HighTide at the Edinburgh Festival

This Summer, HighTide will be taking two plays to the Edinburgh Festival. Dusk Rings A Bell by Stephen Belber and Midnight Your Time by Adam Brace, performed by Diana Quick, will both play at the New Assembly George Square Gardens and tickets are available here.

Dusk Rings A Bell

By Stephen Belber
Starring Paul Blair

DUSK RINGS A BELL had its European Premiere at this year’s HighTide Festival where it previewed. It is directed by the festival’s artistic director, Steven Atkinson, designed by takis, with lighting design by Matt Prentice and sound design by Steven Mayo. Scottish actor Paul Blair plays Ray. The production is presented by HighTide Festival Theatre, who won a 2010 Fringe First award for LIDLESS, directed and staged by the same creative team.

Informed by his experiences in the Tectonic Theater Project writing THE LARAMIE PROJECT, Stephen Belber now takes a deeper look into the roots of hate crimes in a new play steeped in both regret and possibility about the difficulty of taking responsibility for our choices, and how life will make them for us if we’re not careful.

The production will run from 3 to 29 August at 2pm. Tickets £5 - £12.

Midnight Your Time

A New Play
By Adam Brace

MIDNIGHT YOUR TIME had its World Premiere at this year’s HighTide Festival where it previewed. Having met Diana Quick at the Suffolk festival last year, Adam Brace wanted to write something especially for her. She liked it so much she agreed to star in this one-woman show. It is directed by Michael Longhurst (REMEMBRANCE DAY, Royal Court Upstairs, March 2011) designed by takis, with sound design by Steven Mayo.

Every Thursday at 3am, Judy talks to her daughter on a webcam. Judy calls from Islington; her daughter is in Palestine. A retired lawyer, Judy is casting around for ways to occupy herself; with a women's peace league; with Mr and Mrs Prabhakar; with her daughter’s life.

Viciously funny but ultimately heartbreaking, it asks who we owe responsibility to, and how we should best live in the world.

The production will run from 3 to 28 August at 5:20pm. Tickets £5 - £15.

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