A big story about love, fate and luck
told with everyday tiny things.
The odds of perishing in a commercial plane accident are 29.4 million to one. Reassuring. Except if you’re the one.
As emergency masks plummet, engines squeal and hand baggage flies from the overhead bins, two strangers hold hands. Scared and breathless, their lives flash past as they face their final moments together.
Exploring themes of luck and choice, fate and coincidence and above all what it means to connect with someone, this thrilling production, created by one of Scotland’s leading production companies, is a fantasy table-top exploration using object theatre where time is turned upside down and all the things that matter start to make sense.
"We're so thrilled to present 'Up' at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival and to share this huge story told with tiny things. Object Theatre is such a dynamic and imaginative artistic discipline. When our production toured Scotland last year, the story and form provoked such wonderful responses from audiences and critics, that we knew we just had to share it with an even wider audience at the world's largest and best theatre festival in Edinburgh."
- Dougie Irvine (Artistic Director of Visible Fictions)
For ages 14 +
Directed by Douglas Irvine
Tickets
Performance Schedule: Saturday 2 August – Sunday 24 August 2025 (No performances on Tuesdays)
Venue: Gilded Balloon at Appleton Tower (Braeburn) Venue 140
11 Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9LE
BOX OFFICE: 0131 622 6552
