century French landscape painting, Charles François Daubigny (1817-1878) has never been the subject of a major international exhibition. This show will show how this relatively overlooked artist anticipated and influenced many of the practices associated with Impressionism, as well as supporting and inspiring the artists themselves. The full range of Daubigny’s output will be represented, from his major Salon paintings to his smaller oil sketches. Through a series of fascinating and often surprising juxtapositions with the work of Monet, Pissarro, Van Gogh and others, it will highlight the interactions and mutual influence between Daubigny and the Impressionists, as well as his importance for the next generation. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Surreal Encounters June 19, 2016, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Hearing Enhancement Amplified Tour This exhibition will bring together some of the finest surrealist works of art from four legendary private collections, those of Edward James, Roland Penrose, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch. The exhibition will examine the different impulses behind these four extraordinary collections and, by showing them together, will be able to present a fuller and richer picture of the surrealist movement as a whole. Join an amplified tour for visitors with hearing loss led by artist Tessa Asquith-Lamb. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Surreal Encounters June 15, 2016, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop This exhibition will bring together some of the finest surrealist works of art from four legendary private collections, those of Edward James, Roland Penrose, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch. The exhibition will examine the different impulses behind these four extraordinary collections and, by showing them together, will be able to present a fuller and richer picture of the surrealist movement as a whole. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Make a Noise in Libraries June 9, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm National Library of Scotland Touch Tour, Audio Description An event for visually impaired visitors on the theme of Shakespeare. Curator Andrew Martin will introduce items from the collections, with the chance to hear historic recordings of actors performing and reciting Shakespeare. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Venue phone number: 0131 623 3700 Venue website: http://www.nls.uk/ Species of Space: Descriptive Tour June 8, 2016, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Edinburgh Printmakers Audio Description Edinburgh Printmakers invites you to join us for a descriptive tour of our current exhibition “Species of Space”, the extraordinary new solo exhibition by artist Robert Powell. Lead by the artist Robert Powell, this tour is tailored towards visitors with visual impairments, using language to immerse visitors in the multilayered themes and atmosphere of the exhibition, Robert Powell is an Edinburgh-based artist who works primarily in print, often hand-colouring his prints. His uncanny and often humorous imagery is at once gloriously beautiful and grotesque, drawing on literary themes, myth and legend. This exhibition contains sculptural installations and prints that reflect upon the ‘Universal City’ as a concept and physical artefact. Although ideally suited to visitors with visual impairments, this event is open to everyone. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: Judith Liddle, 0131 557 2479 Venue phone number: 0131 557 2479 Plague! Descriptive Tour May 25, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm National Library of Scotland Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement Plague! explores the contagious diseases afflicting people in Scotland over the past 700 years, along with society's reaction to contagion. Join an audio described tour of the exhibition for visually impaired visitors and companions. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Venue phone number: 0131 623 3700 Venue website: http://www.nls.uk/ Architecture at the Scottish National Gallery May 18, 2016, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm National Galleries of Scotland Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop Architecture at the Scottish National Gallery. More information to follow. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Scots in Italy May 15, 2016, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Hearing Enhancement Amplified Tour Celebrated as the centre of classical and modern European civilisation, Italy held many attractions for eighteenth-century Scots. Artists and architects came to study its matchless heritage. Wealthy aristocrats refined their minds and manners in a world of glamour and learning. A motley crowd of adventurers and loyalists pinned their hopes on the exiled Stuart court. Dealers and entrepreneurs, meanwhile, exploited a seemingly endless supply of artistic treasures. Featuring stunning artworks from across the National Galleries of Scotland, this exhibition explores the Scottish experience of Italy in the eighteenth-century, the period when fascination with the country reached its height. Join an amplified tour for visitors with hearing loss led by artist Tessa Asquith-Lamb. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Plague! - amplified tour May 11, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm National Library of Scotland Hearing Enhancement 'Plague!' explores the contagious diseases afflicting people in Scotland over the past 700 years, along with society's reactions to contagion. Join a tour for a small group with a portable loop system to amplify the speaker. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Venue phone number: 0131 623 3700 Venue website: http://www.nls.uk/ Fashioning a Reign - amplified tour May 9, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Palace of Holyrood House Hearing Enhancement Fashioning a Reign: 90 Years of Style from the Queen's Wardrobe Amplified Tour for Visitors with Hearing Loss Celebrate The Queen's 90th birthday at Holyrood Palace. Fashioning a Reign charts significant events in The Queen’s life through her dress, jewellery and accessories, from childhood to the present day. This small group tour gives an insight into life in the Palace during a royal visit, including a tour of the special exhibition. An FM portable loop system is available. Event Price: £7.20 Venue discount information: Admission £12, concessions £7.20 All visitors who require an access companion receive a complimentary ticket. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/palace-of-holyroodhouse Fashioning a Reign - described tour May 9, 2016, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Palace of Holyrood House Audio Description Fashioning a Reign: 90 Years of Style from the Queen's Wardrobe Verbal Description Tour Celebrate The Queen's 90th birthday at Holyrood Palace. Fashioning a Reign charts significant events in The Queen’s life through her dress, jewellery and accessories, from childhood to the present day. This guided tour for blind and partially sighted visitors uses language to bring the character and experience of the exhibition alive. The morning starts with refreshments and a short talk on the working life of the Palace when the Royal Family are in residence. Event Price: £7.20 Venue discount information: Admission £12, concessions £7.20 All visitors who require an access companion receive a complimentary ticket. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/palace-of-holyroodhouse Amplified Curator’s Talk - British Art Show 8 April 21, 2016, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Talbot Rice Gallery Hearing Enhancement Talbot Rice Gallery are delighted to present an amplified curators talk to accompany the British Art Show 8 – a nationwide touring exhibition that provides a vital overview of the most exciting contemporary art produced in the UK. The result is a wide-ranging exhibition that encompasses sculpture, film, video-installation, photography, painting, performance and design. The exhibition will be introduced by Curator James Clegg in a quiet space. You can then enjoy the exhibition at your own pace with staff on hand to answer any questions. Several artworks in this exhibition use sound, we will be using a quiet space for the comfort of visitors with hearing loss. A portable FM loop system will be available for all visitors who take part. Please note: Sections of this exhibition contain flashing lights and imagery. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 651 4540 Venue phone number: 0131 650 2210 Venue website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/museums-galleries/talbot-rice/home British Art Show 8 April 20, 2016, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop Organised by Hayward Touring every five years, the British Art Show provides a vital overview of the most exciting contemporary art produced in Britain. The curators of British Art Show 8, Anna Colin and Lydia Yee, have selected the work of 42 artists who have made a significant contribution to art in the UK over the past five years. The result is a wide-ranging exhibition encompassing sculpture, film and video-installation, painting, performance and design. 26 of the 42 artists have produced new works for the exhibition, making this the most ambitious British Art Show to date. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Bridget Riley and Pictorial Illusions April 17, 2016, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Hearing Enhancement Amplified Tour This focused display brings together a group of major paintings by Bridget Riley (b.1931) spanning over fifty years of the artist’s career to explore the dialogue between monochrome and colour in Riley's practice. Throughout her career, Riley has created paintings that not only engage the eye, but which elicit physical sensations of flux, rhythm and energy. From the early to mid-1960s Riley worked exclusively in black and white, gaining critical attention internationally for her ‘Op Art’ paintings. In around 1967, Riley shifted her palette to grey and then to colour. For the succeeding decades, Riley has employed a rich array of pigments as she has continued her investigations into perception and sensation through several series of influential bodies of work. Over the past two years, monochromatic paintings have returned into her practice. However, rather than reviving ideas from the 1960s, these paintings function in a new way, progressing directly out of the artist’s preceding paintings in colour. Drawn primarily from a private collection, the display features several paintings that have rarely been exhibited. These works will provide a unique context for Riley’s painting Over, 1966, which has been held in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art since 1979. Join an amplified tour for visitors with hearing loss led by artist Tessa Asquith-Lamb. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Jackie the Musical April 15, 2016, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Once there was a time with no mobiles, no online dating and no Facebook, when teenage girls waited with bated breath by the letterbox for their weekly issue of Jackie Magazine. In JACKIE THE MUSICAL we revisit those heady days, and tell the story of a recent divorcée who seeks advice once more from the pages of her old Jackie annuals. The quizzes, the fashion tips, the ‘do’s and don’ts on first date’ and above all the Cathy and Claire problem pages are all eagerly devoured by our plucky heroine as she revisits the dizzy world of the teen bible. With her ex and a handsome new guy in tow, the valuable lessons she learnt as a girl begin to influence her future and Jackie discovers the one person in control of her life is... her. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tuesday 12 to Saturday 16 April How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com In the Frame, Descriptive Tour April 13, 2016, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement Experience the exhibition in a descriptive tour led by artist Juliana Capes, perfect for visually impaired visitors and open to everyone. Sara Barker works on the boundary between sculpture, painting and drawing. Since beginning to exhibit her work in 2004, she has developed a visual language of paint, steel, aluminium, brass and glass; and a way of working which is meditative, focusing on memory, individual perception, and a blurring of line and colour. Refreshments available. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ In the Loop: Amplified Tour April 13, 2016, 10:00 am - 11:30 am Fruitmarket Gallery Hearing Enhancement Join a tour of Sara Barker's exhibition with portable FM hearing loop system, for visitors who are hard of hearing. Refreshments available. Sara Barker works on the boundary between sculpture, painting and drawing. Since beginning to exhibit her work in 2004, she has developed a visual language of paint, steel, aluminium, brass and glass; and a way of working which is meditative, focusing on memory, individual perception, and a blurring of line and colour. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Canned Laughter: A Funny Play About Being Funny April 2, 2016, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language It’s the 1970s and funny men Alec, Angus and Rory are one of Scotland’s top comedy acts. And now they’re hitting the big time – top of the bill at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh – and it looks like they’re getting a TV show. This comedy trio are riding high and nothing’s going to stop them. Fast forward to today and the three find themselves together again for the first time in decades. What happened to break the group up? Will they be able to put their past differences behind them? And why do they still care who gets the biggest laugh? Starring Allan Stewart, Andy Gray and Grant Stott this brand new comedy written and directed by Ed Curtis (I Dreamed A Dream, Never Forget, Jolson & Co) with Allan Stewart tells a tale of friendship, ambition and regret. And of course laughter…lots and lots of laughter. Event Price: £15 - £30.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tuesday 29 March to Saturday 2 April 2016 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Dutch Artists - amplified tour April 2, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm The Queens Gallery Hearing Enhancement The Dutch Artists of the 17th century painted every day scenes full of hidden meaning and moral message. Join members of the Learning team for this amplified tour of key works in the exhibition, including Vermeer's 'The Music Lesson'. Your guide will lead you through the taverns, courtyards and marketplaces on display - revealing the humour and layers of meaning within the works. An FM portable loop system is available. Event Price: £3.40 Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgalleryedinburgh/about Dutch Artists - descriptive tour April 2, 2016, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm The Queens Gallery Audio Description Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer Verbal Description Tour The Dutch Artists of the 17th century painted every day scenes full of hidden meaning and moral message. Join members of the Learning team for this verbal description tour of key works in the exhibition, including Vermeer's 'The Music Lesson'. Immerse yourself in the hustle and bustle of the taverns and courtyards depicted and enjoy music especially recorded in response to some of the works on display. Event Price: £3.40 Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgalleryedinburgh/about Talbot Rice - descriptive tour and workshop March 28, 2016, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm Talbot Rice Gallery Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement Talbot Rice Gallery are offering a descriptive tours and practical workshops for blind & visually impaired visitors during the British Art Show 8 – a nationwide touring exhibition that provides a vital overview of the most exciting contemporary art produced in the UK. The result is a wide-ranging exhibition that encompasses sculpture, film, video-installation, photography, painting, performance and design. Juliana Capes, an experienced artist and educator, will lead this session with support from the curatorial team at Talbot Rice Gallery. The event will begin with a descriptive tour, break for lunch together in the education space (12-1pm) then finish with a practical workshop there that will flow from the themes of the exhibition. If you would like to eat in the gallery please bring a packed lunch – we will provide tea, coffee & biscuits. Please note: Sections of this exhibition contain flashing lights and imagery. Event Price: Free Opening times: Mon - Sat How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 651 4540 Venue phone number: 0131 650 2210 Venue website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/museums-galleries/talbot-rice/home Rehearsal for Murder March 26, 2016, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Following the phenomenal decade-long success of The Agatha Christie Theatre Company, which sold over two million tickets and continually played to packed houses around the UK, Bill Kenwright presents a new production from the pen of the legendary award-winning writing team Levinson and Link, whose work includes the mystery series Murder, She Wrote and Columbo. The star cast includes leading stage and TV actor Robert Daws, best known for The Royal and Outside Edge, and his wife and co-star from The Royal, Amy Robbins, who also starred in Blood Brothers in the West End; and from the record breaking Agatha Christie Theatre Company, Robert Duncan, best known for Drop the Dead Donkey, Susan Penhaligon who starred in the gripping drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Ben Nealon from ITV’s award winning Soldier Soldier. Joining them are Steven Pinder from Brookside and LUCY DIXON from Waterloo Road. Playwright Alex Dennison is left heartbroken when his fiancée and leading lady Monica Welles is found dead from an apparent suicide. On the anniversary of that ill-fated night, Alex assembles the same cast and crew in the same theatre, for a reading of his new play. But as the reading begins, it becomes clear that Alex believes that Monica was murdered and he intends to uncover her killer… Event Price: £17 - £30.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Monday 21 to Saturday 26 March How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Rehearsal for Murder March 24, 2016, 7:30 am - 9:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned Following the phenomenal decade-long success of The Agatha Christie Theatre Company, which sold over two million tickets and continually played to packed houses around the UK, Bill Kenwright presents a new production from the pen of the legendary award-winning writing team Levinson and Link, whose work includes the mystery series Murder, She Wrote and Columbo. The star cast includes leading stage and TV actor Robert Daws, best known for The Royal and Outside Edge, and his wife and co-star from The Royal, Amy Robbins, who also starred in Blood Brothers in the West End; and from the record breaking Agatha Christie Theatre Company, Robert Duncan, best known for Drop the Dead Donkey, Susan Penhaligon who starred in the gripping drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Ben Nealon from ITV’s award winning Soldier Soldier. Joining them are Steven Pinder from Brookside and LUCY DIXON from Waterloo Road. Playwright Alex Dennison is left heartbroken when his fiancée and leading lady Monica Welles is found dead from an apparent suicide. On the anniversary of that ill-fated night, Alex assembles the same cast and crew in the same theatre, for a reading of his new play. But as the reading begins, it becomes clear that Alex believes that Monica was murdered and he intends to uncover her killer… Event Price: £17 - £30.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Monday 21 to Saturday 26 March How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com British Art Show 8 March 20, 2016, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Hearing Enhancement Amplified Tour Organised by Hayward Touring every five years, the British Art Show provides a vital overview of the most exciting contemporary art produced in Britain. The curators of British Art Show 8, Anna Colin and Lydia Yee, have selected the work of 42 artists who have made a significant contribution to art in the UK over the past five years. The result is a wide-ranging exhibition encompassing sculpture, film and video-installation, painting, performance and design. 26 of the 42 artists have produced new works for the exhibition, making this the most ambitious British Art Show to date. Join an amplified tour for visitors with hearing loss led by artist Tessa Asquith-Lamb. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Legally Blonde The Musical March 19, 2016, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Legally Blonde is the best show in town, case closed! It is about knowing who you are and showing what you’ve got! Elle Woods can handle anything! When her boyfriend dumps her, she follows him to Harvard Law School to win him back. With some help from new-found friends she learns it’s so much better to be smart. Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Tom March 18, 2016, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Step back in time to the dance halls, working men’s clubs and recording studios of the ‘60s where the legend of Tom Jones was born: a Valleys boy with a heart-stopping voice who dreamed of making the big time, no matter what it took. This inspirational story of self-belief and determination is performed live on stage by a phenomenal cast of actors and musicians, celebrating an ordinary man with an extraordinary talent who became a superstar on a world stage. Featuring hits of the era including Ghost Riders in the Sky, Spanish Harlem and Lucille, we track Tom’s climb to stardom. Ending with some of the hits that made him one of the most charismatic stars of the day: It’s Not Unusual, Delilah, Green, Green Grass of Home, What’s New Pussycat and more. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 March How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com 20th Century: Masterpieces of Scottish and European Art March 16, 2016, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop This display of masterpieces from the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art offers an overview of some of the most remarkable art made during the last century. It features important works from both British and European artists, and explores the vital links between artistic communities across the UK and mainland Europe. The display traces and celebrates the major developments in twentieth- century art, from expressionism and cubism, to abstraction and Pop Art. Among those on show include French artist Édouard Vuillard, who shares space with Scottish Colourists JD Fergusson, Samuel Peploe and FCB Cadell and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. Glasgow-born artist Steven Campbell's work Elegant Gestures of the Drowned after Max Ernst (1986) is featured as is Silenzioso Sangue (1979/85), by Italian painter Mimmo Paladino. The display also includes four works by sculptor, painter and printmaker William Turnbull. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org The Gondoliers March 12, 2016, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language The Gondoliers is Gilbert & Sullivan’s sunniest and brightest light opera. Two young Venetian gondoliers, Marco and Giuseppe Palmieri, find themselves thrust into another world when they discover one is actually heir to the throne of Barataria. The problem is, no one can figure out which man is the right one! After much confusion, a series of delightful twists and turns plays out to an exhilarating ending. Event Price: £16 - £23.00 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 March How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Inclusive Ceilidh March 12, 2016, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Dancebase Music / Sound / Aural Dance Base will be holding an inclusive Ceilidh with a live accordionist from 14.00-15.30 on Saturday 12 March. The session will be open for the full 90 minutes and all are welcome to join in or observe as they wish. We will also be offering tours of the building throughout this time. Refreshments will be available. The event is free. If you would like further information or have any questions, please email [email protected], call 0131 225 5525 or pop in and visit us. Event Price: Free How to book Venue phone number: 0131 225 5525 Venue website: http://www.dancebase.co.uk/ British Sign Language signed behind-the-scenes tour March 12, 2016, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm National Library of Scotland British Sign Language Enjoy a behind-the-scenes tour of the Library — visit the public areas, the reading rooms and a stack floor where some of the collections are stored. This is an introduction to the Library's history, collections and services, and is signed by a British Sign Language interpreter. The tour involves a number of stairs, so please contact us in advance if you have mobility difficulties. Book the BSL signed tour on Eventbrite or phone 0131 623 3734. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Venue phone number: 0131 623 3700 Venue website: http://www.nls.uk/ Introductory Tour and Lunch March 12, 2016, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement Join an informal lunch and taster exhibition tour with a difference, led by artist Juliana Capes. Focusing on our Sara Barker exhibition through detailed descriptions of the artworks and artists practice, this tour is perfect for people with visual impairments and anyone who wants to take an alternative journey through contemporary art. Sara Barker's exhibition, CHANGE-THE-SETTING works on the boundary between sculpture, painting and drawing. Since beginning to exhibit her work in 2004, she has developed a visual language of paint, steel, aluminium, brass and glass; and a way of working which is meditative, focusing on memory, individual perception, and a blurring of line and colour. With its combination of new and existing work, this exhibition offers the opportunity to spend time learning the language of Barker’s art, enjoying how her objects change in relation both to you and to each other as you move around them. The Fruitmarket are offering free transport to this event from and to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art for those attending events there as part of Disabled Access Day. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Portrait Gallery Taster Session Sessions at 11.30am and 2pm (March 12, 2016, 11:30 am) Scottish National Portrait Gallery Touch Tour, Audio Description Come and hear about the Portrait Gallery's programme for visually impaired visitors and explore the historical embroidery handling resources. Suitable for all audiences. No booking required Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Tours for Visually Impaired Visitors Tours at 11am and 2pm (March 12, 2016, 11:00 am) National Museum of Scotland Touch Tour, Audio Description New for Disabled Access Day, developed for visitors with visual impairment, take an introductory tour around two of the Scottish galleries in the National Museum of Scotland, with an opportunity to touch objects from our handling collection. Places are limited to six people. To book a place, contact 0300 123 6789 Event Price: Free How to book Venue phone number: 0300 123 6789 Venue website: www.nms.ac.uk Welcome to the Library March 12, 2016, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm National Library of Scotland Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement Drop in for tea, coffee and biscuits and learn more about the Library, our collections, exhibitions and accessible events programme. Library staff will answer questions and welcome feedback on how we can improve access. Learn about our exhibition, 'Plague!', which tells the story of how Scotland coped with outbreaks of infectious diseases over the past 600 years. The library offers regular descriptive tours and handling opportunities for visitors with sight loss and tours using a portable loop system for visitors with hearing loss. A portable loop system will be available during this event and library staff are trained in verbal description. Free, no need to book. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Venue phone number: 0131 623 3700 Venue website: http://www.nls.uk/ National Gallery Taster Sessions Sessions at 11am and 2pm (March 12, 2016, 11:00 am) National Galleries of Scotland Hearing Enhancement Learn about the gallery's programme for hearing impaired visitors and enjoy a tour of our collections highlights. Suitable for all audiences. Booking required. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Outdoor Sensory Sculpture Tour Tours at 11am and 2.30pm (March 12, 2016, 11:00 am) Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Touch Tour, Audio Description Join an outdoor sculpture sensory tour at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Suitable for all audiences. Free, no booking required. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Descriptive Tours and Handling Sessions Tours at 11am and 2pm (March 12, 2016, 11:00 am) Dovecot Studios Touch Tour, Audio Description Dovecot opens its doors for Disabled Access Day, welcoming all visitors to explore its beautifully restored Victorian Baths building in the centre of Edinburgh. Visit Dovecot Gallery’s latest exhibition Necklace for an Elephant and Other Stories: The Working Lives of David Poston which documents Poston’s varied career as a jeweller, designer-maker, interdisciplinary problem solver and 3D technologist. At 11am a member of Dovecot staff will conduct a descriptive handling session. Visitors are invited to touch and examine more closely Poston’s fascinating jewellery objects in order to understand more about the materials and techniques employed by the designer. On display on the Viewing Balcony is Tuft Loving: Recent Rug Projects illustrating Dovecot made rugs created in collaboration with artists and designers including Linder, Timorous Beasties and Garry Fabian Miller. At 2pm one of Dovecot’s rug makers will take visitors on a tour around the Balcony describing the gun-tufting technique and rugs on show. Attendees will also have an opportunity to handle samples, wool and some of the tools used to create Dovecot’s exquisite textile artworks. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 550 3660 Venue website: http://dovecotstudios.com/ Peter James' The Perfect Murder March 5, 2016, 2:30 pm - 4:25 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Starring Eastenders' Shane Richie and Jessie Wallace. Following the thrillingly successful production of Dead Simple earlier this year, the work of No. 1 best selling author Peter James returns to the King's Theatre with his first critically acclaimed stage hit The Perfect Murder. Victor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for a long time. But their marriage has reached crisis point and Victor has decided there is only one way to get Joan out of his life forever... but he’s about to get a nasty surprise... As a young Detective Roy Grace starts to investigate his very first homicide case, dark forces intervene and Grace begins to fear that nothing is quite as it seems. Have you ever wondered how to commit the perfect murder? This highly entertaining dark comedy thriller might be your answer! Event Price: £17 - £30.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 29 February to Sat 5 March 2016 Event age suitability: 12+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Purposeless Movements Every day until March 4, 2016 (March 2, 2016, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm) Traverse Theatre Audio Description, Captioned, British Sign Language ‘What’s so great about purposeful movement? Half the fun in life is not knowing what’s coming next.’ Purposeless Movements by Birds of Paradise Theatre Company is a visually stunning new dance theatre piece that riffs on the stories of five guys with cerebral palsy, how it affects their lives, their gender, their masculinity and their movement. Funny and challenging in equal measure, the show will fuse music, video, movement and text as the guys tell humorous and poignant stories of their laughter, their inappropriateness and their tears – stories that ask what it is to move and be moved. How do these stories come together to shape their identities? What do they share with one another and what sets them apart? And how much of this is down to Cerebral Palsy? When they were born the doctors called it Purposeless Movements – for them it’s just how they get around. The production will be accompanied by music performed live on stage. All performances integrate audio description, BSL and animated surtitles. Event Price: £16.50 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Palace of Holyroodhouse February 27, 2016, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Palace of Holyrood House British Sign Language Marriage, Murder and Conspiracy: Mary, Queen of Scots' at Holyrood Palace A BSL interpreted tour of the State and Historic Apartments at Holyrood Palace. Mary, Queen of Scots lived in the Palace on her return to Scotland in 1561. This small group tour looks at life at Holyrood during this dramatic time. Uncover the stories of murder and conspiracy that surrounded her, see where she slept and entertained and look at real and replica costumes and objects used by the Queen and her court. Event Price: £7 Venue discount information: Admission £12, concessions £7.20 All visitors who require an access companion receive a complimentary ticket. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Organiser: Learning Bookings Team Organiser Phone: 0131 557 2500 Organiser Email: [email protected] Footloose February 19, 2016, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Festival Theatre Audio Description, British Sign Language Kick off your Sunday shoes and cut loose as the explosive rock ‘n' roll musical sensation Footloose bursts onto the UK stage in a remastered show sure to get your toes tapping. Based on the 1980s hit film that took the world by storm, Footloose the musical sizzles with the same spirit of youth, rebellion and romance. City boy Ren thinks his life is over when he is forced to move to Bomont, an American rural backwater. But things are far worse than he could have ever imagined, as the town bans dancing. It isn’t long before Ren can’t resist breaking the rules, and he’s not alone. Enjoy the best in UK musical talent,cutting-edge choreography and classic hits including Holding Out for a Hero, Almost Paradise, Let's Hear It ForThe Boy and the unforgettable title track, Footloose. Event Price: £22 - £42 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 February How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Costumes at the Portrait Gallery February 17, 2016, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop Explore key portraits from the Portrait Gallery collection, enhanced by tactile embroidery samples created as part of the 2014 Portrait Gallery residency of Helen McCook from the Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace. Created in part by, and in consultation with visually impaired participants and volunteers, the samples relate to five major portraits from the Portrait Gallery collection - Queen Charlotte by Allan Ramsay; Henriette Anne, Duchess of Orleans by Jean Nocret; James VI and I by Adrian Vanson; James V by an unknown artist and Anne Erskine and her daughters by George Jameson. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org James III: The True Mirror February 13, 2016, 8:15 pm - 10:45 pm Festival Theatre Audio Description, Captioned Like James III himself, the final instalment of Rona Munro’s extraordinary trilogy is colourful, brash and unpredictable. It turns its eye on the women of the royal court, both lowly and high born, who prove to be its beating heart. James III of Scotland. He knows what he sees in his mirror. A man who's irresistible, charismatic, a man of fashion and culture. A man with big dreams ...and no budget to realise any of them. But he's convinced a true king should never allow minor details like available cash to deprive his people of the magnificent European style court they deserve. Obsessed with grandiose schemes that his nation can ill-afford and his restless nobles will no longer tolerate, James is loved and loathed in dangerously unstable proportions. But Scotland's future will be decided by the woman who loves him best of all, his resourceful and resilient wife, Queen Margaret of Denmark. As dreams battle brutal realities and the nation thunders dangerously close to regicide and civil war, her true love and clear vision offer the only protection that can save a fragile monarchy and rescue a struggling people. But the cost for Margaret herself may be too high... Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Fri 5 at 7.30pm, Sat 6 at 8.15pm, Fri 12 at 7.30pm, Sat 13 at 8.15pm Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com James II: Day of The Innocents February 13, 2016, 4:00 pm - 6:25 pm Festival Theatre Audio Description, Captioned A six year old boy is crowned King of Scots. Soon James II is the prize in a vicious game between the country’s most powerful families, for whoever has the person of the boy king, controls the state. Seen through a child's eyes, the Scottish court is a world of monsters with sharp teeth and long knives. Growing up alone, abandoned by his mother and separated from his sisters, James II is little better than a puppet. There is only one relationship he can trust, his growing friendship with another lonely boy, William, the future Earl of Douglas. The two boys cling together as they try to survive the murder and mayhem that surrounds them. But the independence and power of young adulthood bring James into an even more threatening world. He has to fight the feuding nobles who still want to control him, he has to make brutal choices about the people he loves best, he has to struggle to keep his tenuous grip on the security of the crown and on his sanity....while the nightmares and demons of his childhood rise up again with new and murderous intent. Please note this performance contains strong language, violent scenes , brief nudity and is not suitable for children. Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Sat 6, Thu 11, Sat 13, Thu 4 at 7.30pm, Sat 6 at 4pm, Thu 11 at 7.30pm, Sat 13 at 4pm Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock February 13, 2016, 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm Festival Theatre Audio Description, Captioned James I of Scotland was captured when he was only 13 and became King of Scots in an English prison. 18 years later he's finally delivered back home with a ransom on his head and a new English bride. He's returning to a poor nation, the royal coffers are empty and his nobles are a pack of wolves ready to tear him apart at the first sign of weakness. But James has his own ideas about how to be a king and, after 18 years, he finally has the chance to realise them. James is determined to bring the rule of law to a land riven by warring families, but that struggle will force him to make terrible choices if he is to save himself, his Queen and the crown. Please note this performance contains strong language, violent scenes , brief nudity and is not suitable for children. Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com How You Gonna Live Your Dash February 12, 2016, 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Traverse Theatre Captioned One of Scotland’s most visionary theatre-makers, Jenna Watt presents her latest performance. This shattering piece explores the life-altering decisions we make in order to get the most out of our time on earth: giving up a high-flying career, confronting an addiction, dropping it all and moving to a new continent. Based on real-life testimonies and featuring beautiful pyrotechnic effects, this epic performance looks at the moment we choose to detonate our own lives, and how we piece together a new future. Event Price: £16.50 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: Thu 11 – Sat 13 Feb Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Manipulate Festival - Gobo: Digital Glossary February 6, 2016, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Traverse Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only This performance contains some spoken dialogue in Russian Hurtling through seventeen sketches at breakneck speed, immersing you in a surreal world of theatrical tomfoolery, experience factual scenes – or perhaps flights of fictions – from the life and times of Gobo, an emphatically un-heroic hero. Using lasers, cameras, shadows and an array of bizarre handmade contraptions, the two characters at the chaotic centre of this show create a stream of comic, touching and stirring images. In their world of constant tinkering and playful experiments, explorations and examinations unfold with childish curiosity and frenetic energy. And as connections are examined and perspectives altered, this playful romp transforms itself in the hands of two dexterous performers into a forceful, intricate and absorbing piece of visual theatre. Event Price: £16.50 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event age suitability: 12+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Manipulate Festival - Birdheart February 3, 2016, 9:00 pm Traverse Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only This performance has no spoken dialogue An egg cracks open. A restless spirit emerges. What will it become? An intimate and stunning chamber piece of animated theatre created with a sheet of brown paper, found objects, shadows and a box of sand. A show about transformation, loneliness, and the urge to fly, Birdheart holds a mirror up to humanity. Through a series of animated images built in front of the audiences’ eyes Birdheart creates something achingly beautiful from the humblest of beginnings. Event Price: £13.50 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event age suitability: 12+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Manipulate Festival - Close Up February 1, 2016, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Traverse Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only Contains no spoken word A grand piano, one pianist, five dancers: bodies together in concert. Creatures – constricted, distorted and oppressed – invade a musician’s perfectly harmonic world. High culture’s ivory-towered pursuit of perfection and everyday nightmarish fears and realities – perhaps the player’s alter-egos or darker suppressed elements of her soul – meet and collide as thoughts and emotions, motivations and impulses, become incarnate. Close Up, the final part of Editta Braun’s acclaimed trilogy, follows the presentation of Luvos and Planet Luvos at previous manipulate festivals. As the virtuoso concert pianist AyseDeniz performs her’s and Thierry Zaboitzeff’s compositions – whose peculiar and idiosyncratic sound worlds, inspired by the music of Chopin and Rachmaninoff, are an integral element of the company’s work – dancers’ bodies lose their humanity and become impersonal entities. They create fascinating and captivating images and narratives which explore concepts of individual freedom and group identity in a compelling and visceral piece of physical dance theatre. Event Price: £16.50 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event age suitability: 15+ contains nudity How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk The Weir January 30, 2016, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description “There’s no dark like a winter night in the country. And there was a wind like this one,howling and whistling in off the sea. It was this type of night now. Am I setting the scene for you?” You are guaranteed a good laugh and warm welcome when you join the local lads in Brendan’s Bar county Leitrim. When a young woman arrives from Dublin, the fellas impress her with their local ghost stories but as the night draws in, Valerie will share a haunting tale of her own. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 15 January 2016 to 6 February 2016 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Weir January 28, 2016, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description "There's no dark like a winter night in the country. And there was a wind like this one,howling and whistling in off the sea. It was this type of night now. Am I setting the scene for you?” You are guaranteed a good laugh and warm welcome when you join the local lads in Brendan’s Bar county Leitrim. When a young woman arrives from Dublin, the fellas impress her with their local ghost stories but as the night draws in, Valerie will share a haunting tale of her own. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 15 January 2016 to 6 February 2016 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Modern Scottish Women | Painters and Sculptors 1885-1965 January 20, 2016, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern Two Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop This revelatory exhibition of work by Scottish women artists will concentrate on painters and sculptors. It covers the period from 1885, when Fra Newbery became Director of Glasgow School of Art, until 1965, the year of Anne Redpath’s death. More than 80 works will be shown, drawn from the National Galleries of Scotland’s holdings and other public collections from throughout the UK, as well as from private collections. The exhibition will include familiar masterpieces alongside important works by significant artists which are rarely seen and who are not widely known. Artists represented range from Bessie MacNicol, Phoebe Anna Traquair and Gertrude Alice Meredith Williams, to Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Dorothy Johnstone and Hazel Armour, as well as Phyllis Bone, Joan Eardley and Bet Low. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org In Conversation: John Byrne and Desmond Shawe-Taylor January 19, 2016, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm The Queens Gallery Speech to Text Key Scottish artist and playwright John Byrne is in conversation with Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, exploring Byrne's love of historical painting and its impact on his creative approaches. Following the talk in the Throne Room at Holyrood Palace, enjoy a glass of wine and a private view of Scottish Artists, in The Queen's Gallery. With live speech-to-text transcription for audience members with hearing loss. Event Price: £12.50 Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Organiser: Learning Bookings Team Organiser Phone: 0131 557 2500 Organiser Email: [email protected] In Conversation: John Byrne and Desmond Shawe-Taylor January 19, 2016, 6:30 pm - January 26, 2016, 8:30 pm The Queens Gallery Speech to Text Includes live speech-to-text transcription Contemporary polymath John Byrne is a Renaissance man whose creative output and influences abound. This key Scottish painter and playwright is in conversation with Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, exploring Byrne's love of historical painting and its impact on the creative approaches of the artist himself. Concludes with a private view of Scottish artists. Event Price: £10.50 Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgalleryedinburgh/about Scottish Ballet: Cinderella December 19, 2015, 2:00 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Next winter discover the enchanted, sparkling world of Christopher Hampson’s Cinderella, in the European premiere of this most beloved fairy tale. In her grief, the young Cinderella plants a rose at her mother’s graveside. When her father remarries, the future seems bleaker than ever. Her wicked stepmother is intent on pushing aside kind and beautiful Cinderella in favour of her two nasty step sisters. The course of true love never did run smooth but Cinderella does meet her prince and romance blossoms. Acclaimed New Zealand designer Tracy Grant Lord’s luxurious costumes and extravagant sets create a glittering fantasy world peopled with characters that are touching, funny and real. Dazzling against the light and dark of Prokofiev’s powerful score, this ravishing interpretation of the timeless ragstoriches romance is everything you could wish for and more. The Scottish Ballet Orchestra accompanies live performing the world famous Prokofiev score. Event Price: £42.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Sat 5 to Thu 31 December 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Cinderella December 18, 2015, 7:00 pm The Brunton British Sign Language Our panto this year is full of fun and laughter with oodles of gags, local references, chart hits, outrageous costumes and lots of singing, dancing and shouting out. Our fabulous cast of professional actors are supported by a chorus of talented, local, young performers from across East Lothian. The Brunton specialises in producing fun and interactive traditional pantomimes that are suitable for all the family, from 4 to 104! Event Price: £14.50 Event run: 24th Nov 2015 - 2nd Jan 2016 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 665 2240 Venue phone number: 0131 665 2240 Venue website: http://www.thebrunton.co.uk/ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe December 16, 2015, 7:00 pm Lyceum Theatre British Sign Language “It's a magic wardrobe. There's a wood inside it, and it's snowing, and there's a faun and a witch and it's called Narnia. Come and see." This Christmas, The Lyceum is delighted to present C.S. Lewis’ classic tale The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Step with us through a dusty wardrobe and into a snowy landscape filled with thrilling adventure. Meet the majestic Aslan, the loveable Mr Tumnus and his fantastical friends and join their quest to free Narnia from the spell of the White Witch. A festive treat of music and song from the team that brought you The Lyceum’s magical festive shows The BFG and A Christmas Carol. - See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/the-lion-the-witch-and-thewardrobe1#sthash.ipmQi8Pb.dpuf Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 28 November 2015 to 3 January 2016 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Cinderella December 15, 2015, 7:00 pm The Brunton Audio Description Our panto this year is full of fun and laughter with oodles of gags, local references, chart hits, outrageous costumes and lots of singing, dancing and shouting out. Our fabulous cast of professional actors are supported by a chorus of talented, local, young performers from across East Lothian. The Brunton specialises in producing fun and interactive traditional pantomimes that are suitable for all the family, from 4 to 104! Event Price: £14.50 Event run: 24th Nov 2015 - 2nd Jan 2016 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 665 2240 Venue phone number: 0131 665 2240 Venue website: http://www.thebrunton.co.uk/ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe December 12, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description “It's a magic wardrobe. There's a wood inside it, and it's snowing, and there's a faun and a witch and it's called Narnia. Come and see." This Christmas, The Lyceum is delighted to present C.S. Lewis’ classic tale The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Step with us through a dusty wardrobe and into a snowy landscape filled with thrilling adventure. Meet the majestic Aslan, the loveable Mr Tumnus and his fantastical friends and join their quest to free Narnia from the spell of the White Witch. A festive treat of music and song from the team that brought you The Lyceum’s magical festive shows The BFG and A Christmas Carol. - See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/the-lion-the-witch-and-thewardrobe1#sthash.ipmQi8Pb.dpuf Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 28 November 2015 to 3 January 2016 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe December 10, 2015, 7:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description “It's a magic wardrobe. There's a wood inside it, and it's snowing, and there's a faun and a witch and it's called Narnia. Come and see." This Christmas, The Lyceum is delighted to present C.S. Lewis’ classic tale The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Step with us through a dusty wardrobe and into a snowy landscape filled with thrilling adventure. Meet the majestic Aslan, the loveable Mr Tumnus and his fantastical friends and join their quest to free Narnia from the spell of the White Witch. A festive treat of music and song from the team that brought you The Lyceum’s magical festive shows The BFG and A Christmas Carol. - See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/the-lion-the-witch-and-thewardrobe1#sthash.ipmQi8Pb.dpuf Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 28 November 2015 to 3 January 2016 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe December 5, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Captioned “It's a magic wardrobe. There's a wood inside it, and it's snowing, and there's a faun and a witch and it's called Narnia. Come and see." This Christmas, The Lyceum is delighted to present C.S. Lewis’ classic tale The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Step with us through a dusty wardrobe and into a snowy landscape filled with thrilling adventure. Meet the majestic Aslan, the loveable Mr Tumnus and his fantastical friends and join their quest to free Narnia from the spell of the White Witch. A festive treat of music and song from the team that brought you The Lyceum’s magical festive shows The BFG and A Christmas Carol. - See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/the-lion-the-witch-and-thewardrobe1#sthash.ipmQi8Pb.dpuf Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 28 November 2015 to 3 January 2016 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Some Bat-squeak Echo of Other Time: a tour guided by fiction November 28, 2015, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm National Library of Scotland Audio Description, Spoken Word, Music / Sound / Aural The National Library of Scotland is both a building and a collection. Within the collection are descriptions of fictional buildings, which have only ever existed in the imagination. This performance, created by Ken Cockburn, will lead you on a journey through the National Library of Scotland weaving together fictions, description and music. Ken Cockburn’s explorations of the building, informed by NLS staff and visually impaired participants, has resulted in this rich and unexpected way to experience the library and its spaces. This is a free event as part of Artlink’s Opening Lines Project which mixes description, history and storytelling in response to locations across Edinburgh, creating events for sighted and non- sighted audiences. