Grid Iron Theatre Company is a Scottish theatre company, one of the world's leading specialists in site-specific theatre although they also produce for the stage.
Over the 27 years the company has won 31 awards and another 20 nominations across all aspects of their work, including six awards in the
Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland.
As a renowned specialist in site-specific theatre, the company performs in a wide variety of venues which have included a cancer hospital in Jordan, land and air-side at
Edinburgh Airport, a former morgue in
Cork
Cork or CORK may refer to:
Materials
* Cork (material), an impermeable buoyant plant product
** Cork (plug), a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container
***Wine cork
Places Ireland
* Cork (city)
** Metropolitan Cork, also known as G ...
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Mary King's Close
Mary King's Close is a historic close located under buildings on the Royal Mile, in the historic Old Town area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It took its name from one Mary King, a merchant burgess who resided on the Close in the 17th century. The close ...
in 1997 before it was opened up as a tourist
attraction, the venue which is now run during the Fringe as The Underbelly,
Edinburgh Zoo
Edinburgh Zoo, formerly the Scottish National Zoological Park, is an non-profit zoological park in the Corstorphine area of Edinburgh, Scotland.
The land lies on the south facing slopes of Corstorphine Hill, from which it provides extensive v ...
,
The London Dungeon
The London Dungeon is a tourist attraction along London's South Bank, England, which recreates various gory and macabre historical events in a gallows humour style. It uses a mixture of live actors, special effects and rides.
History
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, parks, gardens, playgrounds and fields all over Britain and Ireland.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company created a documantary film about the preparations of what was to be an outdoor production in
Gifford Community Woods in East Lothian, based on the novel by Norwegian author
Erlend Loe, ''
Doppler''.
The company appears regularly at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as The Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, or Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest arts and media festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 dif ...
, and has appeared three times as part of the
Edinburgh International Festival, most recently in 2022 with ''Muster Station: Leith''
, a production which took place within Leith Academy.
They have also appeared as part of the Imaginate,
Edinburgh International Science Festival,
Edinburgh International Book Festival, the
Belfast Festival at Queens and Cork’s Fringe (now Midsummer) Festival. The company has co-produced theatre
National Theatre of Scotland, The Almeida Theatre (London), the
Traverse Theatre,
Dundee Rep Theatre, Lung Ha Theatre Company,
Stellar Quines and many others.
References
External links
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Doppler: The Story So Far - documentary film on YouTube.
Theatre companies in Scotland
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