North Wall Arts Centre

Created and directed by Kally Lloyd-Jones, The Chosen is an intensely moving dance piece about dying and embracing the art of living. How do we choose to live in the face of the inevitable and how do we think about the final stage of our life cycle? Increasingly, as medicine advances, knowledge of imminent death has become a reality for everyone; The Chosen addresses our individual mortality from the shifting perspectives of ourselves and our loved ones. Dance Audience Club 6.30pm If you are…

Life is turned upside down in one small town as East Oolia shuts the border with West Oolia, dividing here from there, us from them, this from that despite all the fruit tasting the same. In the midst of it all, Stranger, a young girl’s beloved dog, has gone missing. Will Stranger be found before the border closes, or will she be trapped forever on the “wrong” side? The Border is a high energy, outrageous Brechtian parable from Theatre Centre that…

Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer Nominee 2018, Sindhu Vee extends her UK tour due to popular demand with her critically acclaimed show, Sandhog. Loving your children, spouse and ageing parents (in that order, please don’t tell my mother) is very hard work, very intense and a lot of the time it sucks. But who wants to live without love? Highly anticipated debut from the host of BBC Radio 4’s Comedy of the Week podcast.  As seen on QI – BBC2, Have I Got News…

Thirty years after leaving his teaching post at the Ruskin School, John Newberry returns to Oxford with an exhibition of figurative oil paintings. They demonstrate his search for an alternative to perspective in large paintings – the use of Parallel Projection – and of colour to construct forms and space without shadows. Japanese prints give inspiration for the flat colour shapes, for the subject matter of everyday life and for the diptychs where movement springs from the changes between one…

It’s 1968, the height of the world-wide student revolt. David is 20. The Vietnam war rages. Martin Luther King is assassinated. These events will define David’s politics, his writing, and his life. 50 years on, in his professional performing debut, David is confronted by his 20-year-old self. Do they still share the same beliefs? Is it the world that’s changed, or him? Has he sold in or sold out? And why did his generation vote Brexit? David Edgar’s plays have…

Lisa and Rachael want to make a show, but there’s a problem: they don’t have any ideas. So who do they turn to? The Great British Public of course! They make a pact. They’ll go onto the streets, interview people, and whatever story the public come up with – that will be the show. No backing out, no changing what they don’t like. Deal. Still No Idea is Lisa and Rachael’s quest: a mischievous look at two friends searching for drama,…

Max is a normal-ish kid in a normal-ish town. He spends his days daydreaming and hanging out with his weird wee pal Stevie Nimmo. But when Max is called for a ‘square go’, a fight by the school gates, he must wrestle with his own demons first. An unmissable, Fringe First award-winning play about playground violence, myths of masculinity and the decision to step up or run. After a sell-out run at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe and an off-Broadway premiere this summer, Square Go lands…

Harry and Chris (Guardian Pick of the Fringe 2018) are at the top of their field, having invented the field of comedy-rap-jazz. They’ve sold out three Edinburgh shows, appeared on the Russell Howard Hour and were called ‘fabulously entertaining’ by Jonathan Ross. From the ridiculous to the sublime, the world’s greatest comedy-rap-jazz duo bring award-winning wordplay, awe-inspiring musicality, eyebrow-raising bromance and unashamed joy to the biggest PR task of all time – spinning planet earth. Age guidance: 12+

Poet and director Caleb Femi featured in the Dazed 100 list of the next generation shaping youth culture. Using film, photography and music Caleb pushes the boundaries of poetry both on the page, in performance and on digital mediums. He has written and directed short films commissioned by the BBC and Channel 4 and poems by the Tate Modern, The Royal Society for Literature, St Paul’s Cathedral, the BBC, the Guardian and many more. Between 2016-2018, Caleb was the Young People’s Laureate for London working with…

Welcome to the Caribbean. Where the sun is hot and the living is uneasy. Meet three women. An unlikely trio. Different ages, backgrounds and attitudes. Each has a unique relationship with the island. A home. A regular holiday haunt. A first time visit. Through language that fizzes and sparks, we begin to discover that they share one surprising thing in common. Following the success of The Fishermen in 2018, New Perspectives return to The North Wall with their latest production. Get set…

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…