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Scotsman
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Shedinburgh location revealed as line-up unveiled for venue with Baby Reindeer link
The new Edinburgh Festival Fringe venue will pay artists to perform. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... New Edinburgh Festival Fringe venue Shedinburgh has named its first line-up of acts as the hub's location is revealed for the first time. Based in the Edinburgh College of Art, the venue is believed to include the iconic Wee Red Bar, as well as outdoor courtyard bar areas. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Jayde Adams is to join comedian Mark Watson among a strong of one-night acts to perform at Shedinburgh, the brainchild of producer Francesca Moody, who originally brought Baby Reindeer and Fleabag to the Fringe. Venue organisers have promised to 'flip the traditional Fringe model' by paying artists to perform. Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning in Baby Reindeer. The hit Netflix show started out life on the Edinburgh Fringe. | Ed Miller/Netflix Further shows are still to be announced, with special 'secret sets' due to be revealed during the festival. Other Shedinburgh events include work-in-progress performances of three Shed Originals - unseen scripts with development supported by Shedinburgh from up-and-coming writers. These include brand new scripts from Nick Cassenbaum, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth and Rosaleen Cox, with more to be announced. Meanwhile, Ms Moody will host a panel discussion on 'How to Produce a Fringe Hit' as part of the Shedx Talk line up aimed at Fringe professionals, alongside other industry names. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad She said: 'We're absolutely thrilled to be making this first programme announcement for Shedinburgh. [It will be] a hugely diverse range of original work from an incredible roster of artists from the emerging to the emerged. We're delighted that Shedinburgh means that these much-beloved shows, artists and makers of the future can perform at the Fringe this year. 'It's likely I'll be permanently sat in Shedinburgh for the duration of August and I'm thrilled we've been able to set up our home in the Edinburgh College of Art at the heart of the Fringe.' The revival of the venue, which ran digitally during the Covid pandemic, will pay artists and fund accommodation and travel in a series of one-night shows in a bid to 'level the playing field' at the 'increasingly inaccessible' Fringe. Francesca Moody is the producer behind Fringe hits including Baby Reindeer and Fleabag. | Rich Lakos The 100-seat venue will be a cafe and bar for artists to meet by day before turning into a performance venue at night in what is being billed as an 'intimate, immersive setting'. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Scottish writer and performer Gary McNair, who is to perform his show Clamjamfry on August 24, said: 'It's incredible that a project founded on a pun and made during the pandemic has become such a beacon of potential and positivity for artists. 'I'm totally bowled over by the passion, determination and insane hard work that has gone into launching this festival, venue and idea. Personally, I owe a great debt of gratitude to the Edinburgh Fringe. I've had the most amazing experiences as an artist there over the years and I'm excited that Shedinburgh will now give that opportunity to others to do the same.' Shedinburgh will also be opening applications for its Shedload-of-Future Fund. The fund will award three £5,000 grants to artists making their Fringe debut in 2025. The bursaries can be put towards any costs associated with bringing a show to the Fringe, including travel, marketing, accommodation, set, and artists' time.
The Guardian
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Shedinburgh festival returns with new 100-seat venue at Edinburgh fringe
When the 2020 Edinburgh fringe was cancelled due to Covid-19, producer Francesca Moody and theatre-maker Gary McNair unveiled a DIY solution: Shedinburgh. Theatre, comedy and music shows were put on in a variety of sheds and streamed live to an audience online. The digital initiative proved as popular as it was canny and returned the following year. Now, the Shedinburgh festival is set to be resurrected this summer for a series of in-person, one-off performances in a new 100-seat venue in Edinburgh. Jayde Adams, Mark Watson and Ivo Graham are among the standups taking part, along with fringe favourites Sh!t Theatre, the Guilty Feminist host Deborah Frances-White, Marlow and Moss (the composing duo behind hit musical Six) and recent Olivier award-winner Maimuna Memon. There will be Shed Shows (intimate 'unplugged' versions of hit fringe productions from the past), Shed Originals (using previously unseen scripts by emerging writers) and ShedX Talks (free panels and Q&As), as well as late-night music events. The venue will be open during the day as a cafe and bar. Tickets including pay-what-you-can options will be released later this month when the full 'shed-ule' is announced as well as further details about the venue including its location. Taking a show to Edinburgh is a financially risky endeavour for performers who are often required to pay the venue a minimum guarantee. Shedinburgh will instead be giving a guaranteed fee to each act as well as covering their travel and accommodation expenses. Moody, whose Edinburgh hits include Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, said: 'In recent years it has become more challenging than ever to bring a show to the festival and for artists and audiences it feels increasingly inaccessible. Shedinburgh is our attempt to level the playing field; it's our love letter to the fringe, and something that we hope sits in conversation with the many other brilliant initiatives working to ensure the festival remains a launchpad for the next generation of gamechanging artists.' Applications will soon open for Shedinburgh's Shedload of Future Fund, which will distribute money raised from the 2020 and 2021 digital seasons. The fund will award three £5,000 grants to artists making their Edinburgh fringe debut this summer. Watson said 'it's getting harder and harder for emerging artists to survive [in Edinburgh] or even take the risk of going in the first place. There needs to be a fresh approach to the way the festival works for performers, and that's what Shedinburgh is offering.' Adams, who will be performing a show that is 'more theatrical, more personal and unlike anything I've done before', said Shedinburgh would offer a space that is 'intimate, raw and open to risk'.
