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Kay Marquis

Karen is a writer, director and producer. She loves books, animals, theatre, gossip, and has broad musical interests, but particularly loves quirky folk, indie, rockabilly, soul and strange electronic sounds.

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Scottish Storytelling Centre

Spinster

Fabulous folk tales about spinsters

Summerhall

Good With Faces

Sad and touching social work play sits uneasily between psychological drama and social realism

Summerhall

The Wreck

Uncanny, twee, remote innocence, like a rediscovered children’s animation from the 1970s.

theSpace on Niddry Street

When The Tide Comes In

The aftermath of a tragedy picked apart in an overstuffed narrative but soulful characters

Scottish Storytelling Centre

Thunderstruck

Impassioned storytelling about artistic integrity and following your own muse

Pleasance Courtyard

Revolver

Messy, jarring, but compelling exploration of shattered hopes

ZOO Southside

Macbeth

Lively and inventive but faithful rendition of Macbeth

Old College Quad

Dance People

Maqamat deliver a joyous, disorientating contemporary dance about power, place and identity