David Bowie loved the circus, and we love David Bowie.
Jacksons Lane pays its respects with a once-in-a-lifetime night of spectacular sound and vision that we think will blow your minds. Performers from across the globe come together to celebrate Ziggy, the Thin White Duke, and maybe even Jareth the Goblin King as they choose their favourite Bowie look and song for a night of spaceman-inspired circus that’s out of this world.
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We have introduced a Pay What You Decide policy for Postcards Festival 2016shows.
You can attend the shows without paying for a ticket beforehand, but tickets can be reserved in advance (max 4 per booking). When the show finishes, you will have the opportunity to make a donation – either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.
Baby Circus is an awakening of curiosity and joy. Beginning gradually and softly, performers get acquainted with each infant as the audience arrives before moving to the performance space. As circus characters and acts are introduced, infants will be captivated and parents entertained. Developed by director Mette Ylikorva and appearing as part of Jacksons Lane’s Sirkus Finnish showcase. 11am and 1pm sessions are for those aged 0 to 1. 3pm performances for those aged 1 to 3.
This acclaimed Edinburgh sell-out production from Jacksons Lane’s Artistic Director Adrian Berry tells the story of a young David Bowie obsessive.
Martin is a boy with problems – an illness no-one understands and a head full of sound and vision. So when an unexpected gift arrives on his birthday, Martin embarks on a thrilling journey in the footsteps of his obsession, leading him to discover some long-hidden truths about himself. What follows will change his life forever…
Powerful and touching, music and magic realism collide in this darkly funny and moving solo production featuring Alex Walton and the voice of writer & comedian Rob Newman. With a blistering Bowie soundtrack, the life of the pop fan is dissected in this tale of unnatural teenage wildlife.
“Moving and touching, it blew me away. I cried my eyes out. You forget you’re in a theatre, and you can’t ask for much more than that” BBC London Live
Lauderdale House’s 32rd annual photographic competition is open for entries!
If you’re an amateur, student or professional photographer you can enter up to 6 prints and be in with a chance to be selected for our exhibition in August. The overall winner of the competition will be awarded with their own free solo exhibition at Lauderdale House!
Entries must be sent or delivered to Lauderdale House and there is an entry fee of £4.50 per print. Entries will be accepted from Monday 8 July to Friday 12 July from 11am to 4pm and on Sunday 14 July from 11am to 4pm.
This years themed category is ‘Together’.
A private view for the exhibition will be held on Wednesday 24 July, it is free to attend and is open to everyone.
To enter the competition please read over the rules and download and entry form here.
Lauderdale House’s 32rd annual photographic competition is open for entries!
If you’re an amateur, student or professional photographer you can enter up to 6 prints and be in with a chance to be selected for our exhibition in August. The overall winner of the competition will be awarded with their own free solo exhibition at Lauderdale House!
Entries must be sent or delivered to Lauderdale House and there is an entry fee of £4.50 per print. Entries will be accepted from Monday 8 July to Friday 12 July from 11am to 4pm and on Sunday 14 July from 11am to 4pm.
This years themed category is ‘Together’.
A private view for the exhibition will be held on Wednesday 24 July, it is free to attend and is open to everyone.
To enter the competition please read over the rules and download and entry form here.
Lauderdale House’s 32rd annual photographic competition is open for entries!
If you’re an amateur, student or professional photographer you can enter up to 6 prints and be in with a chance to be selected for our exhibition in August. The overall winner of the competition will be awarded with their own free solo exhibition at Lauderdale House!
Entries must be sent or delivered to Lauderdale House and there is an entry fee of £4.50 per print. Entries will be accepted from Monday 8 July to Friday 12 July from 11am to 4pm and on Sunday 14 July from 11am to 4pm.
This years themed category is ‘Together’.
A private view for the exhibition will be held on Wednesday 24 July, it is free to attend and is open to everyone.
To enter the competition please read over the rules and download and entry form here.
Lauderdale House’s 32rd annual photographic competition is open for entries!
If you’re an amateur, student or professional photographer you can enter up to 6 prints and be in with a chance to be selected for our exhibition in August. The overall winner of the competition will be awarded with their own free solo exhibition at Lauderdale House!
Entries must be sent or delivered to Lauderdale House and there is an entry fee of £4.50 per print. Entries will be accepted from Monday 8 July to Friday 12 July from 11am to 4pm and on Sunday 14 July from 11am to 4pm.
This years themed category is ‘Together’.
A private view for the exhibition will be held on Wednesday 24 July, it is free to attend and is open to everyone.
To enter the competition please read over the rules and download and entry form here.
Lauderdale House’s 32rd annual photographic competition is open for entries!
If you’re an amateur, student or professional photographer you can enter up to 6 prints and be in with a chance to be selected for our exhibition in August. The overall winner of the competition will be awarded with their own free solo exhibition at Lauderdale House!
Entries must be sent or delivered to Lauderdale House and there is an entry fee of £4.50 per print. Entries will be accepted from Monday 8 July to Friday 12 July from 11am to 4pm and on Sunday 14 July from 11am to 4pm.
This years themed category is ‘Together’.
A private view for the exhibition will be held on Wednesday 24 July, it is free to attend and is open to everyone.
To enter the competition please read over the rules and download and entry form here.
Lauderdale House’s 32rd annual photographic competition is open for entries!
If you’re an amateur, student or professional photographer you can enter up to 6 prints and be in with a chance to be selected for our exhibition in August. The overall winner of the competition will be awarded with their own free solo exhibition at Lauderdale House!
