Fox and Orchid Theatre Company

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Surprise! Invi's in a show at 9 GMT, 17 minutes from right now. www.youtube.com/HighwireImprov

Highwire Improv - YouTube Highwire Improv is a new improvisational theater based in Baltimore launching with a philosophy of representing Baltimore and maintaining radical transparenc...

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Love and Misinformation A spontaneous play in the style of Caryl Churchill. Connected and heartfelt, revolutionary and irreverent, The Improvised Play is always of its time. Like the works of Caryl Churchill, we break and remake our format every night. Anything is possible, but we guarantee you’ll be surprised, provoked,...

This audience review from the EdFringe website is probably the highest accolade you can get as an Ibsen-gone-faux-verbatim:

"This show is so good. Two actors playing multiple parts. They were so good I thought they were really the people in the story. It was really moving. Totally recommend it." - JK

It's been a good run. Watch this space...

ONE SHOW LEFT! Tomorrow 17:25, theSpace Triplex - come see if you agree with the rave audience reviews and the 4 stars, come if you agree OR disagree with our sentiment about certain bankers, come if you like or hate Ibsen, just come!

Also, stick around for a chat after!

Derek Snee on Twitter “Galatea & Stormy flyering (My Father) John Gabriel Borkman 38 ”

Yes. Yes, we did.

.. If you want to have a laugh at the people who put us in this mess, though, come see (My Father) Borkman - Every day except Sundays of the Edinburgh Fringe, 17:25.

We let the 2007 financial crisis go to waste | Torsten Bell Attlee and Roosevelt built a fairer world off the back of economic catastrophe, says Torsten Bell, director of the Resolution Foundation

Storm is ready for her Fringe debut - she hopes you've got a ticket already! £5 previews this Friday and Saturday.

New show, new logo, new everything! (My Father) Borkman will be running all month of the EdFringe - see you there!

(My Father) John Gabriel Borkman Most bankers walked free after the bubble burst – but not John Gabriel Borkman. Years have passed since he got out of prison, and his son Edwin has grown up in his father’s shadow and absence. Now, Edwin wants to tell the story himself – the story of his family, and the first time they were all unde...

(My Father) John Gabriel Borkman, our new show, is looking for a cast and people to get involved for R&D - message the page for info!

Fox and Orchid is returning to Edinburgh this year, with a new (old) play for a full festival run!

Watch this space/like this page for upcoming news, and opportunities for both actors and others to get involved.

(A note from the director)

Why does a 24 year old woman throw everything she's got (Including her flat deposit) at taking a 122 year old play centred around the loss of a child to the Fringe?

I'm struggling with finding the words for this note, but this shouldn't come as a surprise - Death, grief and loss are notoriously hard to talk about.

Doing this play - translating, rewriting, directing, producing, physically making it, writing my master's thesis on it - is my way of talking about things I am notoriously bad at talking about.

Thankfully, I have never lost a child myself - but I've found myself at too many funerals at a complete loss for words in front of a friend's parents. (And even one would have been far too many.)

In our dramaturgical research (Thanks, Lucy Rose Coren) we found that the loss of a child is pretty much the hardest one you can experience, because being a parent is so fundamentally linked to who you are, and it goes against what we perceive as the natural order - parents die first. It hurts, but you are supposed to be at your parents' funeral at some point, deep down you know that. Even that is difficult to think about. You are never, ever supposed to be at your own child's funeral.

I've yet to think of what to say to any of those parents. Henrik Ibsen and Little Wolfie doesn't have any good advice either, per se - but it is a raw look at how loss can manifest, perhaps a cautionary tale or two of what not to do, and maybe a cautious glimmer of hope as well. (I'd love to hear what you think.)

I can only hope it gets people thinking and talking.

Death on the Fringe is part of the Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief campaign whose aim is to "is to make people aware of ways to live with death, dying and bereavement and help them feel better equipped to support each other through those difficult times."

Our hearts as a company go out to everyone suffering a loss right now. The losses of children - Which are happening on every continent right now - and all other losses, big and small, which need to be dealt with as best we can. Together.

A burden shared might not be a burden halved for good, but an emotional catharsis is like a vent for the built-up pressures of life, and perhaps the words of a long-gone man (Whose older brother died when he was a toddler) can do some of the talking for all of us.

(no title) A series of thought-provoking shows at the Edinburgh Fringe