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Scottish Artists 1750-1900 November 28, 2015, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm The Queens Gallery Hearing Enhancement Amplified Tour for Visitors with Hearing Loss This exhibition tells the story of the relationship of famous Scottish artists like David Wilkie and Allan Ramsay with the royal family. It also explores the development of a distinctive Scottish school of art between 1750 until the reign of Queen Victoria. Explore the exhibition in a small group. Highlights on this special tour include the Tam O'Shanter chair, made from the roof beams at the Kirk at Alloway and Wilkie's portrayal of George IV's famous visit to Edinburgh in 1822. An FM portable loop system is available. Event Price: £3.30 Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Organiser: Learning Bookings Team Organiser Phone: 0131 557 2500 Organiser Email: [email protected] Rambert: Dark Arteries November 27, 2015, 7:30 pm Festival Theatre Captioned Rambert has never sounded quite like this before. A full brass band joins the world-class dancers live on stage for Dark Arteries, the world’s first brass band dance work. This uplifting piece, created by Artistic Director Mark Baldwin and composer Gavin Higgins, celebrates how brass band music endures as the legacy of the communities which mined our coalfilled “dark arteries”. It is a dance which draws you into its emotional heart while the music lifts the hairs on the back of your neck, then raises the roof. Dark Arteries forms the centrepiece of a triple bill of stunning dance, which also includes Transfigured Night, a love story choreographed by two-time Olivier Award-winner Kim Brandstrup to Schoenberg’s achingly beautiful score, and The 3 Dancers, which bringsone of Picasso’s greatest paintings, and the tragic love triangle that inspired it, vividly to life. Event Price: £14 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Thu 26 to Sat 28 November 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Birds of a Feather - Luc Tuymans November 26, 2015, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Talbot Rice Gallery Hearing Enhancement Talbot Rice Gallery is delighted to present an amplified curators tour to accompany our final exhibitions of 2015. One of the worlds most influential contemporary painters Luc Tuymans will show in Gallery 1 while we will present a Group Show of still-life drawing and painting in Gallery 2 that will feature early works by Barbara Hepworth, John Bellany, Elizabeth Blackadder and Henry Moore to name but a few. Additionally visitors will have the chance to experience a new Graduate Residency Project by 2015 Edinburgh College of Art graduate, David Haslam. Curator James Clegg will lead the tour of the exhibition. Personal Hearing Loops will be available for visitors who take part. To book a place please call Clare on 0131 651 4540 or email [email protected] Luc Tuymans – Birds of a Feather Luc Tuymans is one of the most influential painters working today. For his first exhibition in Scotland, this provocative artist will bring together his own work with that of the most significant of Scottish Enlightenment portrait painters, Henry Raeburn. Utilising images of pink and yellow canaries and Mount Rushmore alongside anonymous gatherings of people and Raeburn’s sombre black-robed academics – Birds of a Feather will associate themes of independence, enlightenment and social control. Supported by David Zwirner London/New York and Luc Tuymans Studio Antwerp Group Show – Impulses Towards Life Bounding 100 years, Impulses Towards Life emphasises the reimagining of the human form in the last century. The show is centred upon a work by Barbara Hepworth that has not been exhibited publicly for 65 years and includes early drawings by William McTaggart, John Bellany, Kirkland Main, Elizabeth Blackadder, Henry Moore and many others. Produced in association with University of Edinburgh Collections Talbot Rice Gallery is the public art gallery of The University of Edinburgh. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 651 4540 Organiser: Clare McAllister Organiser Phone: 0131 651 4540 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/museums-galleries/talbot-rice Edinburgh Gang Show 2015 November 21, 2015, 2:15 pm Kings Theatre Audio Description, British Sign Language The Edinburgh Gang Show returns to the King’s Theatre for another fabulous show week. Join us for an amazing experience, with over 250 young people from Scouting and Girlguiding performing their hearts out. From incredible song and dance numbers to laugh out loud sketches, this is a show not to be missed! November is Gang Show month – see you at the King’s! Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 17 to Sat 21 November 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Scottish Artists 1750-1900 November 21, 2015, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm The Queens Gallery Audio Description Verbal Description Tour This exhibition tells the story of the relationship of famous Scottish artists like David Wilkie and Allan Ramsay with the royal family. It also explores the development of a distinctive Scottish school of art between 1750 until the reign of Queen Victoria. From royal portraits to scenes of everyday Scottish life, join members of the Learning team for this verbal description tour of key works in the exhibition. Event Price: £3.30 Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Organiser: Learning Bookings Team Organiser Phone: 0131 557 2500 Organiser Email: [email protected] King Charles III November 20, 2015, 7:30 pm - November 21, 2015, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Starring Robert Powell as King Charles III. Mike Bartlett’s critically acclaimed new future history play. The Queen is dead: after a lifetime of waiting, the prince ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule? Directed by the Almeida Theatre’s artistic director Rupert Goold, this "bracingly provocative and outrageously entertaining new play" (The Independent) explores the people underneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain’s most famous family. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 16 to Sat 21 November 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com King Charles III November 19, 2015, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned Starring Robert Powell as King Charles III. Mike Bartlett’s critically acclaimed new future history play. The Queen is dead: after a lifetime of waiting, the prince ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule? Directed by the Almeida Theatre’s artistic director Rupert Goold, this "bracingly provocative and outrageously entertaining new play" (The Independent) explores the people underneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain’s most famous family. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 16 to Sat 21 November 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Mack & Mabel November 18, 2015, 7:30 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Audio Description Direct from its premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre, the dazzling Broadway musical comedy Mack & Mabel stars double Olivier award-winning Michael Ball (Hairspray, Sweeney Todd) as Mack Sennett and introduces Rebecca LaChance (Broadway’s Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) as Mabel Normand. Based on the real-life romance between legendary filmmaker Mack Sennett and his rising star Mabel Normand, it tells the story of Hollywood’s golden age, where the fun of the silent screen was dominated by the hysterical chaos of the Keystone Kops and the glamour of the bathing beauties. A world where heroes wore capes, girls were tied to the railway tracks and it all ended with a pie in the face. Mack & Mabel features an outstanding score by Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly!, La Cage aux Folles) and is widely admired for its classic Broadway hits including I Won’t Send Roses, Time Heals Everything and Tap Your Troubles Away. In a production by a multi award-winning team, with direction by Jonathan Church (Singin’ in the Rain) design by Robert Jones (The Wizard of Oz) and choreography by Stephen Mear (Mary Poppins), this Evening Standard award winning musical comedy is both a poignant love story and a joyous celebration of the excitement, glamour and sparkling humour of the era of silent movies. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: Tue 10 - Sat 21 November 2015 How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Head to Head | Portrait Sculpture • Ancient to Modern November 18, 2015, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop Head to Head showcases portrait sculpture from across the National Galleries of Scotland. A spectacular selection of sculpted heads and figures, from ancient to modern and executed in a wide range of media, are on display. The exhibition illustrates how sculptors continue to reference the illustrious tradition of the portrait bust but in various ways also seek to break free from it. Featuring a rich variety of work in terms of style and scale, the display will form a dramatic spectacle in the Contemporary Gallery. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Mack & Mabel November 17, 2015, 7:30 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Captioned Direct from its premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre, the dazzling Broadway musical comedy Mack & Mabel stars double Olivier award-winning Michael Ball (Hairspray, Sweeney Todd) as Mack Sennett and introduces Rebecca LaChance (Broadway’s Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) as Mabel Normand. Based on the real-life romance between legendary filmmaker Mack Sennett and his rising star Mabel Normand, it tells the story of Hollywood’s golden age, where the fun of the silent screen was dominated by the hysterical chaos of the Keystone Kops and the glamour of the bathing beauties. A world where heroes wore capes, girls were tied to the railway tracks and it all ended with a pie in the face. Mack & Mabel features an outstanding score by Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly!, La Cage aux Folles) and is widely admired for its classic Broadway hits including I Won’t Send Roses, Time Heals Everything and Tap Your Troubles Away. In a production by a multi award-winning team, with direction by Jonathan Church (Singin’ in the Rain) design by Robert Jones (The Wizard of Oz) and choreography by Stephen Mear (Mary Poppins), this Evening Standard award winning musical comedy is both a poignant love story and a joyous celebration of the excitement, glamour and sparkling humour of the era of silent movies. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: Tue 10 - Sat 21 November 2015 How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Modern Scottish Women | Painters and Sculptors 1885-1965 November 15, 2015, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern Two Hearing Enhancement Amplified tour This revelatory exhibition of work by Scottish women artists will concentrate on painters and sculptors. It covers the period from 1885, when Fra Newbery became Director of Glasgow School of Art, until 1965, the year of Anne Redpath’s death. More than 80 works will be shown, drawn from the National Galleries of Scotland’s holdings and other public collections from throughout the UK, as well as from private collections. The exhibition will include familiar masterpieces alongside important works by significant artists which are rarely seen and who are not widely known. Artists represented range from Bessie MacNicol, Phoebe Anna Traquair and Gertrude Alice Meredith Williams, to Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Dorothy Johnstone and Hazel Armour, as well as Phyllis Bone, Joan Eardley and Bet Low. Join an amplified tour for visitors with hearing loss led by artist Tessa Asquith-Lamb. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Scottish Opera: Carmen November 14, 2015, 7:15 pm - 10:15 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description In the sultry heat of Seville, passions are high and drama is around every corner – and a hot-blooded tale of seduction and obsession is about to unfold. When Don José, a young soldier, meets the sensual and high-spirited Carmen, thoughts of marrying his childhood sweetheart are driven from his mind. But Don José is not the only one to fall for Carmen’s charms, and when she chooses another man, she sets in motion a shocking and unmissable showdown. From the ‘Habanera’ to the rousing ‘Toreador’s Song’, Bizet’s brilliant music pulls you right into the action of this passionate love story. With a star-studded cast including 2015 International Opera Award winner Justina Gringyte, one of the world’s most talked-about tenors Noah Stewart, and Roland Wood, direct from the drama of 2015’s Il trovatore, this is an unforgettable evening not to be missed. Revival of the 1999 co-production with Welsh National Opera Sung in French with English supertitles Supported by Scottish Opera’s ‘Play a Supporting Role’ appeal Event Price: £18 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 3, Fri 6, Sun 8, Thu 12 & Sat 14 November 2015 Event age suitability: 12+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Importance of Being Ernest November 14, 2015, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Oscar Wilde’s much loved and brilliantly witty masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest features an all-star cast featuring Nigel Havers, Christine Kavanagh, and Siân Phillips performing as The Bunbury Company of Players, in a new production directed by Lucy Bailey, designed by William Dudley with added material written by Simon Brett, lighting design by Oliver Fenwick, the composer and sound designer is Tom Mills. The Importance of Being Earnest is known to elegantly lampoon the hypocrisies of a Victorian society and opens as two bachelors, the dependable John Worthing, J.P. and upper class playboy Algernon Moncrieff, feel compelled to create different identities in order to pursue two eligible ladies Cecily Cardew and Gwendolyn Fairfax. The hilarious misadventures which result from their subterfuge; their brushes with the redoubtable Lady Bracknell and the uptight Miss Prism results in a plot that twists and fizzles with some of the finest dialogue to be found in theatre. Event Price: £14 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 10 - Sat 14 November 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Tipping the Velvet November 14, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Captioned "I used to think that whenever I thought of you I was all lit up, like a candle. I was afraid people would notice." It’s 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall: she doesn’t know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life. Tonight she will fall in love… with the thrill of the stage and with Kitty Butler; a girl who wears trousers. Giddy with desire and hungry for experience, Nancy follows Kitty to London where unimaginable adventures await. Acclaimed playwright Laura Wade (Posh, Royal Court & West End) brings Sarah Waters’ audacious bestselling novel to The Lyceum’s beautiful Victorian stage in an electrifying new adaptation, directed by Olivier award winner Lyndsey Turner (Chimerica, Almeida & West End). Tipping the Velvet is a co-production between the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and the Lyric Hammersmith. This production contain scenes of an adult nature. - See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/tipping-the-velvet#sthash.qFyacOFQ.dpuf Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 28 October 2015 to 14 November 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Mack & Mabel November 13, 2015, 7:30 pm Edinburgh Playhouse British Sign Language Direct from its premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre, the dazzling Broadway musical comedy Mack & Mabel stars double Olivier award-winning Michael Ball (Hairspray, Sweeney Todd) as Mack Sennett and introduces Rebecca LaChance (Broadway’s Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) as Mabel Normand. Based on the real-life romance between legendary filmmaker Mack Sennett and his rising star Mabel Normand, it tells the story of Hollywood’s golden age, where the fun of the silent screen was dominated by the hysterical chaos of the Keystone Kops and the glamour of the bathing beauties. A world where heroes wore capes, girls were tied to the railway tracks and it all ended with a pie in the face. Mack & Mabel features an outstanding score by Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly!, La Cage aux Folles) and is widely admired for its classic Broadway hits including I Won’t Send Roses, Time Heals Everything and Tap Your Troubles Away. In a production by a multi award-winning team, with direction by Jonathan Church (Singin’ in the Rain) design by Robert Jones (The Wizard of Oz) and choreography by Stephen Mear (Mary Poppins), this Evening Standard award winning musical comedy is both a poignant love story and a joyous celebration of the excitement, glamour and sparkling humour of the era of silent movies. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: Tue 10 - Sat 21 November 2015 How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ The Importance of Being Ernest November 12, 2015, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned Oscar Wilde’s much loved and brilliantly witty masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest features an all-star cast featuring Nigel Havers, Christine Kavanagh, and Siân Phillips performing as The Bunbury Company of Players, in a new production directed by Lucy Bailey, designed by William Dudley with added material written by Simon Brett, lighting design by Oliver Fenwick, the composer and sound designer is Tom Mills. The Importance of Being Earnest is known to elegantly lampoon the hypocrisies of a Victorian society and opens as two bachelors, the dependable John Worthing, J.P. and upper class playboy Algernon Moncrieff, feel compelled to create different identities in order to pursue two eligible ladies Cecily Cardew and Gwendolyn Fairfax. The hilarious misadventures which result from their subterfuge; their brushes with the redoubtable Lady Bracknell and the uptight Miss Prism results in a plot that twists and fizzles with some of the finest dialogue to be found in theatre. Event Price: £14 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 10 - Sat 14 November 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Tipping the Velvet November 11, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre British Sign Language "I used to think that whenever I thought of you I was all lit up, like a candle. I was afraid people would notice." It’s 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall: she doesn’t know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life. Tonight she will fall in love… with the thrill of the stage and with Kitty Butler; a girl who wears trousers. Giddy with desire and hungry for experience, Nancy follows Kitty to London where unimaginable adventures await. Acclaimed playwright Laura Wade (Posh, Royal Court & West End) brings Sarah Waters’ audacious bestselling novel to The Lyceum’s beautiful Victorian stage in an electrifying new adaptation, directed by Olivier award winner Lyndsey Turner (Chimerica, Almeida & West End). Tipping the Velvet is a co-production between the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and the Lyric Hammersmith. This production contain scenes of an adult nature. - See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/tipping-the-velvet#sthash.qFyacOFQ.dpuf Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 28 October 2015 to 14 November 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Handbagged November 7, 2015, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Liz vs. Maggie: Two enduring icons born in the same year. One destined to rule, the other elected to lead. But when the stiff upper lip softened and the gloves came off, which one had the upper hand? Starring Susie Blake (The Victoria Wood Show, Coronation Street) as The Queen and Kate Fahy (The Suspicions of Mr Whicher) as Thatcher. Moira Buffini’s celebrated new comedy speculates on what the world’s most powerful women really talked about behind closed palace doors. Be sure to bag a ticket for this wickedly funny and brilliantly astute West End smash hit comedy. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 2 to Sat 7 November 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Tipping the Velvet November 7, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description "I used to think that whenever I thought of you I was all lit up, like a candle. I was afraid people would notice." It’s 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall: she doesn’t know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life. Tonight she will fall in love… with the thrill of the stage and with Kitty Butler; a girl who wears trousers. Giddy with desire and hungry for experience, Nancy follows Kitty to London where unimaginable adventures await. Acclaimed playwright Laura Wade (Posh, Royal Court & West End) brings Sarah Waters’ audacious bestselling novel to The Lyceum’s beautiful Victorian stage in an electrifying new adaptation, directed by Olivier award winner Lyndsey Turner (Chimerica, Almeida & West End). Tipping the Velvet is a co-production between the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and the Lyric Hammersmith. This production contain scenes of an adult nature. - See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/tipping-the-velvet#sthash.qFyacOFQ.dpuf Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 28 October 2015 to 14 November 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Tipping the Velvet November 5, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description "I used to think that whenever I thought of you I was all lit up, like a candle. I was afraid people would notice." It’s 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall: she doesn’t know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life. Tonight she will fall in love… with the thrill of the stage and with Kitty Butler; a girl who wears trousers. Giddy with desire and hungry for experience, Nancy follows Kitty to London where unimaginable adventures await. Acclaimed playwright Laura Wade (Posh, Royal Court & West End) brings Sarah Waters’ audacious bestselling novel to The Lyceum’s beautiful Victorian stage in an electrifying new adaptation, directed by Olivier award winner Lyndsey Turner (Chimerica, Almeida & West End). Tipping the Velvet is a co-production between the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and the Lyric Hammersmith. This production contain scenes of an adult nature. - See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/tipping-the-velvet#sthash.qFyacOFQ.dpuf Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 28 October 2015 to 14 November 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Handbagged November 5, 2015, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned Liz vs. Maggie: Two enduring icons born in the same year. One destined to rule, the other elected to lead. But when the stiff upper lip softened and the gloves came off, which one had the upper hand? Starring Susie Blake (The Victoria Wood Show, Coronation Street) as The Queen and Kate Fahy (The Suspicions of Mr Whicher) as Thatcher. Moira Buffini’s celebrated new comedy speculates on what the world’s most powerful women really talked about behind closed palace doors. Be sure to bag a ticket for this wickedly funny and brilliantly astute West End smash hit comedy. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 2 to Sat 7 November 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Shrek The Musical November 5, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm Edinburgh Playhouse British Sign Language Based on the award-winning DreamWorks animation film, SHREK THE MUSICAL is this year’s mustsee show for all the family. Join our unlikely hero and his loyal steed Donkey as they embark on a quest to rescue the beautiful (if slightly temperamental) Princess Fiona from a fire breathing, love-sick dragon. Add the diminutive Lord Farquaad, a gang of fairytale misfits, and a biscuit with attitude, and you’ve got the biggest, brightest musical comedy around! Featuring all new songs as well as cult Shrek anthem I’m a Believer, SHREK THE MUSICAL brings all the much-loved DreamWorks characters to life, live on stage, in an all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza. Join the adventure. Event Price: £15.00 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: Tuesday 20 October - Sunday 08 November 2015 Event age suitability: Recommended for ages 5+ How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Shrek The Musical November 4, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Audio Description Based on the award-winning DreamWorks animation film, SHREK THE MUSICAL is this year’s mustsee show for all the family. Join our unlikely hero and his loyal steed Donkey as they embark on a quest to rescue the beautiful (if slightly temperamental) Princess Fiona from a fire breathing, love-sick dragon. Add the diminutive Lord Farquaad, a gang of fairytale misfits, and a biscuit with attitude, and you’ve got the biggest, brightest musical comedy around! Featuring all new songs as well as cult Shrek anthem I’m a Believer, SHREK THE MUSICAL brings all the much-loved DreamWorks characters to life, live on stage, in an all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza. Join the adventure. Event Price: £15.00 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: Tuesday 20 October - Sunday 08 November 2015 Event age suitability: Recommended for ages 5+ How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Luc Tuymans - Birds of a Feather November 2, 2015, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Talbot Rice Gallery Audio Description Visually Impaired Tour & Workshop We are delighted to be hosting the 2nd workshop in our re-launched programme of descriptive tours and practical workshops for blind & visually impaired visitors during our final exhibition of 2015. This exhibition is by one of the most significant and influential artists working today, the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans. Juliana Capes, one of Edinburgh’s foremost artist educators, will lead this session with support from the curatorial team at Talbot Rice Gallery. We will begin with a descriptive tour, break for lunch together in the gallery then finish with a practical workshop that will flow from the themes of the exhibition. Meet & collect at the Talbot Rice Gallery entrance on West College Street where there is a vehicle drop off point. If you would like to discuss access further please contact Clare on the number below. Portable Loop equipment will be available Please bring a packed lunch – we will provide tea, coffee & biscuits To book a place please call Clare on 0131 651 4540 or email [email protected] Luc Tuymans – Birds of a Feather Luc Tuymans is one of the most influential painters working today. For his first exhibition in Scotland, this provocative artist will bring together his own work with that of the most significant of Scottish Enlightenment portrait painters, Henry Raeburn. Utilising images of pink and yellow canaries and Mount Rushmore alongside anonymous gatherings of people and Raeburn’s sombre black-robed academics – Birds of a Feather will associate themes of independence, enlightenment and social control. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 651 4540 Organiser: Clare McAllister Organiser Phone: 0131 651 4540 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/museums-galleries/talbot-rice Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None October 31, 2015, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Agatha Christie Theatre Company, And Then There Were None returns to the stage to follow in the footsteps of the company’s hugely successful Black Coffee and Go Back For Murder. Starring BAFTA nominated stage and screen star Paul Nicholas, Colin Buchanan, from Dalziel and Pascoe, Deborah Grant, who starred in Not Going Out, Peak Practice and Bergerac, TV favourite Mark Curry and from ITV’s award winning Soldier Soldier, Ben Nealon. A group of 10 strangers are lured to a remote island off the coast of Devon. Upon arrival it is discovered that their host, an eccentric millionaire, is missing... Stranded on the island by a torrential storm and haunted by an ancient nursery rhyme, one by one the guests begin to die... With only the fallen believed to be innocent who amongst them is the killer? Based on the best-selling mystery novel of all time, Agatha Christie’s own stage adaptation of this dark and captivating tale will thrill and enthral, as murder unfolds. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 26 to Sat 31 October 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None October 29, 2015, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Agatha Christie Theatre Company, And Then There Were None returns to the stage to follow in the footsteps of the company’s hugely successful Black Coffee and Go Back For Murder. Starring BAFTA nominated stage and screen star Paul Nicholas, Colin Buchanan, from Dalziel and Pascoe, Deborah Grant, who starred in Not Going Out, Peak Practice and Bergerac, TV favourite Mark Curry and from ITV’s award winning Soldier Soldier, Ben Nealon. A group of 10 strangers are lured to a remote island off the coast of Devon. Upon arrival it is discovered that their host, an eccentric millionaire, is missing... Stranded on the island by a torrential storm and haunted by an ancient nursery rhyme, one by one the guests begin to die... With only the fallen believed to be innocent who amongst them is the killer? Based on the best-selling mystery novel of all time, Agatha Christie’s own stage adaptation of this dark and captivating tale will thrill and enthral, as murder unfolds. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 26 to Sat 31 October 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Shrek The Musical October 29, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Captioned Based on the award-winning DreamWorks animation film, SHREK THE MUSICAL is this year’s mustsee show for all the family. Join our unlikely hero and his loyal steed Donkey as they embark on a quest to rescue the beautiful (if slightly temperamental) Princess Fiona from a fire breathing, love-sick dragon. Add the diminutive Lord Farquaad, a gang of fairytale misfits, and a biscuit with attitude, and you’ve got the biggest, brightest musical comedy around! Featuring all new songs as well as cult Shrek anthem I’m a Believer, SHREK THE MUSICAL brings all the much-loved DreamWorks characters to life, live on stage, in an all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza. Join the adventure. Event Price: £15.00 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: Tuesday 20 October - Sunday 08 November 2015 Event age suitability: Recommended for ages 5+ How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Rebecca October 24, 2015, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Kneehigh is one of the world’s most celebrated theatre companies and their international hits include Brief Encounter and Tristan and Yseult. Rebecca is timeless; the book beloved by generations and the iconic Alfred Hitchcock film a classic of the genre. Now Rebecca bursts onto the stage! Emma Rice, the award winning director, has created a spellbinding new production of Daphne du Maurier’s masterpiece which conjures Cornish romance and theatrical magic. Following the mysterious death of his first wife, Maxim de Winter returns to Manderley with his new young bride. Surrounded by memories of the glamorous Rebecca, the new Mrs De Winter is consumed by jealousy. She sets out to uncover the secrets of the house and a past fiercely guarded by the sinister housekeeper Mrs Danvers. All is not what it seems in Manderley… Rebecca is presented by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, the multi-award winning producers of Art, Brief Encounter, God of Carnage and Calendar Girls in association with Steve & Jenny Wiener and the Theatre Royal Plymouth. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 19 to Sat 24 October 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Palace of Holyroodhouse October 24, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Palace of Holyrood House Hearing Enhancement Amplified Tour for Visitors with Hearing Loss Mary, Queen of Scots lived in Holyrood Palace on her return to Scotland in 1561. This small group tour looks at life in the Palace during this dramatic time in her life. Hear stories of marriage, murder and conspiracy that surrounded her, see where she slept and entertained and look at real and replica costumes and objects used by the Queen and her court. An FM portable loop system is available. Event Price: £7 Venue discount information: Admission £12, concessions £7.20 All visitors who require an access companion receive a complimentary ticket. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Organiser: Learning Bookings Team Organiser Phone: 0131 557 2500 Organiser Email: [email protected] Palace of Holyroodhouse October 24, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Palace of Holyrood House Audio Description Verbal Description Tour Holyrood Palace has been a royal home for over 500 years is still used regularly by the Royal Family today. This tour enables blind and partially sighted visitors to explore key rooms used by royalty past and present. Hear stories of famous events, feel the changing atmosphere as you move from the State to the Historic apartments and get up close and handle real and replica objects from the Palace. Event Price: £7 Venue discount information: Admission £12, concessions £7.20 All visitors who require an access companion receive a complimentary ticket. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Organiser: Learning Bookings Team Organiser Phone: 0131 557 2500 Organiser Email: [email protected] Rebecca October 22, 2015, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned Kneehigh is one of the world’s most celebrated theatre companies and their international hits include Brief Encounter and Tristan and Yseult. Rebecca is timeless; the book beloved by generations and the iconic Alfred Hitchcock film a classic of the genre. Now Rebecca bursts onto the stage! Emma Rice, the award winning director, has created a spellbinding new production of Daphne du Maurier’s masterpiece which conjures Cornish romance and theatrical magic. Following the mysterious death of his first wife, Maxim de Winter returns to Manderley with his new young bride. Surrounded by memories of the glamorous Rebecca, the new Mrs De Winter is consumed by jealousy. She sets out to uncover the secrets of the house and a past fiercely guarded by the sinister housekeeper Mrs Danvers. All is not what it seems in Manderley… Rebecca is presented by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, the multi-award winning producers of Art, Brief Encounter, God of Carnage and Calendar Girls in association with Steve & Jenny Wiener and the Theatre Royal Plymouth. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 19 to Sat 24 October 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Arthur Melville October 21, 2015, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm National Galleries of Scotland Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop This landmark exhibition is the first for over 35 years devoted to the extraordinary art of Arthur Melville. Melville (1855-1904) was the most innovative and radical Scottish artist of his generation and one of the finest British watercolour painters of the 19th century. The stained-glass intensity of his palette, his fascination with effects of brilliant light and his boldly dramatic compositions had a revolutionary impact on watercolour as an art form. This exhibition will offer a comprehensive survey of Melville's rich and varied career as artistadventurer, Orientalist, fore-runner of the Glasgow Boys, painter of modern life and re-interpreter of the landscape of Scotland The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. Event Price: Free How to book Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Arthur Melville October 18, 2015, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm National Galleries of Scotland Hearing Enhancement Amplified Tour This landmark exhibition is the first for over 35 years devoted to the extraordinary art of Arthur Melville. Melville (1855-1904) was the most innovative and radical Scottish artist of his generation and one of the finest British watercolour painters of the 19th century. The stained-glass intensity of his palette, his fascination with effects of brilliant light and his boldly dramatic compositions had a revolutionary impact on watercolour as an art form. This exhibition will offer a comprehensive survey of Melville’s rich and varied career as artistadventurer, Orientalist, fore-runner of the Glasgow Boys, painter of modern life and re-interpreter of the landscape of Scotland. Join an amplified tour for visitors with hearing loss led by artist Tessa Asquith-Lamb. Event Price: Free How to book Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Lord of the Flies October 17, 2015, 2:30 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language William Golding’s 20th century classic Lord of the Flies explodes onto the stage in a remarkable production direct from London’s award-winning Regent’s Park Theatre. When a group of schoolboys survive a catastrophic plane crash, what starts as a desert island adventure quickly descends into a struggle for survival in a darkly sinister world of superstition and immorality. Playing to sell-out audiences during its original run, this acclaimed production is guaranteed to grip from start to finish. Event Price: £32.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 13 to Sat 17 October 2015 Event age suitability: 11+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Lord of the Flies October 15, 2015, 7:30 pm Festival Theatre Captioned William Golding’s 20th century classic Lord of the Flies explodes onto the stage in a remarkable production direct from London’s award-winning Regent’s Park Theatre. When a group of schoolboys survive a catastrophic plane crash, what starts as a desert island adventure quickly descends into a struggle for survival in a darkly sinister world of superstition and immorality. Playing to sell-out audiences during its original run, this acclaimed production is guaranteed to grip from start to finish. Event Price: £32.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 13 to Sat 17 October 2015 Event age suitability: 11+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Shawshank Redemption October 10, 2015, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Bill Kenwright presents a new stage production of the classic film, The Shawshank Redemption 21 years after it was first released. Based on the short story by Stephen King, adapted by Owen O'Neill and Dave Johns. Despite protests of innocence, Andy Dufresne is handed a double life sentence for the brutal murder of his wife and her lover... Incarcerated at the notorious Shawshank facility, he quickly learns that no one can survive alone. Andy strikes up an unlikely friendship with the prison fixer Red, and things take a slight turn for the better. However, when Warden Stammas decides to bully Andy into subservience and exploit his talents for accountancy, a desperate plan is quietly hatched. Widely considered the number one all-time movie, Stephen King’s classic story takes to the stage in a new production which examines desperation, injustice, friendship and hope behind the claustrophobic bars of a maximum security penitentiary. Event Price: £30.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Monday 5 to Saturday 10 October 2015 Event age suitability: 4+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Waiting for Godot October 10, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Captioned Two of Scotland’s great stage actors - Brian Cox and Bill Paterson - star as Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s masterly black comedy. On a bare country road, by a single tree, two down-and-out friends meet at dusk to await the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Godot. As they wait, they pass the time laughing at who they are, arguing over what little they have and speculating on the meaning of life. Their predicament would be absurd were it not so familiar. In the 60 years since its first UK performance, Waiting for Godot has proved itself one of modern theatre’s great masterpieces. Deadly serious yet seriously funny, this elusive play continues to provide delightfully entertaining food for thought. This exclusive three week run marks the 50th anniversary of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company. See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/waiting-for-godot#sthash.hxggqHhb.dpuf Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 18 September 2015 to 10 October 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Shawshank Redemption October 8, 2015, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned Bill Kenwright presents a new stage production of the classic film, The Shawshank Redemption 21 years after it was first released. Based on the short story by Stephen King, adapted by Owen O'Neill and Dave Johns. Despite protests of innocence, Andy Dufresne is handed a double life sentence for the brutal murder of his wife and her lover... Incarcerated at the notorious Shawshank facility, he quickly learns that no one can survive alone. Andy strikes up an unlikely friendship with the prison fixer Red, and things take a slight turn for the better. However, when Warden Stammas decides to bully Andy into subservience and exploit his talents for accountancy, a desperate plan is quietly hatched. Widely considered the number one all-time movie, Stephen King’s classic story takes to the stage in a new production which examines desperation, injustice, friendship and hope behind the claustrophobic bars of a maximum security penitentiary. Event Price: £30.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Monday 5 to Saturday 10 October 2015 Event age suitability: 4+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Bodyguard October 8, 2015, 7:30 pm - 9:55 pm British Sign Language The Bodyguard, the award-winning musical based on the blockbuster film, is heading on tour in 2015 starring three-time Brit nominee and X-Factor winner, Alexandra Burke as Rachel Marron. Former Secret Service agent turned bodyguard, Frank Farmer, is hired to protect superstar Rachel Marron from an unknown stalker. Each expects to be in charge – what they don’t expect is to fall in love. A ‘brilliant’ (The Times), breathtakingly romantic thriller, The Bodyguard features a whole host of Whitney Houston’s greatest hits including Queen of the Night, So Emotional, One Moment in Time, Saving All My Love, I’m Your Baby Tonight, Run to You, I Have Nothing, Jesus Loves Me, I Wanna Dance With Somebody and one of the greatest hit songs of all time – I Will Always Love You. Event run: Tuesday 29 September - Saturday 10 October 2015 How to book Waiting for Godot October 7, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre British Sign Language Two of Scotland’s great stage actors - Brian Cox and Bill Paterson - star as Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s masterly black comedy. On a bare country road, by a single tree, two down-and-out friends meet at dusk to await the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Godot. As they wait, they pass the time laughing at who they are, arguing over what little they have and speculating on the meaning of life. Their predicament would be absurd were it not so familiar. In the 60 years since its first UK performance, Waiting for Godot has proved itself one of modern theatre’s great masterpieces. Deadly serious yet seriously funny, this elusive play continues to provide delightfully entertaining food for thought. This exclusive three week run marks the 50th anniversary of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company. See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/waiting-for-godot#sthash.hxggqHhb.dpuf Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 18 September 2015 to 10 October 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Bodyguard October 7, 2015, 7:30 pm - 9:55 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Audio Description The Bodyguard, the award-winning musical based on the blockbuster film, is heading on tour in 2015 starring three-time Brit nominee and X-Factor winner, Alexandra Burke as Rachel Marron. Former Secret Service agent turned bodyguard, Frank Farmer, is hired to protect superstar Rachel Marron from an unknown stalker. Each expects to be in charge – what they don’t expect is to fall in love. A ‘brilliant’ (The Times), breathtakingly romantic thriller, The Bodyguard features a whole host of Whitney Houston’s greatest hits including Queen of the Night, So Emotional, One Moment in Time, Saving All My Love, I’m Your Baby Tonight, Run to You, I Have Nothing, Jesus Loves Me, I Wanna Dance With Somebody and one of the greatest hit songs of all time – I Will Always Love You. Event Price: £18.50 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: Tuesday 29 September - Saturday 10 October 2015 How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ The Bodyguard October 6, 2015, 7:30 pm - 9:55 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Captioned The Bodyguard, the award-winning musical based on the blockbuster film, is heading on tour in 2015 starring three-time Brit nominee and X-Factor winner, Alexandra Burke as Rachel Marron. Former Secret Service agent turned bodyguard, Frank Farmer, is hired to protect superstar Rachel Marron from an unknown stalker. Each expects to be in charge – what they don't expect is to fall in love. A ‘brilliant’ (The Times), breathtakingly romantic thriller, The Bodyguard features a whole host of Whitney Houston's greatest hits including Queen of the Night, So Emotional, One Moment in Time, Saving All My Love, I'm Your Baby Tonight, Run to You, I Have Nothing, Jesus Loves Me, I Wanna Dance With Somebody and one of the greatest hit songs of all time – I Will Always Love You. Event Price: £18.50 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: Tuesday 29 September - Saturday 10 October How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Tribes October 3, 2015, 7:30 pm Assembly Roxy Captioned, British Sign Language "he's spent his life trying to understand you... Now he thinks you should try to understand him." Tribes is a poignant yet biting drama about love, family and finding one’s voice. Billy is a young man born deaf and raised in a loud, opinionated family and yet his parents and siblings never bothered to learn sign language, meaning Billy had to adapt to a hearing world. When he meets Sylvia, a young woman from a deaf family who introduces him to Deaf culture, Billy suddenly feels confidence and a sense of belonging to a ‘tribe’ he’s never known before. Nina Raine’s second play is a fascinating dissection of belonging, family and the limitations of communication. She won the Evening Standard Award and Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright for her debut play Rabbit in 2006. She is also a director. Solar Bear Artistic Director, Gerry Ramage will direct this production which will tour across Scotland in September/October 2015 Tribes was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 2010. Nina Raine’s riveting and original new play, tackles deafness, posing prickly questions about attitudes towards and within the deaf community, and branches out to consider hearing and being heard more generally. And, as its title suggests, it examines people’s deep-rooted desire to belong somewhere. 4**** Financial Times By Nina Raine Directed by Gerry Ramage Design by Jessica Brettle Lighting Design - Laura Hawkins Sound Design and AV - Jamie Wardrop Cast: Richard Addison, Ben Clifford, Janette Foggo, Kirsty McDuff, Stephanie McGregor & Alex Nowak as Billy. Accessible to deaf and hearing audiences. Every performance will be captioned. Solar Bear on tour, for full details of tour performances visit: http://www.solarbear.org.uk/whatson/tribes/ Event Price: £13 Event age suitability: 14+ contains strong language How to book Organiser: Solar Bear Venue phone number: 0131 510 5511 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.solarbear.org.uk/ Brave New World October 3, 2015, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley’s ingenious fantasy of the future, written in 1932, is given extraordinary life in this world premiere adaptation by award-winning playwright Dawn King with original score by These New Puritans. Join us on an emotional rollercoaster journey into a future which sheds a blazing light on the present. Witness the horrors of a genetically engineered class system, a world state where people are always happy, where they get what they want--and they never want what they can’t have. Discover the consequence of living in a world where love and empathy have given way to lust and pleasure. A world without religion or war. A world where "Community, Identity, Stability" is the world state motto. Find out what happens when this stability is threatened as the beautiful young Lenina learns the pain of love and the handsome young John gives in to the love of pain. Does the World Controller lose control? Or does Lenina finally find her voice? Event Price: £29.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 29 September - Sat 3 October 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Waiting for Godot October 3, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description Two of Scotland’s great stage actors - Brian Cox and Bill Paterson - star as Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s masterly black comedy. On a bare country road, by a single tree, two down-and-out friends meet at dusk to await the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Godot. As they wait, they pass the time laughing at who they are, arguing over what little they have and speculating on the meaning of life. Their predicament would be absurd were it not so familiar. In the 60 years since its first UK performance, Waiting for Godot has proved itself one of modern theatre’s great masterpieces. Deadly serious yet seriously funny, this elusive play continues to provide delightfully entertaining food for thought. This exclusive three week run marks the 50th anniversary of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company. See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/waiting-for-godot#sthash.hxggqHhb.dpuf Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 18 September 2015 to 10 October 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Waiting for Godot October 1, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description Two of Scotland’s great stage actors - Brian Cox and Bill Paterson - star as Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s masterly black comedy. On a bare country road, by a single tree, two down-and-out friends meet at dusk to await the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Godot. As they wait, they pass the time laughing at who they are, arguing over what little they have and speculating on the meaning of life. Their predicament would be absurd were it not so familiar. In the 60 years since its first UK performance, Waiting for Godot has proved itself one of modern theatre’s great masterpieces. Deadly serious yet seriously funny, this elusive play continues to provide delightfully entertaining food for thought. This exclusive three week run marks the 50th anniversary of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company. See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/waiting-for-godot#sthash.hxggqHhb.dpuf Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 18 September 2015 to 10 October 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Brave New World September 30, 2015, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley’s ingenious fantasy of the future, written in 1932, is given extraordinary life in this world premiere adaptation by award-winning playwright Dawn King with original score by These New Puritans. Join us on an emotional rollercoaster journey into a future which sheds a blazing light on the present. Witness the horrors of a genetically engineered class system, a world state where people are always happy, where they get what they want--and they never want what they can’t have. Discover the consequence of living in a world where love and empathy have given way to lust and pleasure. A world without religion or war. A world where "Community, Identity, Stability" is the world state motto. Find out what happens when this stability is threatened as the beautiful young Lenina learns the pain of love and the handsome young John gives in to the love of pain. Does the World Controller lose control? Or does Lenina finally find her voice? Event Price: £29.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 29 September - Sat 3 October 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Let Loose Workshop September 30, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Visual artist, Kate Temple, and musician, Greg Sinclair, lead a series of creative workshops across art and performance, specially designed for individuals with hearing loss. This is the final session in this block. To find out about future workshops or event contact Kirsty at Artlink: 0131 229 3555 option1 [email protected] Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk All My Sons September 26, 2015, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Kings Theatre Audio Description, British Sign Language Set just after the Second World War, in the backyard of Joe and Kate Keller, this gripping and passionate drama ranks as one of the classics of our time. Joe and Kate try to keep alive the memory of their son Larry, who disappeared in the war, by the planting of a tree in his honour, but Larry’s disappearance is not the only part of the family’s past that they can’t put behind them. Following a stormy night, when Larry’s tree is blown down, Joe and Kate’s lives are threatened by a series of events that could destroy the very foundations of their lives. With all the tension of a taut thriller, All My Sons is a powerful drama that crackles with emotion and excitement! See the classic play, from one of the finest playwrights of the twentieth century, in a great production by Scotland’s leading touring theatre. Event Price: £15.00 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tuesday 22 - Saturday 26 September How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com All My Sons September 24, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Kings Theatre Captioned Set just after the Second World War, in the backyard of Joe and Kate Keller, this gripping and passionate drama ranks as one of the classics of our time. Joe and Kate try to keep alive the memory of their son Larry, who disappeared in the war, by the planting of a tree in his honour, but Larry’s disappearance is not the only part of the family’s past that they can’t put behind them. Following a stormy night, when Larry’s tree is blown down, Joe and Kate’s lives are threatened by a series of events that could destroy the very foundations of their lives. With all the tension of a taut thriller, All My Sons is a powerful drama that crackles with emotion and excitement! See the classic play, from one of the finest playwrights of the twentieth century, in a great production by Scotland’s leading touring theatre. Event Price: £15.00 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tuesday 22 - Saturday 26 September How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Let Loose Workshop September 23, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Visual artist, Kate Temple, and musician, Greg Sinclair, lead a series of creative workshops across art and performance, specially designed for individuals with hearing loss. Workshops will take place from 10am - 12.45pm at Deaf Action, Albany Street, on the following Wednesdays: 30 September To find out more or to take part, contact Kirsty at Artlink: 0131 229 3555 option1 [email protected] Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Head to Head | Portrait Sculpture • Ancient to Modern September 20, 2015, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Hearing Enhancement Amplified tour Head to Head showcases portrait sculpture from across the National Galleries of Scotland. A spectacular selection of sculpted heads and figures, from ancient to modern and executed in a wide range of media, are on display. The exhibition illustrates how sculptors continue to reference the illustrious tradition of the portrait bust but in various ways also seek to break free from it. Featuring a rich variety of work in terms of style and scale, the display will form a dramatic spectacle in the Contemporary Gallery. Join an amplified tour for visitors with hearing loss led by artist Tessa Asquith-Lamb. