Aim

Please help Belly Up Theatre get to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! We are aiming to take our first show, A Dick Called Moby, to the fringe.

Belly Up Theatre stalwartly set sail, intent on harpooning their great white whale: comedy. Our five performers will wallow in the blubber of short-form sketch, presuming that, eventually, their audiences’ dark, swollen blowholes will rupture with chortles, guffaws, and snickers. But, avast! Content drawn unwillingly from Herman Melville’s throbbing creative womb is not all the Belly Up gang have in store for you — there’s Mystery Incorporated debating canine euthanasia, ITV’s The Cube: The Teens, The Man Who Karate Chops Easter Eggs, an unlikely Masterchef finale, and more. 

Don’t call me Ishmael! Call me Jim, Maddie, Will, Chris and Ella. Our five performers are as hardy as the crew of the Pequod, and ready to take their revenge upon that humongous sperm whale for eating one of each of their legs. But, as Confucius once said: ‘seek revenge and you should dig two graves’. Well, we weren’t planning on digging any graves. Imagine the size of the hole we’d have to dig for a massive sperm whale! You’d need one, maybe even two JCB’s and we’ve not got the budget for that, or anything, really — most of the troops will be made of cardboard fished out of the skip at the bottom of Jim’s mum’s road. 

Join our seafaring cohort at Greenside’s Mint Studio on Infirmry Street from the 5th - 13th August. We’ll unfurl the sails and set forth from dreary Nantucket for a world of joy, jokes and jubilation. And then murder a whale onstage.

Belly Up Theatre Company prides itself on helping young, emerging artists enter the theatre world and offer opportunities to have experience in a highly competitive, often limited, industry. We focus on education, with an ethos of inclusivity. You do not need to have experience to be part of Belly Up Theatre, all you need is a willing attitude and excitement for theatre.  For almost all of us, it is our first chance to go to Edinburgh Fringe, and for many it is our first semi-professional theatre production.

This project closed unsuccessfully on 21st June 2022