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Summerhall

A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego

A slow seduction that ultimately packs a punch

Inverness Ice Centre

Threshold – Le Patin Libre

Thrilling and intensely emotional ice dance from Montreal-based company

Eden Court

Slug

An hour of joyful clowning for school kids

Festival Theatre Studio

The Stornoway Way

Dogstar Theatre Company brings Gaelic storytelling to the stage

Eden Court

Wee Hansel and Gretel

Child-friendly interpretation of a cautionary tale

Assembly Roxy

The Box

Deeply affecting and important work explores the dark world of depression

Tron Theatre

Power Ballad

Physical theatre that is too abstract to support meaning

Dance Base

The Hospital

Three nurses present a surreal and evocative dance piece

Dance Base

The Forecast

Amy Bell presents a multimedia dance performance about the queer female body

ZOO Southside

Black Holes

Spoken word and dance combine to present a science fiction universe

Royal Lyceum Theatre

Hard to be Soft: A Belfast Prayer

A charged evening of dance addressing the city’s toxic gender image

ZOO Southside

Inka

AI put under the microscope in creative and thought-provoking play

Festival Theatre

Rite of Spring

Yang Liping’s Buddhist retelling of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring

Wee Red Bar

Deficit

Unique take on the theatre genre which is impressive despite a lack of clarity

Underbelly Circus Hub

Hotel Paradiso

Innovative and extraordinary, this circus can only become even greater

Assembly Checkpoint

Goliath in the Water

A truly inventive piece of physical theatre

Assembly Roxy

Knock Knock

Delightful silent fairy-tale about much more than just boy meets girl

St Patrick's Church

Notre Dame de Paris aka The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Multi-skilled performers deliver a visually stunning interpretation of a French classic