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Dirty Rotten Scoundrels September 18, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:05 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Audio Description, British Sign Language Based on the classic comedy film starring Sir Michael Caine and Steve Martin, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will transport you to the French Riviera as two seasoned swindlers attempt to hoodwink a millionaire heiress. As the pair compete, they discover there is only room for one of them. Event Price: £15.50 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: 15 September - 19 September How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Dirty Rotten Scoundrels September 17, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:05 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Captioned Based on the classic comedy film starring Sir Michael Caine and Steve Martin, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will transport you to the French Riviera as two seasoned swindlers attempt to hoodwink a millionaire heiress. As the pair compete, they discover there is only room for one of them. Event Price: £15.50 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: 15 September - 19 September How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Bailey's Stardust September 16, 2015, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm National Galleries of Scotland Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop David Bailey’s landmark exhibition Bailey’s Stardust will feature hundreds of photographs by one of the world's most distinguished and distinctive photographers. The largest exhibition of David Bailey’s portraits to be shown in the UK, it will feature over 300 portraits including works that depict Bailey's time in East Africa, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Delhi and the Naga Hills, as well as icons from the worlds of fashion and the arts, striking portraits of the Rolling Stones, Catherine Bailey and the East End of London. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Let Loose Workshop September 16, 2015, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Visual artist, Kate Temple, and musician, Greg Sinclair, lead a series of creative workshops across art and performance, specially designed for individuals with hearing loss. Workshops will take place from 10am - 12.45pm at Deaf Action, Albany Street, on the following Wednesdays: 23 September 30 September To find out more or to take part, contact Kirsty at Artlink: 0131 229 3555 option1 [email protected] Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Kind of Silence September 11, 2015, 7:30 pm Assembly Roxy Captioned, British Sign Language The world is silent, and music is everywhere. Kind of Silence explores senses and the way we communicate. The 'silence' represents not only something we hear, but something we experience through the ways we can or cannot communicate. This production, created for Solar Bear by Danny Krass, will place sound at the heart of this performance. The piece will move between different stories, of different people and across time and place. At times these stories will collide with each other but at others will resonate from a distance. Danny Krass and Kai Fischer will use new technologies to transpose music so that both deaf and hearing performers will feel the same vibrations and rhythms. Using speech, sign, dance, text and sound throughout, no single audience member will access everything, but all will access the piece and engage with it in their own way. Directed by Danny Krass Design by Kai Fischer Choreography - Chisato Minamimura Cast: Charlene Boyd, Jacob Casselden, Alon Ilsar & James Anthony Pearson. Accessible to deaf and hearing audiences. Solar Bear on tour, for full details of the tour visit: http://www.solarbear.org.uk/whats-on/kind-ofsilence/ Event Price: £13 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Solar Bear Venue phone number: 0131 510 5511 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.solarbear.org.uk/ Let Loose Workshop September 9, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Visual artist, Kate Temple, and musician, Greg Sinclair, lead a series of creative workshops across art and performance, specially designed for individuals with hearing loss. Workshops will take place from 10am – 12.45pm at Deaf Action, Albany Street, on the following Wednesdays: 16 September 23 September 30 September To find out more or to take part, contact Kirsty at Artlink: 0131 229 3555 option1 [email protected] Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Hanne Darboven – accepting anything among everything September 7, 2015, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm Talbot Rice Gallery Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop Talbot Rice Gallery are delighted to be re-launching a programme of descriptive tours and practical workshops for blind & visually impaired visitors during this exhibition. One of the most intriguing artists of the last century, Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) has rarely been exhibited in the UK, and this is the first exhibition of her work in Scotland. Part of a generation who challenged the way that art was made, Darboven created a vast body of idiosyncratic works, documenting her attempt to index life as it is lived; amongst the weight of world history and culture. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival Juliana Capes, one of Edinburgh’s foremost artist educators, will lead this session. Meet & collect at the Talbot Rice Gallery entrance on West College Street. Portable Loop equipment will be available. Please bring a packed lunch – we will provide tea, coffee & biscuits. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 651 4540 Organiser: Clare McAllister Organiser Phone: 0131 651 4540 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/museums-galleries/talbot-rice Phyllida Barlow September 5, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Hearing Enhancement Amplified Tour A major exhibition of new work made specially for The Fruitmarket Gallery by Phyllida Barlow, one of the international art world’s brightest stars. Born in Newcastle in 1944, and with a career spanning five decades, Barlow is known for monumental sculpture made from simple materials such as plywood, cardboard, fabric, plaster, paint and plastic. Physically impressive and materially insistent, her sculptures are inspired by the outside world, and with the experience of living and looking. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Organiser: Fruitmarket Gallery Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Phyllida Barlow September 3, 2015, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Audio Description Descriptive Tour A major exhibition of new work made specially for The Fruitmarket Gallery by Phyllida Barlow, one of the international art world’s brightest stars. Born in Newcastle in 1944, and with a career spanning five decades, Barlow is known for monumental sculpture made from simple materials such as plywood, cardboard, fabric, plaster, paint and plastic. Physically impressive and materially insistent, her sculptures are inspired by the outside world, and with the experience of living and looking. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Organiser: Fruitmarket Gallery Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Let Loose Workshop September 2, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Visual artist, Kate Temple, and musician, Greg Sinclair, lead a series of creative workshops across art and performance, specially designed for individuals with hearing loss. Workshops will take place from 10am - 12.45pm at Deaf Action, Albany Street, on the following Wednesdays: 9 September 16 September 23 September 30 September To find out more or to take part, contact Kirsty at Artlink: 0131 229 3555 option1 [email protected] Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Adam Hills: Clown Heart August 30, 2015, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Assembly Hall British Sign Language Fringe favourite and star of Channel 4’s The Last Leg and BBC One's Live at the Apollo, Adam returns to Edinburgh with a new hour of spontaneity and joy. (Sundays with BSL interpreter.) 'Friendlier than a drunk Labrador' (BBC R6 Music). 'Hills delivers stand-up so effortlessly brilliant you wonder why some comedians even get out of bed' (Guardian). 'If you cannot enjoy Adam Hills you cannot have a pulse' ***** (Scotsman). http://adamhills.com.au/ Event Price: £14 Event run: 22-27, 29-30 August Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Murmel Murmel August 30, 2015, 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm Kings Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only In 2012 actor and director Herbert Fritsch caused a sensation at Berlin’s Volksbühne Theatre with his sumptuous and hilarious staging of what was considered an unstagable work. Murmel Murmel is a play by Swiss artist Dieter Roth consisting of 178 pages of dialogue using only one word, Murmel. The result is a side-splittingly funny eighty minutes of mind-altering slapstick, cringe-inducing costumes and a psychedelic surging set – a Dadaistic embrace of nonsense and hilarity in glorious technicolor. You could call it a satirical comment on today’s hysterical, overexcited turbo-society or you could simply enjoy the brilliantly choreographed insanity. This show is completely accessible to Deaf and hard of hearing audiences as it can be understood from the visual content alone and does not require BSL interpretation or Captioning. Event Price: £12 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 28 - 30 August 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Cranston Fiddle August 30, 2015, 3:00 pm - 4:05 pm Scottish Storytelling Centre British Sign Language The Cranston Fiddle tells the story of the Cranstons of Haddington – an ordinary family who suffered great loss during the First World War. Out of seven Cranston sons who served their country, only three returned, two with grievous injuries. Scottish Borders based Riddell Fiddles present a multi-age cast, telling this compelling tale though family photos, music and story written especially for the production. Through it all sings the sweet, lilting tones of the real survivor – the Cranston family fiddle. Supported by Heritage Lottery Fund 2014. http://www.riddellfiddles.co.uk/ Event Price: £8 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 556 9579 Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Murmel Murmel August 29, 2015, 8:00 pm - 9:20 pm Kings Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only In 2012 actor and director Herbert Fritsch caused a sensation at Berlin’s Volksbühne Theatre with his sumptuous and hilarious staging of what was considered an unstagable work. Murmel Murmel is a play by Swiss artist Dieter Roth consisting of 178 pages of dialogue using only one word, Murmel. The result is a side-splittingly funny eighty minutes of mind-altering slapstick, cringe-inducing costumes and a psychedelic surging set – a Dadaistic embrace of nonsense and hilarity in glorious technicolor. You could call it a satirical comment on today’s hysterical, overexcited turbo-society or you could simply enjoy the brilliantly choreographed insanity. This show is completely accessible to Deaf and hard of hearing audiences as it can be understood from the visual content alone and does not require BSL interpretation or Captioning. Event Price: £12 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 28 - 30 August 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Ballett Zürich August 29, 2015, 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Touch Tour, Audio Description Ballett Zürich, one of Europe’s leading ensembles, presents a captivating double bill featuring works by their artistic director Christian Spuck and multi-award-winning British choreographer Wayne McGregor. McGregor’s new work Kairos is a seamless marriage of design and structure set to Max Richter’s celebrated reimagining of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and features striking designs by leading British artist Idris Khan. In Sonett Ballett Zürich’s Artistic Director Christian Spuck plunges into the mysterious world of William Shakespeare’s late sonnets weaving together music, dance and language with his customary theatrical flair and passion. Spuck returns to Edinburgh following his highly successful 2009 visit with The Return of Ulysses from the Royal Ballet of Flanders. As a dancer he performed with Jan Lauwers’s Needcompany and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s Rosas before going on to become choreographer in residence at Stuttgart Ballet and Director of Ballett Zürich. Wayne McGregor is internationally renowned for his physically testing choreography and ground breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. In 1992 he founded Wayne McGregor | Random Dance and in 2006 was appointed Resident Choreographer at The Royal Ballet. He has created works for Paris Opera Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, New York City Ballet, Australian Ballet, English National Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater 1 and Rambert. Max Richter performs Recomposed: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons live at the Edinburgh Playhouse on 24 August, alongside violist Daniel Hope and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by André de Ridder. Find more details here. Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: 27 - 29 August 2015 How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Ray Bradshaw: I Dare Ray To... August 29, 2015, 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm Gilded Balloon British Sign Language Going on a date with Scotland's oldest woman... Dancing in a Bollywood film... Tackling the globe of death... Representing his country at a sport... Scottish comedian Ray Bradshaw has given up a year of his life to undertake these dares, amongst many others sent to him by strangers on the internet. Find out how he succeeded, and where he ended up on his year-long adventure. 'Very funny' (STV). 'Brilliant grinning storyteller' (Skinny). 'Has a clear comedy gift' (Edinburgh Evening News). http://www.raybradshaw.co.uk/ Event Price: £8 Event run: 5-16, 18-23, 25-31 August Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Murmel Murmel August 29, 2015, 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm Kings Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only In 2012 actor and director Herbert Fritsch caused a sensation at Berlin’s Volksbühne Theatre with his sumptuous and hilarious staging of what was considered an unstagable work. Murmel Murmel is a play by Swiss artist Dieter Roth consisting of 178 pages of dialogue using only one word, Murmel. The result is a side-splittingly funny eighty minutes of mind-altering slapstick, cringe-inducing costumes and a psychedelic surging set – a Dadaistic embrace of nonsense and hilarity in glorious technicolor. You could call it a satirical comment on today’s hysterical, overexcited turbo-society or you could simply enjoy the brilliantly choreographed insanity. This show is completely accessible to Deaf and hard of hearing audiences as it can be understood from the visual content alone and does not require BSL interpretation or Captioning. Event Price: £12 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 28 - 30 August 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Jennifer Tremblay Trilogy Part III: The Deliverance August 29, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Assembly Roxy British Sign Language The highly anticipated premiere of the final instalment of Tremblay's double Scotsman Fringe First Award-winning trilogy. Each play is a story in its own right, but together they form a powerful piece of theatre. A woman struggles to fulfil her dying mother's last wish: to see the son torn from her at a young age. She goes in search of him and the truth about their past. Will her journey end in redemption? Translated by Shelley Tepperman. Starring Maureen Beattie. Design by John Byrne. Part of Made in Scotland Showcase. www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com http://www.stellarquines.com/ Event Price: £13 Event run: 6-11, 13-17, 20-24, 27-31 August (times vary) Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Lanark - A Life in Three Acts August 29, 2015, 1:00 pm - 4:45 pm Lyceum Theatre Captioned Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 23 - 31 August 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Lanark - A Life in Three Acts August 29, 2015, 12:45 pm - 4:45 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description World Premiere A young man arrives in a dying city with seashells in his pockets. He doesn’t know who he is, or how he got here. He goes by the only name he can think of: Lanark. This theatrical re-imagining of Alasdair Gray’s seminal work takes us from the Dragon Chambers to the Cathedral of Unthank, from post-war Glasgow School of Art to the sinister underground Institute, from the heavenly city of Provan to the hellish Elite Café, combining science fiction, realism, fantasy, and playful storytelling. This new production celebrates both Gray’s 80th year and the 70th anniversary of the Citizens Theatre and continues a collaboration between Graham Eatough and David Greig which began with experimental theatre company Suspect Culture. Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 23 - 31 August 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Jennifer Tremblay Trilogy Part II: The Carousel August 29, 2015, 12:20 pm - 1:20 pm Assembly Roxy British Sign Language Each play in this trilogy is a story in its own right, but together they form a powerful piece of theatre. Nothing can stop the carousel. A woman is on an emotional journey into her past and it takes her through a labyrinth of memories. Can she reconcile herself with her discoveries? Winner of Scotsman Fringe First Award 2014. 'A stunning turn from Maureen Beattie' (Times). Translated by Shelley Tepperman. Starring Maureen Beattie. Design by John Byrne. Part of Made in Scotland Showcase. www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com http://www.stellarquines.com/ Event Price: £13 Event run: 7, 9, 11, 14, 16-17, 21, 23, 27, 29, 31 August (times vary) Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Abnormally Funny People August 28, 2015, 9:40 pm - 10:40 pm Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s Captioned They’re back! Abnormally Funny People are 10 years old. Their brand new show will have different comedians every night. Each one will be packed with top notch stand-up, silly songs and a splash of improvisation. All the acts have a disability, except for the token non-disabled one. It’s all about inclusion! Produced by Steve Best and Simon Minty, creative advisor Lee Simpson, Comedy Store Players /Improbable Theatre. Click here for tonight’s line up:www.abnormallyfunnypeople.com. Event Price: £8 Event run: 6-16, 18-31 August Event age suitability: 16+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Murmel Murmel August 28, 2015, 8:00 pm - 9:20 pm Kings Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only In 2012 actor and director Herbert Fritsch caused a sensation at Berlin’s Volksbühne Theatre with his sumptuous and hilarious staging of what was considered an unstagable work. Murmel Murmel is a play by Swiss artist Dieter Roth consisting of 178 pages of dialogue using only one word, Murmel. The result is a side-splittingly funny eighty minutes of mind-altering slapstick, cringe-inducing costumes and a psychedelic surging set – a Dadaistic embrace of nonsense and hilarity in glorious technicolor. You could call it a satirical comment on today’s hysterical, overexcited turbo-society or you could simply enjoy the brilliantly choreographed insanity. Event Price: £12 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 28 - 30 August 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Lanark - A Life in Three Acts August 28, 2015, 7:00 pm - 10:45 pm Lyceum Theatre British Sign Language World Premiere A young man arrives in a dying city with seashells in his pockets. He doesn’t know who he is, or how he got here. He goes by the only name he can think of: Lanark. This theatrical re-imagining of Alasdair Gray’s seminal work takes us from the Dragon Chambers to the Cathedral of Unthank, from post-war Glasgow School of Art to the sinister underground Institute, from the heavenly city of Provan to the hellish Elite Café, combining science fiction, realism, fantasy, and playful storytelling. This new production celebrates both Gray’s 80th year and the 70th anniversary of the Citizens Theatre and continues a collaboration between Graham Eatough and David Greig which began with experimental theatre company Suspect Culture. Co-production between the Citizens Theatre and the Edinburgh International Festival Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 23 - 31 August 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Jennifer Tremblay Trilogy Part I: The List August 28, 2015, 12:20 pm - 1:20 pm Assembly Roxy British Sign Language Each play in this trilogy is a story in its own right, but together they form a powerful piece of theatre. Set in Quebec, a woman struggles to adjust to an isolated new life and troubled marriage. Her obsession with lists leads to tragic consequences. Winner of Scotsman Fringe First and Herald Angel Awards, 2012. 'Maureen Beattie (gives a) mesmerising and thrillingly unforgiving performance as a woman who cannot forgive herself' (Lyn Gardner, Guardian). Translated by Shelley Tepperman. Starring Maureen Beattie. Design by John Byrne. Part of Made in Scotland Showcase. www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com http://www.stellarquines.com/ Event Price: £13 Event run: 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 28, 30 August (times vary) Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Hanne Darboven – accepting anything among everything August 27, 2015, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Talbot Rice Gallery Hearing Enhancement Amplified Curator's Tour Curator James Clegg will lead a tour of the exhibition. Personal Hearing Loops will be available for visitors who take part. One of the most intriguing artists of the last century, Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) has rarely been exhibited in the UK, and this is the first exhibition of her work in Scotland. Part of a generation who challenged the way that art was made, Darboven created a vast body of idiosyncratic works, documenting her attempt to index life as it is lived; amongst the weight of world history and culture. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 651 4540 Organiser: Clare McAllister Organiser Phone: 0131 651 4540 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/museums-galleries/talbot-rice Falling in Love with Frida Every day until August 30, 2015 (August 26, 2015, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) Dancebase British Sign Language After a sell-out run and a Herald Angel Award at the 2014 Fringe, Bowditch returns with her intimate and witty show that explores the life, loves and legacy of painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), exposing little-known facts about the infamous woman, remembered for her art. The reclaiming of a disabled artist, a love like obsession, an enquiry into how we shape what we are remembered for. Affinities and parallels are drawn, and the tale of the great concealer is skilfully revealed by and through powerful yet fragile bodies. ‘Remarkable beauty, joyful humanity’ (Herald). www.carolinebowditch.com Event Price: £10 Event run: Aug 18-30 (not 24) Event age suitability: 16+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com For Now, I am... August 26, 2015, 5:45 pm - 6:30 pm Zoo Southside Audio Description Marc Brew Company. Following on from Brew's acclaimed Remember When, which recalled his past as an elite ballet dancer, For Now I am engages directly with his body as it is now, 18 years on since his life-changing car accident, investigating and exposing his changed form. Featuring Brew's fierce physicality with tender expression and striking visual projections, For Now, I am explores what it is to be broken, reborn, purified, to reconcile being in the world in an entirely new way. 'Brew knows exactly how to touch his audience in all the right places' (Scotsman). Event Price: £10 Event run: 22-30 Aug Event age suitability: 12+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Plan B for Utopia August 26, 2015, 12:00 pm - 12:55 pm Dancebase British Sign Language You have a plan, and then you don’t. You have a dream, then you wake up. You fall in love, and your heart gets broken. The question is: do you pick up the pieces and try again? Plan B for Utopia is a playful dance theatre work by Dundee-based company Joan Clevillé Dance. Charismatic performers Solène Weinachter and John Kendall explore the notion of utopia and the role that imagination can play as a driving force for change in our personal and collective lives. ‘This new choreographer is one to watch’ (Bachtrack.com). www.joanclevilledance.com Event Price: £10 Event run: Aug 21-23, 25-30 Event age suitability: 12+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com The Solid Life of Sugar Water Every day until August 30, 2015 (August 25, 2015, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm) Pleasance Dome Audio Description, Captioned, British Sign Language 'It's not like riding a bike. Sex. It's far more complicated.' Phil and Alice are in love – familiar, flawed, ordinary love. Phil and Alice are on a journey, but this journey doesn't have an A to Z. Tender and compelling, this world premiere from award-winning playwright Jack Thorne is an unsettling play about loss and love. Jack Thorne recently adapted the cult Let the Right One In for the stage, while for television his credits include Glue, Skins and Shameless. All performances include audio description and creative captioning. Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth http://www.graeae.org/ Event Price: £8 Event run: 5-11, 13-16, 18-23, 25-30 August (not 11, 17 & 24) Event age suitability: 18+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Pirates and Mermaids Every day until August 31, 2015 (August 24, 2015, 11:15 am - 11:45 pm) Scottish Storytelling Centre Audio Description Poorboy’s award nominated show Pirates and Mermaids is an international story told on a very human scale. Cameron is in NYC. Eilidh lives in Scotland. The technology in their pockets keeps them constantly in touch, but you can't hold someone in your arms over Skype, and a text doesn't show you someone's smile. An uplifting and surprising show about true love, family advice, favourite sweets and what whisky can do to you. ‘Must see’ (Stage). Best Solo Performer nominee, Stage Awards 2013. **** (ThreeWeeks). **** (BroadwayBaby.com). **** (SGFringe.com). http://thebellrock.org/ Event Price: £8 Event run: 10, 17, 24-31 August Event age suitability: 12+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 556 9579 Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Adam Hills: Clown Heart August 23, 2015, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Assembly Hall British Sign Language Fringe favourite and star of Channel 4’s The Last Leg and BBC One's Live at the Apollo, Adam returns to Edinburgh with a new hour of spontaneity and joy. (Sundays with BSL interpreter.) 'Friendlier than a drunk Labrador' (BBC R6 Music). 'Hills delivers stand-up so effortlessly brilliant you wonder why some comedians even get out of bed' (Guardian). 'If you cannot enjoy Adam Hills you cannot have a pulse' ***** (Scotsman). http://adamhills.com.au/ Event Price: £14 Event run: 22-27, 29-30 August Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com I'm Not Here Right Now August 23, 2015, 6:25 pm - 7:30 pm Summerhall British Sign Language On top of a mountain in the middle of a blizzard, you see a figure: eight foot tall, with white matted hair covering his body. He stands upright on two legs. You see him. He sees you. But who will believe you and how far can you trust what you see? Thomas Eccleshare’s stunning new drama is the story of a scientist with an unbelievable story to tell, a woman who doesn't know what to believe. In a vibrant collaboration between Dancing Brick and Soho Theatre, Steve Marmion directs this spellbinding play starring Valentina Ceschi. Event Price: £13 Event run: Aug 7-17, 19-24, 26-30 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Figaro Fugit August 23, 2015, 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s Captioned VoiceArc have compacted their production of Le Nozze di Figaro to just 70 minutes of fast furious Figaro fun for the Fringe: Figaro Fugit. Almaviva (Il Conte) is having a bad day. Suddenly the head of this Scottish-Italian family is struggling to keep control of his drugs and prostitution empire. His fixer and hitman Figaro is marrying his most popular club escort Susanna, the object of Almaviva's lust. He attempts to foil the marriage but instead facilitates two marriages and gives his neglected aristocratic wife hope. He is left with a troubled heart, and, crucially, no Susanna. http://www.voicearc.com/ Event Price: £14 Event age suitability: 12+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Falling in Love with Frida August 23, 2015, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Dancebase British Sign Language After a sell-out run and a Herald Angel Award at the 2014 Fringe, Bowditch returns with her intimate and witty show that explores the life, loves and legacy of painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), exposing little-known facts about the infamous woman, remembered for her art. The reclaiming of a disabled artist, a love like obsession, an enquiry into how we shape what we are remembered for. Affinities and parallels are drawn, and the tale of the great concealer is skilfully revealed by and through powerful yet fragile bodies. ‘Remarkable beauty, joyful humanity’ (Herald). www.carolinebowditch.com Event Price: £10 Event run: Aug 18-30 (not 24) Event age suitability: 16+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Chicken August 23, 2015, 5:05 pm - 6:05 pm Summerhall British Sign Language Eastern Angles and Unity Theatre, Liverpool present Chicken, a darkly comic new play by Molly Davies. Set in a dystopian future where people from the north and south are alienated from one another, London sits above the chaos as a sovereign state. Davies, whose previous credits include A Miracle and God Bless the Child (Royal Court), Shooting Truth (National Theatre Connections) and Orpheus and Eurydice (NYT/Old Vic Tunnels), has created a wonderfully twisted world where communities collide, families are fractured and the agricultural idyll is distorted beyond recognition. Event Price: £16 Event run: Aug 7-10, 12-17, 19-24, 26-30 Event age suitability: 12+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Lungs August 23, 2015, 3:35 pm - 4:45 pm Summerhall British Sign Language ‘I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That’s the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I’d be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.’ In a time of global anxiety, erratic weather and political unrest, a couple want a child but are running out of time. What will be the first to destruct – the planet or their relationship? 'The most beautiful, shattering play of the year' ***** (Sunday Express). Event Price: £17 Event run: Aug 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23-30 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Seven August 22, 2015, 7:40 pm - 9:30 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Audio Description Germany’s Ballett am Rhein joins the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for Martin Schläpfer’s epic response to Mahler’s enigmatic 7th Symphony. In this full-length ballet, the anguish and poignant beauty of Mahler’s Symphony seem to be written into the bodies of the dancers. Music and movement merge into a whirlpool of frenetic activity and then give way to serenity, childish naivety and virtuosity en pointe. The choreography finds its stance and fiction in the architecture of the Symphony, while a restless anxiety underscores the dancers grace and virtuosity. Since his arrival at Ballett am Rhein in 2009 Schläpfer has revitalised the company with Tanz magazine voting it ‘Best Company of the Year’ in both 2013 and 2014 ‘because here meticulous dancing is coupled with wise choice of repertoire, basking in a strongly individual creative spirit’. Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: 20 - 22 August 2015 How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Swallow August 22, 2015, 7:30 pm Traverse Theatre Audio Description, British Sign Language “Who said smashing things up was a bad thing?” Three strangers are about to face their demons head on. Balanced precariously on the tipping point, they might just be able to save one another if they can only overcome their urge to self-destruct. Painful yet playful, poignant but uplifting, this world premiere takes a long hard look at the extremes of everyday life. Questions of identity, heartbreak and hope are explored with vivid, poetic intensity. Swallow is a powerful and invigorating new play from Olivier Award-winner Stef Smith whose impressive record includes her text for Roadkill (Traverse Festival, 2010 and 2011). Directed by Traverse Artistic Director Orla O’Loughlin, acclaimed for previous Festival hits Spoiling and Ciara, Swallow features original music by rising star, singer/songwriter LAWholt, who has collaborated most recently with Mercury Prize-winning hip-hop trio Young Fathers. Part of Made in Scotland Showcase 2015. www.traverse.co.uk / @traversetheatre / www.madeinscotland.com Event Price: £8 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: Sun 9 - Sun 30 August Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Craig HIll: Playing With My Selfie! August 22, 2015, 7:15 pm - 8:15 pm Venue 150@EICC British Sign Language ‘Riotously funny!’ (Independent). Get snap happy with an evening of gloriously camp, no-holds-barred comedy. Craig flashes his kilt pins, strikes a pose and calls: Lights, camera... and, most definitely, action! Bring your auntie, bring your hubby, bring your selfie! ‘Laugh-out-loud performance from beginning to end… An hour with Hill makes for a cracking show… Irresistible!’ (List). ‘Wickedly subversive… Funny, charming, charismatic’ (Metro). ‘Class. Risque, ribtickling and absolutely screaming from the rafters… Hill actually has to wait until the audience stops laughing before he can start again. It’s absolutely hilarious’ (Evening News). Sellout 2002-2014! http://www.mrcraighill.com/ Event Price: £13.50 Event run: 6-16, 18-24, 26-30 August Event age suitability: 16+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com The Human Ear August 22, 2015, 3:35 pm - 4:45 pm Summerhall British Sign Language A man turns up at Lucy’s door claiming to be the brother she hasn’t seen in 10 years. But why has he come? Is it really him? And what happens when there’s another knock at the door? Forced to confront the messy inner workings of sibling love with its petty resentments, casual cruelty, profound betrayals and implicit understanding, can the bond between brother and sister be rebuilt? An intriguing tale of loss, renewal and knowing who to trust from Fringe First Award winner Alexandra Wood. Event Price: £15 Event run: Aug 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Antigone August 22, 2015, 2:15 pm - 4:15 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, Captioned Ivo van Hove directs a stellar cast including Juliette Binoche, Obi Abili, Kirsty Bushell, Samuel Edward-Cook, Finbar Lynch, Patrick O’Kane and Kathryn Pogson in Anne Carson’s striking new translation of Sophokles’s great tragedy. Binoche plays Antigone, a Theban noblewoman whose brother is deemed a traitor after fighting to the death in a vicious civil war. When his body is left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone defies King Kreon to bury her brother with the honours he deserves. Ivo van Hove made his British debut at the 1998 Edinburgh International Festival. Since then he has become one of the most acclaimed directors in Europe and the US. His recent productions of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge have won praise from critics and audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Produced by the Barbican and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, in association with Toneelgroep Amsterdam Co-produced by Edinburgh International Festival and Théâtre de la Ville – Paris and Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen Event Price: £17 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 8 - 22 August 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Every Brilliant Thing August 22, 2015, 2:05 pm - 3:05 pm Summerhall British Sign Language You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything worth living for. 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung fu movies. 3. Burning things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose. 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me. A play about depression and the lengths we go to for those we love. ‘Heart-wrenching, hilarious ... possibly one of the funniest plays you'll ever see’ **** (Guardian). Event Price: £17 Event run: Aug 8-10, 12-17, 19-24, 26-30 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Jimeoin: Yeehaa! August 21, 2015, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Venue 150@EICC British Sign Language ‘It gets no better than this... Hilarious!’ (Time Out). Star of TV’s Sunday Night at Palladium, Live at Apollo, Royal Variety musters his ever-evolving live show and the most famous eyebrows in comedy. ‘If laughter is the best medicine, Jimeoin is a course of steroids... Brilliant wit and razor-sharp take on the absurdities of life… Series of hilarious, often surrealistic climaxes. This is the comedy of one who truly perceives human behaviour, breaks it up, puts it all together again in all its ridiculousness, to leave you with your eyes streaming’ (Evening News). ‘Stand-up comedy at its best!’(Scotsman). http://www.jimeoin.com/ Event Price: £15 Event run: 6-16, 18-24, 26-30 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Antigone August 21, 2015, 7:15 pm - 9:15 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, Captioned Ivo van Hove directs a stellar cast including Juliette Binoche, Obi Abili, Kirsty Bushell, Samuel Edward-Cook, Finbar Lynch, Patrick O’Kane and Kathryn Pogson in Anne Carson’s striking new translation of Sophokles’s great tragedy. Binoche plays Antigone, a Theban noblewoman whose brother is deemed a traitor after fighting to the death in a vicious civil war. When his body is left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone defies King Kreon to bury her brother with the honours he deserves. Ivo van Hove made his British debut at the 1998 Edinburgh International Festival. Since then he has become one of the most acclaimed directors in Europe and the US. His recent productions of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge have won praise from critics and audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Produced by the Barbican and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, in association with Toneelgroep Amsterdam Co-produced by Edinburgh International Festival and Théâtre de la Ville – Paris and Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen Event Price: £17 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 8 - 22 August 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Crash August 21, 2015, 6:45 pm Traverse Theatre Audio Description, British Sign Language “Everything that happens is created by you." Confidence is everything in the world of high finance. Confidence in yourself, confidence in the market. Lose that and you lose everything. Crash is the story of an enigmatic trader attempting to rebuild his life following a tragic event. As he takes the first tentative steps back into the brutal landscape of trading stocks, he feels the pressure begin to build. In the continuing wake of the financial crisis, Scottish writer Andy Duffy creates a rare and poetic insight into the psychology of a banker's world. Directed by Traverse Associate Artist Emma Callander. www.traverse.co.uk / @traversetheatre Event Price: £8 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: Fri 7 – Sun 30 Aug Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Young People's Lecture - Colin Currie August 21, 2015, 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm The Hub British Sign Language In this unique opportunity for young audiences, percussionist Colin Currie, the Young Musician’s Passport Ambassador, gives the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival Young People’s Lecture. In his presentation Colin explains what motivates him to present new music to new audiences and why he is so passionate about his work as a musician. As part of this lecture Colin demonstrates, using a marimba, his extraordinary talents as a musician and the excitement of percussion. Event Price: £6 How to book Venue phone number: 0131 473 2015 Venue website: http://www.thehub-edinburgh.com Daniel Sloss: Dark August 20, 2015, 8:40 pm - 9:40 pm Venue 150@EICC British Sign Language 'Brilliant’ (Mail on Sunday). Smash-hit new show from Scotland’s internationally acclaimed, awardwinning comedy half-man-half-Xbox. Daniel’s sold out seven consecutive Edinburgh Fringe seasons, TV includes Sunday Night at Palladium, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Russell Howard’s Good News, Conan O’Brien, he co-created online sitcom M.U.F.F, has toured extensively throughout UK, Australia, USA, Europe, released a live DVD and is currently working on his pilot for Warner Brothers Studios. He’s also totally sick of people calling his comedy ‘dark’. ‘Genuinely funny!’ (Time Out); ‘Comedic sensation’ (Metro); ‘Funny, intelligent, charming’ (Evening News); ‘Unstoppable’ (List); ‘Meteoric’ (Scotsman); ‘Brilliantly dark’ (Sunday Times). http://danielsloss.com/ Event Price: £10 Event run: 6-16, 18-24, 26-30 August Event age suitability: 16+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Falling in Love with Frida August 20, 2015, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Dancebase British Sign Language After a sell-out run and a Herald Angel Award at the 2014 Fringe, Bowditch returns with her intimate and witty show that explores the life, loves and legacy of painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), exposing little-known facts about the infamous woman, remembered for her art. The reclaiming of a disabled artist, a love like obsession, an enquiry into how we shape what we are remembered for. Affinities and parallels are drawn, and the tale of the great concealer is skilfully revealed by and through powerful yet fragile bodies. ‘Remarkable beauty, joyful humanity’ (Herald). www.carolinebowditch.com Event Price: £10 Event run: Aug 18-30 (not 24) Event age suitability: 16+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com 887 August 18, 2015, 7:15 pm - 9:15 pm Edinburgh International Conference Centre Audio Description Legendary director, playwright and ‘visual wizard’ (New York Times), Robert Lepage returns to Edinburgh to perform the European premiere of his new work. While Lepage continues to pioneer the use of technology, his work is imbued with an intimacy and humanity that few can match. 887 is a riveting foray into the world of memory, exploring how personal recollections are reflected in collective consciousness. Lepage recalls his own experience as a French-speaking child during the October Crisis of 1970, when violent action by the Front de libération du Québec provoked the invocation of the War Measures Act, bringing troops onto the streets of the province. Years later, in an era of unlimited digital capture and storage he must examine the validity and nature of his memories and the very purpose of theatre, an art based on the act of remembering. Robert Lepage is one of the most influential artists working in today’s theatre. His unclassifiable career has ranged from epic stagings for the Metropolitan Opera and Cirque du Soleil, to deeply personal solo shows such as The Far Side of the Moon and major ensemble works such as The Seven Streams of the River Ota. He has directed many films including the acclaimed Le Polygraphe and starred in Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal. An Ex Machina production, commissioned by the Arts and Culture Program of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games in co-production with le lieu unique, Nantes, La Comète – Scène nationale de Châlons-en-Champagne and Edinburgh International Festival. Event Price: £32 Event run: 13 - 23 August 2015 How to book Venue phone number: 0131 300 3000 Venue website: http://www.eicc.co.uk/ The Solid Life of Sugar Water Every day until August 23, 2015 (August 18, 2015, 4:00 pm - 5:20 pm) Pleasance Dome Audio Description, Captioned, British Sign Language 'It's not like riding a bike. Sex. It's far more complicated.' Phil and Alice are in love – familiar, flawed, ordinary love. Phil and Alice are on a journey, but this journey doesn't have an A to Z. Tender and compelling, this world premiere from award-winning playwright Jack Thorne is an unsettling play about loss and love. Jack Thorne recently adapted the cult Let the Right One In for the stage, while for television his credits include Glue, Skins and Shameless. All performances include audio description and creative captioning. Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth http://www.graeae.org/ Event Price: £8 Event run: 5-11, 13-16, 18-23, 25-30 August (not 12, 17 & 24) Event age suitability: 18+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com The Gambit August 18, 2015, 1:50 pm - 2:45 pm Greenside @ Nicolson Square British Sign Language Twenty-five years of betrayal played out on a chessboard. The lies, deceit and anger erupting in an epic clash between the defining Grandmasters of the 20th century. In the tradition of plays such as Frost/Nixon and Copenhagen, award winner The Gambit features a thrilling battle of wits between two titans of the game with opposing outlooks on life, each other and the game itself. 'Definitely a mustsee ... an intense battle of ideas and ideals' ***** (Steve Walker, Buxton Fringe Reviews). http://thegambitplay.webs.com/ Event Price: £6.50 Event run: 7-8, 10-15, 17-22, 24-29 August Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Abnormally Funny People August 17, 2015, 9:40 pm - 10:40 pm Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s Captioned They’re back! Abnormally Funny People are 10 years old. Their brand new show will have different comedians every night. Each one will be packed with top notch stand-up, silly songs and a splash of improvisation. All the acts have a disability, except for the token non-disabled one. It’s all about inclusion! Produced by Steve Best and Simon Minty, creative advisor Lee Simpson, Comedy Store Players /Improbable Theatre. Click here for tonight’s line up:www.abnormallyfunnypeople.com. Event Price: £8 Event run: 6-16, 18-31 August Event age suitability: 16+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Festival Insights: The British Gothic August 17, 2015, 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm The Hub Speech to Text Journalist, art critic and social commentator Andrew Graham-Dixon explores our fascination with the Gothic. What are the key motifs of the Gothic and how did these works reflect the political, social and cultural contexts in which they were created? Chaired by Octavian Saiu. Event Price: £6 How to book Venue phone number: 0131 473 2015 Venue website: http://www.thehub-edinburgh.com Wendy Hoose by Johnny McKnight Every day until August 30, 2015 (August 17, 2015, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm) Assembly Rooms Audio Description, Captioned, British Sign Language Birds of Paradise and Random Accomplice are back by popular demand with the frank and hilarious sex comedy. Laura and Jake just want sex. Late Friday night drunken sex. Nothing more. No strings attached. But getting your leg over is sometimes more difficult than you think. Containing scenes of a sexual nature, Wendy Hoose is about two 20 year olds searching for love in all the wrong places! Includes audio description, BSL and animated surtitles in the comedic style of the production. ‘Rude, ribald, hilariously off colour’ ***** (Guardian). ‘Gorgeous, cheeky, outspoken’ **** (Scotsman). Event Price: £13 Event run: 17-30 August Event age suitability: 16+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Festival Insights: The Scottish Supernatural August 17, 2015, 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm The Hub Speech to Text Andrew Graham-Dixon joins Professor Penny Fielding and Professor Randall Stevens from the University of Edinburgh to discuss the tradition of the Supernatural in Scottish literature, with particular reference to Festival 2015 productions Lanark and Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Chaired by Octavian Saiu. Event Price: £6 How to book Venue phone number: 0131 473 2015 Venue website: http://www.thehub-edinburgh.com Pirates and Mermaids August 17, 2015, 11:15 am - 12:45 pm Scottish Storytelling Centre Audio Description Poorboy’s award nominated show Pirates and Mermaids is an international story told on a very human scale. Cameron is in NYC. Eilidh lives in Scotland. The technology in their pockets keeps them constantly in touch, but you can't hold someone in your arms over Skype, and a text doesn't show you someone's smile. An uplifting and surprising show about true love, family advice, favourite sweets and what whisky can do to you. ‘Must see’ (Stage). Best Solo Performer nominee, Stage Awards 2013. **** (ThreeWeeks). **** (BroadwayBaby.com). **** (SGFringe.com). http://thebellrock.org/ Event Price: £8 Event run: 10, 17, 24-31 August Event age suitability: 12+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 556 9579 Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Dragon August 16, 2015, 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Lyceum Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only Dragon is a story for adults, teenagers and children with vivid imaginations, told without words and featuring fast moving physical theatre, puppetry and original music. Created by Vox Motus, the National Theatre of Scotland and Tianjin People’s Arts Theatre, Dragon tells the story of Tommy whose life, since the death of his mother, has gone from bad to worse. One restless night Tommy goes to the window and throws back the curtain to find himself face to face with a dragon. Dragon was awarded Best Show for Children and Young People at UK Theatre Awards 2014. This show is completely accessible to Deaf and hard of hearing audiences as it can be understood from the visual content alone and does not require BSL interpretation or Captioning. Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 14 - 16 August 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Dragon August 16, 2015, 11:45 am - 1:15 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, No Spoken Word / Visual Only Dragon is a story for adults, teenagers and children with vivid imaginations, told without words and featuring fast moving physical theatre, puppetry and original music. Created by Vox Motus, the National Theatre of Scotland and Tianjin People’s Arts Theatre, Dragon tells the story of Tommy whose life, since the death of his mother, has gone from bad to worse. One restless night Tommy goes to the window and throws back the curtain to find himself face to face with a dragon. Dragon was awarded Best Show for Children and Young People at UK Theatre Awards 2014. This show is completely accessible to Deaf and hard of hearing audiences as it can be understood from the visual content alone and does not require BSL interpretation or Captioning. Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 14 - 16 August 2015 Event age suitability: 9+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Daniel Sloss: Dark: Extra Shows! August 15, 2015, 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm Venue 150@EICC British Sign Language Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox. Daniel has sold out seven consecutive Edinburgh Fringes, TV includes Sunday Night at Palladium, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Russell Howard’s Good News, Conan O’Brien, co-created online sitcom M.U.F.F, tours extensively throughout UK, Australia, USA, Europe, released a DVD and is creating a pilot for Warner Brothers Studios. He’s also totally sick of people calling his comedy ‘dark’. ‘Genuinely funny!’ (Time Out); ‘Comedic sensation’ (Metro); ‘Funny, intelligent, charming’ (Evening News); ‘Unstoppable’ (List); ‘Meteoric’ (Scotsman); ‘Brilliantly dark’ (Sunday Times). Event Price: £15 Event run: 14-15, 21-22, 28-29 August Event age suitability: 16+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Craig Hill: Playing With My Selfie! August 15, 2015, 7:15 pm - 8:15 pm Venue 150@EICC British Sign Language ‘Riotously funny!’ (Independent). Get snap happy with an evening of gloriously camp, no-holds-barred comedy. Craig flashes his kilt pins, strikes a pose and calls: Lights, camera... and, most definitely, action! Bring your auntie, bring your hubby, bring your selfie! ‘Laugh-out-loud performance from beginning to end… An hour with Hill makes for a cracking show… Irresistible!’ (List). ‘Wickedly subversive… Funny, charming, charismatic’ (Metro). ‘Class. Risque, ribtickling and absolutely screaming from the rafters… Hill actually has to wait until the audience stops laughing before he can start again. It’s absolutely hilarious’ (Evening News). Sellout 2002-2014! http://www.mrcraighill.com/ Event Price: £13.50 Event run: 6-16, 18-24, 26-30 August Event age suitability: 16+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Dragon August 15, 2015, 6:45 pm - 8:15 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, No Spoken Word / Visual Only Dragon is a story for adults, teenagers and children with vivid imaginations, told without words and featuring fast moving physical theatre, puppetry and original music. Created by Vox Motus, the National Theatre of Scotland and Tianjin People’s Arts Theatre, Dragon tells the story of Tommy whose life, since the death of his mother, has gone from bad to worse. One restless night Tommy goes to the window and throws back the curtain to find himself face to face with a dragon. Dragon was awarded Best Show for Children and Young People at UK Theatre Awards 2014. This show is completely accessible to Deaf and hard of hearing audiences as it can be understood from the visual content alone and does not require BSL interpretation or Captioning. Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 14 - 16 August 2015 Event age suitability: 9+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Ray Bradshaw: I Dare Ray To... August 15, 2015, 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm Gilded Balloon British Sign Language Going on a date with Scotland's oldest woman... Dancing in a Bollywood film... Tackling the globe of death... Representing his country at a sport... Scottish comedian Ray Bradshaw has given up a year of his life to undertake these dares, amongst many others sent to him by strangers on the internet. Find out how he succeeded, and where he ended up on his year-long adventure. 'Very funny' (STV). 'Brilliant grinning storyteller' (Skinny). 'Has a clear comedy gift' (Edinburgh Evening News). http://www.raybradshaw.co.uk/ Event Price: £8 Event run: 5-16, 18-23, 25-31 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Give Me a Reason to Live August 15, 2015, 3:00 pm - 3:40 pm Dancebase Audio Description Inspired by the work of medieval painter Hieronymus Bosch, this stark solo explores issues of religion, religious art, judgement of bodies and quality of life. Taking the form of a series of tests, of body and of faith, and set to a mesmerising sound score, the work is a study in empathy; a live memorial to the disabled victims of the Nazi euthanasia program and the current disabled victims of the present UK government's so-called welfare reform. 