On The Fringe: Eye on Edinburgh

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Presented in association with the British Council, On the Fringe: Eye on Edinburgh is a three-week event featuring new work emerging from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - a place that has been a crucible for the creation of innovative and experimental work. The partial list of programming includes:

-Presented by playwright/director David Leddy, the U.S. premiere of Susurrus is narrated via headphones and set at various locations around the Kennedy Center. The production draws on live art and adds layers of theatricality by locking individual members of the audience into a private play, hearing anonymous speakers tell stories of opera, botany, and relationships, all linked to the pathways around them.

-In Hard Hearted Hannah and Other Stories, the three members of Cartoon de Salvo take a title chosen by a random audience suggestion and a few popular songs picked from a playlist to create a new and unique story from scratch every night.

-Stan's Cafe presents the performance installation, Of All The People In All The World, which brings five tons of rice to the Center, representing one grain for every person in the U.S. Over the course of one week, a team of performers will weigh this rice out into any array of human statistics. When brought together to create a shifting sculptural landscape, these hills and mountains start to tell powerful stories of the world, its struggles, challenges, and triumphs.

-For both young and adult audiences, Oxford Playhouse's One Small Step features two actors taking an action-packed trip to the moon bringing dozens of characters to life in an inventive exploration of the space race, from Sputnik in 1957 to Apollo 11 in 1969.