Manipulate Festival

The 17th edition of Manipulate Festival will take place between 1st - 11th February 2024.

About Manipulate Festival

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Manipulate Festival is an annual celebration of excellence in the fields of visual theatre, puppetry and animated film, bringing the very best of international and Scottish work to audiences across Edinburgh and beyond, in February each year. Creating a platform for creative exchange, debate and discussion alongside staging boundary-pushing new work for adult audiences, the Festival has gained recognition nationally and internationally for its innovative curation and unique blend of artforms.

Manipulate Festival is a home for performance, installation and film works which are either driven forward primarily by image rather than text, or which breathe life into the inanimate. This can include physical theatre, animated film, object theatre, mime, circus theatre, puppetry, dance theatre and installation work. We are particularly excited by work which sits at the margins between artforms, plays with form or challenges perceptions.

By bringing together leading puppetry, visual theatre and animated film from across the globe with work which has been developed here in Scotland, we aim to spark opportunities for artistic exchange and to offer our audiences a diverse palette of rich visually led work.

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Upcoming Events at Manipulate Festival

Theatre

Plinth

2nd February 2024 - 3rd February 2024

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh West

Renowned visual theatre artist Al Seed presents his latest striking work Plinth, which examines the role and re-appraisal of statues.

Theatre

The House

2nd February 2024 - 3rd February 2024

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh West

This complex puppet performance takes place in a revolving set featuring intricate lighting, strange contraptions and scary sound effects; the perfect setting for this comically chilling journey!

Theatre

Envahisseurs (Invaders)

4th February 2024

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh West

Envahisseurs is a short theatre show of objects on a table, largely inspired by the science fiction films of the 1950s.

Theatre

Tess

7th February 2024 - 8th February 2024

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh West

Ockham’s Razor, the UK’s foremost circus theatre company, presents a bold new vision of Hardy’s classic novel, Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

Theatre

Pickled Republic & Pickle Party

9th February 2024

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh West

Pickled Republic is an exciting new solo show about our search and need for purpose. Catch it at the Traverse Theatre!

Theatre

Ragnarok

10th February 2024 - 11th February 2024

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh West

Ragnarok creates a bold, haunting and multisensory theatrical world, populated by scores of hand-crafted clay figures and an atmospheric immersive soundtrack.

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