'Stark (and) brutal with her customary integrity and conviction' **** (Herald). www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com. Event Price: £10 Event run: Aug 7-9, 14-16, 21-23, 26-29 Event age suitability: 12+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Dragon August 15, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Lyceum Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only Dragon is a story for adults, teenagers and children with vivid imaginations, told without words and featuring fast moving physical theatre, puppetry and original music. Created by Vox Motus, the National Theatre of Scotland and Tianjin People’s Arts Theatre, Dragon tells the story of Tommy whose life, since the death of his mother, has gone from bad to worse. One restless night Tommy goes to the window and throws back the curtain to find himself face to face with a dragon. Dragon was awarded Best Show for Children and Young People at UK Theatre Awards 2014. This show is completely accessible to Deaf and hard of hearing audiences as it can be understood from the visual content alone and does not require BSL interpretation or Captioning. Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 14 - 16 August 2015 Event age suitability: 9+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Jimeoin: Yeehaa! August 14, 2015, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Venue 150@EICC British Sign Language ‘It gets no better than this... Hilarious!’ (Time Out). Star of TV’s Sunday Night at Palladium, Live at Apollo, Royal Variety musters his ever-evolving live show and the most famous eyebrows in comedy. ‘If laughter is the best medicine, Jimeoin is a course of steroids... Brilliant wit and razor-sharp take on the absurdities of life… Series of hilarious, often surrealistic climaxes. This is the comedy of one who truly perceives human behaviour, breaks it up, puts it all together again in all its ridiculousness, to leave you with your eyes streaming’ (Evening News). ‘Stand-up comedy at its best!’(Scotsman). http://www.jimeoin.com/ Event Price: £15 Event run: 6-16, 18-24, 26-30 August Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Dragon August 14, 2015, 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm Lyceum Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only Dragon is a story for adults, teenagers and children with vivid imaginations, told without words and featuring fast moving physical theatre, puppetry and original music. Created by Vox Motus, the National Theatre of Scotland and Tianjin People’s Arts Theatre, Dragon tells the story of Tommy whose life, since the death of his mother, has gone from bad to worse. One restless night Tommy goes to the window and throws back the curtain to find himself face to face with a dragon. Dragon was awarded Best Show for Children and Young People at UK Theatre Awards 2014. This show is completely accessible to Deaf and hard of hearing audiences as it can be understood from the visual content alone and does not require BSL interpretation or Captioning. Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 14 - 16 August 2015 Event age suitability: 9+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Solid Life of Sugar Water Every day until August 16, 2015 (August 13, 2015, 4:00 pm - 5:20 pm) Pleasance Dome Audio Description, Captioned, British Sign Language 'It's not like riding a bike. Sex. It's far more complicated.' Phil and Alice are in love – familiar, flawed, ordinary love. Phil and Alice are on a journey, but this journey doesn't have an A to Z. Tender and compelling, this world premiere from award-winning playwright Jack Thorne is an unsettling play about loss and love. Jack Thorne recently adapted the cult Let the Right One In for the stage, while for television his credits include Glue, Skins and Shameless. All performances include audio description and creative captioning. Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth http://www.graeae.org/ Event Price: £8 Event run: 5-11, 13-16, 18-23, 25-30 August (not 12, 17 & 24) Event age suitability: 18+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Antigone August 12, 2015, 7:15 pm - 9:15 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, Captioned Ivo van Hove directs a stellar cast including Juliette Binoche, Obi Abili, Kirsty Bushell, Samuel Edward-Cook, Finbar Lynch, Patrick O’Kane and Kathryn Pogson in Anne Carson’s striking new translation of Sophokles’s great tragedy. Binoche plays Antigone, a Theban noblewoman whose brother is deemed a traitor after fighting to the death in a vicious civil war. When his body is left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone defies King Kreon to bury her brother with the honours he deserves. Ivo van Hove made his British debut at the 1998 Edinburgh International Festival. Since then he has become one of the most acclaimed directors in Europe and the US. His recent productions of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge have won praise from critics and audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Produced by the Barbican and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, in association with Toneelgroep Amsterdam Co-produced by Edinburgh International Festival and Théâtre de la Ville – Paris and Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen Event Price: £17 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 8 - 22 August 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Let Loose Workshop August 12, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Visual artist, Kate Temple, and musician, Greg Sinclair, lead a series of creative workshops across art and performance, specially designed for individuals with hearing loss. Workshops will take place from 10am - 12.45pm at Deaf Action, Albany Street, on the following Wednesdays: 2 September 9 September 16 September 23 September 30 September To find out more or to take part, contact Kirsty at Artlink: 0131 229 3555 option1 [email protected] Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Abnormally Funny People August 11, 2015, 9:40 pm - 10:40 pm Stand in the Square Captioned They’re back! Abnormally Funny People are 10 years old. Their brand new show will have different comedians every night. Each one will bepacked with top notch stand-up, silly songs and a splash of improvisation. All the acts have a disability, except for the token non-disabled one. It’s all about inclusion! Produced by Steve Best and SimonMinty, creative advisor Lee Simpson, Comedy Store Players /Improbable Theatre. Click here for tonight’s line up:www.abnormallyfunnypeople.com. Event Price: £8 - £10 Event run: 6-16, 18-31 August Event age suitability: 16+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Festival Insights: Antigone again and again August 11, 2015, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm The Hub Speech to Text Olga Taxidou, Professor of Drama, and Douglas Cairns, Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh discuss the significance of Antigone in the context of its own time, and the special attraction of the play and the character for audiences, performers, philosophers and theorists from antiquity to modernity. Chaired by Professor Dorothy Miell, Vice Principal and Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science. Event Price: £6 How to book Venue phone number: 0131 473 2015 Venue website: http://www.thehub-edinburgh.com Pirates and Mermaids August 10, 2015, 11:15 am - 12:45 pm Scottish Storytelling Centre Audio Description Poorboy’s award nominated show Pirates and Mermaids is an international story told on a very human scale. Cameron is in NYC. Eilidh lives in Scotland. The technology in their pockets keeps them constantly in touch, but you can't hold someone in your arms over Skype, and a text doesn't show you someone's smile. An uplifting and surprising show about true love, family advice, favourite sweets and what whisky can do to you. ‘Must see’ (Stage). Best Solo Performer nominee, Stage Awards 2013. **** (ThreeWeeks). **** (BroadwayBaby.com). **** (SGFringe.com). http://thebellrock.org/ Event Price: £8 Event run: 10, 17, 24-31 August Event age suitability: 12+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 556 9579 Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com The Solid Life of Sugar Water Every day until August 11, 2015 (August 5, 2015, 4:00 pm - 5:20 pm) Pleasance Dome Audio Description, Captioned, British Sign Language 'It's not like riding a bike. Sex. It's far more complicated.' Phil and Alice are in love – familiar, flawed, ordinary love. Phil and Alice are on a journey, but this journey doesn't have an A to Z. Tender and compelling, this world premiere from award-winning playwright Jack Thorne is an unsettling play about loss and love. Jack Thorne recently adapted the cult Let the Right One In for the stage, while for television his credits include Glue, Skins and Shameless. All performances include audio description and creative captioning. Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth http://www.graeae.org/ Event Price: £8 Event run: 5-11, 13-16, 18-23, 25-30 August (not 12, 17 & 24) Event age suitability: 18+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Let Loose Workshop July 29, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Visual artist, Kate Temple, and musician, Greg Sinclair, lead a series of creative workshops across art and performance, specially designed for individuals with hearing loss. Workshops will take place from 10am - 12.45pm at Deaf Action, Albany Street, on the following Wednesdays: 12 August 2 September 16 September 23 September 30 September To find out more or to take part, contact Kirsty at Artlink: 0131 229 3555 option1 [email protected] Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Let Loose Workshop July 22, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Visual artist, Kate Temple, and musician, Greg Sinclair, lead a series of creative workshops across art and performance, specially designed for individuals with hearing loss. Workshops will take place from 10am - 12.45pm at Deaf Action, Albany Street, on the following Wednesdays: 29 July 12 August 2 September 16 September 23 September 30 September To find out more or to take part, contact Kirsty at Artlink: 0131 229 3555 option1 [email protected] Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Jean-Etienne Liotard July 19, 2015, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm National Galleries of Scotland Hearing Enhancement A stunning exhibition celebrating one of the greatest artists of the eighteenth century. The work of Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-89) has been rarely exhibited and this is the first time it will be comprehensively celebrated in Britain. Highlights of this important show include famous portraits, startling self-portraits, and brilliant experiments with genre and still-life subjects from the end of his career. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org The Amazing World of MC Escher July 15, 2015, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern Two Audio Description A free descriptive tour and practical workshop for the visually impaired. This exhibition offers the opportunity to rediscover a giant of twentieth-century art, a fabulously imaginative artist of unparalleled technical ability, whose work is familiar from reproductions, but is seldom seen ‘in the flesh’. The exhibition includes nearly 100 prints and drawings stretching across his whole career, and is drawn in its entirety from the collection of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, in the Netherlands, which holds an almost complete set of Escher’s prints. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Let Loose Workshop July 8, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement Visual artist, Kate Temple, and musician, Greg Sinclair, lead a series of creative workshops across art and performance, specially designed for individuals with hearing loss. Workshops will take place from 10am - 12.45pm at Deaf Action, Albany Street, on the following Wednesdays: 22 July 29 July 12 August 2 September 16 September 23 September 30 September To find out more or to take part, contact Kirsty at Artlink: 0131 229 3555 option1 [email protected] Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk The Driver’s Seat June 24, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre British Sign Language What are her thoughts? Who can tell?” Adapted for the stage for the first time, The Driver’s Seat is one of renowned novelist Muriel Spark’s most gripping and disturbing books. At the centre of this taut, darkly comic thriller is Lise, an enigmatic young woman travelling alone to an unnamed city, and searching for “the one”. She seems keen to leave a trail, acquiring a brightly coloured outfit and an equally outlandish set of personas in her encounters with a series of extraordinary, bizarre and desperate individuals. But as the subject of her search eludes her, her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic. All the while, in a police incident room, the hunt is on for a killer. As the tension builds and the twin narratives intertwine, The Driver’s Seat asks if we are ever truly in control of our own lives. This World Premier production is adapted and directed by the National Theatre of Scotland’s Artistic Director Laurie Sansom (Director of The James Plays) and features a highly distinguished cast of Scottish and international performers, including Morven Christie who creates the central role of Lise. The production is designed by Ana Inés Jabares Pita, overall winner of the 2013 Linbury Prize, the UK’s most prestigious award for stage design. Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 13 June - 27 June 2015 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Driver's Seat June 23, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre Captioned “What are her thoughts? Who can tell?” Adapted for the stage for the first time, The Driver’s Seat is one of renowned novelist Muriel Spark’s most gripping and disturbing books. At the centre of this taut, darkly comic thriller is Lise, an enigmatic young woman travelling alone to an unnamed city, and searching for “the one”. She seems keen to leave a trail, acquiring a brightly coloured outfit and an equally outlandish set of personas in her encounters with a series of extraordinary, bizarre and desperate individuals. But as the subject of her search eludes her, her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic. All the while, in a police incident room, the hunt is on for a killer. As the tension builds and the twin narratives intertwine, The Driver’s Seat asks if we are ever truly in control of our own lives. This World Premier production is adapted and directed by the National Theatre of Scotland’s Artistic Director Laurie Sansom (Director of The James Plays) and features a highly distinguished cast of Scottish and international performers, including Morven Christie who creates the central role of Lise. The production is designed by Ana Inés Jabares Pita, overall winner of the 2013 Linbury Prize, the UK’s most prestigious award for stage design. Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 13 - 27 June 2015 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Driver's Seat June 23, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description What are her thoughts? Who can tell?” Adapted for the stage for the first time, The Driver’s Seat is one of renowned novelist Muriel Spark’s most gripping and disturbing books. At the centre of this taut, darkly comic thriller is Lise, an enigmatic young woman travelling alone to an unnamed city, and searching for “the one”. She seems keen to leave a trail, acquiring a brightly coloured outfit and an equally outlandish set of personas in her encounters with a series of extraordinary, bizarre and desperate individuals. But as the subject of her search eludes her, her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic. All the while, in a police incident room, the hunt is on for a killer. As the tension builds and the twin narratives intertwine, The Driver’s Seat asks if we are ever truly in control of our own lives. This World Premier production is adapted and directed by the National Theatre of Scotland’s Artistic Director Laurie Sansom (Director of The James Plays) and features a highly distinguished cast of Scottish and international performers, including Morven Christie who creates the central role of Lise. The production is designed by Ana Inés Jabares Pita, overall winner of the 2013 Linbury Prize, the UK’s most prestigious award for stage design. Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 13 - 27 June 2015 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk ARTIST ROOMS: Roy Lichtenstein June 21, 2015, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Hearing Enhancement This exhibition will focus on a major group of 16 large-scale screen-prints by the ground-breaking American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997). Dating between 1990 and 1996, these works are typical of Lichtenstein's distinctive style, and cover key series in the artist's repertoire. The exhibition will also feature iconic paintings such as Reflections: ART from the Estate of Roy Lichtenstein and In the Car from the Gallery of Modern Art's own collection. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Heads at the Gallery of Modern Art: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – MOD ONE June 17, 2015, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop This display has been devised to show off the recent acquisition of the Picasso cubist drawing Head and to put it in the context of a whole array of different ways of depicting heads. Many people would not recognize Picasso's drawing as being of a head, but by showing the different way that heads have been depicted down the centuries and in particular in the 20th century we hope to make clear that there is no 'right' way of depicting the shape we all know best, from our very earliest moments as a child. This fascinating display of works on paper will feature prints, photographs, collages and important drawings from the collections of the National Gallery and Portrait Gallery. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Workshop: 'Plagues and Pandemics' June 10, 2015, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm National Library of Scotland Touch Tour Material handling workshop for people with visual impairments To mark 'Make a Noise in Libraries' fortnight, join Anette Hagan, Rare Books Curator, for a sneak preview of some of the material being considered for the exhibition on plagues and pandemics at the end of the year. Get the opportunity to handle and learn more about these special items. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Organiser: Beverley Casebow, Education & Outreach Officer, NLS Organiser Phone: 0131 623 3745 Organiser Email: [email protected] Yer Granny June 6, 2015, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Yer Granny is a riotous new comedy about a diabolical 100-year-old granny who’s literally eating her family out of house and home. She’s already eaten their fish and chip shop into bankruptcy and now she’s working her way through their kitchen cupboards, pushing the Russo family to desperate measures just to survive beyond 1977. As proud head of the family, Cammy is determined that The Minerva Fish Bar will rise again and that family honour will be restored – and all in time for the Queen’s upcoming Jubilee visit. But before Cammy’s dream can come true and before Her Maj can pop in for a chat, a single sausage and a royal seal of approval, the family members must ask themselves how far they will go to solve a problem like Yer Granny. Adapted from the smash-hit Argentinian comedy classic La Nona, the cast of Yer Granny features some of Scotland’s best-loved performers, including Gregor Fisher in the title role, Maureen Beattie (Casualty), Louise McCarthy (Mamma Mia!, West End), Brian Pettifer (The Musketeers), Barbara Rafferty (Rab C Nesbitt), Paul Riley (Still Game) and Jonathan Watson (Only An Excuse?). Event Price: £29.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 2 to Sat 6 June 2015 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Carousel June 5, 2015, 7:30 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Dazzling lights, swinging songs and a bad boy to melt your heart – don’t miss this fabulous production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel. Opposites attract when Julie Jordan falls in love with the rebellious carnival barker Billy Bigelow. Billy is given a chance to make good, but is it too little too late, or will a lucky star save him and those he loves? Voted best musical of the 20th century by Time, Carousel features hit songs including You’ll Never Walk Alone and If I Loved You. Jo Davies’s vibrant production is filled with magical moments, stunning choreography and breathtaking music. Receiving high praise when it was first seen in 2012, this production of Carousel is moving and uplifting in equal measure. Event Price: £46.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 2 to Sat 6 June 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Yer Granny June 5, 2015, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned Yer Granny is a riotous new comedy about a diabolical 100-year-old granny who’s literally eating her family out of house and home. She’s already eaten their fish and chip shop into bankruptcy and now she’s working her way through their kitchen cupboards, pushing the Russo family to desperate measures just to survive beyond 1977. As proud head of the family, Cammy is determined that The Minerva Fish Bar will rise again and that family honour will be restored – and all in time for the Queen’s upcoming Jubilee visit. But before Cammy’s dream can come true and before Her Maj can pop in for a chat, a single sausage and a royal seal of approval, the family members must ask themselves how far they will go to solve a problem like Yer Granny. Adapted from the smash-hit Argentinian comedy classic La Nona, the cast of Yer Granny features some of Scotland’s best-loved performers, including Gregor Fisher in the title role, Maureen Beattie (Casualty), Louise McCarthy (Mamma Mia!, West End), Brian Pettifer (The Musketeers), Barbara Rafferty (Rab C Nesbitt), Paul Riley (Still Game) and Jonathan Watson (Only An Excuse?). Event Price: £29.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 2 to Sat 6 June 2015 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Carousel June 4, 2015, 7:30 pm Festival Theatre Captioned Dazzling lights, swinging songs and a bad boy to melt your heart – don’t miss this fabulous production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel. Opposites attract when Julie Jordan falls in love with the rebellious carnival barker Billy Bigelow. Billy is given a chance to make good, but is it too little too late, or will a lucky star save him and those he loves? Voted best musical of the 20th century by Time, Carousel features hit songs including You’ll Never Walk Alone and If I Loved You. Jo Davies’s vibrant production is filled with magical moments, stunning choreography and breathtaking music. Receiving high praise when it was first seen in 2012, this production of Carousel is moving and uplifting in equal measure. Event Price: £46.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 2 to Sat 6 June 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Gold June 4, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm The Queens Gallery Audio Description Exhibition Descriptive Tour This exhibition brings together works of art from the Bronze Age to the present day to celebrate the enduring qualities of gold. Through objects from every section of the Royal Collection, it explores the distinctive qualities that make this rare and precious metal an expression of the highest status, both earthly and divine. This verbal description tour for blind and partially sighted visitors illuminates key objects and themes in Gold including a spectacular gold crown from Ecuador and Bronze Age cup. The afternoon finishes with a short talk on the Gold Stage Coach with exhibition co-curator, Lauren Porter. Event Price: £1 Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . Opening times: 09:30-18:00 (last admission 17:00) How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgalleryedinburgh/about Gold June 3, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm The Queens Gallery Hearing Enhancement Amplified Exhibition Tour This exhibition brings together works of art from the Bronze Age to the present day to celebrate the enduring qualities of gold. Through objects from every section of the Royal Collection, it explores the distinctive qualities that make this rare and precious metal an expression of the highest status, both earthly and divine. This special amplified tour for visitors with hearing loss, explores highlights from the collection in a small group. An FM portable loop system is available. Following the descriptive tour, the afternoon concludes with a short talk from the exhibition co-curator, Lauren Porter, who will discuss the iconic Gold Stage Coach, which has been used at the coronation of every monarch since the reign of George IV. Event Price: £1 Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . Opening times: 09:30-18:00 (last admission 17:00) How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgalleryedinburgh/about Rites May 29, 2015, 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm Traverse Theatre Captioned National Theatre of Scotland in co-production with Contact, supported by theScottish Refugee Council and Dignity Alert Research Forum Rites is a powerful and provocative new production exploring the deep-rooted cultural practice of Female Genital Mutilation. This ritual of enforced cutting has been performed for centuries and millions of girls worldwide, often as young as five years old, are still subjected to it. The reasons are complicated and myriad. It depends who you are, and it depends what you've been taught. Some things are simple though: FGM is still happening across the world. FGM is happening in the UK, here and now. Rites is based on recent interviews and true stories from girls affected in Scotland and the rest of the UK, mothers who feel under pressure to continue the practice, and the experiences of midwives, lawyers, police officers, teachers and health workers trying to effect change in communities. Weaving together different perspectives into a multi-voiced production, the play explores the complexities, misconceptions and challenges involved in trying to change what is to many, a fundamental rite of passage. Event Price: £8 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: Tue 26-Sat 30 May 2015 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Rites May 28, 2015, 7:30 pm Traverse Theatre British Sign Language National Theatre of Scotland in co-production with Contact, supported by the Scottish Refugee Council and Dignity Alert Research Forum Rites is a powerful and provocative new production exploring the deep-rooted cultural practice of Female Genital Mutilation. This ritual of enforced cutting has been performed for centuries and millions of girls worldwide, often as young as five years old, are still subjected to it. The reasons are complicated and myriad. It depends who you are, and it depends what you've been taught. Some things are simple though: FGM is still happening across the world. FGM is happening in the UK, here and now. Rites is based on recent interviews and true stories from girls affected in Scotland and the rest of the UK, mothers who feel under pressure to continue the practice, and the experiences of midwives, lawyers, police officers, teachers and health workers trying to effect change in communities. Weaving together different perspectives into a multi-voiced production, the play explores the complexities, misconceptions and challenges involved in trying to change what is to many, a fundamental rite of passage. Event Price: £8 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: Tue 26-Sat 30 May 2015 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Let Loose Workshop May 28, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Following drama, writing and art workshops Let Loose will develop accessible art work with individuals with hearing loss. Get involved and help shape the work. This is a collaborative workshop led by visual artist Kate Temple and musician Greg Sinclair, and will explore the relationship between music and art. These fortnightly workshops are designed for individuals with hearing loss, an electronic notetaker and loop system is available at all events. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Il Trovatore May 24, 2015, 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description Opera at its grandest, Verdi’s Il trovatore hasn’t been seen on the Scottish Opera stage since 2001. Dark and menacing, Peter Watson’s production gives this monumental story the space it deserves. The stark, brooding lines of Tim Hatley’s imposing set stand in impressive contrast to the blood and thunder of Verdi’s score, and provide a majestic backdrop for a cast and chorus of over 50. A gypsy woman is discovered in the castle of the Count di Luna, crouched over the cradle of his youngest son. When the boy falls ill, she is burned at the stake for witchcraft. Her daughter, crazed with grief, snatches the child intending to kill him, but in her madness, throws her own son onto the fire. Years later, she has brought the Count’s son up as her own and he and his elder brother, unaware of their relationship, are rivals for the beautiful Leonora. Jealousy, revenge, love and hate collide as the opera crashes towards its inexorable conclusion. Verdi’s score is packed with a dizzying succession of full-blooded melodies, from the thrilling Anvil Chorus and Manrico’s stirring ‘Di quella pira’ to the spine-tingling Miserere. The cast includes some of the UK’s finest singers, including Roland Wood (Werther 2013), Anne Mason (Der Ring des Nibelungen 2004) and Matthew Best (Tosca 2005), leading British soprano Claire Rutter (Turandot 2014) and renowned Welsh tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones. Tobias Ringborg (Rigoletto 2011, Così fan tutte 2009) conducts. Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Thur 21, Sun 24, Wed 27 & Sat 30 May 2015, Sun 24 May 4pm Event age suitability: No under 4's How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The King's Speech May 23, 2015, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language A prestigious co-production between Chichester Festival Theatre and Birmingham Repertory Theatre , starring Jason Donovan (Festen, Sweeney Todd) as Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue and Raymond Coulthard (Mr Selfridge, Hotel Babylon) as King George VI. As the world stands on the brink of war, Edward VIII sparks controversy with his love for married socialite, Wallis Simpson. As Edward’s position becomes increasingly untenable, his brother Bertie, who has previously shied away from the public eye because of a terrible stammer, is thrust in to the spotlight as his likely successor. With the support of his wife, Elizabeth (the much-loved future Queen Mother), Bertie meets maverick speech therapist and failed actor, Lionel Logue, at an office in Harley Street. Together they embark on an unlikely journey to prepare Bertie to lead his country as King George VI. Event Price: £14 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 18 to Sat 23 May 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The King's Speech May 21, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Kings Theatre Captioned A prestigious co-production between Chichester Festival Theatre and Birmingham Repertory Theatre , starring Jason Donovan (Festen, Sweeney Todd) as Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue and Raymond Coulthard (Mr Selfridge, Hotel Babylon) as King George VI. As the world stands on the brink of war, Edward VIII sparks controversy with his love for married socialite, Wallis Simpson. As Edward’s position becomes increasingly untenable, his brother Bertie, who has previously shied away from the public eye because of a terrible stammer, is thrust in to the spotlight as his likely successor. With the support of his wife, Elizabeth (the much-loved future Queen Mother), Bertie meets maverick speech therapist and failed actor, Lionel Logue, at an office in Harley Street. Together they embark on an unlikely journey to prepare Bertie to lead his country as King George VI. Event Price: £14 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 18 to Sat 23 May 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com ARTIST ROOMS: Roy Lichtenstein: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – MOD ONE May 20, 2015, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop This exhibition will focus on a major group of 16 large-scale screen-prints by the ground-breaking American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997). Dating between 1990 and 1996, these works are typical of Lichtenstein's distinctive style, and cover key series in the artist's repertoire. The exhibition will also feature iconic paintings such as Reflections: ART from the Estate of Roy Lichtenstein and In the Car from the Gallery of Modern Art's own collection. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Highlights from the Scottish Collection May 17, 2015, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm National Galleries of Scotland Hearing Enhancement Explore a selection of highlights from the Gallery’s renowned collection of Scottish art, the most important of its kind in the world. The collection covers the history of Scottish painting with the major names, including Ramsay, Raeburn, Wilkie and McTaggart, represented in depth. Works on show include Raeburns much-loved The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch or, as it has become known, the ‘Skating Minister’. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense May 16, 2015, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Join Robert Webb (Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look ) as the effervescent, aristocratic fool Bertie Wooster and Jason Thorpe (What the Butler Saw, Primeval) as his dutiful valet Jeeves, with Christopher Ryan (The Young Ones, Absolutely Fabulous) as Seppings in this hilarious new production. Layering joy on joy, joke on joke, Jeeves and Wooster is a delightful evening of theatrical absurdity featuring P.G Wodehouse’s iconic double act. When a country house weekend takes a turn for the worse, Bertie Wooster is unwittingly called on to play matchmaker, but also to steal a silver cow creamer from Totleigh Towers. Naturally, the ever dependable Jeeves is there to prevent Bertie from making a fool of himself in front of a cast of Wodehouse’s finest characters. Event Price: £14 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 11 to Sat 16 May How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Venetian Twins May 16, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Captioned By Carlo Goldoni, in a new version by Tony Cownie. “What the hell’s going on?” After writing The Servant of Two Masters (recently a West End hit in a new version as One Man, Two Guvnors) Goldoni followed up with this timeless comedy of mayhem-inducing mistaken identity. Estranged twins, Zanetto and Tonino are unlike each other in every way… except that they look exactly the same. When they both arrive in the same town on the same day each seeking a bride-tobe, romantic entanglements soon become hopelessly confused. Before lunchtime, insults, threats, proposals, offers of duels and boxes of jewels have all ended up in the wrong hands… sorting it all out in time for the weddings is going to be murder! Lyceum associate artist Tony Cownie’s fresh take on this riotous farce of confusion and calamity brings a delightfully Scottish flavour to a dizzying, and inventive romantic comedy. Expect to be tickled pink as some of Scotland’s finest comic talent serve up a big slice of frivolous fun to round off The Lyceum season. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 24 April 2015 to 16 May 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Poorboy Theatre May 15, 2015, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Kirk O’ Field Audio Description Join Poorboy and Artlink for lunchtime showings of their research into theatre inspired by blind and partially sighted audiences. Musicians, Actors, Writers and Designers are spending two weeks in Edinburgh exploring new ways of shaping the theatre making process. You are invited to experience some of the work and research through short showings, and share your responses, thoughts and ideas at a Q&A session. These open session will take place on: Thursday 7th May, 13:00-14:00 Music and Audio Description Friday 8th May, 13:00-14:00 Audience Interaction and Food Wednesday 13th May, 13:00-14:00 Sound, Silence and Space Friday 15th May, 13:00-14:00 Product Design and Technology Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense May 14, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Kings Theatre Captioned Join Robert Webb (Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look ) as the effervescent, aristocratic fool Bertie Wooster and Jason Thorpe (What the Butler Saw, Primeval) as his dutiful valet Jeeves, with Christopher Ryan (The Young Ones, Absolutely Fabulous) as Seppings in this hilarious new production. Layering joy on joy, joke on joke, Jeeves and Wooster is a delightful evening of theatrical absurdity featuring P.G Wodehouse’s iconic double act. When a country house weekend takes a turn for the worse, Bertie Wooster is unwittingly called on to play matchmaker, but also to steal a silver cow creamer from Totleigh Towers. Naturally, the ever dependable Jeeves is there to prevent Bertie from making a fool of himself in front of a cast of Wodehouse’s finest characters. Event Price: £14 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 11 to Sat 16 May How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Venetian Twins May 13, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre British Sign Language By Carlo Goldoni, in a new version by Tony Cownie. “What the hell’s going on?” After writing The Servant of Two Masters (recently a West End hit in a new version as One Man, Two Guvnors) Goldoni followed up with this timeless comedy of mayhem-inducing mistaken identity. Estranged twins, Zanetto and Tonino are unlike each other in every way… except that they look exactly the same. When they both arrive in the same town on the same day each seeking a bride-tobe, romantic entanglements soon become hopelessly confused. Before lunchtime, insults, threats, proposals, offers of duels and boxes of jewels have all ended up in the wrong hands… sorting it all out in time for the weddings is going to be murder! Lyceum associate artist Tony Cownie’s fresh take on this riotous farce of confusion and calamity brings a delightfully Scottish flavour to a dizzying, and inventive romantic comedy. Expect to be tickled pink as some of Scotland’s finest comic talent serve up a big slice of frivolous fun to round off The Lyceum season. Event Price: £29 - £315 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 24 April 2015 to 16 May 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Poorboy Theatre May 13, 2015, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Kirk O’ Field Audio Description Join Poorboy and Artlink for lunchtime showings of their research into theatre inspired by blind and partially sighted audiences. Musicians, Actors, Writers and Designers are spending two weeks in Edinburgh exploring new ways of shaping the theatre making process. You are invited to experience some of the work and research through short showings, and share your responses, thoughts and ideas at a Q&A session. These open session will take place on: Thursday 7th May, 13:00-14:00 Music and Audio Description Friday 8th May, 13:00-14:00 Audience Interaction and Food Wednesday 13th May, 13:00-14:00 Sound, Silence and Space Friday 15th May, 13:00-14:00 Product Design and Technology Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Right Now May 9, 2015, 8:00 pm Traverse Theatre British Sign Language Traverse Theatre Company You can’t choose your neighbours… As Alice and Ben settle into their beautiful new flat they realise that the family across the hall hope to be more than just friends. Juliette, Giles, and their son Francis are wearing out the welcome mat; suggesting drinks, hors d’oeuvres and dancing. Things soon begin to heat up as innocent invitations lead to passionate encounters and unsettling revelations. But who can hear the baby crying in the back bedroom? A new play from Quebéc, with a dark heart, Right Now walks a delicate line between playful laughs and horrified gasps. It’s Abigail’s Party meets Rosemary’s Baby, teasing and thrilling its audience. Written by Québécois writer Catherine-Anne Toupin, these preview performances mark its world premiere in a full English-language production. Event Price: £7 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: Tue 5 – Sat 9 May 2015 Event age suitability: 16+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Right Now May 9, 2015, 8:00 pm Traverse Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description Traverse Theatre Company You can’t choose your neighbours… As Alice and Ben settle into their beautiful new flat they realise that the family across the hall hope to be more than just friends. Juliette, Giles, and their son Francis are wearing out the welcome mat; suggesting drinks, hors d’oeuvres and dancing. Things soon begin to heat up as innocent invitations lead to passionate encounters and unsettling revelations. But who can hear the baby crying in the back bedroom? A new play from Quebéc, with a dark heart, Right Now walks a delicate line between playful laughs and horrified gasps. It’s Abigail’s Party meets Rosemary’s Baby, teasing and thrilling its audience. Written by Québécois writer Catherine-Anne Toupin, these preview performances mark its world premiere in a full English-language production. Event Price: £7 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: Tue 5 – Sat 9 May 2015 Event age suitability: 16+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Peter Pan Goes Wrong May 9, 2015, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society set out to present J.M. Barrie’s classic tale of Peter Pan, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong…does, as the accident prone thesps embark on a thrilling adventure to Neverland, with hilariously disastrous results. Following their smash hit success with The Play That Goes Wrong, which is now playing to packed houses in the West End, Mischief Theatre Company are back in Edinburgh due to phenomenal demand, bringing their riotous new spin on a timeless favourite to the King's Theatre stage. Don't miss this hysterical new laugh-out-loud comedy. Guaranteed fun for everyone, especially adults. Event Price: £14 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 4 to Sat 9 May 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Venetian Twins May 9, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description By Carlo Goldoni, in a new version by Tony Cownie. “What the hell’s going on?” After writing The Servant of Two Masters (recently a West End hit in a new version as One Man, Two Guvnors) Goldoni followed up with this timeless comedy of mayhem-inducing mistaken identity. Estranged twins, Zanetto and Tonino are unlike each other in every way… except that they look exactly the same. When they both arrive in the same town on the same day each seeking a bride-tobe, romantic entanglements soon become hopelessly confused. Before lunchtime, insults, threats, proposals, offers of duels and boxes of jewels have all ended up in the wrong hands… sorting it all out in time for the weddings is going to be murder! Lyceum associate artist Tony Cownie’s fresh take on this riotous farce of confusion and calamity brings a delightfully Scottish flavour to a dizzying, and inventive romantic comedy. Expect to be tickled pink as some of Scotland’s finest comic talent serve up a big slice of frivolous fun to round off The Lyceum season. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 24 April 2015 to 16 May 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Poorboy Theatre May 8, 2015, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Kirk O’ Field Audio Description Join Poorboy and Artlink for lunchtime showings of their research into theatre inspired by blind and partially sighted audiences. Musicians, Actors, Writers and Designers are spending two weeks in Edinburgh exploring new ways of shaping the theatre making process. You are invited to experience some of the work and research through short showings, and share your responses, thoughts and ideas at a Q&A session. These open session will take place on: Thursday 7th May, 13:00-14:00 Music and Audio Description Friday 8th May, 13:00-14:00 Audience Interaction and Food Wednesday 13th May, 13:00-14:00 Sound, Silence and Space Friday 15th May, 13:00-14:00 Product Design and Technology Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Peter Pan Goes Wrong May 7, 2015, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society set out to present J.M. Barrie’s classic tale of Peter Pan, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong…does, as the accident prone thesps embark on a thrilling adventure to Neverland, with hilariously disastrous results. Following their smash hit success with The Play That Goes Wrong, which is now playing to packed houses in the West End, Mischief Theatre Company are back in Edinburgh due to phenomenal demand, bringing their riotous new spin on a timeless favourite to the King's Theatre stage. Don't miss this hysterical new laugh-out-loud comedy. Guaranteed fun for everyone, especially adults. Event Price: £14 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 4 to Sat 9 May 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Venetian Twins May 7, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description By Carlo Goldoni, in a new version by Tony Cownie. “What the hell’s going on?” After writing The Servant of Two Masters (recently a West End hit in a new version as One Man, Two Guvnors) Goldoni followed up with this timeless comedy of mayhem-inducing mistaken identity. Estranged twins, Zanetto and Tonino are unlike each other in every way… except that they look exactly the same. When they both arrive in the same town on the same day each seeking a bride-tobe, romantic entanglements soon become hopelessly confused. Before lunchtime, insults, threats, proposals, offers of duels and boxes of jewels have all ended up in the wrong hands… sorting it all out in time for the weddings is going to be murder! Lyceum associate artist Tony Cownie’s fresh take on this riotous farce of confusion and calamity brings a delightfully Scottish flavour to a dizzying, and inventive romantic comedy. Expect to be tickled pink as some of Scotland’s finest comic talent serve up a big slice of frivolous fun to round off The Lyceum season. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 24 April 2015 to 16 May 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Possibilities of the Object May 7, 2015, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Audio Description An exhibition tour designed for visually impaired visitors, led by Juliana Capes. Curated by Paulo Venancio Filho with artists: Artur Barrio, Waltércio Caldas, Sergio Camargo, Aluísio Carvao, Amílcar de Castro, Willys de Castro, Lygia Clark, Antonio Dias, Ferreira Gullar, Jac Leirner, Antonio Manuel, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Mira Schendel, Tunga, Franz Weissmann and Carlos Zilo. In the 1950s and 1960s, artists in Brazil radically transformed what the object of art could be. It was a period of intense experimentation, extremely important to art history, and its effects are still being felt today. Curator Paulo Venancio Filho has brought together objects from studios; talking directly to surviving artists from the period, to artists’ heirs and estates, and to more contemporary artists still working in this experimental tradition today. The exhibition includes objects by some of the most famous of all Brazilian artists – Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto – and some whose work has only rarely been seen outside Brazil. On the floor, on walls, hanging from the ceiling, on shelves or gathered together on tables as if still in the studio, these objects invite us to look at art afresh. Playing with ideas around abstraction, figuration, the ready-made and even performance, this show allows us to think again about what sculpture can be. This exhibition is supported by Art Edu Stiftung. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Poorboy Theatre May 7, 2015, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Kirk O’ Field Audio Description Join Poorboy and Artlink for lunchtime showings of their research into theatre inspired by blind and partially sighted audiences. Musicians, Actors, Writers and Designers are spending two weeks in Edinburgh exploring new ways of shaping the theatre making process. You are invited to experience some of the work and research through short showings, and share your responses, thoughts and ideas at a Q&A session. These open session will take place on: Thursday 7th May, 13:00-14:00 Music and Audio Description Friday 8th May, 13:00-14:00 Audience Interaction and Food Wednesday 13th May, 13:00-14:00 Sound, Silence and Space Friday 15th May, 13:00-14:00 Product Design and Technology Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Game of Crowns: The 1715 Jacobite rising May 6, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm National Library of Scotland Hearing Enhancement William of Orange's invasion in 1688 began a power struggle that culminated in the 1715 Jacobite rising in Scotland. 'Games of Crowns' is an exhibition examining the background to this struggle, the significant players involved, and the outcome for the Jacobites and for Scotland. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Organiser: Beverley Casebow, Education & Outreach Officer, NLS Organiser Phone: 0131 623 3745 Organiser Email: [email protected] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time May 2, 2015, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Winner of seven 2013 Olivier Awards, this highly- acclaimed National Theatre production embarks on its first ever nationwide tour. Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion of killing Mrs Shears’ dog, it takes him on a journey that upturns his world… Based on the award-winning novel by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Marianne Elliott, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a thrilling new stage play from the National Theatre. Event Price: £33 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 28 April to Sat 9 May 2015 Event age suitability: 11+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com A View from The Bridge May 1, 2015, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language In celebration of the centenary of Arthur Miller’s birth, the touring Consortium theatre Company proudly present A View From The Bridge. Set in the dangerous and mysterious world of New York’s Brooklyn harbour in the 1950s, respected longshoreman Eddie Carbone lives with his wife and niece in a tight knit Italian community bound by strong moral codes of justice and honour. When Eddie and his wife welcome two cousins into their home, Marco and Rodolpho, recently arrived from Sicily, the balance of Eddie’s family relationships is dangerously rocked. As the young men seek work, wealth and security they find themselves in a threatening country shimmering with the mirage known as The American Dream. Featuring michael brandon (Episodes, Dempsey and Makepeace) as Alfieri, this gripping and passionate drama ranks as one of the great classics of our time; a powerful and deeply moving play that crackles with raw emotion. Event Price: £27.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 28 April to Sat 2 May 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time April 30, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Festival Theatre Captioned Winner of seven 2013 Olivier Awards, this highly- acclaimed National Theatre production embarks on its first ever nationwide tour. Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion of killing Mrs Shears’ dog, it takes him on a journey that upturns his world… Based on the award-winning novel by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Marianne Elliott, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a thrilling new stage play from the National Theatre. Event Price: £33 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 28 April to Sat 9 May 2015 Event age suitability: 11+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com A View from The Bridge April 29, 2015, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned In celebration of the centenary of Arthur Miller’s birth, the touring Consortium Theatre Company proudly present A View From The Bridge. Set in the dangerous and mysterious world of New York’s Brooklyn harbour in the 1950s, respected longshoreman Eddie Carbone lives with his wife and niece in a tight knit Italian community bound by strong moral codes of justice and honour. When Eddie and his wife welcome two cousins into their home, Marco and Rodolpho, recently arrived from Sicily, the balance of Eddie’s family relationships is dangerously rocked. As the young men seek work, wealth and security they find themselves in a threatening country shimmering with the mirage known as The American Dream. Featuring Michael Brandon (Episodes, Dempsey and Makepeace) as Alfieri, this gripping and passionate drama ranks as one of the great classics of our time; a powerful and deeply moving play that crackles with raw emotion. Event Price: £27.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 28 April to Sat 2 May 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Palace of Holyroodhouse: Medieval to Modern April 29, 2015, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Palace of Holyrood House Hearing Enhancement Amplified Tour A royal home for over 500 years, the Palace of Holyroodhouse is used regularly by the Royal Family as the Queen's official residence in Scotland. Visitors to the State and Historic apartments can find out about its role as a working palace, and explore its links to Mary, Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie and other famous royal and historic figures. This small group tour for visitors with hearing loss explores key works of art and historical themes in the Palace, from its medieval origins to the present day. An FM portable loop system is available. Event Price: £1 Venue discount information: Admission £12, concessions £7.20 All visitors who require an access companion receive a complimentary ticket. Opening times: 09:30-18:00 (last admission 16:30) How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Organiser: Learning Bookings Team Organiser Phone: 0131 557 2500 Organiser Email: [email protected] Palace of Holyroodhouse: Up Close April 29, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Palace of Holyrood House Audio Description Descriptive Tour A royal home for over 500 years, the Palace of Holyroodhouse is used regularly by the Royal Family as the Queen's official residence in Scotland. Visitors to the State and Historic apartments can find out about its role as a working palace, and explore its links to Mary, Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie and other famous royal and historic figures. This tour enables blind and partially sighted visitors to get close up to the objects behind the ropes in the Royal Dining Room, King's Bedchamber and Morning Drawing Room with members of the Learning team. Participants can explore the remaining rooms in the State and Historic Apartments with our verbal description audio guide. Event Price: £1 Venue discount information: Admission £12, concessions £7.20 All visitors who require an access companion receive a complimentary ticket. Opening times: 09:30-18:00 (last admission 16:30) How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Organiser: Learning Bookings Team Organiser Phone: 0131 557 2500 Organiser Email: [email protected] Birdsong April 25, 2015, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Marking the 100th anniversary of The First World War, Birdsong is the hit, critically acclaimed stage show based on the world famous novel by Sebastian Faulks. In pre-war France, a young Englishman Stephen Wraysford embarks on a passionate and dangerous affair with the beautiful Isabelle Azaire that turns their world upside down. As the war breaks out over the idyll of his former life, Stephen must lead his men through the carnage of the Battle of the Somme and through the sprawling tunnels that lie deep underground. Don’t miss this mesmerising story of love and courage set both before and during the Great War performed by a large ensemble company. Event Price: £27.