Summerhall
Palette to take Summerhall lease
Edinburgh Palette is set to take over the building and tenant management of Summerhall, from the current entity responsible, Summerhall Management, and is negotiating a three year lease with the current owners Oesselmann Estate Limited.
Puddles and Amazons
★★★★☆ Joyfully unique
Guy Wood’s imaginative piece of solo storytelling uses live audio mixing to bring this curious tale to life in Puddles and Amazons at Summerhall’s Demonstration Room at the Fringe.
New campaign to save Summerhall complex
Campaign to retain city-centre home for artists and businesses
A new group, #MadeinSummerhall, has been set up by 110 artists and businesses at under-threat Summerhall, to campaign to retain their city-centre homes, which make up 60% of of the Summerhall complex.
Summerhall reprieved as a Fringe venue
Future of whole complex not clear as sale date set.
Summerhall appears to have been reprieved as a Fringe venue for at least three years, as responsibility for running the venue element of the Summerhall complex is taken over by a new charity ahead of its sale going to a closing date of September 18, 2024.
Summerhall management riposte to venue sale
Sale “against wishes” of Summerhall director Robert McDowell.
The announcement by the owners of Summerhall that they have put the building on the market has been met with strong concern across Edinburgh and around the arts world.
Summerhall for sale
Multi-arts venue and tech-hub on the market
The owners of award-winning arts venue Summerhall have put the building, in prime location at the east end of the Meadows, on the open market, “with all the current licences included”.
Biolanthe
★★★☆☆ Inventive
The Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group has created an inventive updating of Gilbert and Sullivan in Biolanthe, running in the intimate Tech Cube 0 at Summerhall for three performances only.
FLIP!
★★★★★ Flipping Fantastic
Racheal Ofori’s FLIP! – at Summerhall to Saturday – combines comedy with social commentary in a play which successfully brings the breathless charge of social media to the stage.
Lightning Ridge
★★★★☆ Evocative
Lightning Ridge, Catherine Wheels’ adaptation of Pobby and Dingan, Ben Rice’s novella for young people, is a remarkably involved piece of storytelling about imagination, loss and the nature of community.
Concerned Others
★★★★☆ Profound impact
Tortoise in a Nutshell’s new verbatim documentary, Concerned Others, at Summerhall all Fringe, uses puppets and animation rather than actors to bring its script to life.
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