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Inside Look | Hidden Door Arts Festival Days 7 and 8 – the Old Leith Theatre, Edinburgh, June 1 & 2

3/6/2017

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If you’ve been keeping track of your Just For Culture news feed recently you’ll be aware that we’ve been pretty much living at Hidden Door arts festival at the Old Leith Theatre in Edinburgh this week.
 
The all-encompassing art extravaganza runs for 10 days in total and boasts a line up ranging from spoken word and dance to theatre and big name music acts. Days seven and eight provided a healthy dose of each.
 
Here are some of select picks from the past couple of days at Hidden Door. As ever, we unfortunately weren’t able to get to everything due to the laws of space and time – but what we did see left a great impression.
 
Hidden Door ends on Sunday June 4, so if you’ve not gotten along yet, there’s still time… and seriously, what are you waiting for?

Hidden Door 2017: Day Seven

Grid Iron’s ‘South Bend'

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Martin McCormick’s work in progress aired on the main stage and invited the crowd in close to sit on the stage to watch the performance.

The theatre production follows a man who flies across the world to Indiana to meet the woman he had fallen in love with, only to find that in the months between their meetings she has changed.

South Bend is all about the journey; whether it’s the protagonist’s, that of the truck driver who picks him up or the journey the audience goes through during the production.

“A road movie for the stage of hope, of love, of Eddie Izzard and an AIDS blanket, of the ghetto and a false kinship and poverty and riches.” Curious yet?


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Inside Look | Hidden Door Arts Festival Day 5 and 6 – The Old Leith Theatre, Edinburgh, May 30 & 31, 2017

1/6/2017

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Sonnet Youth's Spoken Word house party. Photo by Robbie Ambrose, JFC
We’ve set up camp at Hidden Door Arts Festival at the Old Leith Theatre in Edinburgh in the past week.

If you’ve not heard of it before then it’s the 10-day arts extravaganza bringing together emerging and established talents from the worlds of music, spoken word, theatre, dance, art and more, and year on year it’s a fantastic showcase of some of the finest talent that Edinburgh, Scotland and beyond have to offer.

If you’ve missed our coverage so far we’ve brought you an inside look at Hidden Door 2017 (which tells you a bit more about the festival and the remit) and a venue focus on the beautiful Old Leith Theatre, which the Hidden Door team have brought back from the dead after laying dormant since the 1980s.

Here’s a quick overlook of the action from across days five and six at Hidden Door – from guitars and theatre to music and, err, a Robert Pattinson-themed poetry showcase.

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