Traverse announces Edinburgh festival line up

The Traverse Theatre Edinburgh Festival line up has been announced ahead of this year's fringe.

As part of the season, there will be ten world premieres including Rob Drummond's new show In Fidelity, about evolutionary theory, which features a live date onstage. Greater Belfast by Matt Regan – part gig part storytelling with a string quartet – also makes its world premiere.

Expensive Shit, by Adura Onashile, is a world premiere inspired by the events that led to The Shimmy Club in Glasgow being closed temporarily in 2013 and tells of the life of a nightclub toilet attendant.

Village Pub Theatre will be in the Traverse Bar Cafe every Monday morning where Hair of the Dog with Village Pub Theatre will run. The world premiere of Al Smith's Diary of a Madman, about a man who restores the Forth Rail Bridge, is an adaptation of Gogol's story, set in contemporary Scotland. There's also work from Mark Thomas with The Red Shed, and Blow Ofi a 'guerilla-gig-theatre' from Julia Taudevin and Kim Moore. It is a feminist work looking at the psychology of extremism with the backdrop of punk riffs.

The series of readings from University of Edinburgh and Playwrights' Studio Pre-View returns to the Traverse, with new work from Melloney Flinn, Jill Franklin, Jonathan O'Neill and Thomas Stuchfield.

Daniel Kitson returns to Traverse 1 with Mouse – The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought which follows Kitson at 38 as he looks at friendship, loneliness, doubt and hope with the help of white boards, angle poise lamps and ladders.

New Zealand Company Bullet Heart Club stage the European premiere of Daffodils (A Play with Songs), which follows one couple's life, played out to a mix tape of iconic New Zealand songs.

Receiving its Scottish premiere is Panti: High Heels in Low Places where Queen of Ireland Panti – whose speech about homophobia in 2014 went viral and was remixed by the Pet Shop Boys – invites you into her story.

The RSC's production for Alice Birch's Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again is running at Traverse 1, after it made its debut in Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2014.

Elsewhere Matthew Wilkinson's My Eyes Went Dark about a Russian architect driven to revenge the death of his family in a plane crash will run in Traverse 2 and TalkFest 2016 takes place on 8 and 15 August.

Artistic director Orla O'Loughlin said: ‘Our carefully curated festival programme reflects the Traverse’s place at the heart of our local, national and international community. It is always a privilege to showcase such an eclectic range of talent from both home and abroad and this year is no exception."

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