To accompany its live programming

Edinburgh Fringe venue Assembly has announced the first comedy shows to be streamed on its Showcatcher video player for this year’s festival.

The operator will be running a pop-up venue in its normal home at George Square Gardens, which opens with a food festival on July 23 ahead of the Fringe in August.

But it has also announced its plans for video-on-demand programming across all artforms.

The shows listed in comedy are: Grief Lightning: A Satire; Something in the Water; We Missed You and returning comedy groups Police Cops and Sleeping Trees.

Something in the Water is a coming-out story that uses puppets, live video and projection, available as both a kids’ show and an adult comedy.

We Missed You is a theatrical film about the impact of the pandemic, created in lockdown and told through the eyes of clown couple Harlequin and Pierott

And Grief Lightning: A Satire, pictured, which had a successful run at the Adelaide Fringe earlier this year, is part-theatre, part-stand-up, part-PowerPoint presentation as one lecturer desperately tries to prove a popular Grease fan theory: that Sandy drowns in the opening beach sequence and the rest of the film is her coma fantasy.  

The Assembly Showcatcher programme  will run from Friday August  6 to Monday August 30 at  www.assemblyfestival.com.

Published: 7 Jul 2021