Future Productions:
We aim to put on several productions a year within Edinburgh and are currently looking at the possibility of expanding out into other locations. For the moment we will keep such plans undefer lock and key but you can expect 2 fringe shows to grace the stage this summer along with a couple of other projects in the works.
Regina Vagina plans to make it's return summer 2025 along with a second adult horrible histories inspired production centered around another famous monarch.
More information to come, but in the mean time take a look at our past productions.
Past Productions
The Ebony Frame
But the ancient ebony frame on an otherwise unremarkable picture exerts a strange attraction on the young man, and soon his personality begins to change. Will he go on to marry his sweetheart Ida? Or will a handsome fellow from the past alter his future plans forever. An ancient secret comes to light, and with it a chance at salvation, but also of fire and death...
A new adaption of "Five Children & It" and "The Railway Children" author Edith Nesbit's classic ghost stories marking the 100th year since the author's death"
This production graced the stage twice in 2024, at first as a script in hand performance and later as a full 4 night at the Edinburgh Horror Festival to which it recieved high praise and a completely sold out run.
Writer: Oliver Giggins (Adapted from the works of Edith Nesbit)
Script in hand cast:
Arthur: Sandy Jack
Ida Helmont: Beth Eltringham
Old Nurse/ Jane/ Mother: Cosette Bolt
Roaul: Antony Branco
Director: Beth Eltringham
Edinburgh Horror Festival Cast:
Arthur: Alexander Donaldson
Ida/ Jane: Cosette Bolt
Old Nurse: Beth Eltringham
Mother/ Satan/ Butler/ Grave Digger: Finlay Allan
Roaul: Antony Branco
Director: Beth Eltringham
Costume and props: Beth Eltringham
Sound: Oliver Giggins
The Magicians Ghost (A script in hand performance)
"A hundred years ago this year, renowned magician Harry Houdini hired a struggling scribbler called HP Lovecraft to ghostwrite a tale based on a strange experience he had in Egypt. At the time Lovecraft was himself going through a strange and terrifying event he would avoid speaking of for the rest of his life: marriage to an independent writer and business woman.
What followed would change their lives and forever mark the world. The Magician's Ghost tells the story of a friendship spanning the natural, the fictional and the supernatural in a new play specially performed to mark the 150th anniversary of Houdini's birth.
Writer: Oliver Giggins
Director: Oliver Giggins
Cast:
HP Lovecraft: Alan Sunter
Harry Houndini: Sandy Jack
Sonia Greene: Cosette Bolt
Bess Houndini: Beth Eltringham
Ticket To Wonderland
Bumping into your ex at work covered in baby vomit can be awkward. But for Alice, who has just started a graveyard shift in a station coffee shop, it could be worse. You could fall asleep right afterwards, with customers waiting. Tinder-date customers with Cheshire cat smiles, boring teachers in odd hats, and disappointed mothers wielding flamingo bats... What are they doing here? Why are they all trying to get her on a train? Should one consume the magic mushrooms from the supermarket reduced section or are they bound to disagree with you sooner or later?
Earning sold out audiences and a 4 star review, Ticket To Wonderland made it's mark on the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Writers: Holly Wagner, Oliver Giggins
Directors: Holly Wagner, Oliver Giggins
Techie: Loz Thom
Producer:Meghan Wallace
Mother: Torya Winters
Professor: Oliver Giggins
Kat: Sandy Jack
Charlie: Kyle Paton
Alice: Holly Wagner
The Canterville Ghost
When The Otis Family move to Canterville Chase, they are shocked to discover that the house everyone told them was haunted has an actual ghost in it.
A clash of cultures ensues as the modern utilitarian Americans struggle with the ancient spiritual scrounger: the only question is... Who will this co-habitation force out first?
Writer: Oliver Giggins (adapted from the works of Oscar Wilde)
Director: Oliver Giggins
Actor: Alan Sunter
Regina Vagina
Making it's debute at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, Regina Vagina is an adult comedy musical based on the life and virginty of Queen Elizabeth i.
Was Queen Elizabeth I really a virgin? Was the Spanish Armada lead by a giant inflatable penis? How good was Mary Queen of Scots' head game? Find out in this surprisingly accurate (horrible histories inspired) musical comedy. Join us on an in depth exploration of the folds of a woman who's been documented as much for her body and sexuality as her actual achievements and success. Through scandal, conspiracy and raunchy musical comedy, let us delve into the life of Queen Elizabeth I. After all, there's nothing weird about discussing a 491-year-old's wobbly bits, is there?
Regina Vagina Successful sold out performances at the Fringe in 2024, obtaining various posative comments from audiences as well as a 5 star professional review.
Writers: Beth Eltringham, Oliver Giggins
Edinburgh Fringe 2024
Directors: Beth Eltringham, Oliver Giggins
Costume and props : Beth Eltringham
Cast:
William Shakey Speares: Stephen Park
Philip ii Of Spain/ Robert Dudley: Euan Huth
Elizbeth i/ Robert Devereux: Beth Eltringham
Mary Queen Of Scots/ Walter Rayleigh/ Kat Ashley/ Francois Duke Of Anjou: Katie Laird
Review: 5 stars All Edinburgh Theatre
The Shadow In The Dark
"This is not [your traditional] ghost story and there seems to be no reason why any of it should have happened. But that is no reason why it should not be told..."
Edith Nesbit, creator of "The Railway Children" and "Five Children and It", invites you into her parlour, as she recounts some of her unsettling horror stories which have long been overlooked in favour of her male contempories.
Featuring an all female cast, and including magic lanterns, eerie soundscapes, and stylised presentations popular at the time of her writings, this show presents an adaptation of "The Shadow", a ghost story of lost love and longing, and "In the Dark", a terrifying paranoid confession of a (accidental?) murderer, along with real-life terrors from Nesbit's life.
An anthology hosted by Edith Nesbit, the show will also touch upon the authors own thoughts on the macabre as she records her tales of terror, her memories, and her fears to wax cylinder in this new work from Oliver Giggins, creator of multiple EHF Sell-Out theatre shows, and award winning director and magician Ash Pryce.
Writers: Oliver Giggins, Ash Pryce (adaped from the works of Edith Nesbit)
Director: Ash Pryce
Cast:
Annie Cook
Skye Morrison
Rebecca Hale
Glass Slippers And Silver Bullets
Glass Slippers has graced the stage twice within recent years, once at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and again at the Edinburgh Horror Festival.
After over a decade of negligence, the Fairy Godmother has ruined Cinderella's night out by accidentally transforming her into a werewolf. Can she still seduce the Prince as a big, shaggy dog in a dress? Can the Pumpkin accept its Cronenbergian morph into a carriage? And is the Prince just charming or is he actually Dracula Prince of Darkness? Critically acclaimed at its debut, this fairy-tale comedy returns to the Fringe for the first time in five years!
Writer: Oliver Giggins
Director: Oliver Giggins
Cast:
Cinderella: Skye Morrison
Fairy God Mother: Angela Legg
Gardener: Robert Litvin
Dracula: Sandy Jack
Boris: Kerryl Erskine
