North Wall Arts Centre

Superb world-class stand-up from the Irishman from Australia acclaimed worldwide as one of live comedy’s true masters as Jimeoin brings his brilliantly observed, ever-evolving and hilarious comedy to The North Wall for one night only as part of his latest smash-hit tour. Jimeoin is internationally acclaimed and his shows sell out across the UK, Europe, USA and of course Australia. Hailed as a genuine “fair dinkum” stand-up alumni, don’t miss your chance to see this award-winning star of TV shows…

Astrid’s life is like many others. She dresses her child, she spills her coffee, she catches the bus to work. But her work brings Astrid and the audience into contact with the world’s most dangerous weapons. In one moment they can change our lives forever. What happens the next time we launch a nuclear attack? Can we afford to pretend these weapons don’t exist? Nuclear Future shines a light on how one individual’s actions can effect catastrophe for the whole planet. A new play for a volatile world from award-winning company Gameshow.…

As a portrait painter, Felicity Gill searches for a likeness which ebbs and flows as the painting progresses – as if in a wonderful game of hide and seek. Finding more freedom in her figurative paintings, Felicity explores painting flesh and movement, fleeting moments and emotion. Her intention is for the movement of the paint to lead the viewer’s eye around the painting until it settles on a feature which comes into focus, such as an eye or a hand,…

“And there’s blood pouring out of this man’s throat. Because these two women are beheading him – did I not mention that?” Breach Theatre restages the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi in this Fringe First and The Stage Edinburgh Award-winning production. Based on surviving court transcripts, this new play dramatises the seven-month trial that gripped Renaissance Rome, and asks how much has changed in the last four centuries. Blending myth, history and contemporary commentary, this is the story…

Welcome to Shadow City, a hellhole of a city, but a city nonetheless… Detective Jay Walker is dead, and with no leads and a case colder than…ice. It’s up to his ex-partner Patrick ‘Nobody calls me Patrick’ Wolf to bust some imaginary heads and find out who killed him. Armed with nothing but his own body and a chair, Lewis Doherty brings to life thirty characters, car chases, and multi-man brawls for a hilarious hour-long adventure across a cyber-punk landscape.…

Welcome to the Kingdom of Skadi: a place of adventure, a distant land where pirates, bounty hunters and thieves do battle in a world on the brink of destruction. With the King’s daughter captured by an evil dragon, who will survive in this quest of epic proportions and formidable consequences? Brand new for 2019, Lewis Doherty presents BOAR, a one-man fantasy adventure tale. Prepare for arrows to roll and heads to fly in this action-packed hour of swords, sorcery and…

Since 2010, Making Tracks has brought world-class and diverse music from all corners of the globe to a network of top venues throughout the UK. Re-launching this year, Making Tracks’ ambitious new model brings together emerging artists from around the world to celebrate unique musical traditions, initiate new collaborations and contribute towards a global network of socially and environmentally-engaged musicians. Part of a UK tour, this concert will feature solo and collaborative performances from each of Making Tracks’ 2019 Fellows including Louise Bichan (Orcadian fiddler, Scotland), Rapasa…

The natural world is Jane Duff’s inspiration. Brought up on the edge of Snowdonia, and working as a guide in the Himalayas, she feels at home in wild places and seeks them out in order to walk, photograph and paint. Painting in-situ encourages her to react instinctively and emotionally to the landscape, weather and light. She is most at home painting on rocky shores, cliff tops, saltmarshes and moorlands of Cornwall, Wales and North West Scotland. In Oxfordshire, Jane is…

“When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now…” This Christmas Creation Theatre will be really turning down the temperature and transforming The North Wall into the frozen wastes of Lapland. Gerda’s best friend Kai has gone missing and she can’t find him anywhere. Luckily there’s all sorts of helpful people she can ask; a river, some rose bushes, a crow, a robber girl and her talking doves…. you get the picture.…

Say ‘I do’ to the triumphant return of Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominees Max & Ivan, as seen in BBC One’s W1A and heard on BBC Radio 4’s The Casebook of Max & Ivan. Commitment is the TRUE STORY of the unreasonable lengths one best man (Max) will go to give one groom (Ivan) the greatest weekend of his life. It’s a show about dreaming big, growing up, and trying – but ultimately very much failing – to make it in the band. Directed by…