All Tomorrow's Festivals

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. It turns out the biggest gathering of creative people in one place anyway tells us quite a lot about what's emerging in the arts, entertainment, culture and beyond. This episode, MD of Label Sessions Nick Sherrard and content producer Josh Nixon look back on the seri...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, writer + co-creator Alexandra Silber shares with us Whisper Walk: a documentary-style testimonial piece that explores the intimate power and the deep connection between memory and place. As audiences walk through Edinburgh, voices gently whisper in thei...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, writer + performer Stacie Burrows confronts the ghosts we carry in this hauntingly lyrical road trip through memory and addiction in No Good Drunk. Embellished with Southern Gothic tones, this intensely personal and harmonious solo show unearths the gen...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, award-winning theatre maker Victoria Melody talks to us about "Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak - a new playful theatre piece that celebrates the power of community and the ordinary people who shape history. --- Through podcasts we give you a little...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, producer Claire Gilbert talks to us about 'Bury the Hatchet'. Combining bluegrass murder ballads with satirical storytelling, the show unpicks Lizzie Borden’s 1892 alleged crime and subsequent trial, America’s greatest ever unsolved murder mystery. Alth...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, writer + performer Mhairi McCall talks us through 'Mary, Queen of Rock!' -- an original take on a classic Scottish story. This original new musical features several different genres of music but is essentially a rock opera. --- Through podcasts we give...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, playwright Isla Cowan talks us through Alright Sunshine, a razor-sharp monologue dissecting gender, power, and who owns public space: "When PC Nicky McCreadie responds to a mass brawl on Edinburgh’s Meadows, she finds herself face-to-face with a past sh...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, folk singer-songwriter and theatre-maker Michelle Burke walks us through a deep-dive into her surreal family history in 'Mind How You Go'. Through a captivating fusion of storytelling and original music, her show explores identity, migration and family...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, director, writer + performer Inge-Vera Lipsius asks audiences to visualise poetic images in two interconnected cities in complete darkness: one made of glass, another of sand. Are we ultimately less different from one another than we think? Lipsius is a...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, writer + performer Claudia Shnier shares her exploration of control, love and the addiction to people who hurt us, with the award-nominated Split Ends. She uses physical theatre, puppetry and multi-media to question when we are in control or incredibly...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, performer Kathryn Gordon talks to us about "A Journey of Flight" -- an immersive 50 minute dance performance created in Shetland and inspired by the migration of birds. Mesmerising choreography, live music from Jenny Sturgeon and stunning projected visu...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, conciever + director Guillaume Pigé talks to us about "The Nature of Forgetting" -- this moving and hauntingly beautiful piece is about the inability to recollect and what remains when memory fades. Using visual theatre and original live music, the show...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, writer + perfomer Sam Ipema shares with us the true story of Sam’s diagnosis with a brain aneurysm. "Dear Annie, I Hate You" chronicles Sam’s story from her early childhood to her life changing diagnosis in a life-affirming audio visual performance. The...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, musician + lyricist Brandon James Gwinn shares with us the story of the rebellious new musical Midnight at the Palace dismantles the lines between art and showbiz, politics and performance. Audiences are invited to join the original ‘Fuck You Countercul...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, writer + performer Beth May presents a comedic insight into intrusive thoughts, Beth Wants the D is an autobiographical one woman show that confronts death and delusion. Using her own struggle with bipolar disorder, audiences will journey through the ex...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, performer + producer Gaia Mondadori walks us through Center of the Universe, a story about a woman who takes her need for success to the extreme and who burns to become somebody, to be seen as more than her pain, more than who she is. But at what cost?...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, performer + producer Ryan Stewart walks us through KINDER. Coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time with a smart, chaotic and tender exploration of childhood, queerness and the risingtide of censorship and reactionary politics in today’s world....

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. This episode, creator + performer Tom Bailey of the immersive experience 'Wild Thing!'. Presenting a wonderfully inventive show about the climate apocolypse we find ourselves in, Bailey attempts to do impressions of 48,000 species in the space of an hour, approaching...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. In this episode hosted by Nick Sherrard + Josh Nixon of Label Sessions, we're talking to the director of the Edinburgh Art Festival Kim McAleese about what the festival has to offer this year, its inherent ties to the city of Edinburgh + how it supports local artists...

Welcome to All Tomorrow's Festivals, exploring what's happening in festivals now, to discover what may be happening everywhere next. To kick off our first episode hosted by Nick Sherrard + Josh Nixon of Label Sessions, we're talking to writer + performer Aaron Pang about his one person show based on his experience on the complexitiess of love, lies and life after disability - playing on society's...