RashDash Two Man Show. Photo: Richard Davenport

The 2017 programme presented a snapshot of the diverse work created in the UK to a delegation of visiting international programmers at the Edinburgh Festivals, so that a new global audience experienced British performance. The productions comprised of theatre and dance; including new writing, devised and physical theatre, live art, installation and interactive. The 2017 Showcase curatorial panel included international programmers, UK arts professionals and members of the British Council’s Theatre and Dance team.

Main programme

Action Hero: Slap Talk

Avant Garde Dance presented by The Place: Fagin's Twist

Citizens Theatre: This Restless House by Zinnie Harris

Forced Entertainment: Real Magic

Frozen Light: Home 

Imitating the Dog: Nocturnes

Impermanence Dance Theatre: Sexbox

Joan Clevillé Dance: Plan B for Utopia

Julie Cunningham and Company: To Be Me 

Kieran Hurley with Show and Tell: Heads Up

Kneehigh: The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk by Daniel Jamieson

Light Ladd and Emberton: Caitlin 

Liz Aggiss: Slap and Tickle 

Liz Carr: Assisted Suicide: The Musical

Look Left Look Right: See Me Now 

National Dance Company Wales: Folk and Profundis (double bill) 

The Paper Cinema and Battersea Arts Centre co-production: The Paper Cinema's Macbeth 

Prime Cut Productions: Scorch by Stacey Gregg

Proto-type Theater: A Machine they're Secretly Building 

Rachel Mars: Our Carnal Hearts
 
RashDash: Two Man Show 

Rhum and Clay and Kit Redstone: Testosterone

Scottish Dance Theatre: Process Day 

Selina Thompson: Salt.

DryWrite and Soho Theatre present: Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Talawa, HighTide and Soho Theatre production: Girls by Theresa Ikoko

Theatre Re: The Nature of Forgetting 

Touretteshero and Battersea Arts Centre co-production: Not I by Samuel Beckett

Traverse Theatre: The Whip Hand by Douglas Maxwell

Volcano Theatre Company: Seagulls 

2017 curatorial panel:

Ahmed El Attar, Founder and Artistic Director, Orient Productions
Andrew Jones, Senior Programme Manager Theatre and Dance, British Council
Anita Clark, Director, The Work Room
Carole McFadden, Theatre and Dance Programme Manager, British Council
Heather Redfern, Executive Director, The Cultch
Laura Mackenzie-Stuart, Head of Theatre, Creative Scotland
Neil Darlison, Director Theatre, Arts Council England
Chair: Neil Webb, Director Theatre and Dance, British Council

Watch: Discover the 2017 programme with a playlist of short trailers

Recommended Shows 

The Shape of the Pain. Photograph: The Other Richard

Alongside the main programme, our Theatre and Dance team attend countless shows at the Edinburgh Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival – seeking out extra UK productions to draw to international programmers' attention at the Edinburgh Showcase. The top 2017 recommends were:

Henry Naylor: Borders

Vox Motus: Flight

Curious Directive: Frogman

Soho Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company: Half Breed

Dancing Brick and Paul Jellis with Tobacco Factory Theatres and Bush Theatre: Heather

National Theatre of Scotland: How to Act

Milk Presents in association with Derby Theatre: Joan

Bush Theatre and Nassim Soleimanpour: Nassim

Betrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas: Palmyra

China Plate and Rachel Bagshaw: The Shape of Pain

Dirty Protest: Sugar Baby by Alan Harris

Soho Theatre and Malthouse Theatre: Wild Bore

The Edinburgh Showcase is a British Council initiative supported by Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Wales Arts International and the Arts Council of Wales.