Muster Station: Leith

Experience this immersive performance exploring themes of crisis and exile, marking the culmination of the Festival's four-year residency at Leith Academy.

Journeying through the spaces of Leith Academy, Muster Station: Leith marks the culmination of the Festival’s four-year residency at the school, with an immersive promenade performance from Grid Iron, crafted by a multi-award-winning team.

The unthinkable has occurred. You’ve been forced to leave your home. Thrust into crisis, into uncomfortable proximity with others you had pretended to happily co-exist with, but always preferred to ignore.

As time passes and stories are shared, will the barriers dissolve to reveal a common humanity, united in crisis? Or will the disintegration continue, beyond any hope of recovery? Inside the Muster Station, your fragile prejudices and assumptions are exposed.

Encounter an arresting and provocative promenade experience from Grid Iron, ‘the magicians of site-specific theatre’ (The Scotsman).

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Supported through the Scottish Government's Festivals Expo Fund

Programme

Ben Harrison Director
Karen Tennent Set & Costume Designer
Simon Wilkinson Lighting Designer
David Paul Jones
Composer
Emily Jane Boyle
Choreographer
Joanne Skapinker
Dramaturg
Niloo-Far Khan
Assistant Director
Nicola McCartney, Tawona Sitholé, Uma Nada-Rajah & Ben Harrison Writers

Cast
Shyvonne Ahmmad
Joseph Ogeleka
Naomi Stirrat
Olivia Sikora
Paul McCole
Pauline Goldsmith
Rachel Bruce
Tijan Sarr

Commissioned by Edinburgh International Festival