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Hannah Eidinow’s new street theatre commission for the Vauxhall Collective comes to Edinburgh…


Theatre practitioner and Fringe First winning director Hannah Eidinow (Gone, What I Heard About Iraq) will stage an engaging street-theatre performance at The Mound, over one weekend at the Edinburgh International Fringe festival – the world’s largest arts festival.

The Great British Weekend…“Are We Nearly There Yet?” promises to be one of the hottest street theatre performances of the year. Followers and the public will witness the journey of the fictional character MP Philip Wilson, taking his family to the seaside for a ‘relaxing’ weekend. Meet the Wilson family as they desperately try to escape it all: one car, two parents, two teenagers and a lot of luggage. Followers and the public will witness the Wilson family as they quarrel and dispute along their journey. As the family stops in different locations, it will also travel in time, impersonating the traditional nuclear family in all its different guises through the decades. The audience is taken from the 1940s to the present day, through very different social and political times – each scene plays out the culture, politics and environment, as well as telling a personal story about the Wilsons’ own lives.

This interactive theatrical installation enjoys the notion that you might never really ‘get away from it all,’ even when you attempt to have the perfect great British weekend… and through the twists and turns of the road, one bears witness to the truth about British habits, traditions and families. In sharing and exploring their own changing circumstances, the Wilson family invites the audience to question their own lives…

The Great British Weekend…”Are We Nearly There Yet?” is at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 28th, sponsored by Vauxhall Motors. www.vauxhallcollective.co.uk.

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