Edinburgh Showcase Programme 2017
The Showcase took place between 21–26 August 2017 with a programme of 29 companies
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Standing on uneven ground
Palmyra tackles world issues through clowning and a lot of broken crockery. Its creators, Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas, tell Eleanor Turney about making the show, feeling European and asking big questions
Artists to watch 2017
Our team selects some of the most exciting companies and artists showing work at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017 – these are people to keep an eye on
Apocalypse now?
Kieran Hurley tells Eleanor Turney that his one-man show, Heads Up, takes a world in crisis and examines alienation, anxiety and apocalypse
Playlist: Watch trailers for the extraordinary Edinburgh Showcase productions
From violent language to feminist soup, catch a snapshot of the diverse work by UK artists featuring in our 20th anniversary Edinburgh Showcase
Round up: Delve into this year's Edinburgh Showcase
Masculinity, colonialism, love, technology and memory. Discover some of the themes behind this year's Edinburgh Showcase
"How would the world be different if patriarchy hadn't been invented?"
Helen Goalen of RashDash tells Eleanor Turney about Two Man Show, getting naked and smashing the patriarchy
Making a new future at the Holland Festival
Major theatremakers are speaking directly to how we live now. In the third of Lyn Gardner's dispatches from the Holland Festival, she encounters Dries Verhoeven's political fairground ride, Vincent Macaigne's ugly-beauitful dream, Derrick Ryan Claude Mitchell's riff on madness and Ivo van Hove's dissection of obsession
"We need to keep the traffic between the UK and Europe"
The UK outdoor arts scene has welcomed European artists with open arms. Lyn Gardner visits the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, reporting on ambitious new productions from the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands, and talking to Artistic Director Bradley Hemmings about his hopes for the future
"There's an awful lot of British theatre I couldn't programme"
Continuing her Culture after Brexit series, Lyn Gardner speaks to Ruth Mackenzie, Artistic Director of the Holland Festival, about taking risks, working with communities and discovering differences between working in Britain and the Netherlands