Entries must be sent or delivered to Lauderdale House and there is an entry fee of £4.50 per print. Entries will be accepted from Monday 8 July to Friday 12 July from 11am to 4pm and on Sunday 14 July from 11am to 4pm.
This years themed category is ‘Together’.
A private view for the exhibition will be held on Wednesday 24 July, it is free to attend and is open to everyone.
To enter the competition please read over the rules and download and entry form here.
Suitable for ages 3 – 8
A wardrobe can take you to magical spaces, to all sorts of stories and wonderful places. Lyngo’s is a portal to the wild wood where something is roaming the forest, animals are mysteriously going missing and a little girl has just received a beautiful red cloak from her granny. Open the doors and it all comes alive through puppetry, songs and music from hidden hatches and secret compartments.
All the better to thrill you with!
“50 minutes of pure childhood joy!” number9reviews
Suitable for ages 3 – 8
A wardrobe can take you to magical spaces, to all sorts of stories and wonderful places. Lyngo’s is a portal to the wild wood where something is roaming the forest, animals are mysteriously going missing and a little girl has just received a beautiful red cloak from her granny. Open the doors and it all comes alive through puppetry, songs and music from hidden hatches and secret compartments.
All the better to thrill you with!
“50 minutes of pure childhood joy!” number9reviews
Suitable for ages 3 – 8
A wardrobe can take you to magical spaces, to all sorts of stories and wonderful places. Lyngo’s is a portal to the wild wood where something is roaming the forest, animals are mysteriously going missing and a little girl has just received a beautiful red cloak from her granny. Open the doors and it all comes alive through puppetry, songs and music from hidden hatches and secret compartments.
All the better to thrill you with!
“50 minutes of pure childhood joy!” number9reviews
Suitable for ages 3 – 8
A wardrobe can take you to magical spaces, to all sorts of stories and wonderful places. Lyngo’s is a portal to the wild wood where something is roaming the forest, animals are mysteriously going missing and a little girl has just received a beautiful red cloak from her granny. Open the doors and it all comes alive through puppetry, songs and music from hidden hatches and secret compartments.
All the better to thrill you with!
“50 minutes of pure childhood joy!” number9reviews
Following their sell-out, award-winning show Enter The Dragons, A&E Comedy (Abigail Dooley and Emma Edwards, “a brilliant comedy coupling” Total Theatre) return with a spell-binding, surreal and darkly hilarious tale, directed by Cal McCrystal.
“I think they are amazing!!” Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Witch Hunt weaves a cautionary fairytale for our time. It celebrates the wisdom of the witch, unpacks the notion of predator and conjures a world of coven-ready weird sisters.
“Watch out, there are wild women about. Knicker-Wettingly funny” Total Theatre
A ritualistic voodoo brouhaha designed to enchant and hex the pricks and predators; imagine Vic and Bob doing The Crucible.
Using buffoon, puppetry and magic and armed with a ‘wiccan’ sense of humour, A&E Comedy ask “can we use witchcraft to take down the Patriarchy?” Yes we can!
Following their sell-out, award-winning show Enter The Dragons, A&E Comedy (Abigail Dooley and Emma Edwards, “a brilliant comedy coupling” Total Theatre) return with a spell-binding, surreal and darkly hilarious tale, directed by Cal McCrystal.
“I think they are amazing!!” Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Witch Hunt weaves a cautionary fairytale for our time. It celebrates the wisdom of the witch, unpacks the notion of predator and conjures a world of coven-ready weird sisters.
“Watch out, there are wild women about. Knicker-Wettingly funny” Total Theatre
A ritualistic voodoo brouhaha designed to enchant and hex the pricks and predators; imagine Vic and Bob doing The Crucible.
Using buffoon, puppetry and magic and armed with a ‘wiccan’ sense of humour, A&E Comedy ask “can we use witchcraft to take down the Patriarchy?” Yes we can!
What are little girls made of?
They are made of the forest floor, the blood of the moon cycle, the fluttering of wings and the turning of keys. They are made of sweat, howling notes and desire. They are made of night scented stock – heady and sweet, the lily and the rose, the knife and the rope.
They are made of all the tales our Mothers told us.
And all the ones they didn’t dare.
Using circus as a physical vocabulary, the award-winning Proteus will translate the fever dream style of Angela Carter’s macabre fairy tales to the stage. The Bloody Chamber is a heady, erotic, and surprisingly funny re-phrasing of some of the most famous folk and fairy tales in Western culture.
At a moment when women and men across the country confront the double standards of safety, sex, and the fears of what goes bump in the night, Carter’s incendiary caustic take on fairy stories as cautionary tales could not be a more formidable challenge to the status quo.
What are little girls made of?
They are made of the forest floor, the blood of the moon cycle, the fluttering of wings and the turning of keys. They are made of sweat, howling notes and desire. They are made of night scented stock – heady and sweet, the lily and the rose, the knife and the rope.
They are made of all the tales our Mothers told us.
And all the ones they didn’t dare.
Using circus as a physical vocabulary, the award-winning Proteus will translate the fever dream style of Angela Carter’s macabre fairy tales to the stage. The Bloody Chamber is a heady, erotic, and surprisingly funny re-phrasing of some of the most famous folk and fairy tales in Western culture.
At a moment when women and men across the country confront the double standards of safety, sex, and the fears of what goes bump in the night, Carter’s incendiary caustic take on fairy stories as cautionary tales could not be a more formidable challenge to the status quo.