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 21 to Sat 25 April 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com where language ends April 25, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Talbot Rice Gallery Audio Description An exhibition tour designed for visually impaired visitors, led by Juliana Capes. where language ends sees the University of Edinburgh's Talbot Rice Gallery filled with coloured light and sound, as Glasgow-based artists Ross Birrell and David Harding bring together stories about exile and conflict, the words of poets such as John Keats and reference Wojtek the bear, one of Edinburgh Zoo's most famous ex-inhabitants. But it?s music that links the different elements of the exhibition, emerging as a redemptive force, though one never far from brutality and violence. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 651 4540 Venue phone number: 0131 650 2210 Venue website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/museums-galleries/talbot-rice/home Oklahoma! April 24, 2015, 7:30 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language As refreshing and thrilling as the day it was written, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! is the original feel-good musical. From the minute the rugged cowboy Curly steps on to the stage singing Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ we know that all will be right with the world. This colourful production overflows with well-known songs such as I’m Just a Girl Who Cain’t Say No, Surrey With a Fringe on Top, Kansas City, People Will Say We’re in Love and, of course, the rousing title song itself! Celebrating the vigour of America’s pioneering spirit with classic tunes and boot-stomping dances, we follow Curly and the girl of his dreams, Laurey, as they travel down love’s highway on an extremely bumpy surrey ride. From the award-winning producers of The King & I and Fiddler on the Roof, this brand new production, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, featuring a cast of 20 and a live orchestra, brings its audience romance, excitement and a score filled with sunshine. Event Price: £42.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 21 - 25 April 2015 Event age suitability: 4 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Oklahoma! April 23, 2015, 7:30 pm - April 24, 2015, 7:30 pm Festival Theatre Captioned As refreshing and thrilling as the day it was written, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! is the original feel-good musical. From the minute the rugged cowboy Curly steps on to the stage singing Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ we know that all will be right with the world. This colourful production overflows with well-known songs such as I’m Just a Girl Who Cain’t Say No, Surrey With a Fringe on Top, Kansas City, People Will Say We’re in Love and, of course, the rousing title song itself! Celebrating the vigour of America’s pioneering spirit with classic tunes and boot-stomping dances, we follow Curly and the girl of his dreams, Laurey, as they travel down love’s highway on an extremely bumpy surrey ride. From the award-winning producers of The King & I and Fiddler on the Roof, this brand new production, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, featuring a cast of 20 and a live orchestra, brings its audience romance, excitement and a score filled with sunshine. Event Price: £42.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 21 - 25 April 2015 Event age suitability: 4 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com where language ends April 23, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Talbot Rice Gallery Hearing Enhancement An exhibition tour designed with portable FM hearing loops, for visitors who are hard of hearing. where language ends sees the University of Edinburgh's Talbot Rice Gallery filled with coloured light and sound, as Glasgow-based artists Ross Birrell and David Harding bring together stories about exile and conflict, the words of poets such as John Keats and reference Wojtek the bear, one of Edinburgh Zoo's most famous ex-inhabitants. But it's music that links the different elements of the exhibition, emerging as a redemptive force, though one never far from brutality and violence. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 651 4540 Venue phone number: 0131 650 2210 Venue website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/museums-galleries/talbot-rice/home Let Loose Workshop April 22, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Following drama, writing and art workshops Let Loose will develop accessible art work with individuals with hearing loss. Get involved and help shape the work. This workshop is led by visual artist Kate Temple. These fortnightly workshops are designed for individuals with hearing loss, an electronic notetaker and loop system is available at all events. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Ponte City April 19, 2015, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Hearing Enhancement Rising 54 storeys high, Ponte City is the tallest residential building in Africa. Since 1975 this iconic structure has punctuated the Johannesburg skyline, originally offering cosmopolitan living for white South Africa. In the post-apartheid years the building became more integrated, but a proposed renovation was never completed — leaving the structure in a semi-destructed state, while tenants still occupied flats in the block. It was during this time period that the tower became the subject of a collaboration between South African photographer, Mikhael Subotzky and British artist, Patrick Waterhouse. Over five years they interviewed the remaining tenants and recorded the half-occupied building through a series of photographs and a collection of documents and other debris from the abandoned units. Cumulatively the work provides a cross-section of an iconic South African landmark that continues to symbolize the hopes and fears of the country’s most populous city, and in turn, this post-apartheid nation. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Scottish Opera: Jenufa April 18, 2015, 7:15 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description A new co-production with Den Jyske Opera/Danish National Opera Sung in Czech with English supertitles Supported by The Scottish Opera Syndicate The creative team behind 2012’s sell-out La traviata returns to bring Jenůfa to life, promising a beautifully observed production that makes full use of their extensive narrative gifts. All the more compelling for drawing its audience into a claustrophobic community that is so universally recognisable, Jenůfa has been keeping audiences on the edge of their seats for over 100 years. Jenůfa, a young woman living in a remote rural village, is pregnant, though as yet unmarried. Her stern stepmother, worried for the family’s reputation and her own status as the Kostelnička, the leader of their village, hides Jenůfa away to bear her child. Months later, the river thaws and a gruesome secret is uncovered. Suspicion falls immediately on Jenůfa but the truth will out, and the higher you climb, the further you have to fall… Famed for its distinctive musical voice, Jenůfa is one of the most powerful of all Janáček’s operas. Inspired by traditional folk melodies and with colourful orchestration and rhythmic bite, the score sweeps the story along with tension, drama and overwhelming emotion. Lee Bisset, lauded for her Kátya at Longborough Festival in 2012, is Jenůfa, alongside an international cast including former Royal Opera House principal Peter Wedd and celebrated British soprano Kathryn Harries. St Petersburg-trained Janáček specialist Stuart Stratford conducts. Event Price: £80.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Thur 16 & Sat 18 April 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Woman in Black April 17, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language The Woman in Black is a gripping theatrical exploration of terror, “a masterpiece” (Guardian), thrilling audiences of all ages with its unique blend of suspense, drama and bold stagecraft. Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house’s sole inhabitant, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. It is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman dressed all in black at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold. This feeling is deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black – and her terrible purpose. Years later, as an old man, he recounts his experiences to an actor in a desperate attempt to exorcise the ghosts of the past. The play unfolds around the conversations of these two characters as they act out the solicitor’s experiences on Eel Marsh all those years ago. Event Price: £27.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 14 to Sat 18 April 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Woman in Black April 16, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Kings Theatre Captioned The Woman in Black is a gripping theatrical exploration of terror, “a masterpiece” (Guardian), thrilling audiences of all ages with its unique blend of suspense, drama and bold stagecraft. Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house’s sole inhabitant, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. It is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman dressed all in black at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold. This feeling is deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black – and her terrible purpose. Years later, as an old man, he recounts his experiences to an actor in a desperate attempt to exorcise the ghosts of the past. The play unfolds around the conversations of these two characters as they act out the solicitor’s experiences on Eel Marsh all those years ago. Event Price: £27.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 14 to Sat 18 April 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Ponte City : Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse: Scottish National Portrait Gallery April 15, 2015, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop Rising 54 storeys high, Ponte City is the tallest residential building in Africa. Since 1975 this iconic structure has punctuated the Johannesburg skyline, originally offering cosmopolitan living for white South Africa. In the post-apartheid years the building became more integrated, but a proposed renovation was never completed — leaving the structure in a semi-destructed state, while tenants still occupied flats in the block. It was during this time period that the tower became the subject of a collaboration between South African photographer, Mikhael Subotzky and British artist, Patrick Waterhouse. Over five years they interviewed the remaining tenants and recorded the half-occupied building through a series of photographs and a collection of documents and other debris from the abandoned units. Cumulatively the work provides a cross-section of an iconic South African landmark that continues to symbolize the hopes and fears of the country's most populous city, and in turn, this post-apartheid nation. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Game of Crowns: The 1715 Jacobite rising April 14, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm National Library of Scotland Audio Description William of Orange's invasion in 1688 began a power struggle that culminated in the 1715 Jacobite rising in Scotland. 'Games of Crowns' is an exhibition examining the background to this struggle, the significant players involved, and the outcome for the Jacobites and for Scotland. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Organiser: Beverley Casebow, Education & Outreach Officer, NLS Organiser Phone: 0131 623 3745 Organiser Email: [email protected] Blood Wedding April 11, 2015, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Traverse Theatre Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement, Captioned, British Sign Language In this day and age, anybody can love anybody. Or are there still taboos? Writer David Ireland’s radical new take on Lorca’s classic play re-fuels this story with a contemporary twist. This is a tale of searing lust, love and rebellion, pushed to its limits. When young lovers are overrun with passion, infatuation and defiance, the consequences are explosive. Winner of the TMA’s Promotion of Diversity Award, Graeae is a force of change in world class theatre. All performances include a creative combination of BSL interpretation, captioning and audio description, in keeping with Graeae Theatre Company's pioneering work in accessible theatre. www.dundeerep.co.uk / @DundeeRep www.graeae.org / @Graeae www.derbytheatre.co.uk / @DerbyTheatre Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 8 Apr 2015 - 11 Apr 2015 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Possibilities of the Object April 11, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Hearing Enhancement An exhibition tour designed with portable FM hearing loops, for visitors who are hard of hearing. Curated by Paulo Venancio Filho with artists: Artur Barrio, Waltércio Caldas, Sergio Camargo, Aluísio Carvao, Amílcar de Castro, Willys de Castro, Lygia Clark, Antonio Dias, Ferreira Gullar, Jac Leirner, Antonio Manuel, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Mira Schendel, Tunga, Franz Weissmann and Carlos Zilo. In the 1950s and 1960s, artists in Brazil radically transformed what the object of art could be. It was a period of intense experimentation, extremely important to art history, and its effects are still being felt today. Curator Paulo Venancio Filho has brought together objects from studios; talking directly to surviving artists from the period, to artists’ heirs and estates, and to more contemporary artists still working in this experimental tradition today. The exhibition includes objects by some of the most famous of all Brazilian artists – Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Cildo Meireles, Ernesto Neto – and some whose work has only rarely been seen outside Brazil. On the floor, on walls, hanging from the ceiling, on shelves or gathered together on tables as if still in the studio, these objects invite us to look at art afresh. Playing with ideas around abstraction, figuration, the ready-made and even performance, this show allows us to think again about what sculpture can be. This exhibition is supported by Art Edu Stiftung. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Organiser: Fruitmarket Gallery Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Hedda Gabler April 11, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Captioned With a distinguished father, a reputable husband, and a respectable home, Hedda’s life is beyond reproach, anything else would be scandalous. For excitement she turns to the lives of others; enchanting and beguiling them, bending them to her will, determined to be a woman of consequence, whatever the consequences. Ibsen's classic drama of passion and desperation follows a dangerously irresistible woman as she rushes headlong towards a disaster that will embrace all those who have fallen fatally under her spell. Amanda Gaughan is an Associate Artist at The Lyceum. Most recently she was Associate Director on The James Plays for the National Theatre Scotland; National Theatre of Great Britain and Edinburgh International Festival. Event Price: £12.50 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 20 March 2015 to 11 April 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Blood Wedding April 9, 2015, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Traverse Theatre Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement, Captioned, British Sign Language In this day and age, anybody can love anybody. Or are there still taboos? Writer David Ireland’s radical new take on Lorca’s classic play re-fuels this story with a contemporary twist. This is a tale of searing lust, love and rebellion, pushed to its limits. When young lovers are overrun with passion, infatuation and defiance, the consequences are explosive. Winner of the TMA’s Promotion of Diversity Award, Graeae is a force of change in world class theatre. All performances include a creative combination of BSL interpretation, captioning and audio description, in keeping with Graeae Theatre Company's pioneering work in accessible theatre. www.dundeerep.co.uk / @DundeeRep www.graeae.org / @Graeae www.derbytheatre.co.uk / @DerbyTheatre Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 8 Apr 2015 - 11 Apr 2015 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Let Loose Workshop with Graeae Theatre Company April 9, 2015, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Central Hall Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Artlink Let Loose Workshop A free drama workshop for individuals with hearing loss, with Graeae Theatre Company. Graeae is a force for change in world-class theatre, breaking down barriers, challenging preconceptions and boldly placing disabled artists centre stage (http://www.graeae.org/). Their “aesthetics of access” creatively embeds a combination of BSL interpretation, captioning and audio description within the artistic process. This free morning workshop will explore Graeae's creative approach, and will be followed by a visit to the matinee performance of their new production, Blood Wedding, at the Traverse Theatre. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Blood Wedding April 8, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Traverse Theatre Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement, Captioned, British Sign Language In this day and age, anybody can love anybody. Or are there still taboos? Writer David Ireland’s radical new take on Lorca’s classic play re-fuels this story with a contemporary twist. This is a tale of searing lust, love and rebellion, pushed to its limits. When young lovers are overrun with passion, infatuation and defiance, the consequences are explosive. Winner of the TMA’s Promotion of Diversity Award, Graeae is a force of change in world class theatre. All performances include a creative combination of BSL interpretation, captioning and audio description, in keeping with Graeae Theatre Company's pioneering work in accessible theatre. www.dundeerep.co.uk / @DundeeRep www.graeae.org / @Graeae www.derbytheatre.co.uk / @DerbyTheatre Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 8 Apr 2015 - 11 Apr 2015 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Hedda Gabler April 8, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre British Sign Language With a distinguished father, a reputable husband, and a respectable home, Hedda’s life is beyond reproach, anything else would be scandalous. For excitement she turns to the lives of others; enchanting and beguiling them, bending them to her will, determined to be a woman of consequence, whatever the consequences. Ibsen's classic drama of passion and desperation follows a dangerously irresistible woman as she rushes headlong towards a disaster that will embrace all those who have fallen fatally under her spell. Amanda Gaughan is an Associate Artist at The Lyceum. Most recently she was Associate Director on The James Plays for the National Theatre Scotland; National Theatre of Great Britain and Edinburgh International Festival. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 20 March 2015 to 11 April 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Let Loose Workshop April 8, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Following drama, writing and art workshops Let Loose will develop accessible art work with individuals with hearing loss. Get involved and help shape the work. This workshop is led by performaer and musician Greg Sinclair. These fortnightly workshops are designed for individuals with hearing loss, an electronic notetaker and loop system is available at all events. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Calton Hill Constellations April 4, 2015, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Collective Gallery Audio Description Artlink Opening Lines Performance Observing Calton Hill Artist and choreographer Siriol Joyner (Aberystwyth, Cymru) and writer and mythogeographer Phil Smith (Exeter, England) will be creating a work that responds to the historic and evocative site of Calton Hill, in a performance that overlaps and collides place, dance, description, objects and narratives. Hosted for five days by Collective Gallery, Siriol and Phil will explore an edge-place, drawing both on research about the site and on their physical and emotional encounters with it. Playing at the margins of overlapping senses and spaces, they will explore this site for different kinds of knowledge and observation; searching for what is there and what is changing there; for what can be told, performed, what can be felt and touched; reaching for what eludes, listening and waiting for what might emerge. This is part of a series of events integrating description in performances for sighted, partially sighted and blind audiences. The project presents responses to the city which aim to inform, surprise and enthuse. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Hedda Gabler April 4, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description With a distinguished father, a reputable husband, and a respectable home, Hedda’s life is beyond reproach, anything else would be scandalous. For excitement she turns to the lives of others; enchanting and beguiling them, bending them to her will, determined to be a woman of consequence, whatever the consequences. Ibsen's classic drama of passion and desperation follows a dangerously irresistible woman as she rushes headlong towards a disaster that will embrace all those who have fallen fatally under her spell. Amanda Gaughan is an Associate Artist at The Lyceum. Most recently she was Associate Director on The James Plays for the National Theatre Scotland; National Theatre of Great Britain and Edinburgh International Festival. Event Price: £12.50 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 20 March 2015 to 11 April 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Hedda Gabler April 2, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description With a distinguished father, a reputable husband, and a respectable home, Hedda’s life is beyond reproach, anything else would be scandalous. For excitement she turns to the lives of others; enchanting and beguiling them, bending them to her will, determined to be a woman of consequence, whatever the consequences. Ibsen's classic drama of passion and desperation follows a dangerously irresistible woman as she rushes headlong towards a disaster that will embrace all those who have fallen fatally under her spell. Amanda Gaughan is an Associate Artist at The Lyceum. Most recently she was Associate Director on The James Plays for the National Theatre Scotland; National Theatre of Great Britain and Edinburgh International Festival. Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 20 March 2015 to 11 April 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society: The Pirates of Penzance March 28, 2015, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language For two hours of riotous, fun-packed entertainment you can’t beat Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular musical masterpiece The Pirates of Penzance. Packed with swashbuckling action, side-splitting humour and great tunes that you’ll keep whistling for days, our 2015 production will guarantee you a terrific evening of musical theatre. Remember to buy your tickets early because the best seats are as rare as pieces of eight. Event Price: £22 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 24 to Sat 28 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Producers March 27, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language A Mel Brooks Musical THE SMASH HIT BROADWAY MUSICAL COMEDY Starring Jason Manford as Leo Bloom, Phill Jupitus as Franz Leibkind and Louie Spence as Carmen Ghia Based on Mel Brooks' much loved Academy Award winning movie, The Producers is a hilarious musical comedy that has taken Broadway and the West End by storm, winning a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards and 3 Olivier Awards. Impoverished by a string of flops, New York producer Max Bialystock recruits timid accountant Leo Bloom to help him pull off Broadway's greatest scam. Together they aim to produce the worst show ever and run away to Rio with millions, but they soon learn that showbusiness can always find a way to kick you in the teeth. From the producer of sell-out successes Midnight Tango and Dance ’Til Dawn, and the director of Top Hat (Matthew White), The Producers is filled with fabulous costumes, glamorous dancing girls, hysterical show tunes - including the all-time classic Springtime For Hitler - and an incredible live band. Starring award-winning comedian Jason Manford, legendary funny man Phill Jupitus and TV’s fabulous choreographer Louie Spence,The Producersis the biggest, funniest Broadway musical of all time guaranteed to be a hilarious night out. Event Price: £39.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 23 to Sat 28 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Producers March 26, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Festival Theatre Captioned A Mel Brooks Musical THE SMASH HIT BROADWAY MUSICAL COMEDY Starring Jason Manford as Leo Bloom, Phill Jupitus as Franz Leibkind and Louie Spence as Carmen Ghia Based on Mel Brooks' much loved Academy Award winning movie, The Producers is a hilarious musical comedy that has taken Broadway and the West End by storm, winning a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards and 3 Olivier Awards. Impoverished by a string of flops, New York producer Max Bialystock recruits timid accountant Leo Bloom to help him pull off Broadway's greatest scam. Together they aim to produce the worst show ever and run away to Rio with millions, but they soon learn that showbusiness can always find a way to kick you in the teeth. From the producer of sell-out successes Midnight Tango and Dance ’Til Dawn, and the director of Top Hat (Matthew White), The Producers is filled with fabulous costumes, glamorous dancing girls, hysterical show tunes - including the all-time classic Springtime For Hitler - and an incredible live band. Starring award-winning comedian Jason Manford, legendary funny man Phill Jupitus and TV’s fabulous choreographer Louie Spence,The Producersis the biggest, funniest Broadway musical of all time guaranteed to be a hilarious night out. Event Price: £39.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 23 to Sat 28 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The History Boys March 21, 2015, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Starring Joshua Mayes-Cooper, Kedar Williams-Stirling and Steven Roberts. Winner of over 30 major awards including the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best New Play, Alan Bennett’s comic masterpiece was voted the nations favourite play in a recent national survey. Set in the 1980s, The History Boys is the story of a group of bright, funny and unruly sixth-formers in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. Their maverick English teacher is at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher, whilst their headmaster is obsessed with results and league tables. Their A Levels may be over, but their true education is only just beginning. From the team who brought us Avenue Q last spring, The History Boys is a hilariously funny and exceptionally moving play about the true purpose of education. This national treasure has proved to be the perfect night at the theatre. Event Price: £27.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 17 to Sat 21 March How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com A Streetcar Named Desire March 21, 2015, 2:00 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description After the hugely successful UK world premiere tour of A Streetcar Named Desire in 2012, Scottish Ballet returns to the Festival Theatre with this award winning production. This vibrant take on A Streetcar Named Desire, born through collaboration with theatre and film director Nancy Meckler and international choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is a powerful infusion of drama and dance. Trying to leave a troubled past behind her, fading southern belle Blanche DuBois moves into her sister Stella’s New Orleans apartment. Stella’s brutish husband Stanley sees that Blanche is not what she appears to be, and sets out to destroy her... The Scottish Ballet Orchestra accompanies live, performing the Jazz infused score by Peter Salem. Event Price: £42.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 18 - 21 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hide March 20, 2015, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Traverse Theatre Captioned LUNG HA THEATRE COMPANY AND DRAKE MUSIC SCOTLAND Edinburgh, 1886; a time of murky, narrow streets, scientific innovation and seemingly endless haars and where the city’s Old and New Towns are separated by more than just the North Bridge. In the New Town we meet the Jekyll family. Dr Jekyll longs for just one of his experiments to go right. Daughter Miriam longs to attend University. Son William is never far from his needlework, and wife Jane never far from the bottle. While seemingly a world away in the Old Town, a murky figure known as Hyde roams the moonlit streets. Featuring a cast of actors and musicians of over twenty, Lung Ha's Theatre Company and Drake Music Scotland bring to life Morna Pearson’s dramatic re-working of the classic story, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Drake Music Scotland continues to support and nurture young children and adults with disabilities; showing disability is no barrier to making music. Lung Ha’s Theatre Company aims to be a leading theatre company for people with learning disabilities, in Scotland and internationally. Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 19 - 21 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Monty Python's Spamalot March 19, 2015, 7:30 pm - 9:25 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Captioned Monty Python’s Spamalot gallops back out on tour to bring the West End production to theatres across the land (to the sound of banging coconut shells). Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot is a kind-of new musical with a book by Eric Idle and an entirely new score for the new production, (well, almost) created by Eric Idle and John Du Prez. Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and features a bevy (or possibly a brace) of beautiful show girls, witch burnings (cancelled due to health and safety) not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people. The show features fantastic tunes more magical than a Camelot convention, including He Is Not Dead Yet, Knights of the Round Table, Find Your Grail and of course the Nation’s Favourite Comedy Song (Reader’s Digest Poll 2010 - before it went bust), Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life. Event Price: £13.40 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: Monday 16 March - Saturday 21 March 2015 Event age suitability: Not recommended for children under the age of 12. How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ The History Boys March 19, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Kings Theatre Captioned Starring Joshua Mayes-Cooper, Kedar Williams-Stirling and Steven Roberts. Winner of over 30 major awards including the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best New Play, Alan Bennett’s comic masterpiece was voted the nations favourite play in a recent national survey. Set in the 1980s, The History Boys is the story of a group of bright, funny and unruly sixth-formers in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. Their maverick English teacher is at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher, whilst their headmaster is obsessed with results and league tables. Their A Levels may be over, but their true education is only just beginning. From the team who brought us Avenue Q last spring, The History Boys is a hilariously funny and exceptionally moving play about the true purpose of education. This national treasure has proved to be the perfect night at the theatre. Event Price: £27.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 17 to Sat 21 March How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Monty Python's Spamalot March 18, 2015, 7:30 pm - 9:25 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Audio Description Monty Python’s Spamalot gallops back out on tour to bring the West End production to theatres across the land (to the sound of banging coconut shells). Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot is a kind-of new musical with a book by Eric Idle and an entirely new score for the new production, (well, almost) created by Eric Idle and John Du Prez. Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and features a bevy (or possibly a brace) of beautiful show girls, witch burnings (cancelled due to health and safety) not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people. The show features fantastic tunes more magical than a Camelot convention, including He Is Not Dead Yet, Knights of the Round Table, Find Your Grail and of course the Nation’s Favourite Comedy Song (Reader’s Digest Poll 2010 - before it went bust), Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life. Event Price: £13.40 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: Monday 16 March - Saturday 21 March 2015 Event age suitability: Not recommended for children under the age of 12. How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Let Loose Workshop March 18, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Following drama, writing and art workshops Let Loose will develop accessible art work with individuals with hearing loss. Get involved and help shape the work. This workshop is led by visual artist Kate Temple. These fortnightly workshops are designed for individuals with hearing loss, an electronic notetaker and loop system is available at all events. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Highlights from the Scottish Collection March 18, 2015, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm National Galleries of Scotland Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop Join us to explore a selection of highlights from the Gallery's renowned collection of Scottish art, the most important of its kind in the world. The collection covers the history of Scottish painting with the major names, including Ramsay, Raeburn, Wilkie and McTaggart, represented in depth. Works on show include Raeburns much-loved The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch or, as it has become known, the ‘Skating Minister’. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org BP Portrait Award 2014 March 15, 2015, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Hearing Enhancement The BP Portrait Award showcases the very best in contemporary portrait painting from around the world. For 33 years, of which the last 25 have been sponsored by BP, the exhibition has presented outstanding and innovative new work in a variety of styles and approaches, and it continues to be a highlight of the annual art calendar at all its venues. This is the fifth time that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery has hosted the Award. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org The Slab Boys March 14, 2015, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language DIRECTED BY AND STARRING DAVID HAYMAN WRITTEN AND DESIGNED BY JOHN BYRNE In the technicolour confines of the slab room of A. F. Stobo & Co. Carpet Factory in Paisley, young boys have to grow up fast. Strutting adolescent double act Phil and Spanky are passing the time with an endless verbal tug o’ war and merciless ribbing of their workmates and boss. But even the distractions of the annual staff dance, the monthly pay packet or the unattainable Lucille can’t stop Phil from dreaming of becoming an artist. One of the best-loved works in 20th century Scottish theatre, John Byrne’s funny and poignant play paints a vivid picture of the tough, rebellious, working-class culture of 1950s industrial Scotland. David Hayman directs this landmark theatre show for the stage in a major new production by the Citizens Theatre. Event Price: £27.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 10 to Sat 14 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Caucasian Chalk Circle March 14, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Captioned Revolution – a city turned upside down. The mighty tumble, the weak break their fall and everyone must take care. As she picks a path through the chaos, a young servant girl must make a choice: save her own skin or sacrifice everything to rescue an abandoned child with a price on his head. The Caucasian Chalk Circle is one of the greatest plays of the last Century, crafted by a grand master of storytelling at the height of his powers and peopled with a wild array of vivid and amusing characters. Written in the wake of the Second World War. This timeless parable continues to ask urgent questions about justice, and how to do right when the world goes wrong. The full epic sweep and scale of this powerful drama is brought to life by a large cast of actor musicians. Rich in music and song this production gives full voice to Brecht’s powerful tale of the terrible temptation to do good. Alistair Beaton is a Scottish writer, whose plays include Feelgood, King of Hearts and Follow My Leader. For television, he wrote the award-winning A Very Social Secretary and the Channel 4 film The Trial of Tony Blair. - See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/the-caucasian-chalkcircle#sthash.sYHcwlnN.dpuf Event Price: £12.50 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 18 February 2015 to 14 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Return to the Forbidden Planet March 13, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language The adored and critically acclaimed Olivier Award winning rock spectacular is returning on a much anticipated 25th anniversary UK tour featuring a special appearance by Grant Stott. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Tempest and packed with rock ‘n’ roll classics such as Heard It Through the Grapevine, Young Girl,Good Vibrations and Gloria, with stunning special effects and a brilliant cast of actor musicians this is THE great night out to remember! Bring everyone...dress up fancy and get ready for blast off! Featuring the classic hits Great Balls of Fire, Teenager in Love, Gloria, Johnny B Goode, Shake, Rattle and Roll, Young Girl, Wipe Out, She's Not There and Heard it Through The Grapevine. Event Price: £27.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 10 to Sat 14 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Slab Boys March 12, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Kings Theatre Captioned DIRECTED BY AND STARRING DAVID HAYMAN WRITTEN AND DESIGNED BY JOHN BYRNE In the technicolour confines of the slab room of A. F. Stobo & Co. Carpet Factory in Paisley, young boys have to grow up fast. Strutting adolescent double act Phil and Spanky are passing the time with an endless verbal tug o’ war and merciless ribbing of their workmates and boss. But even the distractions of the annual staff dance, the monthly pay packet or the unattainable Lucille can’t stop Phil from dreaming of becoming an artist. One of the best-loved works in 20th century Scottish theatre, John Byrne’s funny and poignant play paints a vivid picture of the tough, rebellious, working-class culture of 1950s industrial Scotland. David Hayman directs this landmark theatre show for the stage in a major new production by the Citizens Theatre. Event Price: £27.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 10 to Sat 14 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Caucasian Chalk Circle March 11, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre British Sign Language Revolution – a city turned upside down. The mighty tumble, the weak break their fall and everyone must take care. As she picks a path through the chaos, a young servant girl must make a choice: save her own skin or sacrifice everything to rescue an abandoned child with a price on his head. The Caucasian Chalk Circle is one of the greatest plays of the last Century, crafted by a grand master of storytelling at the height of his powers and peopled with a wild array of vivid and amusing characters. Written in the wake of the Second World War. This timeless parable continues to ask urgent questions about justice, and how to do right when the world goes wrong. The full epic sweep and scale of this powerful drama is brought to life by a large cast of actor musicians. Rich in music and song this production gives full voice to Brecht’s powerful tale of the terrible temptation to do good. Alistair Beaton is a Scottish writer, whose plays include Feelgood, King of Hearts and Follow My Leader. For television, he wrote the award-winning A Very Social Secretary and the Channel 4 film The Trial of Tony Blair. - See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/the-caucasian-chalkcircle#sthash.sYHcwlnN.dpuf Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 18 February 2015 to 14 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk National Galleries of Scotland - Talks and Lectures March 11, 2015, 12:45 pm - 1:30 pm National Galleries of Scotland Hearing Enhancement The Talks and Lectures Programme includes popular lunchtime lectures on a fortnightly basis in each Gallery, either in front of a painting or in the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre. Portable hearing loops are available at all public talks and lectures and do not need to be booked in advance. Portable loops are also made available for all booked guided tours (please mention on booking). In addition, we also have free guided tours for visitors with hearing impairments on the third Sunday of every month - places on these tours can be booked. https://www.nationalgalleries.org/education/talks-lectures/ Event Price: Free How to book Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Orfeo ed Euridice March 7, 2015, 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description Sung in Italian with English supertitles In a world where gods see fit to meddle in the lives of men, Orfeo, distraught by the death of his lover, resolves to defy their will and rescue her from Hades. But the gods have their rules; Euridice may be allowed to escape, but only if Orfeo can stop himself from looking at her until they are once again safe above ground. It seems a simple task, but will Euridice understand his sudden coldness? Event Price: £80.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 3, Thur 5 & Sat 7 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Southern Light Presents Oliver! March 7, 2015, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Consider Yourself One Of Us! You’ll be asking for more with the Southern Light’s production of Oliver! Based on Charles Dickens’ 1838 novel of the boy who asked for more, this ever popular musical by Lionel Bart continues to thrill. Food Glorious Food, Oliver, Consider Yourself, You’ve Got to Pick a Pocket or Two, I’d Do Anything – you know the songs, now come along and watch this classic British musical brought to life on the King’s stage. Event Price: £19 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 3 to Sat 7 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Caucasian Chalk Circle March 7, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description Revolution – a city turned upside down. The mighty tumble, the weak break their fall and everyone must take care. As she picks a path through the chaos, a young servant girl must make a choice: save her own skin or sacrifice everything to rescue an abandoned child with a price on his head. The Caucasian Chalk Circle is one of the greatest plays of the last Century, crafted by a grand master of storytelling at the height of his powers and peopled with a wild array of vivid and amusing characters. Written in the wake of the Second World War. This timeless parable continues to ask urgent questions about justice, and how to do right when the world goes wrong. The full epic sweep and scale of this powerful drama is brought to life by a large cast of actor musicians. Rich in music and song this production gives full voice to Brecht’s powerful tale of the terrible temptation to do good. Alistair Beaton is a Scottish writer, whose plays include Feelgood, King of Hearts and Follow My Leader. For television, he wrote the award-winning A Very Social Secretary and the Channel 4 film The Trial of Tony Blair. - See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/the-caucasian-chalkcircle#sthash.sYHcwlnN.dpuf Event Price: £12.50 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 18 February 2015 to 14 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Caucasian Chalk Circle March 5, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description Revolution – a city turned upside down. The mighty tumble, the weak break their fall and everyone must take care. As she picks a path through the chaos, a young servant girl must make a choice: save her own skin or sacrifice everything to rescue an abandoned child with a price on his head. The Caucasian Chalk Circle is one of the greatest plays of the last Century, crafted by a grand master of storytelling at the height of his powers and peopled with a wild array of vivid and amusing characters. Written in the wake of the Second World War. This timeless parable continues to ask urgent questions about justice, and how to do right when the world goes wrong. The full epic sweep and scale of this powerful drama is brought to life by a large cast of actor musicians. Rich in music and song this production gives full voice to Brecht’s powerful tale of the terrible temptation to do good. Alistair Beaton is a Scottish writer, whose plays include Feelgood, King of Hearts and Follow My Leader. For television, he wrote the award-winning A Very Social Secretary and the Channel 4 film The Trial of Tony Blair. - See more at: http://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/the-caucasian-chalkcircle#sthash.sYHcwlnN.dpuf Event Price: £15 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 18 February 2015 to 14 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Let Loose Workshop March 4, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Following drama, writing and art workshops Let Loose will develop accessible art work with individuals with hearing loss. Get involved and help shape the work. This workshop is led by performaer and musician Greg Sinclair. These fortnightly workshops are designed for individuals with hearing loss, an electronic notetaker and loop system is available at all events. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Norther Ballet: Romeo & Juliette February 28, 2015, 2:30 pm - 4:45 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description Remember the first time you fell in love? Your first kiss? From ecstatic joy to crushing heartbreak, nothing ever feels the same again. Share in the passion and stolen moments of the world’s most famous young lovers, and get swept up in the heartbreak as the tragedy of their world consumes them. Northern Ballet brings famed choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Les Ballets de Monte Carlo’s Romeo and Juliet to the Festival Theatre, performed to music by Prokofiev played live by Northern Ballet Sinfonia. Event Price: £12 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Thu 26 to Sat 28 February 2015 Event age suitability: 4+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Slab Boys February 26, 2015, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Kings Theatre Captioned DIRECTED BY AND STARRING DAVID HAYMAN WRITTEN AND DESIGNED BY JOHN BYRNE In the technicolour confines of the slab room of A. F. Stobo & Co. Carpet Factory in Paisley, young boys have to grow up fast. Strutting adolescent double act Phil and Spanky are passing the time with an endless verbal tug o’ war and merciless ribbing of their workmates and boss. But even the distractions of the annual staff dance, the monthly pay packet or the unattainable Lucille can’t stop Phil from dreaming of becoming an artist. One of the best-loved works in 20th century Scottish theatre, John Byrne’s funny and poignant play paints a vivid picture of the tough, rebellious, working-class culture of 1950s industrial Scotland. David Hayman directs this landmark theatre show for the stage in a major new production by the Citizens Theatre. Captioner: Ben Poots Event Price: £27.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tue 10 to Sat 14 March 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com One Man, Two Guvnors February 20, 2015, 7:30 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description The National Theatre’s award-winning comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, embarks on its biggest-ever tour of the UK and Ireland from May 2014. Now seen by over 1 million people worldwide, this internationally acclaimed smash-hit is a glorious celebration of British comedy – a unique, laugh-outloud mix of satire, songs, slapstick and glittering one-liners. Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe. But Roscoe is really Rachel, posing as her own dead brother – who's been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a job with one Stanley Stubbers – but to prevent discovery, he must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple. Event Price: £32.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 16 February - 21 February 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com One Man, Two Guvnors February 20, 2015, 7:30 pm Festival Theatre British Sign Language The National Theatre’s award-winning comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, embarks on its biggest-ever tour of the UK and Ireland from May 2014. Now seen by over 1 million people worldwide, this internationally acclaimed smash-hit is a glorious celebration of British comedy – a unique, laugh-outloud mix of satire, songs, slapstick and glittering one-liners. Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe. But Roscoe is really Rachel, posing as her own dead brother – who's been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a job with one Stanley Stubbers – but to prevent discovery, he must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple. Event Price: £32.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 16 - 21 February 2015 Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com One Man, Two Guvnors February 19, 2015, 7:30 pm Festival Theatre Captioned The National Theatre’s award-winning comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, embarks on its biggest-ever tour of the UK and Ireland from May 2014. Now seen by over 1 million people worldwide, this internationally acclaimed smash-hit is a glorious celebration of British comedy – a unique, laugh-outloud mix of satire, songs, slapstick and glittering one-liners. Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe. But Roscoe is really Rachel, posing as her own dead brother – who's been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a job with one Stanley Stubbers – but to prevent discovery, he must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple. Event Price: £32.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 16 - 21 February 2015 Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Let Loose Workshop February 18, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Following drama, writing and art workshops Let Loose will develop accessible art work with individuals with hearing loss. Get involved and help shape the work. This workshop is led by visual artist Kate Temple. These fortnightly workshops are designed for individuals with hearing loss, an electronic notetaker and loop system is available at all events. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Beauty by Design: Fashioning the Renaissance February 18, 2015, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop Beauty by Design is an innovative exhibition linking the renaissance art collections of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Scottish National Gallery to contemporary fashion design, practice and display. The exhibition showcases two different, but inter-connected strands of research activity: responding to old-master paintings in the National Galleries’ collections, UK-based fashion designers have created new works using high-quality materials such as lace, while renaissance art specialists have explored ideas about beauty and cosmetics. The theme of body image is central: the historic paintings have been approached both as a means of challenging current perceptions of physical beauty, and as inspiration for a more diverse and emotionally considerate practice on the part of today’s fashion designers. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org The Two Roberts: Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde February 15, 2015, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern Two Hearing Enhancement This major exhibition will explore the work the Scottish artists Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun or ‘The Two Roberts’, as they were known. Colquhoun specialised in figure painting, MacBryde in still-life. Hard drinking, volatile and uncompromising, their lives were as passionate and compelling as their art. Friends of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, they took the London art-world by storm in the 1940s, with sell-out exhibitions of their paintings, but by the 1960s their position as two of the country’s most celebrated artists had been eclipsed, and this will be the first major retrospective devoted to their work. