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🌈 Grace’s Picks: TheSpaceUK’s LGBTQ+ Theatre Programme At Edinburgh Fringe
Hold on to your feather boas and brace your glittery bits — this summer, theSpaceUK is letting loose with a blazing battalion of LGBTQ+ brilliance, and frankly, it’s the theatre rainbow riot we’ve all been waiting for. It’s queer. It’s chaotic. It’s courageously camp. And I will be taking notes in sparkly ink.
Whether you fancy a futuristic meltdown, a shouty sex-fuelled solo show, or a drag queen disembowelling Shakespeare — theSpace has got your queer cravings covered.
🚀 Queer Futures, Space Screams & Puppet Mayhem
Shallowspace Cryotech Feverdream – It’s body horror, babes. In space. A trans tale of memory loss, identity melt, and techno-madness. Buckle up.
Then there’s Ants and Other Strong Things – fast forward 30 years and society’s gone full surveillance state. Queer love in hiding, political tension thicker than hairspray in a green room. I was stressed and swooning.
Meanwhile, A Xerox of a Deer takes us on a puppet-fuelled trip through rural Irish queerness and emotional roadkill. It’s weird. It’s wonderful. It’s wilder than a hen night in Donegal.
🍑 Sex, Shame & Supermarket Gossip
Grooming My Ass – the title alone deserves a medal. Ryann Lynn Murphy goes full throttle in this psychedelic solo storm of gender, trauma, and twink trauma. Brutally honest and blissfully bonkers.
ROADKILL by DYKEish – it’s got Tesco gossip, trans joy, sex chat, and a whole load of rebel spirit. Ten out of ten, no notes.
Sauna Boy – a steamy, semi-autobiographical dip into gay saunas and the jobs nobody puts on LinkedIn. You’ll sweat, you’ll blush, you’ll relate.
🏡 Coming Out, Coming Undone & Coming Home
In Tell Me Where Home Is (I’m Starting to Forget) we get longing, cartoons, and queer coming-of-age chaos with a side of soft heartbreak.
Outing – Jamie’s torn between proposing to his girlfriend and screaming “I’m gay!” into a cocktail napkin. It’s fast, funny, and full of secrets.
And if you’re in the mood for something soul-stirring, Made of Magic by Jude FireSong brings poetry, painting, and queer power together like a Pride march in a gallery.
🎩 Legends, Lads & a Touch of Ripper Realness
Mad About the Boys – a smoky, jazzy knees-up paying homage to Coward, Porter, and Novello. Think martinis, mischief, and a few suggestive winks.
Pictures of Willy – queer parenting, stormtrooper kink, and one single dad trying to keep it together. It’s funny, frank, and fresh from LA.
Jack – Jack the Ripper but make it feminist, punk, and properly terrifying. The victims take the spotlight. The patriarchy gets slashed.
💄 Dragged-Up Dystopia & Macbeth in Mascara
Mother, Maiden and Crone – three nightlife witches (yes, including a drag DJ) fend off a hen party apocalypse while tackling Macbeth. Shakespeare’s rolling in his grave… with glee.
The Gay Social Network – Zuckerberg, doomscrolling, heartbreak and democracy’s collapse. Somehow, it’s all one big fabulous fever dream and you’ll leave feeling gloriously unwell.
🎸 Beatles, Binders & Bonkers Sketch Comedy
Someone Has Got to Be John – a trippy Beatles cabaret that somehow becomes a metaphor for transmedicalism and grief. Yeah, I wasn’t ready either.
And finally, Something Like a Brother – sketch-show chaos with dance breaks, drag kings and a puppet cameo or two. It’s podcast-meets-panto-meets-queer fever. I’m obsessed.
So there you have it. theSpaceUK isn’t just flying the flag — they’re launching it into orbit, dipped in glitter, blasted with confetti, and screaming THIS IS QUEER THEATRE, BABY!
Catch it all this Fringe or forever live in regret. Grace out. 💋
theSpaceUK at the Edinburgh Fringe
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