Sat 31 May (19:00)
Main Auditorium- Unreserved
Contemporary Dance
Wee Man is a highly physical and dynamic dance-theatre performance work by award-winning Barrowland Ballet.
Performed by a cast of men and young male performers aged 14-18 years old, it celebrates and questions the shifting, and unshifting, rules of masculinity across the different generations. With candid humour, it examines the tension that exists within the toxic rulebook of accepted male behaviour, from the seemingly benign to the dangerous.
The troop holds
Cradles brotherhood
In calloused hands
Absorbs transgression
Forgives everything but individuality
Dismisses the traumatic
With a pat on the back
With an evocative sound score by Luke Sutherland and text created with Kevin P. Gilday.
⭑⭑⭑⭑ – An important and powerful skewering of toxic masculinity… a monumental achievement.
A youngish Perspective
⭑⭑⭑⭑ – Wee Man is a moving and necessary piece … a very engaging and powerful show with a lot of heart and tenderness.
All Edinburgh Theatre
⭑⭑⭑⭑ – Wee Man sensitively and intelligently dissects modern masculinity… a must-see for any man, and those who know them.
The Skinny
31May
Sat 19:00pm
Main Auditorium- Unreserved
Tickets £12.00-14.00.
Running time: 55 minutes
