Edinburgh Fringe 2022 - Good Grief
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Edinburgh Fringe 2022 - Good Grief
Ugly Bucket’s extraordinary Good Grief will make its Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in 2022.
A recipient of New Diorama Theatre and Underbelly’s hit-making Untapped Award, supported by Methuen Drama, Good Grief is a cathartic reckoning with death and grief through a kinetic maelstrom of outrageous clowning, powerful and poignant personal testimony and a thumping techno soundtrack.
Ugly Bucket created the first version of Good Grief as a tribute to their late friend Tim who had one final wish: to create a show about death… so they did. Good Grief is a healing process, celebration and funeral all rolled into one. A highly creative and symbolic piece, it explores the many images and allegories through which we perceive and process death and brings them to life in vibrant, often outrageous fashion.
An original score by Duncan Gallagher complements the high-energy movement with angular and sharp techno-beats and live theremin. Voice recordings of Tim and testimonies by drama therapy patients, hospice residents and volunteers with experience of grief interpolated into the soundscape. The floating, purgatorial set transports us instantly from the inside of the womb to a hospital waiting room.
Good Grief has been adapted into a graphic novel to be published by Methuen Drama, with illustration by Kidda Kinsey.
Ugly Bucket is a multi-award-winning physical comedy company who seek to tackle taboo topics head on; their 2020 production Bost Uni Plues won Best Production and Best Director at Liverpool Fringe, the Stephen Jeffreys Award and The Holbeck Cup. Good Grief was recently listed in the Guardian’s Best Summer Culture Guide and is currently making its UK-wide tour before heading to Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Theatre (physical theatre, clown)
Venue 61
Underbelly, Cowgate - Iron Belly
15:40 Aug 4-14, 16-28 1 hour
Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)
Ugly Bucket’s extraordinary Good Grief will make its Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in 2022.
A recipient of New Diorama Theatre and Underbelly’s hit-making Untapped Award, supported by Methuen Drama, Good Grief is a cathartic reckoning with death and grief through a kinetic maelstrom of outrageous clowning, powerful and poignant personal testimony and a thumping techno soundtrack.
Ugly Bucket created the first version of Good Grief as a tribute to their late friend Tim who had one final wish: to create a show about death… so they did. Good Grief is a healing process, celebration and funeral all rolled into one. A highly creative and symbolic piece, it explores the many images and allegories through which we perceive and process death and brings them to life in vibrant, often outrageous fashion.
An original score by Duncan Gallagher complements the high-energy movement with angular and sharp techno-beats and live theremin. Voice recordings of Tim and testimonies by drama therapy patients, hospice residents and volunteers with experience of grief interpolated into the soundscape. The floating, purgatorial set transports us instantly from the inside of the womb to a hospital waiting room.
Good Grief has been adapted into a graphic novel to be published by Methuen Drama, with illustration by Kidda Kinsey.
Ugly Bucket is a multi-award-winning physical comedy company who seek to tackle taboo topics head on; their 2020 production Bost Uni Plues won Best Production and Best Director at Liverpool Fringe, the Stephen Jeffreys Award and The Holbeck Cup. Good Grief was recently listed in the Guardian’s Best Summer Culture Guide and is currently making its UK-wide tour before heading to Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Theatre (physical theatre, clown)
Venue 61
Underbelly, Cowgate - Iron Belly
15:40 Aug 4-14, 16-28 1 hour
Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)