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hame. teeth. CLUB. is at the Edinburgh Fringe now hame. teeth. CLUB. is at the Edinburgh Fringe now – and Corr Blimey has been talking to writer Kari Hall about the story behind the show.

Set against the Saturday-night chaos of Dalkeith Miners Club, the play follows Morgan as she confronts friendship, consent, accountability and what it really means to support survivors – all told in a blend of Scots and English and rooted firmly in contemporary working-class Scottish life.

As Kari puts it: “It’s funny, but also really important.”

Read the full interview with Corr Blimey, then catch hame. teeth. CLUB. at Underbelly Cowgate, 5–30 August at 5.10pm.

#EdFringe #EdFringe2026 #hameTeethCLUB #ScottishTheatre #NewWriting #NewScottishWriting #FringeTheatre
Rikki Stein is on the BBC World Service, talking a Rikki Stein is on the BBC World Service, talking about his extraordinary life in music – and his long association with the legendary Fela Kuti.

For nearly six decades, Rikki has worked with some of the most influential artists in modern music, from Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead to Fela Kuti and the Master Musicians of Joujouka. His memoir Moving Music tells the stories behind that remarkable career: Woodstock, Glastonbury, life on the road, Morocco, African music and plenty more.

Listen to Rikki’s BBC interview, then discover the full story in Moving Music: The Memoirs of Rikki Stein, published by Wordville.

#RikkiStein #MovingMusic #FelaKuti #Afrobeat #MusicMemoir #MusicHistory #Wordville #BBCWorldService
There’s something strange going on in Rosedale. H There’s something strange going on in Rosedale.

HEADCASE by Douglas Yamnaghas comes to the Edinburgh Fringe this August — a new horror play about faith, loneliness, obsession and one very persuasive stone head.

Ian is the youngest man at his village church, but the congregation is dwindling. When he finds a stone head that only he can hear, he decides to listen to its wisdom... and build a religion of his own.

Dark, unsettling and original, HEADCASE is one for Fringe audiences looking for new writing with a gothic edge.

Catch it at Thistle Theatre, Greenside @ Riddles Court, from 24–29 August.

#Headcase #DouglasYamnaghas #ColdOpenTheatre #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #GreensideVenues #RiddlesCourt #HorrorTheatre #NewWriting #ScottishTheatre #ContemporaryDrama #SalamanderStreet
Lovely coverage for THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN in Lovely coverage for THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN in Corr Blimey’s Edinburgh Fringe series.

In the interview with playwright Martin O'Connor, Corr Blimey highlights his play’s exploration of “the greatest literary hoax of all time” alongside modern Scottish identity, cultural myth-making and the question of whether gift-shop images of Scotland hold a culture back or help carry it forward.

Produced by National Theatre of Scotland, THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN runs at the Scottish Storytelling Centre until 31 August.

Read the full interview via Corr Blimey.

#ThroughTheShortbreadTin #MartinOConnor #CorrBlimey #NationalTheatreOfScotland #ScottishStorytellingCentre #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #ScottishTheatre #ScotsLanguage #Gaelic #SoloShow #SalamanderStreet
Two performances only at the Edinburgh Fringe. Al Two performances only at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Alan Bissett’s WHEN BILLY MET ALASDAIR imagines an encounter between two giants of Scottish culture: comedian Billy Connolly and writer Alasdair Gray.

Commissioned by The Alastair Gray Archive and GICF, this funny, thoughtful play is full of affection. This is a play about art, friendship, politics, Glasgow, masculinity — and what happens when two restless, brilliant minds meet.

Catch it at the Scottish Storytelling Centre for two dates only:

15 August, 4.45pm
23 August, 8.30pm

#WhenBillyMetAlasdair #AlanBissett #BillyConnolly #AlasdairGray #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #ScottishStorytellingCentre #ScottishTheatre #Glasgow #NewWriting #ContemporaryDrama @scottishstorytellingcentre
RELEASE THE SPIDERS…. Wishing Alan Bissett and RELEASE THE SPIDERS....