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Stan Douglas: Descriptive Tour February 12, 2015, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Audio Description Stan Douglas is a Canadian artist who came to prominence in the mid-1990s when his film installation Der Sandmann was one of the highlights of Documenta X in 1997, and who has been at the forefront of the international art scene ever since. This exhibition presents a selection of Douglas’s films and photographs, ranging from Der Sandmann to the just-completed The Second Hotel Vancouver, exhibited here for the first time. It also includes the video installation Vidéo, a reimagining of both Orson Welles’s film The Trial (itself based on Kafka’s novel of the same name) and Beckett’s film Film; photographs from Midcentury Studio, a recent series of photographs taken by Douglas posing as a fictional North American post-war press photographer; Corrupt Files, a sequence of large, beautiful, abstract images; and Hogan’s Alley a companion piece to The Second Hotel Vancouver. Together, these works provide both a rich introduction to and a reminder of practice of Stan Douglas whose investigations into mistaken identity and unstable memory, reconstruction, reinvention and the long shadows the past cast into the present, make him one of the most interesting and important artists of our time. Opening times: Mon - Sat 11am - 6pm, Sun 12 - 5pm How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Stan Douglas: Amplified Tour February 12, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Hearing Enhancement Stan Douglas is a Canadian artist who came to prominence in the mid-1990s when his film installation Der Sandmann was one of the highlights of Documenta X in 1997, and who has been at the forefront of the international art scene ever since. This exhibition presents a selection of Douglas’s films and photographs, ranging from Der Sandmann to the just-completed The Second Hotel Vancouver, exhibited here for the first time. It also includes the video installation Vidéo, a reimagining of both Orson Welles’s film The Trial (itself based on Kafka’s novel of the same name) and Beckett’s film Film; photographs from Midcentury Studio, a recent series of photographs taken by Douglas posing as a fictional North American post-war press photographer; Corrupt Files, a sequence of large, beautiful, abstract images; and Hogan’s Alley a companion piece to The Second Hotel Vancouver. Together, these works provide both a rich introduction to and a reminder of practice of Stan Douglas whose investigations into mistaken identity and unstable memory, reconstruction, reinvention and the long shadows the past cast into the present, make him one of the most interesting and important artists of our time. Join an amplified exhibition tour for visitors with hearing loss. Event Price: Free Opening times: Mon - Sat 11am - 6pm, Sun 12 - 5pm How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Dead Simple February 7, 2015, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, British Sign Language Adapted from the book that has sold over 2 million copies, Dead Simple is the best-selling book by Peter James. Michael Harrison thinks he has it all; great career, good friends and a beautiful fiancée. But when his stag night prank goes horribly wrong, Michael finds himself alone, buried alive and staring death in the face. As time runs out and the terror grows, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace tries to solve his mysterious disappearance, but begins to fear that Michael will never be found in time. Event Price: £14 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 2 - 7 February 2015 Event age suitability: 13+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Birmingham Royal Ballet: Coppelia February 7, 2015, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description What’s at the heart of a woman? Eccentric toymaker Dr Coppélius wants to know, and he’s planning to bring his mechanical doll, Coppélia, to life – he just needs the right spell. When Dr Coppélius leaves Coppélia on his workshop balcony she’s soon causing quite a stir in the village. Particularly in the heart of red-blooded young lover Franz, and the jealous mind of his real-life fiancée, Swanilda – who’s mistaken the mannequin for a crying, talking, sleeping, walking rival. With a wild mix of abracadabra, and some mischievous maidens, comic chaos is riotously unleashed when humans and automatons collide in Dr Coppélius’s spooky toyshop. Event Price: £13 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Wed 4 to Sat 7 February 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Faith Healer February 7, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Captioned By Brian Friel “Teddy’s driving as usual, and I’m in the passenger seat, and he’s immediately behind us, the Fantastic Francis Hardy, Faith Healer, with his back to us and the whiskey bottle between his legs.” The lame, the ill and the broken-hearted all gather for the Fantastic Francis Hardy: Faith Healer. Travelling with his two companions, Grace and Teddy, Frank roams the small towns of Scotland and Wales healing the sick, trying to find a way home. These are their stories - haunting, tender, funny and passionate, taking us to the heart of what it means to love and to believe. One of Ireland's greatest playwrights, Brian Friel is best known for his works Philadelphia Here I Come!, Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa. Faith Healer is Friel’s masterpiece, defining his uniquely poetic and intensely human voice it is a landmark play in the rich landscape of Irish theatre. Event Price: £24 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 14 January - 7 February 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Dance of the Magnetic Ballerina February 6, 2015, 7:30 pm - 8:05 pm Traverse Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only This production has no spoken dialogue. Imprisoned and alone, the magnetic ballerina flutters inside a minimalist yet multi-dimensional space created to expand our perception and experience of dance. Extremely intense unceasing sequences fuse with an explosive collage of sound and interactive lighting to articulate a transcendental, vulnerable and challenging personal testimony of an obstinate obsession with movement. Image and sound in motion – retro-expression in movement – Dance as industrial design. To book online click here. Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: Part of Manipulate Festival Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Butterfly February 5, 2015, 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm Traverse Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only Adapted by Ramesh Meyappan This production has no spoken dialogue. Butterfly is a kite maker. Her life has been shattered following the departure of her lover. Alone and grief-stricken Butterfly decides to conjure a whole new world for herself in her head, as happy and as close to perfection as her imagination can get. But as Butterfly flits more and more completely into this imaginary place her beauty begins to fade and her tale takes a further, tragic turn. This striking adaptation of Madame Butterfly explores themes of love and loss, and of hope and disappointment, in Ramesh Meyyappan’s celebrated visually poetic and multi-disciplinary style. Complemented by Gavin Glover’s expressive puppets this unique interpretation creates a lush, textured and innovative piece of visual theatre within which age-old themes are articulated afresh for contemporary audiences. Ramesh Meyyappan is theatre creator whose solo performances and collaborations have received great national and international acclaim. His production SNAILS & KETCHUP was a particular high point of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. To book online click here. Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: Part of Manipulate Festival Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Dead Simple February 5, 2015, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Kings Theatre Captioned Adapted from the book that has sold over 2 million copies, Dead Simple is the best-selling book by Peter James. Michael Harrison thinks he has it all; great career, good friends and a beautiful fiancée. But when his stag night prank goes horribly wrong, Michael finds himself alone, buried alive and staring death in the face. As time runs out and the terror grows, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace tries to solve his mysterious disappearance, but begins to fear that Michael will never be found in time. Event Price: £14 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Mon 2 - 7 February 2015 Event age suitability: 13+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Faith Healer February 4, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre British Sign Language By Brian Friel “Teddy’s driving as usual, and I’m in the passenger seat, and he’s immediately behind us, the Fantastic Francis Hardy, Faith Healer, with his back to us and the whiskey bottle between his legs.” The lame, the ill and the broken-hearted all gather for the Fantastic Francis Hardy: Faith Healer. Travelling with his two companions, Grace and Teddy, Frank roams the small towns of Scotland and Wales healing the sick, trying to find a way home. These are their stories - haunting, tender, funny and passionate, taking us to the heart of what it means to love and to believe. One of Ireland's greatest playwrights, Brian Friel is best known for his works Philadelphia Here I Come!, Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa. Faith Healer is Friel’s masterpiece, defining his uniquely poetic and intensely human voice it is a landmark play in the rich landscape of Irish theatre. Event Price: £29 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 14 january - 7 February 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Let Loose Workshop February 4, 2015, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Following drama, writing and art workshops Let Loose will develop accessible art work with individuals with hearing loss. Get involved and help shape the work. This workshop is led by performaer and musician Greg Sinclair. These fortnightly workshops are designed for individuals with hearing loss, an electronic notetaker and loop system is available at all events. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk And Then He Ate Me February 3, 2015, 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm Traverse Theatre British Sign Language The house is the story... A little fragile house, a potent symbol of welcoming hearth and home, becomes an arena for all our fears when the wolf waits threateningly outside. The wolf is in no hurry. He waits to devour all he can catch, as countless ancestors before him have done. All the wolf asks of us is to tell many tall tales within which He is the hero. The house is the story... A theatre of images and emotions, an illustrated book, a visual theatre piece which explores the poetry and symbolism of house and home. A show about time, about love, about the everlasting fears that lurk within us all. Since 1981 the award-winning French visual theatre company Velo Theatre has been creating a vivid poetic universe within which its exploration of objects, their potent symbolism and the powerful emotions they can evoke, has inspired and entertained audiences around the world. To book online click here. Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: Part of Manipulate Festival Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk That's It February 2, 2015, 7:30 pm - 8:20 pm Traverse Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only This production has no spoken dialogue. Within fragments of reality and drifting dreamscapes that transform body, time and space, a creature a state of being? - claws its way through visions and nightmares best kept hidden in the darkest recesses of our minds. Without logic, illusive images and shattered stories pass us by, creating rollercoasters of memories and associations. With each morphing movement the creature seduces us, the voyeurs, bringing us face to face with one great fear - that nothing is what it seems. Spiralling through the discomfort of non-control both creature and we face but one burning question: where does a dream end and hard reality begin? Premiered in 2013, THAT’S IT is Sabine Molenaar’s first solo piece, winning a major award at the ACT festival in Spain, as well as the prize for best female talent at the Theater Aan Zee Festival, in Belgium. To book online click here. Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: Part of Manipulate Festival Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Faith Healer January 31, 2015, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description By Brian Friel Also audio described on Thursday 29 January 7.30pm. “Teddy’s driving as usual, and I’m in the passenger seat, and he’s immediately behind us, the Fantastic Francis Hardy, Faith Healer, with his back to us and the whiskey bottle between his legs.” The lame, the ill and the broken-hearted all gather for the Fantastic Francis Hardy: Faith Healer. Travelling with his two companions, Grace and Teddy, Frank roams the small towns of Scotland and Wales healing the sick, trying to find a way home. These are their stories - haunting, tender, funny and passionate, taking us to the heart of what it means to love and to believe. One of Ireland's greatest playwrights, Brian Friel is best known for his works Philadelphia Here I Come!, Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa. Faith Healer is Friel’s masterpiece, defining his uniquely poetic and intensely human voice it is a landmark play in the rich landscape of Irish theatre. Event Price: £24 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 14 January - 7 February 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Faith Healer January 29, 2015, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description by Brian Friel Also audio described on Saturday 31 January 2pm Teddy’s driving as usual, and I’m in the passenger seat, and he’s immediately behind us, the Fantastic Francis Hardy, Faith Healer, with his back to us and the whiskey bottle between his legs. The lame, the ill and the broken-hearted all gather for the Fantastic Francis Hardy: Faith Healer. Travelling with his two companions, Grace and Teddy, Frank roams the small towns of Scotland and Wales healing the sick, trying to find a way home. These are their stories - haunting, tender, funny and passionate, taking us to the heart of what it means to love and to believe. One of Ireland's greatest playwrights, Brian Friel is best known for his works Philadelphia Here I Come!, Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa. Faith Healer is Friel’s masterpiece, defining his uniquely poetic and intensely human voice it is a landmark play in the rich landscape of Irish theatre. Event Price: £29 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 14 January - 7 February 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Two Roberts: Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde January 21, 2015, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern Two Audio Description Descriptive Tour and Workshop This major exhibition will explore the work the Scottish artists Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun or ‘The Two Roberts’, as they were known. Colquhoun specialised in figure painting, MacBryde in still-life. Hard drinking, volatile and uncompromising, their lives were as passionate and compelling as their art. Friends of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, they took the London art-world by storm in the 1940s, with sell-out exhibitions of their paintings, but by the 1960s their position as two of the country’s most celebrated artists had been eclipsed, and this will be the first major retrospective devoted to their work. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Beauty by Design: Fashioning the Renaissance January 18, 2015, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Hearing Enhancement Beauty by Design is an innovative exhibition linking the renaissance art collections of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Scottish National Gallery to contemporary fashion design, practice and display. The exhibition showcases two different, but inter-connected strands of research activity: responding to old-master paintings in the National Galleries’ collections, UK-based fashion designers have created new works using high-quality materials such as lace, while renaissance art specialists have explored ideas about beauty and cosmetics. The theme of body image is central: the historic paintings have been approached both as a means of challenging current perceptions of physical beauty, and as inspiration for a more diverse and emotionally considerate practice on the part of today’s fashion designers. Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Castiglione: Lost Genius – Amplified Tour January 17, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm The Queens Gallery Hearing Enhancement On 17 January, The Queen's Gallery is offering free admission, with a pre-booked ticket, for visitors with disabilities as part of Disabled Access Day. The Royal Collection houses the largest extant group of drawings by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64), one of the most innovative and technically brilliant Italian draftsman of his time. Castiglione worked in oils on paper to produce large, vibrant compositions, and combined drawing and printmaking to invent the technique of monotype. Despite leading a violent and turbulent life, he produced works of grace and rare beauty, which were highly esteemed for a century after his death. But Castiglione unaccountably fell from fame in the modern era. This exhibition showcases Castiglione's works and discusses them in the context of important new archival research on the artist's turbulent career and reputation. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . Opening times: 10am - 5.30pm How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgalleryedinburgh/about Castiglione: Lost Genius - Verbal Description Highlights Tour January 17, 2015, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm The Queens Gallery Audio Description On 17 January, The Queen's Gallery is offering free admission, with a pre-booked ticket, for visitors with disabilities as part of Disabled Access Day. The Royal Collection houses the largest extant group of drawings by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64), one of the most innovative and technically brilliant Italian draftsman of his time. Castiglione worked in oils on paper to produce large, vibrant compositions, and combined drawing and printmaking to invent the technique of monotype. Despite leading a violent and turbulent life, he produced works of grace and rare beauty, which were highly esteemed for a century after his death. But Castiglione unaccountably fell from fame in the modern era. This exhibition showcases Castiglione's works and discusses them in the context of important new archival research on the artist's turbulent career and reputation. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . Opening times: 10am - 5.30pm How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgalleryedinburgh/about Drama Class Weekly Drama Class (January 5, 2015, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm) Deaf Action British Sign Language Integrated theatre in BSL taught by experienced theatre director, Michael Richardson. When: 10 week course starting 5 January 2015 6.30 - 8.30pm Where: Deaf Action, Albany Street To Book: Contact Leah Email [email protected] SMS 07966560613 Skype leah.kalaitzi Event age suitability: 18 + How to book Venue phone number: 0131 556 3128 Venue website: www.deafaction.org.uk King's Panto 2014/15: Aladdin January 3, 2015, 2:00 pm Kings Theatre British Sign Language BSL introduction to Aladdin Panto legends Allan Stewart, Andy Gray and Grant Stott return to the King's for another unmissable pantomime adventure! With sensational special effects, this year's King's Panto will make all your wishes come true. Produced by Qdos Entertainment, the world's largest pantomime producer, if you ask your genie for just one thing this year, make it a trip to see Aladdin at the King's! Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Sat 29 November 2014 - Sun 18 January 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Nutcracker December 20, 2014, 2:00 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description Scottish Ballet presents Peter Darrell's THE NUTCRACKER Music Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreography Peter Darrell, featuring original scenarios by Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa Original Philip Prowse designs reimagined by Lez Brotherston Lovingly recreated for audiences, Scottish Ballet proudly presents Peter Darrell's The Nutcracker. Crafted for Scotland by the company's founding Artistic Director, a famous story-teller and an incredible dance-maker, this Nutcracker is full of magical memories. Now audiences can share this dream-making production with family and friends once more, over 40 years since it first premiered. After a fun-filled Christmas party full of magic and celebrations, young Clara falls asleep and dreams that she helps the Nutcracker Prince defeat an army of giant mice. She is rewarded by a visit to the glittering Land of Ice and Snow, where snowflakes come to life, sparkling as they dance - and the magical Kingdom of Sweets - the enchanted Realm of the beautiful Sugar Plum Fairy. Peter Darrell's magical world of The Nutcracker has been reimagined by Olivier Award-winning designer Lez Brotherston, adding sumptuous layers of plush Victoriana and traditional festive fare to the original 1973 production. Event Price: £42.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 13 December 2014 - 3 January 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Devil Masters December 19, 2014, 7:30 pm Traverse Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description Traverse Theatre Company “Who will they believe? An Advocate or a wee radge?” Meet Cameron Leishman. He and his wife Lara are our Devil Masters. Two revered Edinburgh Advocates, this husband-and-wife duo know all about rules. They know all about winning. They’ve been winning from day one. They have the Edinburgh New Town flat, the designer wardrobes and more fig compote than you can swing a gavel at. John, on the other hand, presents a very different world view. Today, standing in their front room, he’s playing by his own rules. Caledonian rules, ken. With the Leishman family dog held for ransom, a tense battle of wills ensues as the lines between right and wrong are blurred and pack mentality sets in. Who will gain the upper hand in this class war when natural justice comes calling? Acclaimed writer Iain Finlay MacLeod’s surrealist black comedy twists the ordinary and teases us with the extraordinary, asking what we become when we peel away the layers of class division and social decorum. Directed by award-winning Traverse Artistic Director Orla O’Loughlin who brought us festival favourites Spoiling in August 2014, Ciara in August 2013 and The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society in Autumn 2012. Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 10 - 23 December 2014 Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Jack and the Beanstalk December 19, 2014, 7:00 pm The Brunton British Sign Language The Brunton Theatre's panto this year is full of fun and laughter with oodles of gags, local references, chart hits, outrageous costumes and lots of singing, dancing and shouting out. The fabulous cast of professional actors is supported by a chorus of talented, local, young performers from across East Lothian. The Brunton specialises in producing fun and interactive traditional pantomimes that are suitable for all the family, from 4 to 104! Event Price: £14.00 Event run: Tuesday 25th Nov 2014 - Saturday 3rd Jan 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 665 2240 Venue phone number: 0131 665 2240 Venue website: http://www.thebrunton.co.uk/ Jack and the Beanstalk December 18, 2014, 7:00 pm The Brunton Audio Description The Brunton Theatre's panto this year is full of fun and laughter with oodles of gags, local references, chart hits, outrageous costumes and lots of singing, dancing and shouting out. The fabulous cast of professional actors is supported by a chorus of talented, local, young performers from across East Lothian. The Brunton specialises in producing fun and interactive traditional pantomimes that are suitable for all the family, from 4 to 104! Event Price: £14.00 Event run: Tuesday 25th Nov 2014 - Saturday 3rd Jan 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 665 2240 Venue phone number: 0131 665 2240 Venue website: http://www.thebrunton.co.uk/ The BFG December 17, 2014, 7:00 pm Lyceum Theatre British Sign Language by Roald Dahl adapted by David Wood “This is where all dreams is beginning” This Christmas, we are delighted to present Roald Dahl’s classic story The BFG – created by the team which brought you last year’s magical festive show A Christmas Carol. The Big Friendly Giant captures dreams and keeps them in bottles for children to enjoy whilst they sleep. He is unlike other giants. For a start, he doesn’t like to eat people! Join the BFG and his new best friend – little orphan Sophie – and help them save the children of Britain from the child-eating giants, Bloodbottler, Fleshlumpeater, Bonecruncher, Meatdripper, Childchewer, and Gizzardgulper. An undisputed national treasure and the world’s favourite children’s author, Roald Dahl has enchanted young minds for more than twenty five years with stories that fire the imagination, bring dreams to life and release squeals of delight. We are thrilled to bring this wonderful adventure to life on The Lyceum stage for all the family to enjoy. Event Price: £25 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 28 November 2014 - 3 January 2015 Event age suitability: 5 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The BFG December 13, 2014, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description by Roald Dahl adapted by David Wood “This is where all dreams is beginning” This Christmas, we are delighted to present Roald Dahl’s classic story The BFG – created by the team which brought you last year’s magical festive show A Christmas Carol. The Big Friendly Giant captures dreams and keeps them in bottles for children to enjoy whilst they sleep. He is unlike other giants. For a start, he doesn't like to eat people! Join the BFG and his new best friend – little orphan Sophie – and help them save the children of Britain from the child-eating giants, Bloodbottler, Fleshlumpeater, Bonecruncher, Meatdripper, Childchewer, and Gizzardgulper. An undisputed national treasure and the world’s favourite children’s author, Roald Dahl has enchanted young minds for more than twenty five years with stories that fire the imagination, bring dreams to life and release squeals of delight. We are thrilled to bring this wonderful adventure to life on The Lyceum stage for all the family to enjoy. The BFG is audio described on Thursday 11 December 7pm and Saturday 13 December 2pm. Event Price: £25 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 28 November 2014 - 3 January 2015 Event age suitability: 5 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk King's Panto: Aladdin December 12, 2014, 7:00 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description Panto legends Allan Stewart, Andy Gray and Grant Stott return to the King's for another unmissable pantomime adventure! With sensational special effects, this year's King's Panto will make all your wishes come true. Produced by Qdos Entertainment, the world's largest pantomime producer, if you ask your genie for just one thing this year, make it a trip to see Aladdin at the King's! Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Sat 29 November 2014 - Sun 18 January 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com King's Panto 2014/15: Aladdin December 12, 2014, 7:00 pm Kings Theatre British Sign Language BSL introduction to Aladdin Panto legends Allan Stewart, Andy Gray and Grant Stott return to the King's for another unmissable pantomime adventure! With sensational special effects, this year's King's Panto will make all your wishes come true. Produced by Qdos Entertainment, the world's largest pantomime producer, if you ask your genie for just one thing this year, make it a trip to see Aladdin at the King's! Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Sat 29 November 2014 - Sun 18 January 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The BFG December 11, 2014, 7:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description by Roald Dahl adapted by David Wood “This is where all dreams is beginning” This Christmas, we are delighted to present Roald Dahl’s classic story The BFG – created by the team which brought you last year’s magical festive show A Christmas Carol. The Big Friendly Giant captures dreams and keeps them in bottles for children to enjoy whilst they sleep. He is unlike other giants. For a start, he doesn't like to eat people! Join the BFG and his new best friend – little orphan Sophie – and help them save the children of Britain from the child-eating giants, Bloodbottler, Fleshlumpeater, Bonecruncher, Meatdripper, Childchewer, and Gizzardgulper. An undisputed national treasure and the world’s favourite children’s author, Roald Dahl has enchanted young minds for more than twenty five years with stories that fire the imagination, bring dreams to life and release squeals of delight. We are thrilled to bring this wonderful adventure to life on The Lyceum stage for all the family to enjoy. The BFG is audio described on Thursday 11 December 7pm and Saturday 13 December 2pm. Event Price: £25 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 28 November 2014 - 3 January 2015 Event age suitability: 5 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The BFG December 6, 2014, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Captioned by Roald Dahl adapted by David Wood “This is where all dreams is beginning” This Christmas, we are delighted to present Roald Dahl’s classic story The BFG – created by the team which brought you last year’s magical festive show A Christmas Carol. The Big Friendly Giant captures dreams and keeps them in bottles for children to enjoy whilst they sleep. He is unlike other giants. For a start, he doesn't like to eat people! Join the BFG and his new best friend – little orphan Sophie – and help them save the children of Britain from the child-eating giants, Bloodbottler, Fleshlumpeater, Bonecruncher, Meatdripper, Childchewer, and Gizzardgulper. An undisputed national treasure and the world’s favourite children’s author, Roald Dahl has enchanted young minds for more than twenty five years with stories that fire the imagination, bring dreams to life and release squeals of delight. We are thrilled to bring this wonderful adventure to life on The Lyceum stage for all the family to enjoy. Event Price: £25 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 28 November 2014 - 3 January 2015 Event age suitability: 5 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Wicked December 5, 2014, 7:30 pm - 9:45 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Hearing Enhancement, Captioned Winner of 90 international awards, Wicked has been casting its magical spell over audiences across the world for a decade and continues to break records at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre, where it is already the 15th longest-running West End musical of all time. In a brilliantly witty re-imagining of the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two sorcery students. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West. Event Price: £20 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: 19 November 2014 - 10 January 2015 Event age suitability: Wicked is suitable for a general audience. As a guide to parents and guardians, it is recommended for ages 7+. How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Wicked December 4, 2014, 7:30 pm - 9:45 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Touch Tour, Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement Winner of 90 international awards, Wicked has been casting its magical spell over audiences across the world for a decade and continues to break records at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre, where it is already the 15th longest-running West End musical of all time. In a brilliantly witty re-imagining of the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two sorcery students. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West. Event Price: £20 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: 19 November 2014 - 10 January 2014 Event age suitability: Wicked is suitable for a general audience. As a guide to parents and guardians, it is recommended for ages 7+. How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Slava's Snow Show Every day at various times (December 3, 2014, 7:30 pm) Festival Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only Slava’s Snowshow has delighted and exhilarated theatregoers around the world and is now coming back to the Festival Theatre this Christmas. This Winter, experience the joyous dream-like world, unlike anything you have seen before. A world in which a cobweb envelops the audience and one tiny piece of paper begins a heart-stopping blizzard of snow. Combining hilarity and poignancy with stunning, breathtaking spectacle, this classic show is full of joy for all the family from 8 to 88!. Wednesday 3 to Saturday 6 December 2014 Evenings 7.30pm, Friday 5pm & 8.30pm Matinees Thursday & Saturday 2.30pm Event Price: £29.00 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 3 - 6 December 2014 Event age suitability: 8 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Rooster November 29, 2014, 7:30 pm Festival Theatre British Sign Language Rambert Dance Watch a BSL trailer, interpreter Paul Belmonte: The interpreter, Angie Newman will be on the right hand side of the auditorium. Read about the interpreter here. The rock’n’roll swagger of the Rolling Stones is brought thrillingly to life in Rooster, Christopher Bruce’s electrifying celebration of the swinging sixties. Sharp-suited, snake-hipped men and strong, sassy women perform virtuoso courtship dances to some of the Stones’ most famous tunes, including Not Fade Away, Paint It Black, Sympathy for the Devil and Little Red Rooster. The discovery of the 'God Particle' inspires The Strange Charm of Mother Nature, the new work by Rambert's Artistic Director Mark Baldwin. The dancers fizz with the energy of the miniscule building blocks that created life, the universe and everything. Completing the programme is Terra Incognita, choreographed by ground-breaking dancemaker Shobana Jeyasingh, "one of our most imaginative theatrical auteurs" (Financial Times). Her distinctive style combines mathematical rhythmic patterns from classical Indian dance with contemporary movement. The piece draws on urban legends and ancient cartography to look at the politics and power of journeying into the unknown. These performances mark the world premiere of Terra Incognita, Shobana Jeyasingh's first work for Rambert. Event Price: £26.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 27 - 29 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Wicked November 28, 2014, 7:00 pm - 9:45 pm Edinburgh Playhouse British Sign Language Winner of 90 international awards, Wicked has been casting its magical spell over audiences across the world for a decade and continues to break records at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre, where it is already the 15th longest-running West End musical of all time. In a brilliantly witty re-imagining of the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two sorcery students. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West. Event Price: £20 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: 19 November 2014 - 10 January 2015 Event age suitability: Wicked is suitable for a general audience. As a guide to parents and guardians, it is recommended for ages 7+. How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Let Loose Taster Workshop November 25, 2014, 10:00 am - 12:45 pm Deaf Action Hearing Enhancement, Speech to Text Join a taster workshop led by artists Greg Sinclair and Kate Temple ahead of a new Artlink project. Greg and Kate will be leading collaborative workshops across performance and visual art so you can find the area that interests you. Following drama, writing and art workshops Let Loose will develop accessible art work with individuals with hearing loss. Get involved and help shape the work. We had fun surely – but more than that, we enjoyed interacting with the words, with each other and our confidence grew. - Let Loose participant Tuesday 25th November is a taster session to meet the artists, other participants and find out more about the project. Starting in 2015 future workshops will take place on 4 Feb, 18 Feb, 4 March, 18 March, 8 April and 22 April. A loop system and electronic notetaker will support all Let Loose events. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk La Cenerentola November 22, 2014, 7:15 pm - 9:25 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, Speech to Text Sung in Italian with English supertitles Cinderella is the ultimate rags to riches tale. Featuring a host of colourful characters, this new production is a highly entertaining take on one of Rossini's most popular comedies. With music that's bright, breathless and full of energy, it's a Cinderella story...but not quite as you may know it. Forced to work as servant to her stepfather and stepsisters, Cenerentola (Cinderella) dreams of the past, and of a better life. Kind and generous, she is all that her family is not. Hearing that Don Ramiro is holding a ball to choose a wife, her sisters gleefully prepare themselves for royal life. Then a mysterious veiled lady makes an unexpected appearance at the palace and their ambitions look set to be thwarted... Rossini’s sparkling score demands impressive vocal agility and the best in comedy characterisation. Russian mezzo-soprano Victoria Yarovaya, winner of the 2013 Mercedes Viñas Prize, is Cenerentola, and rising Rossini star Nico Darmanin is Prince Ramiro. The talented ensemble cast also features baritone Richard Burkhard (The Magic Flute 2012), soprano Rebecca Bottone (The Pirates of Penzance 2013) and renowned bass Graeme Danby. Event Price: £80.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Thur 13, Sun 16, Wed 19, Sat 22 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Edinburgh Gang Show November 22, 2014, 2:15 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description The Edinburgh Gang Show returns to the King’s Theatre for another fabulous show week. With over 250 young people on the stage smiling and singing their hearts out the Gang Show is an amazing experience that you can be part of. November is Gang Show month - see you at the King’s! Event Price: £16.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 18 - 22 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Edinburgh Gang Show November 22, 2014, 2:15 pm Kings Theatre British Sign Language Watch a BSL trailer, interpreter Paul Belmonte: The Edinburgh Gang Show returns to the King’s Theatre for another fabulous show week. With over 250 young people on the stage smiling and singing their hearts out the Gang Show is an amazing experience that you can be part of. November is Gang Show month - see you at the King’s! Event Price: £16.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 18 - 22 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Remembering the Great War November 19, 2014, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Audio Description Descriptive Tour Marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, the exhibition shows portraits of famous Scots as well as far less well-known figures. It will make a major contribution to next year’s global commemorations. Largely drawn from works in the National Galleries of Scotland collections, the exhibition will include a rich variety of portraits and related works in various media. Among those featured are Commander-inChief Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig: James Keir Hardie who opposed British involvement in the war; Dr Elsie Ingles who took a team of Scottish nurses to Serbia; artists Sir James Gunn and Sir William Gillies who were wounded in action; James Maxton who organized a ship-workers’ strike during the war; J S Haldane who invented the gas mask, and Harry Lauder who entertained troops at the Front, who wrote the morale-boosting anthem ‘Keep Right on to the End of the Road’, and whose only son was killed in France on Boxing Day, 1916. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. Opening times: Daily, 10am-5pm (6pm for August only). Thursdays until 7pm. Event run: 4 August 2014- 5 July 2015 How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Remember the Great War November 16, 2014, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery Hearing Enhancement Amplified Tour Marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, the exhibition shows portraits of famous Scots as well as far less well-known figures. It will make a major contribution to next year’s global commemorations. Largely drawn from works in the National Galleries of Scotland collections, the exhibition will include a rich variety of portraits and related works in various media. Among those featured are Commander-inChief Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig: James Keir Hardie who opposed British involvement in the war; Dr Elsie Ingles who took a team of Scottish nurses to Serbia; artists Sir James Gunn and Sir William Gillies who were wounded in action; James Maxton who organized a ship-workers’ strike during the war; J S Haldane who invented the gas mask, and Harry Lauder who entertained troops at the Front, who wrote the morale-boosting anthem ‘Keep Right on to the End of the Road’, and whose only son was killed in France on Boxing Day, 1916. Join an amplified tour for visitors with hearing loss led by artist Tessa Asquith-Lamb. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Admission is free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. Opening times: Daily 10am-5pm (6pm for August only). Thursdays until 7pm. How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org The Kite Runner November 15, 2014, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description This haunting tale of friendship spans cultures and continents and follows one man’s journey to confront his past and find redemption. Afghanistan is a divided country on the verge of war and childhood friends, Amir and Hassan are about to be torn apart. It’s a beautiful afternoon in Kabul and the skies are full of the excitement and joy of a kite flying tournament. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. Based on Khaled Hosseini’s international bestselling novel and film, this haunting tale of friendship leaves a lasting impression on anyone it touches. Event Price: £29.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 10 - 15 November 2014 Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Kite Runner November 15, 2014, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre British Sign Language Watch a BSL trailer, interpreter Paul Belmonte: This haunting tale of friendship spans cultures and continents and follows one man’s journey to confront his past and find redemption. Afghanistan is a divided country on the verge of war and childhood friends, Amir and Hassan are about to be torn apart. It’s a beautiful afternoon in Kabul and the skies are full of the excitement and joy of a kite flying tournament. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. Based on Khaled Hosseini’s international bestselling novel and film, this haunting tale of friendship leaves a lasting impression on anyone it touches. Event Price: £29.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 10 - 15 November 2014 Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Bondagers November 15, 2014, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Captioned By Sue Glover Directed by Lu Kemp "Redd up the stables, muck out the byre, plant the tatties, howk the tatties, clamp the tatties... Shear, stook, striddle, stack. Women's work." A true classic of modern Scottish Theatre, and a haunting evocation of a lost way of life, Sue Glover’s lyrical play with music and song follows six women land workers as they graft and dance their way through a year on a 19th Century Borders farm. Every ploughman had to provide a woman (a bondager) to work on the farm. If his wife was too busy with family, he hired a woman to work the fields and lodge in his home. Following these women through the passing of the seasons, we feel the rhythm of the land and the harshness, humour, hope and tragedy of those who worked upon it. Event Price: £29 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 22 October - 15 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Kite Runner November 13, 2014, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned This haunting tale of friendship spans cultures and continents and follows one man’s journey to confront his past and find redemption. Afghanistan is a divided country on the verge of war and childhood friends, Amir and Hassan are about to be torn apart. It’s a beautiful afternoon in Kabul and the skies are full of the excitement and joy of a kite flying tournament. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. Based on Khaled Hosseini’s international bestselling novel and film, this haunting tale of friendship leaves a lasting impression on anyone it touches. Event Price: £29.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 10 - 15 November Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Bondagers November 12, 2014, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre British Sign Language By Sue Glover Directed by Lu Kemp "Redd up the stables, muck out the byre, plant the tatties, howk the tatties, clamp the tatties... Shear, stook, striddle, stack. Women's work." A true classic of modern Scottish Theatre, and a haunting evocation of a lost way of life, Sue Glover’s lyrical play with music and song follows six women land workers as they graft and dance their way through a year on a 19th Century Borders farm. Every ploughman had to provide a woman (a bondager) to work on the farm. If his wife was too busy with family, he hired a woman to work the fields and lodge in his home. Following these women through the passing of the seasons, we feel the rhythm of the land and the harshness, humour, hope and tragedy of those who worked upon it. Event Price: £29 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 22 October - 15 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Scottish War Blinded Exhibition November 10, 2014 - November 15, 2014 Central Library Audio Description, No Spoken Word / Visual Only The exhibition, in partnership with the Edinburgh University led ‘Scotland’s War’ project, will focus on the development of chemical warfare, attitudinal changes towards disability and the rehabilitation and training provided to blinded soldiers by Scottish War Blinded following its foundation in 1915. The Scotland’s War History Hub, based at Central Library, will support the exhibition by providing a range of seminars, research and music from the period describing life on the home and fighting fronts. For more information about the History Hub, click here. Scottish War Blinded member stories of relatives who served during the conflict will also feature at the exhibition alongside art and craftwork produced at the Linburn Centre. Event Price: Free Opening times: Mon, Tue, Wed: 10am-8pm. Thu, Fri, Sat: 10am-5pm How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 242 8000 Venue phone number: 0131 242 8000 Venue website: https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/directory_record/5079/central_library Bondagers November 8, 2014, 2:00 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description By Sue Glover Directed by Lu Kemp "Redd up the stables, muck out the byre, plant the tatties, howk the tatties, clamp the tatties... Shear, stook, striddle, stack. Women's work." A true classic of modern Scottish Theatre, and a haunting evocation of a lost way of life, Sue Glover’s lyrical play with music and song follows six women land workers as they graft and dance their way through a year on a 19th Century Borders farm. Every ploughman had to provide a woman (a bondager) to work on the farm. If his wife was too busy with family, he hired a woman to work the fields and lodge in his home. Following these women through the passing of the seasons, we feel the rhythm of the land and the harshness, humour, hope and tragedy of those who worked upon it. Event Price: £24 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 22 October - 15 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk Bondagers November 6, 2014, 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description By Sue Glover Directed by Lu Kemp "Redd up the stables, muck out the byre, plant the tatties, howk the tatties, clamp the tatties... Shear, stook, striddle, stack. Women's work." A true classic of modern Scottish Theatre, and a haunting evocation of a lost way of life, Sue Glover’s lyrical play with music and song follows six women land workers as they graft and dance their way through a year on a 19th Century Borders farm. Every ploughman had to provide a woman (a bondager) to work on the farm. If his wife was too busy with family, he hired a woman to work the fields and lodge in his home. Following these women through the passing of the seasons, we feel the rhythm of the land and the harshness, humour, hope and tragedy of those who worked upon it. Event Price: £29 Venue discount information: Disability tickets £10, escort free. Event run: 22 October - 15 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 248 4848 Venue phone number: 0131 248 4848 Venue website: http://www.lyceum.org.uk The Mousetrap November 1, 2014, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description A classic. A landmark. A legend. Following a sell-out run in 2012, The Mousetrap is back. The longest-running show of any kind in the history of British theatre - with over 25,000 performances - The Mousetrap is a play to be proud of. In her own inimitable style, Dame Agatha Christie has created an atmosphere of shuddering suspense and a brilliantly intricate plot where murder lurks around every corner. The scene is set when a group of people gathered in a country house, cut off by the snow, discover to their horror that there is a murderer in their midst. Who can it be? One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until at the last, nerve-shredding moment the identity and the motive of the murderer are finally revealed. Event Price: £30.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 27 October - 1 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Mousetrap November 1, 2014, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre British Sign Language A classic. A landmark. A legend. Following a sell-out run in 2012, The Mousetrap is back. Watch a BSL trailer, interpreter Paul Belmonte: The longest-running show of any kind in the history of British theatre - with over 25,000 performances - The Mousetrap is a play to be proud of. In her own inimitable style, Dame Agatha Christie has created an atmosphere of shuddering suspense and a brilliantly intricate plot where murder lurks around every corner. The scene is set when a group of people gathered in a country house, cut off by the snow, discover to their horror that there is a murderer in their midst. Who can it be? One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until at the last, nerve-shredding moment the identity and the motive of the murderer are finally revealed. Event Price: £30.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 27 October - 1 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Near Not Far Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November (November 1, 2014, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm) National Library of Scotland Spoken Word, Music / Sound / Aural World War One’s Divergent Voices The centenary of WWI has brought unprecedented access to archives and first-hand testimonies. We can’t imagine or relive the horror, but we can listen to the voices of those who lived through it all, speaking to us across the decades. A specially commissioned live performance based on the firsthand testimony of soldiers, nurses, home front workers, women, and those who opposed the war. Devised by Brian Larkin in association with the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre. Featuring Gerda Stevenson, Crawford Logan, Aonghas Macneacail and Jamie Reid-Baxter, with music by Michael Byrne. This event complements the exhibition ‘Behind the Lines: Personal stories of the First World War’ at the National Library of Scotland. Part of the Scottish Storytelling Festival. Please book with the festival on 0131 556 9579. Event Price: £7.50 Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. Event age suitability: Adults How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Organiser: Scottish Storytelling Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 556 9579 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.tracscotland.org/festivals Jeremy Hardy Live 2014 October 31, 2014, 7:30 pm Traverse Theatre Spoken Word OFF THE KERB PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS Jeremy Hardy has been a stand-up comic since 1984 and will be one until he dies or wins the lottery. Jeremy is best known for his work on Radio 4, notably on News Quiz, I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation. In 2010, he published a book, My Family and Other Strangers, chronicling his desperate search for interesting ancestors. “In an ideal world, Jeremy Hardy would be extremely famous, but an ideal world would leave him without most of his best material.” - The Guardian Event Price: £14 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Smokies October 31, 2014, 7:30 pm The Studio @ The Festival Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only An extraordinary visual story told without words. Adapted and directed by Ramesh Meyyappan from Mick Jackson’s The Pearce Sisters. A tasty tale of two lonely old spinsters who make a living catching and smoking fish on a remote shore. Neither of these strange sisters has much luck in capturing the hearts of the sailors and fishermen who find themselves washed up on their shore. Unable to escape the sisters’ romantic pursuits the reluctant suitors come to a rather gruesome end. Smokies is directed by Associate Artist, Ramesh Meyyappan, a multi-faceted theatre practitioner whose performances mix visual theatre and physical theatre with circus techniques. Cast: Brian Duffy, Alison McFarlane and Hilde McKenna Creative team: Neil Warmington, Designer, Laura Hawkins, Lighting Design, Danny Krass, Composer/Sound Design, Al Seed, Movement Specialist and Daniel Livingston, Make Up Design. This production is accessible to deaf and hard of hearing audiences. Event Price: £14 Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: http://www.edtheatres.com/studio Barnum October 30, 2014, 7:30 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Hearing Enhancement, Captioned This exhilarating musical follows the irrepressible imagination and dreams of Phineas T Barnum, America’s Greatest Showman. The story of his life and his marriage to Chairy reveals a couple who looked at the world from opposite sides of the spectrum, and also reveals that she was the practical one who made his dreams come true. We follow the legendary showman’s life as he lit up the world with colour, warmth and the excitement of his imagination and finally teamed up with J A Bailey to create Barnum and Bailey’s Circus - the Greatest Show on Earth. Event Price: £12.50 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ The Mousetrap October 30, 2014, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned A classic. A landmark. A legend. Following a sell-out run in 2012, The Mousetrap is back. The longest-running show of any kind in the history of British theatre - with over 25,000 performances - The Mousetrap is a play to be proud of. In her own inimitable style, Dame Agatha Christie has created an atmosphere of shuddering suspense and a brilliantly intricate plot where murder lurks around every corner. The scene is set when a group of people gathered in a country house, cut off by the snow, discover to their horror that there is a murderer in their midst. Who can it be? One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until at the last, nerve-shredding moment the identity and the motive of the murderer are finally revealed. Event Price: £30.