Edinburgh Festival. Hilarious. Creative. Moving. Iconic. Bit far?
Enjoy the best of the fringe right on your doorstep in at Omnibus Theatre, before the Edinburgh Festival audiences get to catch them! Side-splitting comedy from Marcus Brigstocke to haunting new play Gulliver Returns, there’s so much to check out.
Omnibus Theatre’s assistant producer Lucinda McLean-Bibby takes us though our hotly anticipated Edinburgh Previews.
It is incredibly exciting to have Marcus Brigstocke’s Devil May Care as our headline show this Edinburgh Preview season. I was watching Marcus Brigstocke on QI, Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You way before I was old enough to understand the punch lines and was delighted when he performed here last year in improv show There Will Be Cake, alongside Rachel Parris, Pippa Evans and Paul Foxcroft.
Marcus returns to Omnibus with a show unlike any other he has done before. Devil May Care is a character show that aims to establish, once and for all, what is good and what is bad. Make sure you catch it at Omnibus Theatre first before it heads up to Edinburgh!
Sisterhood is highly acclaimed theatre maker Jolie Booth’s latest show that introduces you to a sisterhood caught between two timelines: the witch trials on the 16th century and modern-day women facing a world in political and environmental upheaval.
What excites me the most about Sisterhood is its interactive nature. The show transports the audience to a church cell in Wilmington, where three women await their trial in the morning. Together the audience will discover how to sort the whole mess out.
Badback Mountain return once more to Omnibus Theatre following a successful January run of their homage to 1970s TV Private Eye Jim Rockford. With an incredible team and a whole host of wonderful music, The Rockford File is beguiling, funny, poignant show that will have you singing a long to yourself for days afterwards.
Written and Directed by Omnibus Theatre’s Associate Artist Kat Woods, Killymuck is inspired by real events taking place on a housing estate in 1970’s Ireland. The story follows Niamh as she navigates life through the parameters of growing up, with the trials and tribulations of being a kid from the benefit class systems.
Kat’s 5-star show Mule started its life at Omnibus Theatre back in 2016 before going on a Northern Irish tour – we are delighted to welcome her back with what is sure to be another hit!
Transgress are an incredibly exciting and brilliant company whose shows Hotter and The Other Team featured at Omnibus Theatre as part of our 96 Festival earlier this year. I was gutted that I was unable to see The Other Team but managed to catch Hotter (only just as it sold out very quickly!) and it was without a doubt one of my favourite shows that I have seen so far this year.
Everything Is Going To Be KO looks set to be equally as brilliant. In the show Kaiya Stone reflects on coping with dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD.
Dawn State Theatre Company has seen success after success since their debut production of A Fever Longing Still in 2012. Their adaptation of Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King in 2016 received 5-star reviews before going on a national tour.
Now they turn their heads to Swift’s savage masterpiece. Gulliver Returns is a haunting new play about broken dreams, enduring love, and the weird world we live in.
Find out more about our Edinburgh Previews HERE
