This season we launch GET INTO GREENROOM!

Look in the brochure and online for shows with GET INTO GREENROOM and if you book your tickets before 6pm on the Monday before the Friday show you get full price tickets for £6 instead of £9.

We want you to GET INVOLVED with greenroom, whether you are an artist, performer, musician, poet or wish to explore your creative side. Many of our shows have free extras, such as a mini-performance beforehand and/or a Q&A afterwards; we want you to get the most out of greenroom so GET INTO GREENROOM and GET INVOLVED.

Highlights in October include Kim Noble Will Die: cutting edge comedy by the taller one from the Perrier Award winning, BAFTA nominated double act Noble and Silver. The Featherstonehaughs: after last years sell-out Dancing On Your Grave the all-male troupe return with new show Edits, which draws stylishly on the peculiar elasticity of filmic time. And finally Forkbeard Fantasy: famed for their mix of visual trickery, film and outlandish story-lines Forkbeard present The Colour Of Nonsense – a satire on a theatre world always in search of ‘the new’.

Plus, don’t miss Dave Haslam: back in Close Up With… Germaine Greer, Terry Hall and a third guest TBA.

We are proud to announce that Band on the Wall: legendary music venue, are programming two evenings of music in the performance space in December with artists TBA on this website shortly.

Nicki Hobday Conquers Space
written and performed by Nicki Hobday in collaboration with Neil Mackenzie
supported by greenroom

Venue: Just The Tonic @ The Caves (Venue 88. 253 Cowgate)
Time: 2:30pm (1 hour)
Dates: 5th - 29th August (Not 16th)
Tickets: £7 / £6; Call 0131 208 0882

Winner of the Best Female Performer Award 2010 at the ACT Festival, Bilbao.

Nicki Hobday hasn’t arrived. The stage is empty and only the expectations of the audience and a load of possibilities are present. Things unfold nevertheless, complete with overblown soundtracks and performing raincoats, as expectations are fleshed out and romantic fantasies threaten to take over. Indeed it’s only when she does, finally, show up that it all starts to go seriously wrong.

Marking a new point where theatre and comedy meet, Nicki Hobday Conquers Space crams all time and all space into one theatrical moment, one that keeps feeding back on itself, in a desperate attempt to avoid facing the facts.

Award winning performer Nicki Hobday teams up for the first time with director Neil Mackenzie, in a hilarious mix of high ideas and low humour.

Nicki Hobday co-founded experimental company Trace Theatre in 2007, who have taken their latest show to several international festivals this year, most recently to Bilbao where Nicki was awarded Best Female Performer ACT festival 2010. Since Graduating with a degree in Contemporary Theatre and Performance in 2008 Nicki has been performing nationally and internationally both with Trace and other professional touring companies such as Proto-type Theater and Until Thursday.

Read review from The Stage.

This month, the bar is exhibiting work by Gareth Hacking and Mark Devereux, two photographers who create captivating and unique images using light and photography to produce abstract, painterly images. Both artists create fascinating pieces which challenge the viewers perception.

Angle of Refraction is free to view.
Opening times: Wednesday to Friday 5pm ’til late and Saturday 6pm ’til late.

The forthcoming autumn season opens with emergency, our annual micro festival of non stop performance. emergency is open for submissions June 28 and closes again August 6 - so get involved!

Also this autumn we are proud to have Lea Anderson’s The Featherstonehaughs back, although this time they will be leaving their female counterparts, The Cholmondeleys, at home. The fabulous Forkbeard Fantasy are here with a show about people taking art too seriously (as if!). We have dance from Sankalpam who are in residence for a week and Dave Haslam returns with Close Up… so expect more in-depth conversations with popular cultural figures. We can’t wait!