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 27 October - 1 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Barnum October 29, 2014, 7:30 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Touch Tour, Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement This exhilarating musical follows the irrepressible imagination and dreams of Phineas T Barnum, America’s Greatest Showman. The story of his life and his marriage to Chairy reveals a couple who looked at the world from opposite sides of the spectrum, and also reveals that she was the practical one who made his dreams come true. We follow the legendary showman’s life as he lit up the world with colour, warmth and the excitement of his imagination and finally teamed up with J A Bailey to create Barnum and Bailey’s Circus - the Greatest Show on Earth. Event Price: £12.50 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: 28 October - 1 November How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ As I Was Young and Easy October 27, 2014, 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Scottish Storytelling Centre Spoken Word, Music / Sound / Aural Dylan Thomas - A Lyrical Celebration Acclaimed Scottish artists storyteller David Campbell and cellist Wendy Wetherby, come together in this joyous evocation of their fellow Celtic poet's life and wit. The programme connects Wales and Scotland in recalling Dylan Thomas' memorable 1948 visit to Edinburgh with original music by Wendy Wetherby. Event Price: £7.50 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 556 9579 Venue phone number: 0131 556 9579 Venue website: http://www.tracscotland.org/scottish-storytelling-centre Rhythms from New Zealand October 26, 2014, 6:30 pm - 7:20 pm Scottish Storytelling Centre Spoken Word Aoteorea, with its north and south islands, marks the furthest destinations of the Pacific voyagers. Today, poets and storytellers, like our guests Grace Taylor and Tusiata Avia, reach out from New Zealand across the oceans with their own distinctive tempos. Event Price: £7.50 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 556 9579 Venue phone number: 0131 556 9579 Venue website: http://www.tracscotland.org/scottish-storytelling-centre Mountain Vision October 25, 2014, 5:00 pm - 5:50 pm Scottish Storytelling Centre Spoken Word, Music / Sound / Aural The Landscape Experience Scotland’s song traditions are intimately connected with “the high hills” and Scotland’s mountainous terrain. Travelling on North America’s Pacific west, in the high sierras, John Muir realised his very Scottish vision of “living with nature”. Musicians and storytellers Geordie MacIntyre and Alison McMorland recapture the spirit of mountain vision in its Scottish sources. Part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival. For more events click here. Event Price: £7.50 Event age suitability: Adults How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 556 9579 Venue phone number: 0131 556 9579 Venue website: http://www.tracscotland.org/scottish-storytelling-centre The Three Sisters October 25, 2014, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description by John Byrne It’s the not-so-swinging sixties in a Dunoon naval base. Three sisters, Olive, Maddy and Renee have spent the last eleven years looking longingly across the Clyde Estuary. Surrounded by military suitors, overbearing in-laws, and worthy Presbyterians, they yearn for London’s Carnaby Street and the love, culture and thrills they are denied in Argyllshire. Will they ever escape? Following his acclaimed adaptations of The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya, John Byrne (Tutti Frutti, The Slab Boys) turns his attention to Chekhov’s tragi-comedy about dashed hopes and unrequited love, in this brand new show for Tron Theatre Company, whose version of Ulysses was The List Magazine’s Best Theatre Production of 2012. Event Price: £25 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 21 - 25 October 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com The Three Sisters October 25, 2014, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre British Sign Language Watch BSL trailer, interpreter Paul Belmonte: It’s the not-so-swinging sixties in a Dunoon naval base. Three sisters, Olive, Maddy and Renee have spent the last eleven years looking longingly across the Clyde Estuary. Surrounded by military suitors, overbearing in-laws, and worthy Presbyterians, they yearn for London’s Carnaby Street and the love, culture and thrills they are denied in Argyllshire. Will they ever escape? Following his acclaimed adaptations of The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya, John Byrne (Tutti Frutti, The Slab Boys) turns his attention to Chekhov’s tragi-comedy about dashed hopes and unrequited love, in this brand new show for Tron Theatre Company, whose version of Ulysses was The List Magazine’s Best Theatre Production of 2012. Event Price: £25 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 7 - 11 October 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Behind the Lines October 24, 2014, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm National Library of Scotland Hearing Enhancement Personal stories of the First World War Amplified Tour As the centenary of its outbreak is marked around the world, our exhibition explores Scotland's story of the First World War. We tell the personal experiences of some of the men and women who lived, and died, during this momentous period in history. That there was no such thing as a typical experience is reflected in papers we have selected from our wonderfully rich collections. These stories offer a window into the diverse wartime experiences of a variety of individuals, from the soldier or nurse at the front to grieving parents, and from the conscientious objector to the general. Join a tour led by Beverley Casebow and the exhibition curator for a small group with a portable loop system. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. Opening times: 27 June - 11 November 2014. Event run: Mon - Fri 10am - 8pm, Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 2pm - 5pm. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Venue phone number: 0131 623 3700 Venue website: http://www.nls.uk/ Jersey Boys October 23, 2014, 7:30 pm Edinburgh Playhouse British Sign Language The internationally acclaimed stage sensation, Jersey Boys is touring the UK and Ireland for the very first time. This smash hit musical has won 55 major awards worldwide, including the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Jersey Boys tells the true life story of four boys from the wrong side of the tracks who wrote their own songs, invented their own unique sound, and sold 175 million records worldwide. Featuring hit after legendary hit including Beggin’, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Oh What a Night, Sherry, Walk Like a Man, Bye Bye Baby, Big Girls Don't Cry and many more, Jersey Boys is a story full of heart, humour and ‘sheer musical razzmatazz’ (The Sunday Express) you simply will never forget. Event Price: £23.90 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: 8-25 October Event age suitability: May be inappropriate for ages 12 and under due to strong language. Jersey Boys contains authentic New Jersey language. How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ The Three Sisters October 23, 2014, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned by John Byrne It’s the not-so-swinging sixties in a Dunoon naval base. Three sisters, Olive, Maddy and Renee have spent the last eleven years looking longingly across the Clyde Estuary. Surrounded by military suitors, overbearing in-laws, and worthy Presbyterians, they yearn for London’s Carnaby Street and the love, culture and thrills they are denied in Argyllshire. Will they ever escape? Following his acclaimed adaptations of The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya, John Byrne (Tutti Frutti, The Slab Boys) turns his attention to Chekhov’s tragi-comedy about dashed hopes and unrequited love, in this brand new show for Tron Theatre Company, whose version of Ulysses was The List Magazine’s Best Theatre Production of 2012. Event Price: £25 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 21 - 25 October 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Behind the Lines October 22, 2014, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm National Library of Scotland Audio Description Personal stories of the First World War Descriptive Tour As the centenary of its outbreak is marked around the world, our exhibition explores Scotland's story of the First World War. We tell the personal experiences of some of the men and women who lived, and died, during this momentous period in history. That there was no such thing as a typical experience is reflected in papers we have selected from our wonderfully rich collections. These stories offer a window into the diverse wartime experiences of a variety of individuals, from the soldier or nurse at the front to grieving parents, and from the conscientious objector to the general. Join a descriptive tour led by Beverley Casebow and the exhibition curator. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Most events are free, booking essential. Opening times: Mon - Fri 10am - 8pm, Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 2pm - 5pm. Event run: 27 June - 11 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 623 3734 Online bookings http://www.nls.uk/events Venue phone number: 0131 623 3700 Venue website: http://www.nls.uk/ Jersey Boys October 21, 2014, 7:30 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Hearing Enhancement, Captioned The internationally acclaimed stage sensation, Jersey Boys is touring the UK and Ireland for the very first time. This smash hit musical has won 55 major awards worldwide, including the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Jersey Boys tells the true life story of four boys from the wrong side of the tracks who wrote their own songs, invented their own unique sound, and sold 175 million records worldwide. Featuring hit after legendary hit including Beggin’, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Oh What a Night, Sherry, Walk Like a Man, Bye Bye Baby, Big Girls Don't Cry and many more, Jersey Boys is a story full of heart, humour and ‘sheer musical razzmatazz’ (The Sunday Express) you simply will never forget. Event Price: £21.90 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event age suitability: May be inappropriate for ages 12 and under due to strong language. Jersey Boys contains authentic New Jersey language. How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Generation 25: Amplified Tour October 19, 2014, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm National Galleries of Scotland Hearing Enhancement This landmark series of exhibitions will celebrate some of the very best art to have emerged from Scotland in the last 25 years, and will be shown at more than 50 venues across the country from June to October 2014. At the Scottish National Gallery, large-scale installations such as Steven Campbell’s 1990 Third Eye Centre exhibition On Form and Content and Turner Prize-winner Martin Boyce’s 2002 Tramway show Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hourswill be recreated. Also on show will be the abstract canvases of Turner Prize Nominee Callum Innes, video projections by Rosalind Nashashibi, and a sculptural installation by Christine Borland, not seen in Scotland before. The exhibition will also provide a challenge for Turner Prize-nominees Karla Black and David Shrigley to produce new work in response to the Gallery’s imposing neo-classical spaces. Join an amplified tour for visitors with hearing loss, led by Tessa Asquith-Lamb. Event Price: Free Opening times: Open daily, 10am-5pm (6pm for August only). Thursdays until 7pm. Event run: 28 June - 2 November How to book Venue phone number: 0131 624 6200 Venue website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Generation 25: Amplified Tour October 19, 2014, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Hearing Enhancement GENERATION is a landmark series of exhibitions tracing the remarkable development of contemporary art in Scotland over the last 25 years. It will bring an ambitious and extensive programme of works of art by over 100 artists to over 60 galleries, exhibition spaces and venues the length and breadth of the nation. Join an amplified tour for visitors with hearing loss, led by artist Tessa Asquith-Lamb. The exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art One will feature new sculptural installations by Karla Black and Claire Barclay; paintings by Victoria Morton, Alison Watt and Callum Innes; immersive room-sized installations by Ross Sinclair, Graham Fagen and Martin Boyce; a room of sculptures and prints by David Shrigley; and film and video works by Douglas Gordon, Luke Fowler and Rosalind Nashashibi. Event Price: Free Opening times: Open daily, 10am-5pm (6pm for August only). Event run: 28 June 2014 - 25 January 2015 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Top Hat October 18, 2014, 2:30 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description WINNER! BEST NEW MUSICAL OLIVIER AWARDS 2013 Direct from its tremendous success in London, winning three Olivier awards for Best New Musical, Best Choreography, Best Costumes and the Evening Standard Award for Best Night Out, this spectacular West End production brings the glamour of Hollywood's golden age and the glorious, tapdancing magic of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers to the stage in one of the greatest dance musicals of all time. Packed full of Irving Berlin's greatest hits, including Cheek to Cheek, Top Hat, White Tie & Tails, Let's Face the Music & Dance and Puttin' on the Ritz, Top Hat tells the story of Broadway sensation Jerry Travers who dances his way across Europe to win the heart of society girl Dale Tremont. An uplifting and hilarious romantic comedy celebrating 1930s song, style and romance, Top Hat dazzles with over 200 beautiful costumes, breathtaking dance and a love story that will set the pulse racing! Stepping into the shoes of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the lead roles of Jerry Travers and Dale Tremont, are Alan Burkitt and Charlotte Gooch, who both return to Top Hat having performed these roles in the West End. Directed by Matthew White and choreographed by Bill Deamer (Olivier Award winner for Best Choreography), set designs are by Hildegard Bechtler (Olivier Award nominee for Best Set Design), costume designs by Jon Morrell (Olivier Award winner for Best Costume Design), lighting design by Peter Mumford, sound by Gareth Owen (Olivier Award nominee for Best Sound Design), new orchestrations by Chris Walker and musical supervision by Richard Balcombe. Event Price: £45 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 7 - 18 October 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Top Hat October 18, 2014, 2:30 pm Festival Theatre British Sign Language WINNER! BEST NEW MUSICAL OLIVIER AWARDS 2013 Watch a BSL trailer, interpreter Paul Belmonte: Direct from its tremendous success in London, winning three Olivier awards for Best New Musical, Best Choreography, Best Costumes and the Evening Standard Award for Best Night Out, this spectacular West End production brings the glamour of Hollywood’s golden age and the glorious, tapdancing magic of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers to the stage in one of the greatest dance musicals of all time. Packed full of Irving Berlin’s greatest hits, including Cheek to Cheek, Top Hat, White Tie & Tails, Let’s Face the Music & Dance and Puttin’ on the Ritz, Top Hat tells the story of Broadway sensation Jerry Travers who dances his way across Europe to win the heart of society girl Dale Tremont. An uplifting and hilarious romantic comedy celebrating 1930s song, style and romance, Top Hat dazzles with over 200 beautiful costumes, breathtaking dance and a love story that will set the pulse racing! Stepping into the shoes of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the lead roles of Jerry Travers and Dale Tremont, are Alan Burkitt and Charlotte Gooch, who both return to Top Hat having performed these roles in the West End. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 7 - 18 October 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Captioning and BSL Open Day October 18, 2014, 11:30 am - 5:00 pm Festival Theatre Hearing Enhancement, Captioned, British Sign Language Festival Theatre Open Day 11.30am - 1.30pm Top Hat 2.30pm Cost, including stalls or dress circle ticket for Top Hat, £10 Theatre Open Day followed by a captioned and BSL interpreted performance of Irving Berlin’s classic musical, Top Hat. Find out about access at the Festival Theatre for Deaf and hard of hearing audiences. The theatre offers regular performances with BSL interpretation and captioning. During a captioned performance the dialogue is displayed on a screen to be read simultaneously with the actors speaking, a bit like television subtitles. At the Open Day find out more about captioning, try different seats in the theatre and meet the captioner. There will be a backstage tour and a chance to find out about performances at the Festival Theatre. Artlink will support the event with a portable loop system and a chance to find out about the new website Investigate Create, which provides information on accessible arts in Edinburgh. BSL interpretation throughout the Open Day with Paul Belmonte. Top Hat Performance 2.30pm Packed full of Irving Berlin's greatest hits, including Cheek to Cheek, Top Hat, White Tie & Tails, Let's Face the Music & Dance and Puttin' on the Ritz, Top Hat tells the story of Broadway sensation Jerry Travers who dances his way across Europe to win the heart of society girl Dale Tremont. An uplifting and hilarious romantic comedy celebrating 1930s song, style and romance, Top Hat dazzles with over 200 beautiful costumes, breathtaking dance and a love story that will set the pulse racing! BSL interpreters for Top Hat are Paul Belmonte and Ian Hodgetts Watch a BSL trailer for Top Hat www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnrj_HIIZzA How to book: To book for the Open Day and the performance at the reduced price of £10 quote "openday" Call: 0131 529 6000 Text Relay: 18001 0131 529 6003 Online: Use promo code openday www.edtheatres.com/tophat Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Poetry for the Palace October 18, 2014, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm The Queens Gallery Hearing Enhancement Poets Laureate from Dryden to Duffy Amplified Tour The office of Poet Laureate is a special honour awarded by the Sovereign to a poet whose work is of national significance. This exhibition celebrates the work of the current Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, at the half-way point in her laureateship. It explores the role of the Poet Laureate, and the close relationship between poet and monarch over the last three and a half centuries. It brings together presentation volumes, original manuscripts, annotated collections of poetry and remarkable images of poets, including John Dryden, William Wordsworth, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Betjeman and Ted Hughes. This special tour explores the history of the Poet Laureate and the work of Carol Ann Duffy in a small group with a portable loop system available. Event Price: £6.50 Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . Opening times: 9.30am - 6pm Event run: 7 August - 2 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgalleryedinburgh/about Jersey Boys October 16, 2014, 7:30 pm Edinburgh Playhouse Touch Tour, Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement The internationally acclaimed stage sensation, Jersey Boys is touring the UK and Ireland for the very first time. This smash hit musical has won 55 major awards worldwide, including the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Jersey Boys tells the true life story of four boys from the wrong side of the tracks who wrote their own songs, invented their own unique sound, and sold 175 million records worldwide. Featuring hit after legendary hit including Beggin’, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Oh What a Night, Sherry, Walk Like a Man, Bye Bye Baby, Big Girls Don't Cry and many more, Jersey Boys is a story full of heart, humour and ‘sheer musical razzmatazz’ (The Sunday Express) you simply will never forget. Event Price: £21.90 Venue discount information: For most performances, The Playhouse offers the cheapest ticket price in whichever seats are most appropriate (e.g. Circle for wheelchair users and those with limited mobility, Front Stalls for those with visual impairments) Event run: 8-25 October Event age suitability: May be inappropriate for ages 12 and under due to strong language. Jersey Boys contains authentic New Jersey language. How to book Venue phone number: 0844 871 7677 Venue website: http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/edinburgh-playhouse/ Top Hat October 16, 2014, 7:30 pm Festival Theatre Captioned Direct from its tremendous success in London, winning three Olivier awards for Best New Musical, Best Choreography, Best Costumes and the Evening Standard Award for Best Night Out, this spectacular West End production brings the glamour of Hollywood’s golden age and the glorious, tapdancing magic of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers to the stage in one of the greatest dance musicals of all time. Packed full of Irving Berlin’s greatest hits, including Cheek to Cheek, Top Hat, White Tie & Tails, Let’s Face the Music & Dance and Puttin’ on the Ritz, Top Hat tells the story of Broadway sensation Jerry Travers who dances his way across Europe to win the heart of society girl Dale Tremont. An uplifting and hilarious romantic comedy celebrating 1930s song, style and romance, Top Hat dazzles with over 200 beautiful costumes, breathtaking dance and a love story that will set the pulse racing! Stepping into the shoes of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the lead roles of Jerry Travers and Dale Tremont, are Alan Burkitt and Charlotte Gooch, who both return to Top Hat having performed these roles in the West End. Event Price: £40 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 7 - 18 October 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com American Impressionism: A New Vision October 15, 2014, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern Two Audio Description Descriptive Tour The exhibition traces the discovery of Impressionism by American artists in the late 19th-century. Divided into four groups these include: major figures such as Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler who lived in Paris and were close personal friends of the French Impressionists, especially Degas and Monet; the group of American artists who trained in Paris and/ or settled near Monet at Giverny in 1887; American Impressionists working in the USA, including William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam and Theodore Robinson and Later Impressionism and the American group known as ‘The Ten’. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Exhibition entry is free when you book for this event, usual price £8 (£6). Event Price: Free Opening times: Daily, 10am-5pm (6pm for August only). Event run: 19 July - 19 October How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Sunset Song October 11, 2014, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description Chris Guthrie is bound to a harsh farming life by her intense love of the land. She dreams of the seductive yet distant world of books and learning, but when war breaks out, Chris suddenly finds herself facing a very different reality as a widowed, single mother in a land altered beyond recognition. Set in a farming community in the North East of Scotland, Sunset Song charts Chris’s struggle to adapt to her new world and hold together her fragile family. Her survival depends solely on her belief that beyond the sunset lies hope. Marking a hundred years since the start of the First World War, Sell a Door Theatre Company revives Alastair Cording’s faithful adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic story, recently voted Scotland’s most popular novel of all time. Event Price: £29.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 7 - 11 October 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Sunset Song October 11, 2014, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre British Sign Language Watch a BSL trailer, interpreter Paul Belmonte: Chris Guthrie is bound to a harsh farming life by her intense love of the land. She dreams of the seductive yet distant world of books and learning, but when war breaks out, Chris suddenly finds herself facing a very different reality as a widowed, single mother in a land altered beyond recognition. Set in a farming community in the North East of Scotland, Sunset Song charts Chris’s struggle to adapt to her new world and hold together her fragile family. Her survival depends solely on her belief that beyond the sunset lies hope. Marking a hundred years since the start of the First World War, Sell a Door Theatre Company revives Alastair Cording’s faithful adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic story, recently voted Scotland’s most popular novel of all time. Event Price: £29.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 7 - 11 October 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com White Rabbit, Red Rabbit Every day until October 11, 2014 (October 9, 2014, 7:30 pm) Traverse Theatre Spoken Word TRAVERSE THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH AURORA NOVA With no rehearsal, no director, a different actor each night, and a script waiting in a sealed envelope on stage, internationally acclaimed White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, by Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpour, is an audacious theatrical experiment and a potent reminder of the transgressive and transformative power of theatre. Since its joint premiere in 2011, in Edinburgh and at the Summerworks festival, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit has been translated into 15 different languages and has been performed over 200 times by some of the biggest names in theatre and film, including actors Stephen Rea, Sinead Cusack, Marcus Brigstocke and Ken Loach. Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 9 - 11 October Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Sunset Song October 9, 2014, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned Chris Guthrie is bound to a harsh farming life by her intense love of the land. She dreams of the seductive yet distant world of books and learning, but when war breaks out, Chris suddenly finds herself facing a very different reality as a widowed, single mother in a land altered beyond recognition. Set in a farming community in the North East of Scotland, Sunset Song charts Chris’s struggle to adapt to her new world and hold together her fragile family. Her survival depends solely on her belief that beyond the sunset lies hope. Marking a hundred years since the start of the First World War, Sell a Door Theatre Company revives Alastair Cording’s faithful adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic story, recently voted Scotland’s most popular novel of all time. Event Price: £29.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 7 - 11 October 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Regeneration October 4, 2014, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description Set in Edinburgh and commemorating the centenary of the First World War, Pat Barker’s Regeneration tells the story of Siegfried Sassoon. In July 1917, in an open letter to The Times, Sassoon made a passionate denunciation of both the war's aims and the strategy of the generals. The army, reluctant to court marshall Sassoon, decided instead to commit him to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where he was incarcerated until he was ‘cured.’ At Craiglockhart, Sassoon meets and befriends another patient, fellow poet, Wilfred Owen, and is 'treated' by Dr W H Rivers, a pioneering psychiatrist in the treatment of what we now call posttraumatic stress disorder. Challenging definitions of sanity itself, the play dramatically explores the effects of war and of man's battle to honour both his conscience and duty to his fellow man. Event Price: £29.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 30 September - 4 October 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Regeneration October 4, 2014, 2:30 pm Kings Theatre British Sign Language Watch a BSL trailer, interpreter Paul Belmonte: Set in Edinburgh and commemorating the centenary of the First World War, Pat Barker’s Regeneration tells the story of Siegfried Sassoon. In July 1917, in an open letter to The Times, Sassoon made a passionate denunciation of both the war's aims and the strategy of the generals. The army, reluctant to court marshall Sassoon, decided instead to commit him to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where he was incarcerated until he was ‘cured.’ At Craiglockhart, Sassoon meets and befriends another patient, fellow poet, Wilfred Owen, and is 'treated' by Dr W H Rivers, a pioneering psychiatrist in the treatment of what we now call posttraumatic stress disorder. Challenging definitions of sanity itself, the play dramatically explores the effects of war and of man's battle to honour both his conscience and duty to his fellow man. Event Price: £29.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 30 September - 4 October How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Poetry for the Palace October 4, 2014, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm The Queens Gallery Audio Description Poets Laureate from Dryden to Duffy Descriptive Tour The office of Poet Laureate is a special honour awarded by the Sovereign to a poet whose work is of national significance. This exhibition celebrates the work of the current Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, at the half-way point in her laureateship. It explores the role of the Poet Laureate, and the close relationship between poet and monarch over the last three and a half centuries. It brings together presentation volumes, original manuscripts, annotated collections of poetry and remarkable images of poets, including John Dryden, William Wordsworth, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Betjeman and Ted Hughes. Join members of the Learning team for this verbal description tour of key works and themes in the exhibition. Event Price: £6.50 Venue discount information: Concession price and free ticket for one companion. Tickets can be converted into a 1-Year Pass, giving 12 months' free admission. To get the pass, remember to get your ticket stamped and keep hold of it . Opening times: 9.30am - 6pm Event run: 7 August - 2 November 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0303 123 7323 Venue phone number: 0131 556 5100 Venue website: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/queensgalleryedinburgh/about Regeneration October 1, 2014, 7:30 pm Kings Theatre Captioned Set in Edinburgh and commemorating the centenary of the First World War, Pat Barker’s Regeneration tells the story of Siegfried Sassoon. In July 1917, in an open letter to The Times, Sassoon made a passionate denunciation of both the war’s aims and the strategy of the generals. The army, reluctant to court marshall Sassoon, decided instead to commit him to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where he was incarcerated until he was ‘cured.’ At Craiglockhart, Sassoon meets and befriends another patient, fellow poet, Wilfred Owen, and is ‘treated’ by Dr W H Rivers, a pioneering psychiatrist in the treatment of what we now call posttraumatic stress disorder. Challenging definitions of sanity itself, the play dramatically explores the effects of war and of man’s battle to honour both his conscience and duty to his fellow man. Event Price: £29.50 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: 30 September - 4 October 2014 How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Venue phone number: 0131 529 6000 Venue website: www.edtheatres.com Talk: Michael Bracewell on Jim Lambie October 1, 2014, 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Hearing Enhancement Internationally acclaimed writer, novelist and cultural commentator Michael Bracewell (author of England is Mine, Re-make/Re-model and The Space Between) explores Jim Lambie’s work in relation to its broader cultural context. All talks at the Fruitmarket Gallery are recorded and are available online after the event. Booking is recommended to guarantee your place. Event Price: Free How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ American Impressionism: A New Vision September 21, 2014, 11:00 am Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern Two Hearing Enhancement Amplified Tour The exhibition traces the discovery of Impressionism by American artists in the late 19th-century. Divided into four groups these include: major figures such as Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler who lived in Paris and were close personal friends of the French Impressionists, especially Degas and Monet; the group of American artists who trained in Paris and/ or settled near Monet at Giverny in 1887; American Impressionists working in the USA, including William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam and Theodore Robinson and Later Impressionism and the American group known as 'The Ten'. Join an amplified tour for visitors with hearing loss led by artist Tessa Asquith-Lamb. Free entry to the exhibition, when booked on this tour, usual price £8 (£6). Event Price: Free Opening times: Open daily, 10am-5pm (6pm for August only). Event run: 19 July - 19 October How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Seep 2: Mirrors and Mires September 20, 2014, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Patriothall Gallery Audio Description, British Sign Language Listen in with Sandra Alland Descriptive Tour After the success of 'SEEP: Fluidity in Body & Landscape', a sold-out event with excellent reviews in February and March 2014, Cachín Cachán Cachunga! returns with 'SEEP II: Mirrors & Mires', 19-29 September, 2014. Artworks in this exhibition will examine intersectional identities, the relationship between self and community, and formal considerations of mixed-media and video installation. This art exhibition selected by Edinburgh’s Patriothall Gallery features a varied and exciting mix of visual art, film, performance and installation. The event is curated by award-winning interdisciplinary artist Sandra Alland, who has shown work internationally, including at Tate Modern and GoMA. Fifteen local and international artists from intersectional backgrounds will present work ranging from painting to film installation, focusing on the theme of Mirrors & Mires both in content and form. The exhibition will particularly highlight work from minority ethnic, migrant, working class, and Deaf and disabled LGBTI artists. For this event artists and curator Sandra Alland will lead a highlights tour and discussion with verbal description and BSL interpretation. Event Price: Free Opening times: Saturday to Monday noon-6pm, Tuesday to Friday 2-8pm Event run: 20 - 29 September 2014 How to book Organiser: Cachín Cachán Cachunga! Venue phone number: 0131 226 7126 Venue website: http://www.patriothallgallery.co.uk/ Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.blissfultimes.ca Seep 2: Mirrors and Mires Exhibition every day, special events programmed (September 19, 2014, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm) Patriothall Gallery British Sign Language After the success of 'SEEP: Fluidity in Body & Landscape', a sold-out event with excellent reviews in February and March 2014, Cachín Cachán Cachunga! returns with 'SEEP II: Mirrors & Mires', 19-29 September, 2014. Artworks in this exhibition will examine intersectional identities, the relationship between self and community, and formal considerations of mixed-media and video installation. This art exhibition selected by Edinburgh’s Patriothall Gallery features a varied and exciting mix of visual art, film, performance and installation. The event is curated by award-winning interdisciplinary artist Sandra Alland, who has shown work internationally, including at Tate Modern and GoMA. Fifteen local and international artists from intersectional backgrounds will present work ranging from painting to film installation, focusing on the theme of Mirrors & Mires both in content and form. The exhibition will particularly highlight work from minority ethnic, migrant, working class, and Deaf and disabled LGBTI artists. Opening: Friday, 19th September, 7-10pm, with live performance by Andra Simons. BSL interpreter Lisa Stapleton. Writing & Performance Workshop with Andra Simons Monday, 22nd September, 1 - 4:30pm. BSL interpreter Lisa Stapleton. Open Mic with Open Barbers (featuring Liz Cronin) Sunday, 28th September: haircuts noon-6pm, readings/performances 6-8pm. BSL interpreter Gordon Newton Wylie-Black. Event Price: Free Opening times: Saturday to Monday noon-6pm, Tuesday to Friday 2-8pm Event run: 20 - 29 September 2014 How to book Organiser: Cachín Cachán Cachunga! Venue phone number: 0131 226 7126 Venue website: http://www.patriothallgallery.co.uk/ Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.blissfultimes.ca Spoiling September 18, 2014, 8:00 pm Traverse Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description by John McCann Fringe First Award, August 2014 In front of the world's media, Scotland’s Foreign Minister will shortly deliver a keynote speech outlining the newly-independent nation’s relationship with the former UK. But there’s a problem. She’s refusing to speak the words she’s been given. There’s something else she wants to say. At odds with her Party, and pursued by a harassed Party worker, she has a decision to make; toe the line or take back control. This timely piece, directed by award-winning Traverse Artistic Director Orla O'Loughlin, moves effortlessly from heartfelt political satire to vivid, soaring lyricism. Never has an iron fist within a velvet glove delivered such a punch. Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 16 - 20 September Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Spoiling September 18, 2014, 8:00 pm Traverse Theatre British Sign Language by John McCann Fringe First Award, August 2014 In front of the world’s media, Scotland’s Foreign Minister will shortly deliver a keynote speech outlining the newly-independent nation’s relationship with the former UK. But there’s a problem. She’s refusing to speak the words she’s been given. There’s something else she wants to say. At odds with her Party, and pursued by a harassed Party worker, she has a decision to make; toe the line or take back control. This timely piece, directed by award-winning Traverse Artistic Director Orla O’Loughlin, moves effortlessly from heartfelt political satire to vivid, soaring lyricism. Never has an iron fist within a velvet glove delivered such a punch. Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 16 - 20 September Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Generation 25: Descriptive Tour September 17, 2014, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm National Galleries of Scotland Audio Description This landmark series of exhibitions will celebrate some of the very best art to have emerged from Scotland in the last 25 years, and will be shown at more than 50 venues across the country from June to October 2014. At the Scottish National Gallery, large-scale installations such as Steven Campbell’s 1990 Third Eye Centre exhibition On Form and Content and Turner Prize-winner Martin Boyce’s 2002 Tramway show Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours will be recreated. Also on show will be the abstract canvases of Turner Prize Nominee Callum Innes, video projections by Rosalind Nashashibi, and a sculptural installation by Christine Borland, not seen in Scotland before. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Event Price: Free Opening times: Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Event run: 28 June - 2 November How to book Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org Generation 25: Descriptive Tour September 17, 2014, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Modern One Audio Description GENERATION is a ground-breaking, two-part exhibition at Modern One and the Scottish National Gallery, offering a rich, diverse and coherent view of the way that contemporary art has developed in Scotland over the past 25 years. At Modern One, the exhibition will include spectacular installations by Ross Sinclair, Graham Fagen and Turner Prize-winner Simon Starling. A diverse range of work by artists such as Victoria Morton, Alison Watt, Julie Roberts, Lucy McKenzie, Kate Davis, Charles Avery and Jonathan Owen will demonstrate the continuing vitality of painting and drawing in Scotland and there will be new installations in sculpture, painting, collage and printmaking by Claire Barclay, Ciara Philips and Alex Dordoy. There will also be video installations be Douglas Gordon, Roddy Buchanan and Torsten Lauschmann. The event consists of a 90 minute tour in the morning, followed by a lunch break, and a 2 1/2 hour practical workshop in the afternoon. Guides, chairs and refreshments will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Event Price: Free Opening times: Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm; Sunday 12pm - 5pm How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 624 6200 Organiser: National Galleries of Scotland Organiser Phone: 0131 624 6560 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.nationalgalleries.org In Time O' Strife September 12, 2014, 7:30 pm Traverse Theatre Audio Description National Theatre of Scotland On the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners’ strike, the National Theatre of Scotland revives Joe Corrie's 1926 classic play about a Fife mining community buckling under the strain of a seven month lockout. Driven by live, gutsy, folk-punk songs and intense, full-blooded choreography, this uncompromising production is a stark reminder that class conflict between those at the bottom of the social heap and those in power is perennial. "Gut-wrenchingly emotional ... vitally contemporary.” ★★★★★ The Herald Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 9 - 13 September Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Drift - live performance September 11, 2014, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Portobello Prom Audio Description, Spoken Word, Hearing Enhancement A promenade performance along Portobello Prom by Laura Cameron Lewis and Juliana Capes. Drift weaves together stories from generations of women with connections to Portobello Prom across their lives. For this event we will walk along the prom experiencing the scene as it is set and the narrative unfolds. The performance will last approximately 45 minutes, some seating will be available. Event Price: Free Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk In Time O Strife September 11, 2014, 7:30 am - 5:00 pm Traverse Theatre Captioned National Theatre of Scotland On the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners’ strike, the National Theatre of Scotland revives Joe Corrie’s 1926 classic play about a Fife mining community buckling under the strain of a seven month lockout. Driven by live, gutsy, folk-punk songs and intense, full-blooded choreography, this uncompromising production is a stark reminder that class conflict between those at the bottom of the social heap and those in power is perennial. “Gut-wrenchingly emotional … vitally contemporary.” ★★★★★ The Herald Event Price: £16 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 9 - 13 September Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Venue phone number: 0131 228 1404 Venue website: http://www.traverse.co.uk Jim Lambie - Descriptive Tour September 4, 2014, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Audio Description Jim Lambie is one of Scotland’s most internationally significant artists. Known for visually compelling, generous and beguiling work which attracts both popular and critical acclaim, Lambie came to prominence with Zobop, a floor-based sculptural intervention that consists of continuous lines of multicoloured vinyl tape. Join a tour with verbal description of Lambie's work and for visitors with sight loss and everyone welcome. Lambie’s work makes its magic from relatively humble materials – tinfoil and coat hangers, jackets, mirrors, records, turntables, potato sacks, plastic bags and household paint. This exhibition offers the opportunity to trace the development of Lambie’s sculptural language. The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication that celebrates one of Jim Lambie’s most generous sculptures: a poetry club he established in Glasgow in 2012. Featuring music and poetry from a range of performers including Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Liz Lochhead and John Giorno, the poetry club has over the last 2 years hosted a rich assemblage of some of the people who, in Lambie’s words, ‘give us our dreams’. Event Price: Free Opening times: Mon—Sat 11am—6pm, Sun 12—5pm Event run: 27 June - 19 October How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Jim Lambie - Amplified Tour September 4, 2014, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fruitmarket Gallery Hearing Enhancement The Fruitmarket Gallery presents a solo exhibition of the work of Jim Lambie, one of Scotland’s most internationally significant artists. Known for visually compelling, generous and beguiling work which attracts both popular and critical acclaim, Lambie came to prominence with Zobop, a floor-based sculptural intervention that consists of continuous lines of multi-coloured vinyl tape laid in concentric circuits of a room from its outside edges to its centre. First shown in Transmission in Glasgow in 1999, it is now in several major international collections. Join a small group tour led by gallery staff for visitors with hearing loss. The tour will introduce the development of Lambie's work through key artworks in the exhibition. Lambie’s work makes its magic from relatively humble materials – tinfoil and coat hangers, jackets, mirrors, records, turntables, potato sacks, plastic bags and household paint. This exhibition offers the opportunity to trace the development of Lambie’s sculptural language. The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication that celebrates one of Jim Lambie’s most generous sculptures: a poetry club he established in Glasgow in 2012. Featuring music and poetry from a range of performers including Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Liz Lochhead and John Giorno, the poetry club has over the last 2 years hosted a rich assemblage of some of the people who, in Lambie’s words, ‘give us our dreams’. Event Price: Free Opening times: Mon—Sat 11am—6pm, Sun 12—5pm Event run: 27 June - 19 October How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Conversations with Artists August 29, 2014, 12:00 am - 1:00 pm The Hub - William Kentridge The South African artist discusses his role in the creation of Ubu and the Truth Commission with Fruitmarket Gallery Director Fiona Bradley. This is part of Edinburgh International Festival's series of Conversations with Artists relating to festival productions. For more information on the series visit: http://www.eif.co.uk/talksworkshops#.U2lP46IYrKc Event Price: £6 How to book Organiser: Edinburgh International Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 473 2089 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.eif.co.uk Helen Lawrence August 26, 2014, 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement, Captioned Conceived by Stan Douglas Written by Chris Haddock Vancouver, 1948: wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy and gluttony all take a turn in a time of fear, paranoia, rage and desperation. The police make pacts with the gangsters who run the whorehouses and gambling joints as Vancouver reinvents itself in the aftermath of the Second World War. A stranger arrives to settle an account of her own, struggling through a fog of psychosis, pills and booze to track her target from one end of the city to the other and leaving a trail of murder in her wake. Is she victim or perpetrator, seduced or seductress? Has she arrived to flee her past or seek revenge? What she finds is a treacherous, shape-shifting landscape of police and pimps, soldiers and refugees, damaged goods and ghostly lovers – all scrambling to find their feet in the shifting sands. A cinematic stage production from world-renowned visual artist and filmmaker Stan Douglas and acclaimed screenwriter and producer Chris Haddock, Helen Lawrence is inspired by postwar film noir and intertwines theatre, visual art, live-action filming and computer-generated historical backgrounds for a groundbreaking multimedia thriller. Event Price: £32 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Sunday 24 - Tuesday 26 August How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Organiser: Edinburgh International Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 473 2089 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.eif.co.uk The Carousel August 24, 2014, 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm Traverse Theatre British Sign Language by Jennifer Tremblay, translated by Shelley Tepperman Nothing can stop the carousel. While driving to her dying mother’s bedside, a woman calls upon the spirit of her dead grandmother. So begins a quest through a labyrinth of memories. The Carousel is a journey that shatters the certainties of a woman marked by a pitiless landscape. Ultimately joy prevails, in a final ride on the carousel. A poignant one-woman play by celebrated Quebec dramatist Jennifer Tremblay, writer of The List, a Fringe sell-out for Stellar Quines, winner of Fringe First and Herald Angel Awards. Directed by Muriel Romanes and starring award-winning actress Maureen Beattie. www.stellarquines.com Bookings can be made with the fringe or directly with the Traverese Theatre. Event Price: £12 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 1 - 24 August Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Domestic Labour August 24, 2014, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Summerhall Audio Description Escalator East to Edinburgh War, bicycles and the withdrawal method. A love story; a love story between a man and woman, East and West, about the mundane and the monumental, the personal and the political, the dust behind the bed and the Iranian baby boom… A love story told through the nitty gritty of daily life – the rituals of cleaning revealing tales about past girlfriends, marriage, Islamic law and Brigitte Bardot – as the man and his absent wife negotiate the very domestic battle over who does the washing up. An inter disciplinary performance in which writer Mehrdad Seyf and visual artist Chris Dobrowolski reinterpret not only the physical functions of everyday household appliances but the power games of equality. Domestic Labour is inspired by 1970′s Feminism… and its impact on men. Brought to you by the award -winning 30 Bird, winners of the Best of Fringe Award 2012 and Total Theatre Award Nominees (innovation and experimentation). Darkly humorous and visually rich, Domestic Labour highlights the absurd details of our daily lives and their resonance within the wider world. Event Price: £12 Event run: 1 - 23 August Event age suitability: 12 + contains strong language How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com The Snow Dog August 23, 2014, 11:00 am - 11:55 pm Pleasance Audio Description Escalator East to Edinburgh This fun and uplifting show is a poignant and playful exploration of love and loss for children and their families. Full House Theatre fuses music, song, dance and puppetry to create children’s theatre at its spellbinding best. The story follows a young girl’s journey around the world as she discovers her grandfather’s magical past as an arctic explorer. The show also features a real life Siberian Husky! Event Price: £10 Event run: 1 - 23 August Event age suitability: 6 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Milk Presents: Self Service Audio described 22 & 23 August (August 22, 2014, 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm) Northern Stage Audio Description Escalator East to Edinburgh A punk-style queer voyage through what ‘normal’ really means, featuring original live music, handcrafted animation and tacky politics. Total Theatre Award nominees present their latest deliciously decadent, raucously low-fi, toe-tapping, gender-bending “cabaret of the most welcoming kind” (British Theatre Guide). This show spans decades of popular culture, political upheaval and quaint normalness. It episodically and sporadically attempts to define the ‘indefinable’. Ann Widdecombe, Madonna and the Beatnik generation are thrust together in a theatrical feat that wears high-heels a size too small and sunglasses a size too big. Event Price: £11 Event run: 2 - 23 August Event age suitability: 16 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Show Off August 22, 2014, 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Pleasance Audio Description Escalator East to Edinburgh You’re so vain you probably think this show is about you. But it’s actually about Figs in Wigs – the lowbrow answer to avant-garde. Show Off delves deep into our shallow digital existence, examining how social media has bred a new form of narcissism. Masquerading as a variety show this desperately glitzy number continually reinvents itself to satisfy even the most depleted of attention spans. Event Price: £11 Event run: 1 - 25 August Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Gnosis August 21, 2014, 7:45 pm - 9:20 pm Kings Theatre Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement Drawing from sources both ancient and modern, Gnosis is inspired in part by the Hindu epic the Mahabharata and the story of Gandhari, the wife of the blind king who blindfolds herself for life to share his journey. As her family becomes embroiled in an internecine war, Gnosis explores notions of inner knowledge and clouded vision, experiencing darkness while being blind to light. Khan is accompanied on stage by an ensemble of exceptional musicians from around the world and acclaimed dancer Fang-Yi Sheu from Taiwan. Event Price: £32 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 August How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Organiser: Edinburgh International Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 473 2089 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.eif.co.uk Gianni Schicchi August 20, 2014, 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm St Cuthberts Church Captioned Sung in Italian with English Surtitles Opera Bohemia, Scotland's dynamic professional company, returns to the Fringe with Puccini's one act comedy gem! A stellar cast including BBC Kiri Prize winner Shuna Sendall, Scottish Opera Emerging Artist Andrew McTaggart, Royal Opera House debutant Andrew Dickinson, and Scottish singing legend Alan Watt, are joined by the Opera Bohemia Ensemble, featuring some of Scotland's finest young musicians. Guaranteeing an evening of beautiful music and laughter, Schicchi is perfect for opera newbies and regular goers alike. Come and see how far the Donatti family will go to secure their fortune! 'A wealth of extraordinary fresh talent' (List). Event Price: £13 How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Klanghaus Sign language interpreted 19 & 20 August (August 19, 2014, 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm) Summerhall British Sign Language Escalator East to Edinburgh KlangHaus is a 360° visceral, enveloping experience challenging conventions of the live gig. An enigmatic salon saturated in sound and souls, soaked in layers of shifting colour, live music, projections: disorientating imagery altering observers’ perceptions. Very quiet, very loud – the show blends electronica, experimental-rock, improvisation, animation, shadow montage, illusion and narrative. Noise-art collaborators The Neutrinos and Sal Pittman put the vision and the breath back into listening. Event Price: £12 Event run: 1 - 24 August Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Big Red Bath August 19, 2014, 11:00 am - 11:45 am Pleasance British Sign Language Escalator East to Edinburgh Rubba dubba giggle, rubba dubba laugh! There’s magic to be found in the Big Red Bath. Children’s theatre innovators Full House are on a bubbly, barmy bath time adventure around the world and home again in a new and vibrant adaptaion of the popular children’s book by Julia Jarman and Adrian Reynolds. Made in association with Half Moon and directed by Chris Elwell. Featuring a soundtrack of indie folk beats from Paris pop trio We Were Evergreen. Event Price: £8 Event run: 3 - 24 August Event age suitability: 2 - 6 years How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com The Ukulele Evangelists Bang One Out August 18, 2014, 5:35 pm - 6:25 pm Surgeon’s Hall British Sign Language An alternative cabaret featuring outlandish music, riotous physical comedy and feral puppets, brought to you by tweedy funksters The Ukulele Evangelists. Prepare for channeling Elvis, a beginners' guide, badgers, armed and angry, and the financial crisis explained through the medium of contemporary dance. Virtuoso ukulele and thrash tambourine. There may be a spontaneous healing. Or perhaps an uncontrollable soiling. Watch a BSL trailer 'Sublime physical comedy' **** (Stage). 