Wishing Alan Bissett and the full team behind THE RED HOURGLASS a brilliant opening at the Edinburgh Fringe.

A satire on spiders, science and survival, THE RED HOURGLASS spins a strange, sharp and unsettling web — part comedy, part nightmare, part warning from the natural world.

Catch it at The Stand Comedy Club 2 from 6–29 August.

Sending love and luck to everyone involved.

#TheRedHourglass #AlanBissett #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #TheStandComedyClub #ScottishTheatre #NewWriting #DarkComedy #Satire #ContemporaryDrama
Today, the lid comes off THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TI Today, the lid comes off THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Martin O’Connor’s “witty and provocative” solo show opens at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, taking a sharp, funny and theatrical look at Scotland’s myths, language, history and carefully packaged national image.

From Ossian to shortbread-tin nostalgia, this is a play that asks what we inherit, what we perform, and who gets to decide what Scotland means.

Lots of love and luck to Martin and everyone involved in the production.

THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN runs 6–31 August.

#ThroughTheShortbreadTin #MartinOConnor #ScottishStorytellingCentre #NationalTheatreOfScotland #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #ScottishTheatre #ScotsLanguage #Gaelic #SoloShow #ContemporaryDrama #SalamanderStreet @scottishstorytellingcentre
Fringe previews start tonight for hame. teeth. CLU Fringe previews start tonight for hame. teeth. CLUB.

Wishing Rhiannon Lucy Bird, Kari Hall and the creative team a brilliant first night at Iron Belly, Underbelly Cowgate.

A fierce, funny and painfully honest solo show about class, girlhood, friendship, consent, survival — and what happens when the party stops being funny.

First preview tonight at 5.10pm. 

Lots of love and luck to everyone involved.

#hameTeethCLUB #KariHall #RhiannonLucyBird #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #Underbelly #IronBelly #ScottishTheatre #SoloShow #NewWriting #WorkingClassTheatre #ContemporaryDrama #WomenInTheatre #SalamanderStreet @underbellyedinburgh
Jade Franks' award-winning EAT THE RICH (but maybe Jade Franks' award-winning EAT THE RICH (but maybe not me mates x) has sold out at Shedinburgh.

If you've missed out, don't panic: a limited number of standing tickets will be released 24 hours before the performance.

Funny, sharp and painfully relatable, Jade's hit solo show follows a working-class girl from Liverpool as she attempts to navigate the strange new world of Cambridge University, where fitting in comes at a cost.

Keep an eye on Shedinburgh ticket link.

#EatTheRichPlay #JadeFranks #EdFringe2025 #EdinburghFringe #WorkingClassVoices #NewWriting #FringeTheatre #WomenInTheatre #ScottishTheatre #BritishTheatre @shedinburgh_fest @jadefranks_
Through the Shortbread Tin opens at the Edinburgh Through the Shortbread Tin opens at the Edinburgh Fringe this Thursday.

Martin O’Connor’s witty and provocative solo show explores Scottish identity, language, family history and the myths a nation tells about itself.

Blending Scots, Gaelic, storytelling and sharp humour, the acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland production returns to the Scottish Storytelling Centre from 6–31 August.

“A tartan-wrapped gift of a show.”
★★★★ The Herald

“Witty and provocative.”
★★★★ The Guardian

Book now and discover the histories hidden inside the shortbread tin.

#ThroughTheShortbreadTin #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe2026 #ScottishTheatre #NationalTheatreOfScotland #ScottishStorytellingCentre #MartinOConnor #ScotsLanguage #Gaelic #SoloTheatre
A brilliant NME read on the enduring legacy of The A brilliant NME read on the enduring legacy of The Strokes and Is This It — with producer Gordon Raphael reflecting on the sound, the spark and the strange alchemy that helped define an era.

For anyone who wants the full story behind those early sessions, Gordon’s memoir The World Is Going To Love This goes deeper: from the basement studio where The Strokes’ sound took shape, to his work with Regina Spektor, The Libertines and the wider 2000s indie explosion.

Part memoir, part backstage pass, part love letter to the chaos of making music, it’s an essential read for fans of The Strokes, New York rock, indie sleaze and the records that changed everything.

