RCS at Edinburgh Fringe

make the bed

make the bed is a 60-minute solo show that relies on gesture, physicality, and soundscapes as Ariela S. Nazar-Rosen brings the audience along with her on an anxiety-filled downward spiral.

Here There Be Dragons: A Musical Quest

Here There Be Dragons is lovable, high-energy musical that explores the liminal space between our own identities and the identities we create for ourselves. A sexy, quirky and hilarious look at growing up in a hurry while maintaining the fantasy and wonder that make us who we are.

Someone Has To Be Counting

Someone has been keeping a record. Every day, for 20 years. It’s all in her notebooks: hours worked, money spent, cigarettes smoked. Explore time, rituals, and labour in this original, experimental one-woman play starring 2024 RCS BA Acting graduate Lisa Vetta.

Sex, Camp, Rock ’N Roll

Sex, Camp, Rock ‘N Roll is a musical cabaret fantasy that weaves together story, song, and sensuality in a night that boldly explores sexuality and sex work in a raw, bareback fashion. Featuring diva duo The K*ntz! (Ruby Day & Sharon Shao) & rock band The Gruntz!

Catafalque

BA CPP graduate (2016) Stephanie Katie Hunter is Artist Director of Scissor Kick. Catafalque by Amy Conway is Scissor Kick’s first commissioned play, which runs from 1st – 11th August at Summerhall. Catafalque is a one-woman eulogy through the lens of a civil celebrant asking – how do we grieve the ungrievable?

Little Deaths

Scissor Kick, founded by BA CPP graduate (2016) Stephanie Katie Hunter, is co-producing Little Deaths by Amy Powell Yeates with Nuthatch Productions. Exploring the heartbreak of platonic love, it runs from 1st – 26th August at Summerhall.

‘This is just the start. Of Everything. Of Us.‘

From Page to Stage

Stephanie Katie Hunter (BA CPP 2016) and Nicola Lawton (Scissor Kick) take part in a Page to Stage panel event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, where they will discuss the process of adapting books for the stage alongside the creative team of their brand-new show based on Hannah Moffatt’s Small.

You Heard Me

Stephanie Katie Hunter for Scissor Kick (BA CPP 2016) has provided producing consultancy to You Heard Me by Luca Rutherford, which features as part of the Here & Now showcase and runs from 20th -25th August at ZOO Southside. You Heard Me is a loud show about quiet power.

Yes, We're Related

A nutty new comedy about two sisters dealing with grief. After losing their mother, Sara and Saskia are now estranged but they reunite and uncover a secret that sends their relationship from bad, to worse, to catastrophic!

The Sound of Space Between

In the darkness of grief, something is calling. Someone is reaching out. But why now? And from where? From 2019 graduates Harri Pitches (BA Acting) and Ruth Darling (BA Production and Design) comes a sonic adventure into the unknown told using live sound design to explore a world beyond.

Gracie and the Start of the End of the World (Again)

Gracie is a jellyfish. An immortal, nerdy, very horny jellyfish looking for love after the end of the world. An absurd tragi-comic monologue about heartbreak, revolution, and surviving the apocalypse. Created by Zoë Bullock (MACCT Acting 2016), directed by Alice Langley (MACCT Directing 2016).

Window Seat

Fem, quirky, light-hearted and yet true to life, ‘Window Seat’ asks how two individuals, who at some level identify with each other and depend on a lifelong collaboration, negotiate powerful and contradictory feelings of love, loyalty and independence.

Bot Brothers

Two robo-clones, born of a mad professor, separated by family and class, must find a way to love in a world where all odds are against them.

This two-man comedy will take you on a bizarre and hilarious journey through the lives of two adolescent robo-boys making sense of the world (1980s Liverpool).

Shakespeare For Breakfast

The Tempest meets 10 Things I Hate About You and High School Musical in a teen rom-com-romp. A pleasing plethora of pentameter, puns and pastry. Sensational Shakespearience, perfect for hardened fans and blank verse virgins alike.

Wind In The Willow

Embark on an adventure with Mole, Rat, Badger, and the impulsive Mr Toad. From the tranquility of the riverbank to the perilous depths of the Wild Wood, follow their escapades as they try to keep Toad out of trouble and protect his family home from the nefarious Chief Weasel and his band of miscreants.

You and IT

A new musical which asks how far you would go to keep hold of the person you love. Presented as part of the AtoBiz Ltd Korean Season, the show is performed in English by Korean actors and has English Book and Lyrics by Gus Gowland (BA Acting 2003).

BEYOND KRAPP

Cormac wanted a funeral no one would ever forget: knock-knock jokes at the Prayers of the Faithful, a roll call of his sexual conquests for the First Reading and his life-size cardboard cutout of Zendaya escorted to the altar at the Offertory. Inspired by Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, this is a new dark comedy about an existential reckoning of ego against the brutal landscape of unrequited love. Featuring RCS Alum Peter McCormick and a full production team of RCS graduates.

The Bookies

Featuring RCS alumni and students from BA Acting and the School of Production, The Bookies is a dark comedy about two Edinburgh bookies who, when their shop is faced with closure, decide to take matters into their own hands. But when an Everest mountaineer gets in their way, not everything goes to plan…

Expect humour, action and lots of Scottish patter!

Dear Annie, I Hate You

Based on writer-performer Sam Ipema’s life, Dear Annie, I Hate You is the story of Sam and her brain aneurysm, Annie. They share the rational, irrational, nihilistic and liberating experiences of what it’s like to be told you’re going to die aged 20.

The Mosinee Project

Mosinee, Wisconsin, 1950. An idyllic Midwestern town wakes up to find that armed Communist forces have taken over. Plunging into the dawn of the Cold War and back again, The Mosinee Project follows the true story of a fake invasion. A fevered, darkly funny retelling, interrogating why we fear, control and tell tales about the future.

REVENGE: After the Levoyah

Twins Dan and Lauren meet ex-gangster Malcolm Spivak at their grandfather’s funeral in 2018 Jewish Essex. Malcolm, who’s ‘had enough’, enlists the siblings in a ragtag Yiddishe plot to kidnap then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Through madcap comedy and biting satire, this explosive two-hander comedy heist blows the roof off what it means to be Jewish in the UK.

Come Dine With Me: The Musical

A bunch of tuneful strangers, a dollop of behind-the-scenes skulduggery, a Sound Man playing detective and a sprinkling of star-crossed love. Ong Cheng Kan (MA Musical Theatre: Musical Directing, 2022) is Musical Director of Come Dine With Me: The Musical, combining the beloved TV show with a sumptuous original score.

Death Becomes Us

Death is the last big taboo. And we are here to break it. A show filled with confessions and music, we face death head-on, and consider whether our lives could be made richer by talking about it. Ong Cheng Kan (MA Musical Theatre: Musical Directing, 2022) is Musical Director of Death Becomes Us, a cabaret performed by West End actor and musician Hannah Whittingham.