'Riotous high jinks' **** (Metro). www.slotmachinetheatre.com Event Price: £8 Event run: 1 - 23 August Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Breaking Down Barriers August 18, 2014, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Fringe Central Hearing Enhancement A discussion on approaches to working collaboratively with people who face barriers in participating in the arts. Join a mixed panel of experts to explore the different types of barriers that exist and the successful engagement techniques and models that are helping overcome them. Followed by Q&A. Guests will be announced on Twitter @fringecentral. Also in the Breaking Down Barriers Series: Language, Women in the Fringe and Early Years. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Wireless Theatre Presents: Every Day (August 18, 2014, 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm) Pleasance Dome Spoken Word, Hearing Enhancement Couples Who Changed The World 8 live radio play recordings about 8 couples who changed the way we live today. A different original story every day. To download these and over 150 award-winning dramas, visit wirelesstheatre.co.uk/fringe. Live radio recording, so there will be live equipment on stage and the actors will have scripts and be performing sound effects. Event Price: £10 Event run: 18 - 25 August How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Owen Wingrave August 17, 2014, 7:15 pm - 9:30 pm Kings Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement by Benjamin Britten Libretto Myfanwy Piper After Henry James Sung in English with English supertitles. How strongly would you value your principles, even if they brought you into conflict with your family and friends? Would you put yourself in danger to demonstrate what you believe? In 1968, as protests against the Vietnam War dominated the news, Britten responded to a BBC commission for a television opera by returning to a theme that had haunted him since the 1930s – pacifism. Using a libretto by Myfanwy Piper – his collaborator on The Turn of the Screw and Death in Venice – Owen Wingrave sets Henry James's story of one troubled young man's fight to escape from his family's militarism to music of angry intensity and desolate beauty. Event Price: £35 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Friday 15 and Sunday 17 August How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Organiser: Edinburgh International Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 473 2089 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.eif.co.uk Owen Wingrave Every 2 days until August 17, 2014 (August 17, 2014, 7:15 pm - 9:30 pm) Kings Theatre Hearing Enhancement, Captioned by Benjamin Britten Libretto Myfanwy Piper After Henry James Sung in English with English supertitles. How strongly would you value your principles, even if they brought you into conflict with your family and friends? Would you put yourself in danger to demonstrate what you believe? In 1968, as protests against the Vietnam War dominated the news, Britten responded to a BBC commission for a television opera by returning to a theme that had haunted him since the 1930s – pacifism. Using a libretto by Myfanwy Piper – his collaborator on The Turn of the Screw and Death in Venice – Owen Wingrave sets Henry James's story of one troubled young man's fight to escape from his family's militarism to music of angry intensity and desolate beauty. Event Price: £35 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at the lowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Friday 15 and Sunday 17 August How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Organiser: Edinburgh International Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 473 2089 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.eif.co.uk The Carousel August 17, 2014, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm Traverse Theatre Audio Description by Jennifer Tremblay, translated by Shelley Tepperman Nothing can stop the carousel. While driving to her dying mother’s bedside, a woman calls upon the spirit of her dead grandmother. So begins a quest through a labyrinth of memories. The Carousel is a journey that shatters the certainties of a woman marked by a pitiless landscape. Ultimately joy prevails, in a final ride on the carousel. A poignant one-woman play by celebrated Quebec dramatist Jennifer Tremblay, writer of The List, a Fringe sell-out for Stellar Quines, winner of Fringe First and Herald Angel Awards. Directed by Muriel Romanes and starring award-winning actress Maureen Beattie. www.stellarquines.com Bookings can be made with the fringe or directly with the Traverese Theatre. Event Price: £12 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 1 - 24 August Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com The James Plays August 17, 2014 Festival Theatre Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement, Captioned Three new plays about James I, II and III of Scotland, written by Rona Munro. On Sunday 17 August all three plays are performed on the same day, all with audio description and captioning. James I 12 noon – 2.30pm James II 4pm – 6.30pm James III 8.15 – 11.45pm James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock, James II: Day of the Innocents, and James III: The True Mirror – are a new cycle of history plays by award-winning playwright Rona Munro and directed by Laurie Sansom, Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Scotland, which are to be presented in an unprecedented co-production by theNational Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre of Great Britain, during the Edinburgh International Festival in August and at the National Theatre in London from September to October. This vividly-imagined trilogy brings to life three generations of Stewart Kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century. Each play stands alone as a unique vision of a country tussling with its past and future, with its own distinct theatrical atmosphere. Viewed together they create a complex and compelling narrative on Scottish culture and nationhood. Event Price: £35 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Sunday 10 - Friday 22 August How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Organiser: Edinburgh International Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 473 2089 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.eif.co.uk Voices in the Dark August 16, 2014, 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Edinburgh Book Festival Spoken Word, Hearing Enhancement A Soundscape of More than Words Surrender your senses to the darkened theatre and immerse yourself in nothing but the spoken word. Join us on a voyage of sound as we travel across a bright, rich and varied soundscape guided only by the words, wit and voices of an adventurous group of young poet-artists: Rhian Edwards, Joshua Idehen, William Letford and Rachel McCrum. A feast for the soul. Part of our Babble On - Spoken Word series of events. Event Price: £7 Venue discount information: Disability concessions and free tickets for carers available. How to book Organiser: Edinburgh International Book Festival Organiser Phone: 0845 373 5888 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edbookfest.co.uk Craig Hill: Give Him An Inch BSL interpreted on Saturday 16 and Friday 22 August 2014. (August 16, 2014, 7:20 pm - 8:20 pm) Underbelly British Sign Language 'Priceless!' (Scotsman). Strap yourself in for a Craig Hill thrill- a deliciously wicked evening of gloriously camp no-holds-barred comedy and pure, unadulterated fun. 'Hill actually has to wait until the audience stop laughing before he can start again. It's absolutely hilarious' (Edinburgh Evening News). 'Riotously funny!' (Independent). 'Hill had everyone in hysterics... this is one Highland Fling you'll never regret... or forget!' ****½ (Adelaide Advertiser). 'Absolutely hilarious!... A laugh-out-loud performance from beginning to end... Irresistible' (List). 'Wickedly subversive... Funny, charming and charismatic' (Metro). 'Funny as hell' (Scotland on Sunday). Sold out 2000-2013! @mrcraighill www.mrcraighill.com Event Price: £15.50 Event run: 31 July - 25 August 2014 Event age suitability: 16 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Luke Wright August 16, 2014, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Edinburgh Book Festival Spoken Word, Hearing Enhancement Fat Daddy The only chance to see Luke Wright’s new show in Edinburgh. While Bowie had Ziggy, Wright’s got back-combed, KFC-guzzler Fat Dandy. By turns funny and moving Fat Dandy looks at solitude, politics and Wright's dual life as a 'paunchy dad' and 'jobbing fop' on tour. Full of Hogarth-esque characters, this is poetry at its most fun and contemporary. Chunky Dory! Part of our Babble On - Spoken Word series of events. Event Price: £7 Venue discount information: Disability concessions and free tickets for carers available. How to book Organiser: Edinburgh International Book Festival Organiser Phone: 0845 373 5888 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edbookfest.co.uk Undisciplined August 16, 2014, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Edinburgh Book Festival Spoken Word, Hearing Enhancement Celebrating Wonderful Words On Spoken Word stages anything goes. Performers push boundaries and use elements of comedy, rap, theatre and music to create raw transgressive art. Today, we celebrate the joys of the spoken word with interactive theatre makers Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe, poet-filmmaker Ross Sutherland, and Martin Newell, a successful songwriter and the only living poet to have his work published on the front of a national newspaper. Part of our Babble On - Spoken Word series of events at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Event Price: £10 Venue discount information: Disability concessions and free tickets for carers available. How to book Organiser: Edinburgh International Book Festival Organiser Phone: 0845 373 5888 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edbookfest.co.uk 13 Sunken Years August 16, 2014, 2:05 pm - 3:10 pm Assembly Rooms Captioned Stellar Quines and Lung Has Three women, three generations, tied together not only by blood but also by the magic of the river that runs through their remote Finnish town. One day the mother disappears. It happened the day of her school graduation, her mother disappears and her grandmother is diagnosed with dementia. As Eva tries to make sense of her life now that pieces of her world are missing, past memories seem to rise out of the mist on the river. An atmospheric play that examines family, destiny and the journey that becomes life. Event Price: £13 Event run: 11 - 24 August Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com The Initiate August 16, 2014, 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Summerhall British Sign Language Paines Plough A British couple are seized by Somali pirates. In East London, a Somali taxi-driver decides to rescue them. Meeting disbelief with determination, he dismisses his wife’s fears and flies out to negotiate their release. Speeding from the banks of the Thames to the now unfamiliar world of his homeland, he confronts the family he left behind and the bravado of the defiant men he once called brothers. A thrilling tale of altruism, greed, and the search for how to belong from George Devine Awardwinning playwright Alexandra Wood. Event Price: £17 Event run: Aug 2, 4-5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15-16, 19, 21, 23 2014 How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Ten at Ten - Babble On Special August 16, 2014, 10:00 am - 10:10 am Edinburgh Book Festival Spoken Word, Hearing Enhancement Babble On - Spoken Word events at the Book Festival. In partnership with performance poet Luke Wright and produced by Becky Fincham, we have invited an eclectic range of voices to join us from Britain’s cutting edge spoken word scene. Babble On highlights the dynamism of spoken word in providing an unusual perspective on life in Britain today. For a unique Ten at Ten, join Edinburgh poet Jenny Lindsay for a special Spoken Word provocation to launch the day’s Babble On events. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Disability concessions and free tickets for carers available. How to book Organiser: Edinburgh International Book Festival Organiser Phone: 0845 373 5888 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edbookfest.co.uk The James Plays August 16, 2014 Festival Theatre British Sign Language by Rona Munro Three new plays about James I, II and III of Scotland, written by Rona Munro. On Saturday 16 August all three plays are performed on the same day, all with BSL interpretation. James I 12 noon - 2.30pm James II 4pm - 6.30pm James III 8.15 - 11.45pm James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock, James II: Day of the Innocents, and James III: The True Mirror – are a new cycle of history plays by award-winning playwright Rona Munro and directed by Laurie Sansom, Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Scotland, which are to be presented in an unprecedented co-production by theNational Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre of Great Britain, during the Edinburgh International Festival in August and at the National Theatre in London from September to October. This vividly-imagined trilogy brings to life three generations of Stewart Kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century. Each play stands alone as a unique vision of a country tussling with its past and future, with its own distinct theatrical atmosphere. Viewed together they create a complex and compelling narrative on Scottish culture and nationhood. Event Price: £35 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Sunday 10 - Friday 22 August How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Organiser: Edinburgh International Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 473 2089 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.eif.co.uk Daniel Sloss - Really...?! BSL interpreted on 15 & 23 August 2014 (August 15, 2014, 10:00 pm - August 23, 2014, 11:00 pm) Venue 150@EICC British Sign Language New show from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox. Still just 23, Daniel has clocked up six consecutive sold-out Fringe seasons, toured extensively through the UK, Australia and USA, appeared on TV shows including Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Russell Howard’s Good News, Conan O’Brien and released his debut DVD. ‘Charming, selfdeprecating, genuinely funny!’ (Time Out). ‘Meteoric… Has them rolling in the aisles’ **** (Scotsman). ‘A genuine twinkle in his eye and a sharp line in observational humour… The humour is funny, intelligent and charming. As is Sloss.’ **** (Evening News). ‘Star in the making… Unstoppable!’ (Telegraph). Event Price: £17.50 Event run: Jul 31 Aug 1-19, 21-24 2014 Event age suitability: 16 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Jimeoin...is it?! BSL interpreted on 15 & 23 August 2014 (August 15, 2014, 7:30 pm - August 23, 2014, 8:30 pm) Venue 150@EICC British Sign Language Hilarious world-class stand-up from one of live comedy’s internationally acclaimed masters! Jimeoin returns to Edinburgh with his ever-evolving live show. A fluid mixture of signature observations, with a hawk-eyed dissection of more of the absurdities of life and how we live it. You've seen him on TV, including Live at the Apollo, Royal Variety Performance, Channel 4’s O2 Comedy Gala. But nothing beats seeing Jimeoin live! ‘Hilarious! ...it gets no better than this... Brilliant!’ (Time Out). ‘Classic nonsense… Stand-up comedy at its best’ (Scotsman). ‘Comedy of the highest order… Inspired ramblings!’ (Independent). ‘Comic genius… Hilarious!’ (Evening News). Event Price: £17.50 Event run: Jul 31 Aug 1-24 2014 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Lorraine and Alan August 15, 2014, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Pleasance British Sign Language Escalator East to Edinburgh A modern myth with live sound design from the 2014 recipients of the Charlie Hartill Fund for Theatre. Alan. 23. Recent graduate in Marine Biology. (High 2:2.) Son of Blakeney, Norfolk. Bedroom dweller and seal tour guide extraordinaire. One August, Alan discovers a young woman lying amongst the seals and their lives become irreversibly entwined. But who is Lorraine? Where does she come from? And why does she take so long in the bath? Lorraine & Alan is a retelling of the Orkney Selkie myth with atmospheric live sound, song and several hundred plastic bottles. Event Price: £9 Event age suitability: PG How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com The James Plays August 14, 2014, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement, Captioned James III: The True Mirror by Rona Munro Like James III himself, the final instalment of Rona Munro’s extraordinary trilogy is colourful, brash and unpredictable. It turns its eye on the women of the royal court, both lowly and high born, who prove to be its beating heart. Queen Margaret, married to James III is played by Sofie Gråbøl, most known to audiences as Sarah Lund in the Danish TV series, The Killing. On Thursday August 14th 7.30pm, James III will be performed. James III of Scotland. A man who's irresistible, charismatic, a man of fashion and culture. A man with big dreams ...and no budget to realise any of them. Event Price: £35 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Sunday 10 - Friday 22 August How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Organiser: Edinburgh International Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 473 2089 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.eif.co.uk Show Off August 14, 2014, 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Pleasance British Sign Language Escalator East to Edinburgh You’re so vain you probably think this show is about you. But it’s actually about Figs in Wigs – the lowbrow answer to avant-garde. Show Off delves deep into our shallow digital existence, examining how social media has bred a new form of narcissism. Masquerading as a variety show this desperately glitzy number continually reinvents itself to satisfy even the most depleted of attention spans. Event Price: £10 Event run: 1 - 25 August 2014 Event age suitability: 12+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com The Snow Dog Sign language interpreted 14 & 18 August (August 14, 2014, 11:00 am - 11:50 am) Pleasance British Sign Language Escalator East to Edinburgh This fun and uplifting show is a poignant and playful exploration of love and loss for children and their families. Full House Theatre fuses music, song, dance and puppetry to create children’s theatre at its spellbinding best. The story follows a young girl’s journey around the world as she discovers her grandfather’s magical past as an arctic explorer. The show also features a real life Siberian Husky! Event Price: £8 Event run: 1 - 23 August Event age suitability: 6 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Milk Presents: Self Service August 13, 2014, 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm Northern Stage British Sign Language Escalator East to Edinburgh A punk-style queer voyage through what ‘normal’ really means, featuring original live music, handcrafted animation and tacky politics. Total Theatre Award nominees present their latest deliciously decadent, raucously low-fi, toe-tapping, gender-bending “cabaret of the most welcoming kind” (British Theatre Guide). This show spans decades of popular culture, political upheaval and quaint normalness. It episodically and sporadically attempts to define the ‘indefinable’. Ann Widdecombe, Madonna and the Beatnik generation are thrust together in a theatrical feat that wears high-heels a size too small and sunglasses a size too big. Event Price: £11 Event run: 2 - 23 August Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Art Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 226 6558 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edinburghartfestival.com/ The James Plays August 13, 2014, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement, Captioned James II: Day of The Innocents by Rona Munro This vividly-imagined trilogy brings to life three generations of Stewart Kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century. Each play stands alone as a unique vision of a country tussling with its past and future, with its own distinct theatrical atmosphere. Viewed together they create a complex and compelling narrative on Scottish culture and nationhood. On Wednesday August 13th 7.30pm, James II will be performed. In the second of Rona Munro’s dynastical trilogy, innocent games merge with murderous intent in a violent royal playground of shifting realities and paranoia. Event Price: £35 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Sunday 10 - Friday 22 August How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Organiser: Edinburgh International Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 473 2089 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.eif.co.uk The Flood Sign language interpreted 13 & 14 August (August 13, 2014, 6:30 pm - August 14, 2014, 7:25 pm) Summerhall British Sign Language Escalator East to Edinburgh Set in the bloody battlefields of WW1, The Flood recreates the horror of the conflict with an explicit depiction of the slaughter forced upon millions of soldiers. A parallel love story explores the devastating effects on the women that loved those men. As the insanity of the war intensifies, it follows this emerging relationship as it is irreversibly affected by unfolding events. Switching between the visceral horror of war, to an increasingly passionate yet ultimately tragic love affair, Badac present an intense portrayal of the emotional and psychological effects of wars past, present and, God forbid, future. Event Price: £12 Event run: 1 - 24 August 2014 Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Domestic Labour August 13, 2014, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Summerhall British Sign Language Escalator East to Edinburgh War, bicycles and the withdrawal method. A love story; a love story between a man and woman, East and West, about the mundane and the monumental, the personal and the political, the dust behind the bed and the Iranian baby boom… A love story told through the nitty gritty of daily life – the rituals of cleaning revealing tales about past girlfriends, marriage, Islamic law and Brigitte Bardot – as the man and his absent wife negotiate the very domestic battle over who does the washing up. An inter disciplinary performance in which writer Mehrdad Seyf and visual artist Chris Dobrowolski reinterpret not only the physical functions of everyday household appliances but the power games of equality. Domestic Labour is inspired by 1970′s Feminism… and its impact on men. Brought to you by the award -winning 30 Bird, winners of the Best of Fringe Award 2012 and Total Theatre Award Nominees (innovation and experimentation). Darkly humorous and visually rich, Domestic Labour highlights the absurd details of our daily lives and their resonance within the wider world. Warning: Contains loud noises! Event Price: £12 Event run: 1 - 23 August 2014 Event age suitability: 12 + contains strong language How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com The James Plays August 12, 2014, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Festival Theatre Touch Tour, Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement, Captioned James I: The Key Shall Keep The Lock by Rona Munro This vividly-imagined trilogy brings to life three generations of Stewart Kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century. Each play stands alone as a unique vision of a country tussling with its past and future, with its own distinct theatrical atmosphere. Viewed together they create a complex and compelling narrative on Scottish culture and nationhood. On Tuesday August 12th 7.30pm, James I will be performed. Bold and irreverent storytelling explores the complex character of this colourful Stewart king – a poet, a lover, a law-maker but also the product of a harsh political system. James I of Scotland was captured when he was only 13 and became King of Scots in an English prison. 18 years later he's finally delivered back home with a ransom on his head and a new English bride. He's returning to a poor nation, the royal coffers are empty and his nobles are a pack of wolves ready to tear him apart at the first sign of weakness. But James has his own ideas about how to be a king and, after 18 years, he finally has the chance to realise them. James is determined to bring the rule of law to a land riven by warring families, but that struggle will force him to make terrible choices if he is to save himself, his Queen and the crown. Event Price: £35 Venue discount information: Patrons with disabilities can buy tickets for Stalls seats at thelowest standard price available, with their companion receiving the same discount. Patrons using our Captioning Service can also receive this discount for Dress Circle seats. Event run: Sunday 10 - Friday 22 August How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 529 6000 Organiser: Edinburgh International Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 473 2089 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.eif.co.uk Collegium Vocale Gent August 12, 2014, 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Greyfriars Kirk Music / Sound / Aural Philippe Herreweghe Conductor Lassus Lagrime di San Pietro A beautifully focused sound and a fine vocal blend are among the many exceptional qualities that define Philippe Herreweghe's Collegium Vocale Gent as one of the world's most accomplished vocal ensembles, especially as interpreters of early music. Exploiting the warm, resonant acoustics of Greyfriars Kirk, they perform The Tears of Saint Peter by Renaissance composer Roland de Lassus, a cycle of 20 exquisite sacred madrigals that powerfully express grief, regret and forgiveness in music of moving simplicity and consoling contemplation. Event Price: £20 How to book Organiser: Edinburgh International Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 473 2089 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.eif.co.uk The Sma Room Seance Every day until August 17, 2014 (August 12, 2014, 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm) Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s Music / Sound / Aural Madame Lozatska's musical seance is getting out of hand. While trying to contact the ghost of Scots poet William Soutar, she is hijacked by the unruly spirits of his friends, family, and rival poet Hugh McDiarmid. Her house band, too, is possessed. Soutar's poems weave their way into the nowhaunting, now-rousing jazz and folk-inspired songs. A unique, fresh and very funny take on Soutar's bitter-sweet life. Music created and performed by Debra Salem (vocals), Paul Harrison (piano), Kevin MacKenzie (guitar), and featuring Patsy Reid (violin/cello). Jennifer Bates plays Madame Lozatska. Sandy Thomson (Poorboy) directs. Event Price: £12 Event run: 12 - 17 August 2014 How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Guinea Pigs On Trial August 12, 2014, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Summerhall British Sign Language Escalator East to Edinburgh Total Theatre/Arches Brick Award winners 2013 return – on drugs Sh!t Theatre have pretty good bodies. So naturally they are trying to sell them. Using spoken word, song, satire, absurdity and movement, performance art duo Sh!t Theatre follow up their multi-award winning show Job Seekers Anonymous 2013 with Guinea Pigs On Trial. Pharmaceutical trials such as FLU CAMP are being marketed to jobseekers and students as a way of making money, essentially turning poor people into guinea pigs. So Sh!t Theatre’s Becca and Louise are applying for drug trials work as r&d for the show and as a fundraising strategy for their Fringe run. They have signed up for trials testing gastro-enteritis, asthma and flu, trials for heroin addiction and botox for bladder problems… Delving into the murky ethics of big pharmaceutical companies, Sh!t Theatre ask – is ‘guinea pigging’ a good cure for an empty bank account? And what happens when profit takes priority in the creation of medicine? Event Price: £5 Event run: 2 - 23 August 2014 How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Birdwatchers' Wives August 12, 2014, 12:30 am - 1:30 pm Summerhall British Sign Language Meet Rita Grebe, a seven-foot woman who thinks _x0003_she’s a bird. The latest alter-ego of performance artist Caroline Smith was researched with British birdwatchers – and now Rita’s hellbent on turning the archetype of the twitcher on its head. Dressed in elaborate Great Crested Grebe plumage, Smith questions what happens when a bird runs the show and the label of ‘human’ no longer applies. Expect the comical and surreal, for not everything is what it seems… Continuing Smith’s themes of uprooting the everyday in order to uncover and examine the strange. Event Price: £12 Event run: 2 - 24 August Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Raymondo Every day until August 24, 2014 (August 11, 2014, 2:50 am - 4:00 pm) Summerhall Spoken Word Escalator East to Edinburgh A show about escape, love, survival and art. And pigeons. Raymondo and Sparky have been locked in the cellar underneath their house for six years. An accident involving a pigeon enables their escape. But do the brothers have the requisite skills to survive a haphazard and cruel world? Raymondo is a story of brotherhood, loss, incarceration, escape, survival, desire, art and resilience. It is a story about the shittiness of others, the kindness of others and Love. Simply told by a woman with a microphone and an atmospheric live score of guitars, loops and keyboard, Raymondo is a raw, dark, funny and tender lyrical narrative that will sear through your defences straight to your heart. Written and performed by Annie Siddons. Performed by Daniel Green. Composed by Marcus Hamblett. Directed by Justin Audibert. Event Price: £11 Event run: 11 - 24 August Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com The Democratic Set - talk August 11, 2014, 2:30 am - 3:50 pm The Hub Speech to Text, British Sign Language Back to Back Theatre Company and Lung Ha's Theatre Company Australia's Back to Back Theatre and Edinburgh-based Lung Ha's Theatre Company come together for THE DEMOCRATIC SET residency, a rapid series of short live performances and screen-based video portraits developed by Back to Back Theatre and created in collaboration with local actors resulting in a short film. Responding to the needs of the local performers, the film explores an alternative view of the world through some very personal portraits. In this discussion and screening event, the two companies talk about the project and the finished film. Back to Back Theatre's Artistic Director Bruce Gladwin also answers questions about his ground-breaking production Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, which will be shown during Festival 2014. Event Price: £6 How to book Organiser: Edinburgh International Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 473 2089 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.eif.co.uk Unfaithful August 10, 2014, 6:00 pm - 7:20 pm Traverse Theatre Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement, British Sign Language by Owen MCafferty Can relationships withstand the brutality of betrayal? Joan and Tom, Tara and Peter; two couples struggling to comprehend their roles as lovers, partners and individuals. As Tom and Tara face the tedium of daily life, how far will they go to feel their hearts beat again? When their paths cross, the emotional fall out will be explosive. From Owen McCafferty, writer of the Fringe First Award-winning Quietly, a stark and searing glimpse into the reality of relationships - the unspoken desires, the piercing regrets, and the postponed conversations that mark us all. Part of Made in Scotland showcase. Event Price: £13 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 3-24 August Event age suitability: 16 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Holst's The Planets August 9, 2014, 8:00 pm - 10:15 pm Usher Hall Music / Sound / Aural Donald Runnicles Conductor Michaela Kaune Soprano Edinburgh Festival Chorus Christopher Bell Chorus Master Britten Sinfonia da Requiem Berg Seven Early Songs Holst The Planets Colin Matthews Pluto The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra returns under its formidable Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles for one of the grandest orchestral showpieces in the repertoire: Holst's The Planets. From its gripping depiction of war in Mars to the serene beauty of Venus, it is a piece of immense profundity and unforgettable melody – and it is followed by composer Colin Matthews's dazzling Pluto, written in 2000 to complement Holst's existing suite. Beforehand, Runnicles and the BBC SSO perform Britten's moving Sinfonia da Requiem, a deeply felt pacifi st work that prefi gures his famous War Requiem (performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra on Thursday 14 August) by more than two decades. Berg's opulent Seven Early Songs show the influence of Richard Strauss, Wagner and even Debussy, and are performed by German soprano Michaela Kaune. Event Price: £44 Venue discount information: Concession prices are only available for certain performances. Please ask when you book or check online. How to book Organiser: Edinburgh International Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 473 2089 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.eif.co.uk Spoiling August 9, 2014, 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm Traverse Theatre Audio Description, Hearing Enhancement, British Sign Language by John McCann In front of the world's media, Scotland’s Foreign Minister will shortly deliver a keynote speech outlining the newly-independent nation’s relationship with the former UK. But there’s a problem. She’s refusing to speak the words she’s been given. There’s something else she wants to say. At odds with her Party, and pursued by a harassed Party worker, she has a decision to make; toe the line or take back control. This timely piece, directed by award-winning Traverse Artistic Director Orla O'Loughlin, moves effortlessly from heartfelt political satire to vivid, soaring lyricism. Never has an iron fist within a velvet glove delivered such a punch. Bookings can be made with the fringe or directly with the Traverse Theatre. Event Price: £18 Venue discount information: Standard concessions are available for:<br /> Students, Under 18s, over 60s, disability concession, youngscot cardholders, members of entertainment unions.<br /> <br /> Complimentary companion tickets are available to anyone receiving the Disability or DLA concessions on request.<br /> Event run: 1 - 24 August Event age suitability: 14 + How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 228 1404 Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Book Festival - BSL interpreted events August 9, 2014, 10:00 am - August 25, 2014, 9:00 pm Edinburgh Book Festival British Sign Language British Sign Language interpretation is available for selected events in the programme. See a list here: https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/british-sign-language-events You can also request BSL interpretation for any other event in the programme. How to request BSL interpretation: • Choose an event • Buy your tickets • Email [email protected] to request an interpreter for this event • Requests will be confirmed by 11 July and 25 July Please note: Not all requests are possible. Requests cannot be accepted after 25 July. Tickets must be bought in advance of any request. If a request is not possible you will be refunded. Event Price: Free Venue discount information: Disability concessions and free tickets for carers available. How to book Organiser: Edinburgh International Book Festival Organiser Phone: 0845 373 5888 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edbookfest.co.uk Forest Fringe August 9, 2014 Out Of The Blue, Drill Hall Spoken Word, Music / Sound / Aural Join Artlink and Forest Fringe for a day of immersive theatre and spoken word events. For people with visual impairments we have selected a programme which rather than focusing on the visual, stimulates our senses using sound, touch and taste. There are three performances and on-going projects in the Drill Hall café. Come along for the day or select the events that interest you. Susan Humble from Artlink and Andy Field, co-director of Forest will meet you to introduce the programme and familiarise you with the space. Programme of performances Verity Standen - Hug 12.30pm. An immersive choral sound bath performed by twenty singers. Each audience member is blindfolded and hugged by a singer. Unable to visually gauge their surroundings, participants experience the performance through sound, breath and vibrations of the body as the choir of voices deliver the song. Playing with sense and perspective, Hug is a tender experience for curious souls… a unique examination of the human voice’s illusive power over our emotions. Christopher Brett Bailey – This is How We Die 2.30pm. Savage, surreal, hypnotic and apocalyptic, This is How We Die blends spoken word, storytelling, caustic humour and gutter philosophy into a dizzying exorcism of a world that is convinced it is dying. With echoes of Lenny Bruce, William Burroughs, beat poetry and B-movies, This is How We Die is a prime slice of surrealist trash and a blood-soaked love letter to the depraved, the depressed and the death-obsessed Molly Naylor and Iain Ross - If Destroyed Still True 6pm. A new storytelling show from Molly Naylor and musician Iain Ross. Last year Molly saw an old school friend in a sauna. Rather than engage in small talk, she found a way to hide from her in what’s essentially a small, hot shed. It was weird. It occurred to her that her relationship with her teenage self might be slightly dysfunctional. Part autobiography, part fictional story about 15-year-old Jane’s battle to stop her house falling into the ocean; If Destroyed Still True is a show about youth, friendship, growing up and our relationship with our teenage selves. Contains loud guitars, the sea and cringing. Ongoing Events Rohanne Udall and Paul Hughes - The Imaginary Festivals Project All Day. A performance starts when you first hear about it, and ends when you last think about it. The Imaginary Festivals Project is a collective game of make believe, an evolving installation, a review sheet and a fictitious venue. Join artists Rohanne Udall and Paul Hughes as they write, collect and map a festival of imagined and impossible work. We invite you to come and help us write the art that might never or can’t ever be. Hunt & Darton - Not Great British Bake-Off All Day. The creators of Hunt & Darton Cafe bring you Hunt & Darton’s Not Great British Bake Off. Prepare to be totally underwhelmed as the general public go head-to-head to be crowned champion. Join in the baking or the ridiculous judging over this three-day event. Hunt & Darton as your hosts and adjudicators, have created a ridiculous set of rules and criteria to judge the cake creations. Is your cake tropical or absurd enough, how is it’s movement literacy? What is the concept behind your cream topping? The prize, a trip to Camber Sands Holiday Park – Pontins, of course! All events at Forest Fringe are free, donations welcome. Event Price: Free Event run: 6 - 17 August 2014 How to book Organiser: ArtLink Edinburgh & Lothians Organiser Phone: 0131 229 3555 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk Six Billion Suns Daily performance (August 8, 2014, 2:30 am - 3:30 pm) Zoo Captioned Black holes in our memory. Production inspired by Alzheimer’s disease with original music by Pawel Passini, winner of the Total Theatre Award and Herald Angel 2011. Actors were in direct contact with dementia patients in order to learn their roles. ‘I spoke to a friend today, fellow sufferer of Alzheimer’s, regarding last night’s performance. She was ecstatic. Seeing herself in many situations she laughed a great deal’ (Nina Balácková, member of Alzheimer Europe). Black holes aren´t completely black! Remember what you had for lunch yesterday? Are you sure? Don´t forget to remember when we are playing! Event Price: £8 Event run: 8 - 16 August Event age suitability: 16 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Forest Fringe - Day of BSL interpreted performances August 8, 2014 Out Of The Blue, Drill Hall British Sign Language For the second year running Forest will be working with Glasgow’s Solar Bear Theatre Company to host a day of BSL-interpreted performances. This programme will include a lunchtime talk, Hunt & Darton’s Not Great British Bake-Off and shows by Louise Orwin, Molly Naylor & Iain Ross and Bryony Kimmings & Tim Grayburn. Staff and volunteers from Solar Bear will be on hand all day to assist with any questions or issues relating to the programme. A hearing loop will also be available on request. Event Price: Free How to book Organiser: Solar Bear Venue phone number: 0131 555 7100 Venue website: http://www.outoftheblue.org.uk/ Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.solarbear.org.uk/ Near Gone Sign language interpreted 7 and 23 August (August 7, 2014, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm) Summerhall British Sign Language Escalator East to Edinburgh Winner of Pulse Suitcase Prize 2013, a heart-warming story of survival comes to Edinburgh. Two performers have a difficult story to tell. They come on stage and launch themselves into an hour long attempt to put into words the utterly unspeakable. Delivered in English and Bulgarian, with pounding gypsy-inspired music, this beautiful performance fills and empty space with two performers, hundreds of fresh flowers and a storm of emotion. A performance piece that packs a punch – transforming your very sense of what it is to be a mother, a father, a child. And you’ll leave feeling more fully alive than ever. Devised and performed by Katherina Radeva and Alister Lownie Dramaturgy: Charlotte Vincent Additional Direction: Charlotte Vincent Event Price: £10 Event run: 1-23 August 2014 Event age suitability: 14+ How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Speech Sucks: The Future Signs August 6, 2014, 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm Stand in the Square British Sign Language You speak 15,000 words a day. You read 10 times more. You're force-fed 50 gigabytes of data daily. Language is tired: mangled, mauled and meaningless. We've exhausted it. But we can breathe life into language – by learning to sign. Signing opens your mind to a completely different way of seeing life and puts the world in the palm of your hand. And best of all – the machines can't do it. Because when you sign, your body becomes your language. Can Professor Graham Turner (Heriot-Watt University) persuade you to sign up for tomorrow? Event Price: £5 Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com La Boheme August 4, 2014, 7:30 pm - August 9, 2014, 9:30 pm St Andrews & St Georges West Captioned Sung in Italian with English surtitles Opera Bohemia, Scotland's dynamic professional company, celebrates five years at the Fringe with performances of their original critically acclaimed production of Puccini's masterpiece. A star cast of Scottish singers from 'one of the most exciting new opera companies in the country' (Herald) includes Catriona Clark, Alistair Digges, Douglas Nairne, Marie Claire Breen, Ross McInroy, Christopher Nairne and Nicholas Cowie. This intimate production by John Wilkie, accompanied by piano (Laura Baxter) and violin (Katie Jackson) promises to be a memorable night for opera lovers and newcomers alike. 'This company is a wealth of extraordinary fresh talent' (List). Performances 4, 5, and 9 August. Event Price: £13 Event run: 4 - 9 August How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Dim Diolch Daily performance (August 4, 2014, 5:00 pm - August 9, 2014, 5:45 pm) The Space on the Mile Captioned Welsh language production with live English captions. The tragic true story of American scientist George Price, the first person to present the selflessness equation, helped develop radiation for cancer and invented computer-aided design with IBM. In 1970s London, George Price abandoned his career in a mission to shelter and comfort homeless alcoholics and ultimately falls victim to his own theories. At the age of 52, driven mad by the implications of his research, he took his own life. ‘If you see one Welsh language production this year, demand to see this’ (Paul Griffiths, Y Cymro). 2 for 1 offer 4 and 5 August. Event Price: £6 Event run: 4 - 9 August Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Error 404 August 3, 2014, 12:35 pm - 1:25 pm Just the Tonic at the Caves British Sign Language Delving into the Internet's dark corners and playful spaces, a cast of young adults reveal truths and share stories, questioning our fashionable yet potentially harmful online lives. This is Error 404: Please DO NOT switch off your mobile. Using live music, audience interaction and powerful storytelling, Error 404 is inspired by wider issues in the media and the cast's real experiences - including their challenge to last a whole month Internet free! With these issues under the spotlight, Internet users both on and off stage will be forced to confront their relationship with the web. Event Price: £3.50 Event run: 1 - 23 August Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Jim Lambie - Saturday tours Saturday tours (August 2, 2014, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm) Fruitmarket Gallery Hearing Enhancement Free tours every Saturday afternoon learning about the work of one of Scotland’s most internationally significant artists. Known for visually compelling, generous and beguiling work which attracts both popular and critical acclaim, Lambie came to prominence with Zobop, a floor-based sculptural intervention that consists of continuous lines of multi-coloured vinyl tape. Lambie’s work makes its magic from relatively humble materials – tinfoil and coat hangers, jackets, mirrors, records, turntables, potato sacks, plastic bags and household paint. This exhibition offers the opportunity to trace the development of Lambie’s sculptural language. The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication that celebrates one of Jim Lambie’s most generous sculptures: a poetry club he established in Glasgow in 2012. Featuring music and poetry from a range of performers including Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Liz Lochhead and John Giorno, the poetry club has over the last 2 years hosted a rich assemblage of some of the people who, in Lambie’s words, ‘give us our dreams’. Event Price: Free Opening times: Mon—Sat 11am—6pm, Sun 12—5pm Event run: 27 June - 19 October How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 225 2383 Venue phone number: 0131 225 2383 Venue website: http://fruitmarket.co.uk/ Love Crushes Valour Every Day (August 2, 2014, 2:30 am - August 12, 2014, 3:20 pm) Lola Lo No Spoken Word / Visual Only Warm-hearted mime taking ordinary objects to an illusionary level, coupled with mask movement that captures your emotions, with a finale of a love story from Japan that demands a love so brave it may never happen. Performed by international mime artist, Simon Peter (Pipi Pierre). Although Simon has performed in over 20 countries, this will be his first time at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Simon loves to bring a fusion of eastern and western outlooks into his performances. Event Price: Free Event run: 2 - 12 August 2014 Event age suitability: 16 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Loud Poets Not every night (August 1, 2014, 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm) Scottish Storytelling Centre Spoken Word This is slam-style, make some noise, fist-thumping, pint-drinking, side-tickling, heart-wrenching poetry. This is poetry for the masses. This is the spoken word revolution. Featuring the best spoken word artists from Scotland and beyond. Performing with a live band, meaning an exciting, different show every night. Note - not performed every night. Performances on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 20, 22, 24 August. Two for one deal available 4 and 5 August. Event Price: £8 Event run: 1 - 24 August Event age suitability: 12 + May contain strong language and adult themes. How to book Venue contact for bookings: 0131 556 9579 Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Athletes Daily performance (August 1, 2014, 1:00 pm - August 17, 2014, 1:25 pm) Dancebase No Spoken Word / Visual Only Winner of The Place Prize for Dance 2013 sponsored by Bloomberg, Athletes is a work on competition viewed as tension between man and machine. Three enigmatic figures shift from solidarity to cruelty in a sparsely beautiful futuristic landscape created by the atmospheric, eye-slitting lights of Lucy Hansom and Michael Mannion. The costumes were created by fashion designer Brooke Roberts in collaboration with Kishan Maynard-Clarke. 'I wanted to create a dark piece using brightness, to build an engine using bodies, to show hate using love. In Athletes things constantly transform into their opposite' (Riccardo Buscarini). 2 for 1 ticket deal 5 August. Event Price: £10 Event run: 1 - 17 August Event age suitability: 12 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com All Back to Bowie's Every day until August 24, 2014 (August 1, 2014, 12:20 pm - 1:20 pm) Stand in the Square Spoken Word David Bowie said ‘Scotland, stay with us’. At the Fringe, a group of Scottish artists take him up on his kind invitation. So pull up a futon, it’s all back to Bowie’s for an #indyref mix of politics, poetry, polemic and pop. Different guests every day make for an hour of gentle thought and hard day-dreaming. If you’re obsessed with indy, undecided, federalist curious, or polymorphously politically perverse, David Bowie’s yurt of thought is the place for you. (Created by David Greig, Swimmer One, Cora Bissett, Karine Polwart, Peter Arnott and more). Two for one ticket deal available 4 and 5 August. Event Price: £8 Event run: 1 - 24 August How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Dalziel + Scullion: Immersion August 1, 2014 - September 13, 2014 Dovecot Studios Touch Tour, Music / Sound / Aural An exciting and extraordinary new commission from Dovecot, turning the gallery into an immersive and experiential space with sound and tactile qualities, created by Dundee based artists Dalziel+Scullion. Dalziel + Scullion’s practice explores the complex, and at times strained relationship, between mankind and the natural world. Tumadh: Immersion continues to investigate the artist’s understanding of different responses and engagements with landscape. Event Price: Free Event run: Monday - saturday 10.30am - 5.30pm How to book Venue phone number: 0131 550 3660 Venue website: http://dovecotstudios.com/ Circus Incognitus Daily performance (July 31, 2014, 4:00 pm - 5:05 pm) Hill Street Solo Theatre No Spoken Word / Visual Only Jamie Adkins is a performer in the vaudeville tradition of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. With no hi-tech distractions, his irresistible character heroically battles with the everyday objects of life, permanently on the verge of disaster… moving but hilarious. He treats the audience as a partner and as a result, the show is fresh and keeps everyone enthralled and on the edge of their seats. Hundreds of performances in 22 countries and everywhere he goes, the public, adults and children alike, laugh out loud at the humour and marvel at the multi-talented performance of Jamie in Circus Incognitus. 2 for 1 ticket deal 4 and 5 August. No performance 6 and 12 August. Event Price: £14 Event run: 31 July - 24 August How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Zelda - The Last Flapper Daily performance (July 31, 2014, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm) Hill Street Solo Theatre Captioned by William Luce “I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.” William Luce’s play for one-woman performer celebrates the life and legacy of Zelda Fitzgerald, one of the most intriguing women of the twentieth century. Zelda didn’t seem to care about any of the obstructions she had to face. She was full of life, talent and love and spread them all around her regardless of the uptight society she lived in. Romania’s Play the Spotlight Theatre likes to remember her as a great soul, a devoted wife, and a visionary human being but most of all, an extremely gifted writer, painter and ballet dancer. This stunning solo is performed by renowned film, TV and theatre artist Iona Pavelescu, awarded Best Actress at New York City’s Independent Film Festival 2013. 2 for 1 deal 4 and 5 August. No performance 12 August. Event Price: £10 Event run: 31 July - 24 August Event age suitability: 16 + How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Animal Farm Daily performance (July 31, 2014, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm) Assembly George Square Captioned Performed in the Georgian language with English surtitles. Orwell’s satirical masterpiece staged by Georgia’s premier theatre company. Olivier Award winner Guy Masterson directs a cast of thirty in an epic new production of stunning physicality. From the home state of Josef Stalin, the world famous Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre poignantly recreates the barnyard satire that exposes his totalitarian abuses. ‘The richness and beauty of the Georgian theatre tradition shines through’ (Scotsman on Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre). 2 for 1 offer available 4 and 5 August. Event Price: £15 Event run: 31 July - 24 August How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Organiser Phone: 0131 226 0002 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edfringe.com Currents Every Day (July 31, 2014, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm) Easter Road Music / Sound / Aural Constructed entirely from discarded computer fans, Yann Seznec's new work is a physical and sonic experience, drawing on real-time weather data from around the world to move air around the visitor. The installation will be created from hundreds of fans controlled by real-time weather data, and drawing on wind conditions in South Africa, New Zealand, England, Canada and India, and will offer a portrait, at once accurate and abstract, of the Commonwealth. If Seznec’s earlier works have made visible hidden natural processes that surround us, Currents allows us to experience large scale global movements (economic and meteorological) in microcosm. Artist and musician Yann Seznec often uses technology as a medium to reveal natural processes that are imperceptible to the human eye or ear. Currents expands Seznec’s interest in technology as a tool, to consider how it shapes our environment. Computer fans are now a ubiquitous technology, used to cool down machinery when we produce, consume or analyse information. Frequently discarded, the fans point to our obsession with change, as well as the realities of a global economy that make it cheaper to produce anew rather than repair. Event Price: Free Opening times: Mon-Sun, 10am-6pm Event run: 31 July - 31 August How to book Organiser: Edinburgh Art Festival Organiser Phone: 0131 226 6558 Organiser Email: [email protected] Organiser Website: http://www.edinburghartfestival.com/ Jupiter Artland Open Thursday - Sunday (May 17, 2014, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm) Jupiter Artland Audio Description, No Spoken Word / Visual Only Jupiter Artland is a contemporary sculpture garden in the grounds of Bonnington House, outside Edinburgh. It is a garden of discovery and surprises. Jupiter Artland features works by many of today’s leading artists, sculptors and land artists. many of these have been commissioned and then constructed in situ. The relationship of each artwork with its specific topographical location is a crucial feature of the artland, that is, art within the landscape. Jupiter Artland is an 80-acre ancient woodland. The artworks are exhibited in a natural outdoor environment; many of the paths are unpaved and rough. There is a cafe and shop within Jupiter Artland. Event Price: £8.50 Venue discount information: Free to blue badge holders Opening times: Thu-Sun 10am - 5pm How to book Venue contact for bookings: Book online or e-mail [email protected] or call 01506 889900 Venue phone number: 01506 889900 Venue website: http://www.jupiterartland.org/
