So I think it’s fair to say that most women almost definitely do masturbate. We just wait to discuss it until we’re in an oddly anonymous but public situation like this one.”

A funny, frank, and occasionally explicit insight into heterosexual female desire, read out loud by a man.

Each show begins with a male comedian being given a script they have never seen before. They will read the script for the first time, out-loud live in front of an audience; all about what one woman thinks about when she thinks about sex and men.

This piece is a work-in-progress being piloted at the Edinburgh Festival. It is being developed in collaboration with the Royal Court Theatre.

With direction and dramaturgy by Lucy Morrison, and dramaturgical input from Ryan Nobel, Lisa Heledd Jones, and Christopher Brett Bailey.
Special thanks to previous performers Tim Key, Mike Wozniak and Nathaniel Martello-White.

Five performances as part of EARLIER/LATER, a series of early morning and late night one-off shows programmed by Paines Plough.

10 August, 22.30   Nish Kumar
14 August, 10.00   Marcus Brigstocke
15 August, 22.30   James Acaster
19 August, 22.30 Joe Lycett
21 August, 10.00   Nick Helm

So why isn’t it here? What do we get instead? Every day we are reminded that this country is miserable, skint and exhausted. That this is just the way it is and that we deserve it. That there’s no other way and we can’t change it. We’re all in it together. It’s the plan. We are tired, we are angry and we are bored.

We are all better than this.

We are coming to your town in August. We are going to bring something strange, fun and unexpected. Led by the multi award-winning comedian Josie Long, we are a group of performers, musicians and people who make things happen and we want to make something unforgettable.

We want another type of life. We want it to be better. We want a summer that doesn’t end.

The summer 2015 Alternative Reality Tour finishes up in Edinburgh on August 22nd.

www.alternativerealitytour.com

Curated by comedian Jack Rooke and poet Cecilia Knapp, Save The Male’s aim is to encourage more of us to engage in creative expression as an outlet when times get tough. Whether it’s writing lyrics, performing poems or even doodling (Jack likes to draw moustaches on the attractive cast of Hollyoaks in the TV Guide.)  This Roundabout performance features Brigitte Aphrodite, Jack Rooke and some very special guests.

For info on Save The Male visit www.thegoodgriefproject.com and for info on CALM visit www.thecalmzone.net

Written and Performed by Yolanda Mercy (Resident Artist at The Roundhouse)
Directed by Jade Lewis (Winner of the Boris Karloff Award for Young Vic’s Blackta)

For more information visit www.thegoodgriefproject.com

Following sold-out runs at Soho Theatre, London and the Sophiensaele, Berlin, Dance and Theatre combine in the latest show from Encounter. Directed by Jen Malarkey, with writer Lee Mattinson and movement director Simone Coxall, I Heart Catherine Pistachio is a dangerously dark physical comedy about a square-eyed young girl stuck in a suburban swamp of abuse.

★★★★★ “Lyrically brilliant fun of the highest order.” Exeunt Magazine

★★★★ “Superbly crafted… as witty as they are clever.” Metro

★★★★★”Lyrically brilliant fun of the highest order.” Exeunt Magazine

“The political edge of 80s alternative comedy… a pop-soul voice to win X Factor” Stewart Lee, Observer

In Happy Birthday Without You, Violet tells the story of her complicated relationship with her mega diva mother. Bring beer and bunting and come on a journey through her childhood of pop tarts, Patti Smith and second hand smoke.

*Warning: people usually cry.

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 new play about depression and the lengths we go to for those we love.

#EveryBrilliantThing


“Heart-wrenching, hilarious … possibly one of the funniest plays you’ll ever see.” ★★★★ The Guardian

British Council Edinburgh Showcase 2015.

Mark sets out to try and carve a small space in the urban world where mischief and random chance can lurk. No one knows where this show is going to end up so join Mark at the start of the project.

“Clever, funny and angry.” ★★★★ The Guardian on Cuckooed