Fringe 17 – Heads Up
Multi award-winner KIERAN HURLEY weaves a picture of a familiar city at its moment of destruction, asking what would we do if we found ourselves at the end of our world as we know it.
2016 THE SCOTSMAN FRINGE FIRST AWARD WINNER | 2017 CATS BEST NEW PLAY AWARD WINNER
Directed by Julia Taudevin and Alex Swift. Music by Michael John McCarthy. Lighting by Malcolm Rogan. As part of the British Council Edinburgh Showcase 2017.
Reviews
‘Superb storytelling theatre… Hurley’s new show is a quiet hurricane blowing through the city. It is an anxious whisper that becomes a shout; a moment of silence that turns into the high-pitched whine of catastrophe’
★★★★
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
‘Acutely observed yet ferociously powerful storytelling… an absolute highlight of the Edinburgh Fringe’
★★★★
The Independent
‘Urgent, compelling, beautiful writing… confirms Hurley’s status as one of the most powerful writers to emerge in British theatre this decade’
★★★★
The Scotsman
‘Excellent, hypnotic, apocalyptic solo show’
★★★★
The Times
‘Hurley infuses this brilliant show with prophetic intensity and brooding soulfulness’
★★★★
Evening Standard
Dates / Venues
AUG 22 to 27; 7.40PM, Summerhall – Book Tickets
Summerhall, EDINBURGH
Tickets £12
(60 mins duration)
