'MY NAME IS GIDEON' to Return to Edinburgh Fringe This August

After traveling across New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Germany, England and Scotland, Gideon Irving returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his solo show, My Name Is Gideon - Songs, Space Travel, and Everything In-Between.

Performing at the Pleasance Upstairs (60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ), one of the most prestigious venues of the festival, Gideon Irving will offer audiences his unique blend of songs and theatrical curiosities that he has deemed Stove Top Folk, with previews beginning August 3rd and a limited engagement ending August 29th.

Performances run every day at 1:00pm, except for August 17th. Tickets for each performance range between £6 - 10, and can be purchased at tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/my-name-is-gideon-songs-space-travel-and-everything-in-between. The New York engagement is soon to be announced.

My Name Is Gideon - Songs, Space Travel, and Everything In-Between is a theatrical spectacle, formed through over 500 performances in living rooms around the world. After traveling from home to home on bicycle and roller-blades, Gideon is inviting audiences into his own living room on the Edinburgh stage. Featuring more than 15 instruments including the banjo, bouzouki, waterphone, shruti box, mbira, and scacciapensieri My Name Is Gideon - Songs, Space Travel, and Everything In-Between is an eclectic theatrical excursion in storytelling, rooted in song and surprise.

In 2015, Gideon Irving and his show partner, Hubcap Sloan, were nominated for the Total Theater Award for Playing With the Form after a five star run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This year, Gideon returns to take on the festival solo after a three week tour with the Hubcap show through homes in the Western Isles and Outer Hebrides which will conclude with three performances at the Soho Theater in London.

"The heart of what I do has emerged from playing is in peoples homes." Gideon says, "The show, the music, the communion, the travel, and the relationships are all interwoven. The challenge and the joy of bringing my show into a theater is in discovering how to maintain and play with that intimacy I've found around the hearth."

Since 2012, Gideon Irving has been playing shows, amalgams of music, stories and other theatrical curiosities in people's homes, over 500 at this point, across England, Scotland, Germany, New Zealand, Canada, USA, and NYC. He plays Stove Top Folk which he describes as "a bit of this and some of that." using a menagerie of instruments. He has toured home to home by bicycle towing a trailer, on roller blades pushing a modified shopping cart and within vehicular automobiles. He is currently planning to tour across America on horseback for 18 months while playing shows in homes. Building his tours through connections made by audience referrals on good old fashion maps after each performance, and staying with his hosts along the way, Gideon is building a global and committed network of hosts and audiences. He and his two man home show partner, Hubcap Sloan were nominated for the Total Theater Award for Playing With The Form during their FIVE STAR run at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe. He was commissioned by The Foundry Theater in NYC to create a new home show and he's been covered by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vice, Time Out NY, The Village Voice, Culturebot, Howlround, BBC, Broadway Baby, The Mumble, The Herald (Scotland), TV Bomb and several New Zealand publications and TV shows. He is also in development on a home show for deep international touring using no English, and a kids home show with Hubcap set to premiere in spring of 2017. He enjoys pastries and optimism.

Photo Credit: Isabel Wilder

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