Read the NME interview, then discover the story behind the sound in The World Is Going To Love This — published by Wordville.

#TheStrokes #IsThisIt #GordonRaphael #TheWorldIsGoingToLoveThis #Wordville #IndieRock #MusicMemoir #NewYorkMusic #TheLibertines #ReginaSpektor #MusicBooks #nme
Coming soon from Salamander Street: Headcase by Do Coming soon from Salamander Street: Headcase by Douglas Yannaghas.

Ian is 30, isolated and going nowhere in the remote village of Rosedale. Then he meets Cassandra—and discovers a mysterious stone head that speaks only to him.

What begins as a promise of purpose and belonging soon becomes something far more dangerous.

Darkly funny, unsettling and theatrically inventive, HEADCASE is a gripping solo play about loneliness, faith, masculinity and the seductive power of absolute certainty.

Published by Salamander Street in August. 

#Headcase #DouglasYannaghas #NewWriting #ScottishTheatre #SoloPlay #OnePersonPlay #ContemporaryDrama #PsychologicalDrama #DarkComedy #EdinburghFringe #TheatreBooks
Alan Bissett’s The Red Hourglass comes to the Edin Alan Bissett’s The Red Hourglass comes to the Edinburgh Fringe this August — a darkly comic, sharply political and wildly theatrical solo show told through the voices of five venomous spiders.

Funny, unsettling and full of bite, The Red Hourglass asks what happens when the creatures we fear most start talking back.

Catch it at Stand 2 at The Stand Comedy Club 2
Thu 6 – Sat 29 August
Tickets £13.50

Book now for one of the strangest, smartest and most unforgettable shows of the Fringe.

#TheRedHourglass #AlanBissett #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #Fringe2026 #ScottishTheatre #SoloShow #NewWriting #TheStandComedyClub #Theatre #PoliticalTheatre
Heading to Edinburgh Fringe — put hame. teeth. CLU Heading to Edinburgh Fringe — put hame. teeth. CLUB on your list.

Kari Hall’s fierce, funny and bruisingly honest new play follows Morgan Shields, a working-class young woman from Dalkeith whose weekends revolve around the club, the chaos, the carry-out — and trying not to feel too much.

A visceral solo show about girlhood, class, friendship, consent, survival and what happens when the party stops being funny.

I saw the phenomenal preview this month and Rhiannon Lucy Bird's performance is amazing - this is unmissable. 

Catch hame. teeth. CLUB at Iron Belly, Underbelly Cowgate, from 5–30 August.

#hameTeethCLUB #KariHall #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #Underbelly #IronBelly #ScottishTheatre #SoloShow #NewWriting #WorkingClassTheatre #ContemporaryDrama #WomenInTheatre #Theatre #FringeTheatre #RhiannonLucyBird @rhiannonlucybird
Judas is going to the Fringe. A liar. A traitor. Judas is going to the Fringe.

A liar. A traitor. A thief. Or the most misunderstood man in history?

Judas Exclusive by Will McDowell comes to Zoo Southside this August: a wickedly funny, wildly theatrical new satire that drags one of the Bible’s most infamous figures into the glare of the late-night talk show spotlight.

Expect betrayal, celebrity scandal, public shame, redemption arcs, bad TV, big questions and a guest appearance from the end of the media world as we know it.

7–28 August 2026
7.10pm
Zoo Southside
55 mins

Written by Will McDowell
Directed by Charlotte Rooney-Baker
Presented by MOOJ

Book your Fringe tickets now.

#JudasExclusive #EdFringe #EdinburghFringe #ZooSouthside #NewWriting #NewTheatre #FringeTheatre #Theatre #ComedyTheatre #Satire #DarkComedy #TheatreMakers #EdinburghFestivalFringe #WhatsonEdinburgh #WillMcDowell #MOOJ
“People get ragin’ at you.” Martin O’Connor joins “People get ragin’ at you.”

Martin O’Connor joins poet and writer Len Pennie in The Scotsman to talk about Scots — the language, the assumptions people make about it, and what it means to write and perform in your own voice.