Yahoo
16-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cheltenham Festival and 'one in a million' birth
Here is our weekly roundup of stories from across local websites in the West of England. We have a daily round up as well. Make sure you look out for it on the website and the local section of the BBC News app. Cheltenham Festival has been the talk of the week. A man who got tickets for him and his dad but went alone after his father died has been viewed thousands of times. And Cheltenham Borough Council posted about its safe space for women under 18 during race week. There is just an 'E' left to paint before the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood is complete, Bristol Live reports. Work was abandoned because of protests by residents. Wiltshire 999s has published an article about a man admitting to having sex with a Shetland pony in a Wiltshire stables, who will be sentenced in May. ITV West Country has covered a 'one in a million' birth in Somerset. Five lambs have been born from the same ewe at a farm in Shapwick. And in more animal news – kind of – a video of Bristol comedian Jayde Adams singing Chappell Roan's 'Pink Pony Club' in a Bristol accent has gone super viral. Buildings cut into ancient monument could be removed Queen visits Cheltenham after early snow on course Former Bristol MP takes seat in House of Lords 'Yo-yo' birth-rate causing headache for schools Life in jail for teen who strangled his sister, 19 Somerset Live has published an article about how shopping and hospitality has changed since Covid. To mark five years since the beginning of the pandemic, the website has done a lookback on what has changed. Headlines: Tree set on fire and rare lamb quins born Headlines: Snow and Queen at Cheltenham Headlines: Jockey's comeback and green cycle lanes Headlines: Cheltenham Festival, and Chappell Roan in a Bristol accent Follow BBC West social channels in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. Send your story ideas to us on email or via WhatsApp on 0800 313 4630.
Yahoo
16-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cheltenham Festival and 'one in a million' birth
Here is our weekly roundup of stories from across local websites in the West of England. We have a daily round up as well. Make sure you look out for it on the website and the local section of the BBC News app. Cheltenham Festival has been the talk of the week. A man who got tickets for him and his dad but went alone after his father died has been viewed thousands of times. And Cheltenham Borough Council posted about its safe space for women under 18 during race week. There is just an 'E' left to paint before the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood is complete, Bristol Live reports. Work was abandoned because of protests by residents. Wiltshire 999s has published an article about a man admitting to having sex with a Shetland pony in a Wiltshire stables, who will be sentenced in May. ITV West Country has covered a 'one in a million' birth in Somerset. Five lambs have been born from the same ewe at a farm in Shapwick. And in more animal news – kind of – a video of Bristol comedian Jayde Adams singing Chappell Roan's 'Pink Pony Club' in a Bristol accent has gone super viral. Buildings cut into ancient monument could be removed Queen visits Cheltenham after early snow on course Former Bristol MP takes seat in House of Lords 'Yo-yo' birth-rate causing headache for schools Life in jail for teen who strangled his sister, 19 Somerset Live has published an article about how shopping and hospitality has changed since Covid. To mark five years since the beginning of the pandemic, the website has done a lookback on what has changed. Headlines: Tree set on fire and rare lamb quins born Headlines: Snow and Queen at Cheltenham Headlines: Jockey's comeback and green cycle lanes Headlines: Cheltenham Festival, and Chappell Roan in a Bristol accent Follow BBC West social channels in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. Send your story ideas to us on email or via WhatsApp on 0800 313 4630.
BBC News
16-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Headlines: Cheltenham Festival and 'one in a million' birth
Here is our weekly roundup of stories from across local websites in the West of have a daily round up as well. Make sure you look out for it on the website and the local section of the BBC News app. What have been the big stories in the West this week? Cheltenham Festival has been the talk of the week. A man who got tickets for him and his dad but went alone after his father died has been viewed thousands of times. And Cheltenham Borough Council posted about its safe space for women under 18 during race is just an 'E' left to paint before the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood is complete, Bristol Live reports. Work was abandoned because of protests by 999s has published an article about a man admitting to having sex with a Shetland pony in a Wiltshire stables, who will be sentenced in West Country has covered a 'one in a million' birth in Somerset. Five lambs have been born from the same ewe at a farm in in more animal news – kind of – a video of Bristol comedian Jayde Adams singing Chappell Roan's 'Pink Pony Club' in a Bristol accent has gone super viral. Top five local stories for the BBC in the West Something longer to read Somerset Live has published an article about how shopping and hospitality has changed since Covid. To mark five years since the beginning of the pandemic, the website has done a lookback on what has changed. Explore more with our daily roundups
