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Manipulate Festival: Europe, Meine Liebe, Mon Amour (Pop-up Performances)

Experience Bruno Gallagher's vibrant Europe, Meine Liebe, Mon Amour, a playful, surreal visual theatre journey blending dance, masks, and living art into a joyful celebration of imagination!

Manipulate Festival: Europe, Meine Liebe, Mon Amour (Pop-up Performances)

About Manipulate Festival: Europe, Meine Liebe, Mon Amour (Pop-up Performances)

An evocative and ambitious new visual theatre work inspired by memories and dreams of travels across Europe; a love letter to journeys both over land and into the imagination.

Europe, Meine Leibe, Mon Amour is a powerful new visual theatre work by Bruno Gallagher, unfolding through four playful, surreal vignettes combining physical performance, object manipulation, mask work, costume, and dance.

Each “absurdity” is inspired by Bruno’s memories and dreams of travelling across Europe, blending fragments of autobiography with imagination. The performance is accompanied by evocative soundscapes and recorded music, creating a rich, sensory world.

At the heart of the work is a celebration of the power of creativity and animated forms, as Bruno brings to life his own drawings, transforming two-dimensional shapes, colours, and forms into moving, living compositions. Bruno invites the audience to come along on a journey of imagination.

Free Pop-up performances on Sunday 8 February 2026
National Museum of Scotland, Chambers St, Edinburgh EH1 1JF
10:30, 11:15, 12:00, 12:45, 13:45, 14:30, 15:15, 16:00

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