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15 of the best Edinburgh festival shows now touring

The festival is over for another year but plenty of its theatre, comedy and dance hits have announced dates around the UK

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Breffni Holahan gives a searing performance as Essie in Margaret Perry’s corrosive play about a woman’s disintegration. Essie is trapped atop a stone plinth dusted in dirt. Gigantic spikes of rock splinter the air around her. Her feet dangle. Having lost her job and broken up with her girlfriend, she is in every way ungrounded. This is where Perry’s play is rooted: in the queasy gap between her feet and the floor. KW
At HighTide festival, Aldeburgh, 10-15 September.
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All of Me
This used to be a lighter, more hopeful kind of show about depression, Caroline Horton explains. But she became ill again, so now All of Me is unashamedly bleak. Her depression is interwoven with myth, switching abruptly from ancient narrative to everyday hopelessness. One moment, Horton is approaching the guardians of the underworld; the next, she’s lying on the floor in unwashed clothes. Through layers of storytelling, song and looped sound we hear the overwhelming noise of despair – as well as its occasional absurdity. CL
At the Yard, London, 10-28 September.
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