Theatre

  • Fringe Festival

Notes From a Black Hole

A semi-autobiographical-time-travelling-sci-fi adventure.

A person in a beige boilersuit wearing a jellyfish costume on their head and holding a telephone to their ear in front of a backdrop of stars.

Image Credit: Darren Gill

  • Written by: Rowena Hutson

A thousand years in the future, Ren and her spaceship M.A.G.D.A. are sucked inside a black hole. Somewhere in the not-so-distant past, Skip is drifting through a darkness of their own. As their lives veer into the unknown, they must each ask themselves the question: When there’s no one to talk to, who you gonna call?
This is a story about two people, one fastidious spaceship and an epic rescue mission a thousand years in the making.
They’re all going to get out of this alive. But you’d better strap in - it’s going to be a wormhole of a ride.

Based on a (mostly) true story and written by award-winning storyteller Rowena Hutson, this rollicking space oddity is a loving and ludicrous lurch into one young person’s experience of anxiety and depression and out the other side.

★★★★ "It’s inspiring to watch her at work." – The Scotsman

★★★★ “One of the most moving and provocative pieces of The Fringe this year.” – The Clothesline

★★★★ “Only the most special of storytellers can make an audience laugh one minute and want to cry the next. Rowena Hutson is one of those storytellers.” – The Advertiser

Digital sessions:
Livestream tickets are available for the Oct 18 session. Playbacks will be available for 72 hours after the show, so ticketholders can watch the playback until the following Monday.

Creative Team
Rowena Hutson - Writer / Performer / Producer
Ailsa Wild - Co-Director
Christy Flaws - Co - Director
Amy Gray - Stage Manager
Alice Pollard - Lighting Designer
Tom Middleditch - Sensory Dramaturg