Swiss Selection Edinburgh 2022

With «Swiss Selection Edinburgh», we enable selected Swiss groups and artists to present their works at The Fringe festival in Edinburgh, the most important performing arts festival in the Anglo-Saxon world. This showcase will include spanning real life experiences of motherhood, a fascinating study into the dark world of ‘incels’ and personal testimonies of shame. Bringing together multi-disciplinary artists, this year’s selection includes an audio walk through Edinburgh, a solo show, and a duo with live music.

Don't miss the Swiss at Summerhall, in Newington, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL

Lea Whitcher’s «Mama Love» is a one-woman show in which Lea Whitcher plays with the absurdities of the idealised and toxic images of motherhood in which she finds herself enmeshed. Against the backdrop of the 2020 Swiss vote on granting new fathers a whole two weeks’ paternity leave (18 years behind the Brits’ oh-so generous offer) Whitcher links lived experience with current discourses on motherhood, thrashing out a path through a jungle of everyday situations, social clichés, and quizzical utopian models of life in a society beyond the bounds of patriarchy.

MAMA LOVE
Red Lecture Theatre, 15:00 (16:00) / 3rd – 28th August (not 15th & 22nd), Previews 3rd & 4th August

Pintozor’s «Guide to Surviving Masculinist Territory» is an audio walk through the streets of Edinburgh. A woman invites audiences to follow her while listening to the story of an “Incel”, a member of the masculinist splinter community of “involuntary celibates” who meet on the internet around their hatred of women. As the life of one of these “incels” intertwines with the narrative of a young woman fascinated by this highly violent movement, audiences start to question the streets they’re walking through.

Route TBA, 20:30 (Monday – Thurday), 20:00 (Friday – Sunday) / 3rd – 28th August (not 15th & 22nd), Previews 3rd & 4th August

Trixa Arnold & Ilja Komarov’s Shame «Shame On You!» is an archive of shame that explores seemingly banal everyday situations and painful experiences of violence and discrimination. “You can be ashamed of many things. Of yourself, your family. Of your country, your President. Of your actions and inactions” This is what a Swiss/Russian duo Trixa & Ilya wrote three years ago. And today they are deeply ashamed – of Russia and its President. With live music & personal testimony this confronting show comes to Edinburgh in a changed world.

SHAME ON YOU!
Demonstration Room, 13:30 (14:30) / 3rd – 28th August