LLC at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and International Festival

Edinburgh hosts a range of festivals during the summer months, including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the International Festival. Find out what staff, students and alumni are getting up to at both these festivals in 2024.

Lights Out

Date and time - 4 August, 7:30pm to 8:15pm

Venue - Just the Tonic at the Caves

Festival - Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Featured LLC guests - Rae Webb (English Literature), Louis Handley (English Literature and History), Rue Richardson (English Literature), and Ching Zhang (MSc Literature and Modernity)

In brief - Staged by a group of LLC students, this play follows a conversation between two sisters, going from funny and intimate to something altogether more revealing. Audience members will start to question whether ignorance is truly bliss, as well as how reactions shape the moral perception of an event.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Date and time -  6 to 10 August, 4:15pm to 6:45pm

Venue - Paradise in Augustines, The Sanctuary

Festival - Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Featured LLC guest - Hunter King (MSc Intermediality)

In brief - A comedic, musical take on the spelling bee, this show follows six quirky students in their quest for the coveted first place trophy. Co-directed by MSc Intermediality student Hunter King and accompanied by even quirkier adults, audience members, juice boxes, magic feet and the unfortunate effects of puberty, join the spellers on their journey through a series of increasingly difficult and hilarious words.

Slash

Date and time - 6 to 11 August, 4:55pm to 5:50pm

Venue - Bedlam Theatre

Festival - Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Featured LLC guest - Minnie Cross (English Literature), Huw Turnbull (MSc Playwriting) Fiona Forster (English Literature)

In brief - Murder? Mystery? Toilets?! Staged by a trio of LLC students, Slash is a new black comedy whodunnit set in the toilets at a school reunion. When three friends and one mysterious stranger find themselves locked in the boys’ toilets at a school reunion with the murdered body of a former classmate, they're forced to dig up things that they had long since tried to bury.

The Dink Rodgers Show

Date and time - 6 to 9 August, 7:30pm to 8:25pm

Venue - Just the Tonic at the Caves

Festival - Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Featured LLC guest - Anna Yarwood (Arabic and Persian)

In brief - The Dink Rodgers Show is a sketch show that dives into the exaggerated life and career of Dink Rodgers, one of the world's most celebrated artistes (according to himself). From Dink's autobiography, rumoured to have sold more copies than both the Bible and Harry Potter, to his memorable dog food commercials, the evening will feature a wide range of performances, including songs, sketches, film scenes, and, of course, interviews with the main man himself. 

The Fringe Japan

Date and time - 13 August, 10:30am to 5pm

Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square

Festival - Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Featured LLC guest - Japanese Studies at LLC

In brief - A day-long programme of events in 50 George Square, featuring a range of Japanese performers from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. These events are organised by the Consulate General of Japan in Edinburgh and co-hosted by the University. The programme is as follows:

  • 'Diversity and Harmony' Lecture from Kris Yoshie (Activist and Stage Adviser of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Opening Ceremony)
  • Judo & Rugby Talk from Takafumi Kitahara (Japanese judoka) & Kenta Kutsuna (Japanese rugby player)
  • Reception & Showcase of Japanese Performers (reception with sake, non-alcoholic drinks and Japanese snacks)
  • Sumo Demonstration from Clan Sumo Scotland

WBI at the Fringe 2024 - Golem

Dates and time - 13 to 25 August (excl. 19), 7:45pm to 8:30pm

Venue - Dance Base

Festival - Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Featured LLC guest - Centre de Recherches Francophones Belges partnered with Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI)

In brief - For many years,  the Centre de Recherches Francophones Belges has been partnering with Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) to bring Francophone Belgian culture to Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Golem is their offering this year - an artistic dialogue between dancer and choreographer Julien Carlier and 75-year-old sculptor Mike Sprogis. Through their different disciplines and ages, Golem is constructed as a distorting mirror of their life paths. One interprets dance as an ephemeral sculpture in motion, the other sees the sculptor's gestures as a source of dance. 

This Natural Scene

Date and time - 21 to 25 August, 7:30pm to 8:30pm

Venue - Just the Tonic at the Caves

Festival - Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Featured LLC guest - Rosalie Wessel (MSc Intermediality)

In brief - How does it feel to watch yourself grow old? A woman, Her, returns home to find her childhood in boxes and her mother ready to move on; her parents have sold the house, and things need sorting through. Over the course of the day, Her and Mother find themselves coming to terms with what was, what is and what will be.

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