Auntie Empire

Auntie has gathered us all to relive and celebrate our glorious shared past, but unfortunately she also has some tragic, terrible, and most pressing news. And she needs your help.

This hilarious dark comedy is the latest from Scotland’s form-defying theatre company, Disaster Plan, the formal identity for the long-term collaboration between multi-award-winning theatre makers Julia Taudevin and Kieran Hurley. Auntie Empire is an outrageous contemporary satire on Britannia and the grotesque absurdity of her imperial self-regard. Blending bouffon comedy, satire and audience interaction, Auntie Empire is a bloody, messy, hilarious and timely lampoon of the myths of nationhood.

Auntie Empire has been developed in association with Jordan & Skinner and with support from Creative Scotland, Paisley Arts Centre and One Ren.

• £18.00
• 8-9 February 2026
• 60 minutes
• 20:00
• Summerhall
• TechCube 0
• 12 and above (12+)
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  Audience Participation, Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes: references to and themes of colonialism and colonial oppression