This festival finished on Saturday 23 January 2016, and this page is being kept for archival purposes only.
Bedlam Festival 2016
With 6 shows and 14 workshops over 5 days, the Bedlam Festival 2016 team can promise a week that you won’t want to miss! our impressive artistic and creative range includes:
So make sure you’re involved as an audience member, participant, or both!
Below are the full descriptions and ticket links for all of our shows and workshops. Also keep up to date with our Facebook page: Bedlam Festival; Instagram @bedlamfestival; and Twitter @_BedFest.
Administrator Marina Johnson
‘There’s a force in this place. You felt it in the cold wind and now it is in them. It pulls at you, pulls all the en...
Vision Mechanics invite the EUTC to explore a new form of storytelling as they lead a workshop on the art of shadow p...
A special workshop run in collaboration with the university, Bedlam Festival is delighted to welcome Writing in Perfo...
Come along to the Bedlam café from 10.30pm onwards for an evening of chatting, meeting, mingling and brainstorming in...
Tuesday 19 January - Saturday 23 January
Enjoying Bedlam Festival and want to find out more about the Edinburgh University Theatre Company? Fancy getting invo...
Following box-office hits ‘Othello’ and ‘Hamlet’, from award-winning writer W. Shakespeare comes an epic hit this Jan...
Wednesday 20 January - Saturday 23 January
Ask your parents for a box of juice, grab a crustless sandwich, and turn on the tele box!
From painting sets and props to designing, comfort with brushes and paints can be very useful in the theatre. We’ll c...
Come one, come all for a bit of physical comedy, slapstick, stock characters and more. This Italian comic style provi...
We take your childhood art from under the bed, out of the attic, and onto the Bedlam stage.
Viking Longboat is an hour of improvised comedy from five people who have a varying knowledge of where they are and w...
This 90 minute workshop is an exploration of what it means to ‘devise’ theatre, and looks at some ways to approach th...
A combination of demonstration, discussion and hands-on practice, this workshop led by some of the EUTC’s most experi...
Stopping off at Bedlam ahead of their Traverse performance on the 21st, one of Scotland’s most innovative emerging th...
Forty years after it premiered at the Traverse Theatre for the 1975 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Steven Berkoff’s ‘East...
A stage is one of the most flexible and exciting spaces you can work with. Come along to a relaxed exploration of the...
We all know how it feels. That lukewarm mid-run review that throws the cast and crew off their game and puts a huge d...
Interpreting Shakespeare for modern audiences and directing shakespearean text to a vision are two skills useful in a...
Meet and chat with the various players of university’s vibrant theatre as we all trawl around Edinburgh’s pubs for ou...
Do you like loud noises, bright lights and epic music? Want to try your hand at creating this in a theatre? The come ...
Do you want to see a night of unique, fast paced and hilarious comedy? Want to know the best part? It’s all shaped by...
Sign up for 24 Hour Play: Conceived, written, rehearsed and assembled in one night and one day… the show must go on,...
We are privileged to welcome Ben Harrison, Co-Artistic Director of Fringe First-winning company Grid Iron to Bedlam F...
Want to create a kick-ass and coherent marketing strategy on a student budget? Recent Bedlamite, Lauren McLay will pr...
Conceived, written, rehearsed and assembled in one night and one day… the show must go on, as they say. The EUTC pres...
What better way to end the festival than with an evening of hijinks? BedFest 2016 will go out with the Finale of all ...