Despite a rather rocky start, when Grid Iron had to find a new home for this site-specific show a mere two weeks before opening, Those Eyes, That Mouth has become a sell out hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, so far winning a Scotsman Fringe First, a Herald Angel and a Herald Angel and receiving a Stage Best Actress nomination for Cait Davis (results to follow!)

The show will be touring to conventional theatre spaces in September but it’s current run at 32 Abercromby Place at the Fringe is totally sold out.

It is night. A woman stands, her back to us, looking out of the window. She dangles a half-empty wine glass between thumb and forefinger.

Although she is free to leave she cannot move. She fears what is outside. Her mind forges manacles that prevent her from moving… and yet, in her dreams, she moves, she takes flight.

Grid Iron, use text, music and movement to conjure a strange world between wake and sleep. It is the world of half-finished cups of coffee and half-empty bottles of wine, of the stale taste of cigarettes in the mouth and of hunger in the belly.

Inspired by the films of Luis Bunel, Roman Polanski, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Tati and Wong Kar-wai, the paintings of Edward Hopper, the photography of Shirin Neshat, and the writings of Milan Kundera, Jim Crace and Julio Cortazar, Those Eyes, That Mouth is a performance for one actor and one musician.

Performed by the extraordinary Cait Davis (Fermentation, Frantic Assembly, David Glass Ensemble, Station House Opera) and composer/pianist David Paul Jones (Something There/Theatre Cryptic) and produced by Grid Iron's multi-award winning team, Those Eyes, That Mouth returns to the company’s key strengths- the relationship between the actor and the musician and the relationship of the performers to found and transformed space.