It’s a conversation that goes right to the heart of Martin’s acclaimed play Through the Shortbread Tin, which explores Scottish language, culture, myths and identity through the extraordinary story of James Macpherson and Ossian — and Martin’s own relationship with Scotland.

Following its acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland tour, Through the Shortbread Tin returns this summer, playing the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 6–31 August before touring to Glasgow Cathedral, Stirling Castle and Urquhart Castle.

The playscript is published by Salamander Street.

#ThroughTheShortbreadTin #MartinOConnor #LenPennie #ScotsLanguage #Scots #ScottishWriting #ScottishTheatre #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe2026 #NationalTheatreOfScotland #ScottishLiterature #NewWriting
Coming soon from Salamander Street: THROUGH THE SH Coming soon from Salamander Street: THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN by Martin O’Connor.

A witty, provocative and richly theatrical solo show exploring Scotland’s myths, contradictions and cultural identity through the stories of Ossian — and the many ways a nation packages itself for the world.

Blending poetry, performance and sharp political insight, Martin O’Connor’s play digs beneath the tartan, shortbread and tourist-board nostalgia to ask urgent questions about language, belonging, memory and who gets to tell Scotland’s story.

THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN is produced by the National Theatre of Scotland.

#ThroughTheShortbreadTin #MartinOConnor #ScottishTheatre #SoloShow #NewWriting #ContemporaryDrama #ScotsLanguage #Gaelic #TheatreBooks #Playwriting #FringeTheatre #TheatreMakers
Festival news: Frank Rafferty is heading to Electr Festival news: Frank Rafferty is heading to Electric Picnic.

Frank, poet and author of Rafferty’s Rules, will be on stage, bringing his sharp, lyrical and unmistakably human work to one of Ireland’s biggest cultural gatherings.

Rafferty’s Rules is a collection full of wit, tenderness, bite and hard-won wisdom — poetry that finds music in memory, family, place and the everyday rules we live by.

Catch Frank at Electric Picnic this summer, and pick up a copy of Rafferty’s Rules from Salamander Street or your favourite bookseller.

#FrankRafferty #RaffertysRules #ElectricPicnic #Poetry #SpokenWord #IrishPoetry #PoetryCommunity #FestivalSeason #SalamanderStreet #PoetryBooks @epfestival
It’s party time for WYLD WOMAN: The Legend of Shy It’s party time for WYLD WOMAN: The Legend of Shy Girl.

Isabel Renner’s five-star solo show is sharp, funny and brilliantly exposing — a 70-minute monologue goldmine about girlhood, self-image, shame, performance and the painful business of trying to be seen.

Perfect for performers looking for audition material, teachers seeking bold contemporary classwork, or anyone who loves a solo show with bite, humour and emotional punch.

“The script is genius”
— EdFringe Review

#WyldWoman #IsabelRenner #CameronKing #SoloShow #Monologue #AuditionMonologues #DramaSchool #DramaStudents #TheatreTeachers #NewWriting #ContemporaryDrama #WomenInTheatre #TheatreBooks
Adventurer: Bernard Miles and the Mermaid Theatre Adventurer: Bernard Miles and the Mermaid Theatre tells the story of one of British theatre’s great originals.

Actor, writer, director, life peer and founder of the Mermaid Theatre, Bernard Miles was a force of nature: visionary, eccentric, determined and impossible to ignore. Alan Strachan’s richly entertaining biography follows Miles from his work on screen to his extraordinary mission to build a new theatre in post-Blitz London — bringing fresh plays to the public and breathing new life into the classics.

Full of backstage stories, larger-than-life characters and the sheer grit it takes to make theatre happen, Adventurer is a must-read for anyone fascinated by British theatre history, the Mermaid Theatre, and the people who changed the cultural landscape.

Available now from Wordville.

#BernardMiles #MermaidTheatre #AlanStrachan #Adventurer #TheatreBooks #BritishTheatre #TheatreHistory #Wordville #PerformingArts #BooksForTheatreLovers
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