24/06/2026
🏴 🇧🇷 Scotland v.s. Brazil tonight! While your eyes are on the game, here’s some other exciting news for you…🥁🥁
São Paulo Showcase 2026 has revealed their Edinburgh Fringe Festival line-up!
From the very centre of Fringe buzz, to St. Cuthbert’s historic churchyard, São Paulo Showcase returns across festival spaces this summer with eight handpicked State of São Paulo shows - spanning circus, dance, puppetry, dark comedy, drama, and more.
(p2) Dribble by Cênica
A celebration of Scotland and Brazil, their similarities and contentions, and the five football matches between them across the decades.
Credit: Gui Di Curzio
(p3) by Blau Produções and Suzanna Rosenthal Productions
In the centenary of Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s passing, One Million Words probes at isolation, connection, and the legacy of the writer’s famous letters.
Credit: Carol Gherardi
(p4) The Last Drop by Teatro Manás Laboratório
A gothic, darkly comedic meditation on modern life and the global housing crisis, as an aging couple tries to sell their crumbling flat but are haunted by its living memory.
Credit: Jammil Bubruk
(p5) Whale Fall or Song to Dance with My Death by Teatro Volátil - Bruna Longo Profissional
Staged within the historic St Cuthbert’s Church, filled with echoes of its graveyard, Bruna Longo tries to mourn her own death in this ritualistic performance - the one thing we cannot do.
Credit: Danilo Apoena
(p6) Border Bodies by T.F. Cia de Dança
A stunning and innately collaborative ‘urban contemporary’ dance piece that explores the beautiful heterogeneity of humankind, and our intrinsic need to connect.
Credit: João Benz
(p7) Circo Valise by Eduardo Salzane
A dream-like circus show stuffed into a magical suitcase. Blending delicate puppetry with physical theatre, Miss Elephant invites you on an adventure full of imagination.
Credit: Paula Caldas
(p8) Vidrado by Guilherme Torres & Assessoria Cósmica
A gripping hour filled with jaw-dropping balancing techniques, Guilherme Torres creates a breathtaking sequence of daring stunts as various objects are stacked upon one another.
Credit: ALTA
