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Brew Hill
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Aim
After a successful Oxford run in February, Pecadillo Productions is so excited to be bringing 'Brew Hill' to the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe!
Brew Hill, written and directed by Kilian King is Pecadillo Productions' Edinburgh Fringe Debut. The tragicomedy, hailed by The Cherwell as having "immediate cult classic potential" follows the relationship of co-dependant flatmates Nat and Gordon as their relationship begins to unravel.
Having had a successful run at the Burton Taylor Studio in Oxford in February, Pecadillo Productions are very excited to take Brew Hill to Edinburgh, where they will be performing at TheSpace in August with the same cast and creative team.
Synopsis
Gordon suffers from panic attacks and is obsessed with Berlin. Nat is a recovering alcoholic who has visions of the renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel.
And Pieter, the great observer of wit and folly, has something he needs to tell us.
As cracks appear in Nat and Gordon's routines and their story begins to overlap with Pieter's, this thought-provoking new tragicomedy grapples with the big questions: what is the difference between community and suffocation? Can creativity be home-grown? And is it a good idea to start a brewery if you don’t like beer?
How this money will be used
The money raised through this crowdfunding campaign is an essential part of making our run at the Edinburgh Fringe possible. from venues to accommodation to marketing to set, there are many big costs involved in taking a show to the Fringe, and these expenses add up
As a student production company, we do not make any personal profit from our productions. Every contribution goes directly towards covering these costs and ensuring that we can bring the show to Edinburgh and present it to a professional standard.
Performing at the Fringe will give us the exciting opportunity, for the first time, to take our work beyond Oxford and share it with an international audience at this renowned festival. We are incredibly excited to make this project a reality and are deeply grateful for any support that helps us get there.
Impact and Audience
This “kooky, self-assured tragicomedy” with “immediate cult classic potential” (as reviewed by The Cherwell) is a story which is bound to resonate with audience who range in both theatrical taste and age groups.
Centred around the inscrutable but compelling relationship between Nat and Gordon, Brew Hill asks questions about art, community, and freedom, about how we approach the past and each other. It’s also, as our review from The Cherwell says, ‘genuinely hilarious’ and paints a portrait of the weirdness on societies’ fringes.
As a play about students, it lovingly satirises their pretensions and dysfunctional relations, but also dramatises the limbo-like post university existence that awaits many of us (especially humanities grads) in a world of ever scarcer graduate employment and loss of community. These are themes sure to resonate with younger adults attending the Fringe, and will also appeal to many adults within creative fields. In short, anyone who has ever felt this sense of ennui or disillusionment at what comes next as a young adult.
Another aspect of Nat and Gordon’s dynamic which will resonate with many is its idiosyncratic queerness; although questions of queer identity aren’t explicitly discussed in the play, they have been fundamental to the play’s workshopping stage, and Nat and Gordon’s relationship, platonic and inscrutable, is as joyful and destructive as that of any straight couple.
Personal and Professional Development
This show is special to Pecadillo Productions not only as it is our debut show, but is written by the director himself. As such, it offers both cast and crew a fantastic opportunity to develop our skills in producing, performing, and marketing a show in a huge international arts festival like the Fringe.
For our cast, performing at the Fringe offers the chance to step beyond the Oxford University drama scene and engage with a wider theatrical landscape. It is an exciting opportunity to challenge themselves as performers, gain experience in a professional festival environment, and further shape their artistic voices and identities
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made