Critique Cabaret
Critique Cabaret is a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026, performing at C ARTS | C venues | C aquila. It has 14 performances listed, running from Mon 17 Aug, 19:25 to Sun 30 Aug, 19:25. The run has finished — every listed performance has taken place.
About this show
Critical theory is transformed into cabaret glamour by Mandy Harris Williams, a multimedia artist and cultural critic whose work operates across performance, writing, and digital media. Oration, original music, dance and projected video collide in a show about attention, survival and the cost of being politically coherent in public. Part lecture, part pop assemblage and wholly engrossing, scholarship becomes spectacle and spectacle becomes survival as Critique Cabaret examines what it means to think, feel and perform in a world where attention has become both currency and trap. Originally commissioned by Performance Space New York.
Details
- Venue: C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- Space: temple
- Genre: CABARET, Music, LGBTQ+
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Running time: 50 minutes
- Room size: about 85 seats (temple) — the Fringe box office sells a share of the room, not all of it
- Performances listed: 14, of which 0 still to come and on sale
Accessibility
- Venue notes: Accessible entry: Stair-lift with folding seat from ground floor foyer (requires transfer from wheelchair to stair-lift chair at ground level, transfer from one stair-lift chair to another at first floor level, second stair lift stair-lift with folding seat from first floor to second floor, then transfer back to wheelchair at second floor). Staff can carry an unoccupied small or folding manual wheelchair up the stairs while the wheelchair user uses the seated stair lift. Electric wheelchairs, heavy wheelchairs and bulky wheelchairs cannot be carried upstairs. If not taking the stair lift the space is accessed by two half flights and one full flight of stairs. Stairs: 20+ Number of stairs is provided as guidance and is not in addition to any wheelchair access type (lift/ramp etc) stated above.
Performance dates and ticket availability
- Mon 17 Aug, 19:25 — Already performed — £10.00
- Tue 18 Aug, 19:25 — Already performed — £10.00
- Wed 19 Aug, 19:25 — Already performed — £12.00
- Thu 20 Aug, 19:25 — Already performed — £12.00
- Fri 21 Aug, 19:25 — Already performed — £14.00
- Sat 22 Aug, 19:25 — Already performed — £14.00
- Sun 23 Aug, 19:25 — Already performed — £14.00
- Mon 24 Aug, 19:25 — Already performed — £10.00
- Tue 25 Aug, 19:25 — Already performed — £10.00
- Wed 26 Aug, 19:25 — Already performed — £12.00
- Thu 27 Aug, 19:25 — Already performed — £12.00
- Fri 28 Aug, 19:25 — Already performed — £14.00
- Sat 29 Aug, 19:25 — Already performed — £14.00
- Sun 30 Aug, 19:25 — Cancelled — £14.00