About

Who are we: theSpaceUK is a production company specialising in live theatre, music and event production. We have 20 years experience in producing an array of live production across all genres of performance art. Our ten Award winning Edinburgh Festival venues have become widely established and continue to host some of the festivals most talked about shows.

Our Fringe Programme: Our focus is very much on programming a wide range of perfomance genre. We will programme established theatre aswell as seeking out and giving new and developing theatre an opportunity to blossom on the Edinburgh stage. We have a strong belief in the ethic of the fringe as a platform for the unknow artiste and focus very much on advising, promoting and developing the acts that perform with us in Edinburgh. The Awards many of our acts have won over the years many by unknown or new acts, refelcts this pedigree. But you don't have to be told your the best, or brightest to simply get it on and see where it goes on the fringe...quite often that journey surprises many!

Educational: The Edinburgh Fringe is not just about Awards and reviews. It's primarily a fantastic platform for performers, producers, directors, technicians, set designers, stage managers etc etc to gain invaluable experience in working in the busy environment of a daily working theatre. Our ongoing relationships with performance arts depts in Schools and Universities from across the globe (who return year after year) is testament to our committment to work closely with developing and progressive young artistes.

Those Awards:  With 2 fringe firsts, the national theatre award for best emerging show and best ensemble in 2008 and 2009 we are very proud of our work. The vast majority of our shows will receive media coverage during August, either via print or online, and many will receive 4/5 star reviews in the popular Edinburgh press aswell as coverage in national and international media. In essence our spaces have become very well known in Edinburgh as a solid platform for new, developing and established theatre of a very high calibre.

Are we different, Why us?:   Our focus on giving opportunities to all forms and levels of performance art is perhaps a little different to many fringe venues. Several awards have been won by previously unknown companies and we are passionate about promoting the very essence of the festival - a platform for the unknown artiste. We have great pride in our technical know-how and theatre design, something many of our companies have been very complimentary about - see what some of them had to say here. On a logistical front we tend to offer straight hire rentals - quite rare in Edinburgh - we feel this gives the company clarity in its budget and in essence when a show sells well the company receive the benefits - not the venue! These are also 'All Inclusive' - see the venue pages for what that includes but it basically means the fee we quote covers everything - oh and we do not charge extra for inclusion in the venue brochure / website or for your tickets etc etc etc…

theSpaceUK Team 2010;

  
Management Team:Charles Pamment, Giles Moss, Gareth Hughes, Jon Rand, Ian Gregory, Olly Ansell, Wayne Garnett
  
Senior Technical team :Ruth Stringer, Matthew Stott, Jamie Hiles, Adam King, Louise Marr, Ben James, Andrew Veitch
Technical team:Owen Fallows, Lee Stone, Madeleine Hillman, Carrie Lonsdale, Steph Butterworth, Tommy Foster, Will Mckenhnie, Jake Clark-Darby, Pawel Maciejewski, Caroline Lindgren Svensson, Calum Idle
Box Office Managers:Alison Storm, Brooke Gallagher, Camilla Born
Box Office / Front of House team:Anna Bradshaw,Gemma Sinclair, Kathy Bayman, Louise Cooper, Rebecca Sherab, Catherine Harris, Claire Fleming, Grace Johnson, Rebecca Greig, Rhiannion Savell, Abbie Davidson, Alison Scott, Emma Cooper, Poppy Rainer

Website by Headstrong, Brochure design by Root Creative.

Special applause in order of appearance to: Dan & Louisa Balfe, Paul McVeigh, Stagepoint, Sonny Mann & the Chapel of Karaoke, QMCW, Sebastian (Polski), Al, Gav, John and Ed, Nick Gardiner, Bill Davies, Cat Rand, Malcolm Hardee (oi oi rip), Charlie Chuck, Troika TC, Charlotte Wormstone, Nigel Cook, OSP, BBC News, Livewire TC, Bruno, Top Edge TC, Broadway Baby, Spencer J, Malcolm Kennedy, ZTC, Kathryn Toon, Simon Rae, Mick Reilly, Ben Roberts, Lennie Hughes, Barry Rowlands, Paul Seaby, David Keller, Ben Motz.....

Applause to: All who have performed, worked or simply been part of what we do...