It is festival season and that means that in the next month there is so many great comedy festivals to look forward to! This month we are looking at some of the great shows that you can see at the Edinburgh Fringe. So take note because we are going to give you all the information you need for just a handful of some of the great shows happening this year!
Maiden | Mother | Whore
Location: DB1 at Assembly @ Dance Base
Dates: Aug 18th-23rd 26th – 30th
Time: 17:30
Price: £15.50 Concessions £14.50
Ticket Link: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/maiden-mother-whore
Hello! Tell us all about your show!
Maiden | Mother | Whore is an interdisciplinary dance and multi-media performance by us – Theiyā Arts Dance Collective. The work explores the roles that women are placed into, resist, inherit, reject, perform, and move between.
Drawing on South Asian classical-contemporary dance, spoken word, live music, projection and audience interaction, the piece asks how gender, power, health, social policy and institutions shape women’s lives and bodies. It is feminist, visually rich, and emotionally direct — but it is also an invitation. We are interested in what becomes possible when we refuse the roles patriarchy has handed down to us, and when we move through the tensions between resistance, survival, complicity, care and transformation. For Fringe 2026, we are adapting the work for a studio setting at Assembly @ Dance Base, bringing together performance, installation and audience encounter.
What other acts are you looking forward to seeing at the fringe?
We are still making our Fringe wish-list, but we are always drawn to work that sits between dance, theatre, live art and political performance. We are particularly excited to see work by artists of colour or of marginalist communities, feminist makers, migrant artists, and companies experimenting with form, especially pieces that ask difficult questions without flattening them into easy answers.
- Boys Don’t Dance by Marc Brew Company
- Agathi – The Plight of the Refugee by Apsaras Dance Company
- Kanpur: 1857 by Niall Moorjani in association with Jasmine Cole Productions
- Mohan: A Partition Story by Niall Moorjani in association with Jasmine Cole Productions
- ALOK: Eat Pray Leave (AEG Presents)
Have you done the fringe before? What are the key pieces of advice you have been given or would give to new groups or people performing at the fringe.
Yes, we have done the Fringe before, in different ways and across different contexts! The biggest thing we keep learning is that the Fringe can be brilliant, but it can also be chaotic, expensive and exhausting, so you have to be quite intentional about how you look after yourself and each other.
For us, that means trying to hold a care-centred approach even in the middle of the rush: checking in properly, not treating rest as a luxury, being honest about capacity, and remembering that the work is being carried by real people, not machines. It is very easy to get pulled into comparison or panic during August, so we try to come back to what matters: the integrity of the work, the wellbeing of the artists, and the relationships that make the work possible.
Talk us through your daily routine for a day at the Fringe
A good Fringe day for us will probably begin with coffee, food, and a check-in with the team before heading into the venue. Because the work is physically and emotionally demanding, we will need time to warm up, ground ourselves, check technical details, and make sure the space is ready for both performance and audience interaction.
After the show, we will probably have a mix of debriefing, conversations with audiences, admin, and trying to see other work when possible. The honest answer is that the routine will need to be flexible in order to support our company members accessibility requirements, caring responsibilities and our multiple work commitments that are part of the daily life of our company.
Ok, where is your favourite place to eat at the Fringe?
Home! As an Edinburgh based company we are privileged to be able to stay grounded to some of our individual spaces and our mealtimes will most likely happen in the chill of our own homes, allowing us to make sure that our diet is full of all the things needed…. However, there are a few places very dear to our hearts here in Edinburgh that we can always recommend:
– Karen’s unicorn (we could not pick one item off the menu so there is plenty to discover!)
– Hula (for the best granola in town)
– Dishoom (for the chai!)
– Mountain Momo (Castle street market)
If you are a visiting company, make sure to walk around outside of the busiest Fringe areas, there are many local small cafes and food hubs!
Best thing about performing at the fringe?
The possibility of encounter. You never quite know who will walk into the room, what they will bring with them, or what conversation the work might open afterwards. For a show like Maiden | Mother | Whore, that really matters. The piece is not only about presenting a finished performance; it is about creating a space where audiences can sit with questions around gender, power, agency, violence, care and collective resistance.
Do you bring anything special from home to make it feel more special whilst you are away?
As an artist of colour and minority arts led company, what we are actually bringing into the Fringe is our situated artforms and all that comes with it. We all live in Edinburgh at the moment, but the Fringe gives us an opportunity also to feel a bit closer to home (ours and other’s!).
What are your best hacks to save money whilst at the Fringe?
The Fringe can become quite expensive if you don’t plan well. Again, as a local company we see the privilege of being able to source a lot of our food and take care of many of our needs at home. If you are a travelling artist expenses can quickly pile up, even if we have to keep an eye on our own budgets and stick to what we plan…. So the best hack is to PLAN as much as possible. Again, wander outside of the most busy and touristic areas. There are a lot of community centres and community spaces with their own cafes, their prices are always a lot cheaper but also sometimes the atmosphere is a lot more chill and you get to support a local community focused organisation in the process.
If people want to find out more about you where can they follow you on social media?
@theiyaarts or our website: theiya.org
And Finally in three words – Why should people come and see the show?
Intersections, Immersive and Interospective…
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