The Wreck
The Wreck is a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026, performing at Summerhall. It has 24 performances listed, running from Thu 6 Aug, 10:30 to Mon 31 Aug, 10:30. The run has finished — every listed performance has taken place.
About this show
Two siblings dive a shipwreck and decide the fate of their family's seaside nightclub. A live-cinema show about diving, dancing and descendants. Combining live camera work, practical filmmaking, puppetry, and a live score. Following the sell-out run of Bark Bark – (Scotsman), (Skinny), (Fest) – Buzzcut return to Summerhall with a new live animation. Wes Anderson meets Katie Mitchell underwater in this delicate, funny, high-tech spectacle about returning home and diving into your family history.
Details
- Venue: Summerhall
- Space: Old Lab
- Genre: THEATRE, Multimedia, Puppetry
- Country: UNITED KINGDOM - ENGLAND
- Running time: 60 minutes
- Room size: about 94 seats (Old Lab) — the Fringe box office sells a share of the room, not all of it
- Performances listed: 24, of which 0 still to come and on sale
Accessibility
- Wheelchair access: level
- Access features: Step-free access, Accessible toilet, Hearing loop, Captioned performances
- Venue notes: Accessible entry: Once in the Courtyard, standing facing the Royal Dick, enter through the ground floor double doors to your left. Walk past the Anatomy Lecture Theatre and through the double doors, take a right; down to the end of the corridor, Old Lab is directly ahead. Wheelchair access type:Level Access Stairs: None Number of stairs is provided as guidance and is not in addition to any wheelchair access type (lift/ramp etc) stated above.
What the reviewers said
We have captured 7 published reviews and 35 audience reviews for this show from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s own listing. The excerpts below are the reviewers’ words, not ours — follow each link for the full review.
There were a million ways that Buzzcut Productions could have produced this show, but, to me, it felt like every creative choice they made was the right one.
— The Student (5 out of 5 stars)
After a week at the Fringe, I have become used to seeing an empty stage and a chair as I enter a theatre. So how thrilling it is to instead view a vast technical set-up walking into Summerhall’s Old Lab: a cyclorama,…
Paradoxically, it might have been more dramatic to put the characters on the periphery and make the town of Ratmouth Bay the star of an impressionistic documentary, aggregating all of the things that Eddie is desperate…
— The Wee Review (3 out of 5 stars)
Performance dates and ticket availability
- Thu 6 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £10.00
- Fri 7 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Sat 8 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Sun 9 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Mon 10 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Tue 11 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Wed 12 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Thu 13 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Fri 14 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Sat 15 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Sun 16 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Mon 17 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Wed 19 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Thu 20 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Fri 21 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Sat 22 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Sun 23 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Mon 24 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Wed 26 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Thu 27 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Fri 28 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Sat 29 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Sun 30 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00
- Mon 31 Aug, 10:30 — Already performed — £17.00