Site-specific, New Writing

Mayflies

Award-winning Fringe favourites Grid Iron present the world premiere of Mayflies, a site-specific adaptation of Andrew O'Hagan's best-selling novel. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend that defines your life. This tale of 80s youth and facing mortality in middle age is a joyous and heart-breaking elegy to the young people we still carry within us. With an epic soundtrack forged straight from the heart of the 80s, a former metalworks in Leith echoes the iconic venues of Manchester's music scene, providing an ideal setting for this love letter to friendship, and a pledge: go at life differently. MadeInScotlandShowcase.com

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    • Theatre
    • £23.50 - £28.50
    • 7-30 August 2026
    • 95 minutes
    • Brown's of Leith
    • subvenue Rear Warehouse ((Tower Street Entrance)
    • Age 14+ (Guideline)
    • warning
      Strobe lighting, Strong language/swearing, Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes of assisted dying, cancer, suicide, and drug and alcohol consumption
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    Brown's of Leith

    5-6 Shore, EH6 6QS

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    Rear Warehouse ((Tower Street Entrance)

    (Venue No. 320) 5-6 Shore, EH6 6QS

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