As we enter Week 8, make sure to get your tickets for The Importance of Being Earnest, and of course, The Improverts! Submissions are currently open for original fan fiction as part of a performance fundraiser and the Bedlam Sounds event is currently hosting an open call for bands. More information on both can be found on our FaceBook page.
Have a great week!
Lauryn McGuire EUTC President ‘25/’26
The Importance of Being Earnest
The paradigm of Wildean comedy, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, By Oscar Wilde, is “a trivial play for serious people”. The play follows characters, richly saturated with eccentricity, and their romantic ramblings within the rigidly ritualistic Victorian upper class. For over a century, Wilde’s artwork has held up a looking glass to society, reflecting the hilarity of its behaviours, superfluous as well as profound, and revealing to us, through preposterous circumstances, with a delectable wit, that “the truth is rarely pure and never simple”.
In acknowledgement of the University of Edinburgh’s financial entanglement in the Palestinian Genocide, the Earnest production team has added a £4 protest charge to each ticket which will be directly donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians.
Running time: 2h 45m (including 2 intervals)
Latecomers will be allowed within 15 minutes of show start.
Improverts
What happens when rival butchers meet at the laundromat? Or Queen Lizzie walks into a chippie? We haven’t got a clue, but bring your quirkiest suggestions to the Fringe’s longest running sketch-comedy-improv show and watch them unfold in beautiful chaos!
Fancy a giggle? Come along at 10:30pm every Friday to catch a show!
Fancy making others giggle? Come along to one of our weekly workshops every Saturday at 12midday!
Imps tn? Hell yeah!
Every Sunday 12:00 to 14:00, we do theatre maintenance where we tidy up the building and make improvements. Bedlam runs on volunteer help, so you will be asked to attend one of these sessions if you have worked on a show in the theatre. Similarly, you will be required to help staff a show (or two if you did a mainterm) in exchange for the members who helped staff your show. You can log into your account on the Bedlam website to see if you have maintenance or staffing debt and sign up for a session to fulfill that. There are instructions on the website and people to help you in the building, so don’t worry if you’re new to any of the tasks! You can clear maintenance debt by coming to a Maintenance Session or talking to Maysan Abdidayim or Morgan Hazelip (Theatre Managers) at [email protected]. Likewise, you can contact Uppie Shah or Elise Chan (Front of House Managers) at [email protected] if you have any questions about staffing. You can sign up for your staffing slot here. Thanks for the help!
For Bedlam-related welfare issues: [email protected]
Show-specific welfare reps: Check your proposal or ask your producer if you’re not sure who that is!
What we can help with: - Disagreements about show-related issues - Safety and well-being concerns on shows - Scheduling conflicts you’re not sure how to handle - Pretty much anything else related to a Bedlam show or the society itself!
Other welfare resources to keep on hand: For mental health concerns or non-theatre related issues, please reach out to the Edinburgh Student Wellbeing service or make an appointment with Edinburgh’s Student Counseling Service.
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Last updated: Sunday 08 March 2026 at 16:43