Elysium Theatre Company presents OTHELLO by William Shakespeare

Part of the Durham Shakespeare Festival 2024

“Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again.”

Award-winning Elysium Theatre Company returns to the Assembly Rooms with new production of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy of love.

Durham University's national musical theatre champions are bringing a show full of of iconic musical songs, characters and silliness to Edinburgh this summer! Laugh yourself silly as you choose which of your favourite musical theatre characters find themselves in the wrong song, and watch in amazement as our troupe members belt out classic tune after classic tune – making the troupe's Fringe debut with a bang! Durham University Music Theatre Troupe (DUMT) cannot wait to see you there!

Following the advice of her (hot) therapist, entomologist Zenab buys a baby doll to reconnect with her inner child. But from the moment she takes it out of the box, she feels a strange connection to it. Through the breakdown of her relationship with best friend Bryn, her encounters with a slightly sinister support group mother and therapy sessions that are a little too intimate, the show follows Zenab as she begins to lose her grasp on reality. milk teeth is a play about lost love, motherhood and loneliness.

It’s the morning of the tech run for a fresh, new student production, and the technicians have stayed up all night to make sure their cues are perfect. But their plans quickly change when the Director has a revelation and insists that the entire production be reworked!

Wrong Tree presents a newly devised show: Too Close to the Sun. The sun will come up tomorrow. But what if it doesn’t? Six people on the periphery reckon with what and who they have left when the unfathomable becomes reality. Against the backdrop of the Arctic, doomsday cults, and outer space, and inspired by the story of Icarus, this experimental and physical anthology explores what we take most for granted.

An unsure artist, incongruent in high-class society, and a young bride, delivered to a new city, are thrown together to create something beautiful for the people that control them. What they end up producing is a delicate all-consuming relationship that will prove to be the most important of their lives. Inspired by the friendship between famed Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli and his model and muse Simonetta Vespucci. Their story is told through vignettes of the brief time they spend together in the artist’s studio before the deadly poison of the outside seeps in through cracks in the door.

The group that brought you Liz Kingsman, Ed Gamble, Stevie Martin, Nish Kumar, Ambika Mod and more are back with a new troupe and 100% new material. Join the award-winning Durham Revue, one of the UK’s most famous student comedy groups, for an hour of hilarious sketches. ‘Raucously funny with sublimely clever writing.’ (Fringe Biscuit).

The Durham Revue is turning 50 years old! And how are the troupe celebrating? With a mid-laugh crisis! Will the troupe be able to conquer their 50th fears or will The Durham Revue finally face their last laugh?