International Shalom Festival at Ed Fringe – Incubator Theatre 12.00 and 4pm

International Shalom Festival At the Edinburgh Fringe

Building Cultural Bridges, Celebrating Co-existence

Incubator Theatre presents its Hip Hop Comedy Masterpiece The City

Performances at 12 noon and 4pm

Tickets
£12.50 full price
£9.50 concessions
£8.00 students

https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/city-a-detective-hip-hop-opera

The City

Humphrey Bogart meets Jay-Z in a gritty and darkly comic whodunit hip hop opera. Incubator Theatre presents The City, a mesmerising musical tale of vanity, lust and murder. The City is a contemporary crime fable written entirely in rhyme and performed as one continuous song (in English) combining rap, hip hop and spoken word with theatrical and poetic texts. Inspired by black music, hardboiled fiction and 50’s detective films it offers drama, comedy, razor-sharp wordplay and clever staging in equal measure. Joe is a cynical and bitter private detective working in a corrupt and decaying city. One stormy night, a young mysterious woman enters his office and convinces him to start an investigation into the strange disappearance of her sister; a decision that could cost him his life. This sharp and fast paced production includes elements of film noir, rap, hip hop, beat boxing and operatic style sung dialogue, all woven through a riveting murder mystery starring small-time detectives, sultry singers and hard-hitting policemen. The City was written and created by Amit Ulman, Omer Havron, and Omer Mor, members of The Victor Jackson Show ensemble, a popular Israeli hip hop group, under the wing of Incubator Theatre. The production is directed by Amit Ulman, with music by Omer Mor, and performed by its three creators, along with Dorit Lilien and Roni Rocket. The musical arrangements use some unusual, minimalistic instruments including beatbox and vocal percussion, a metal bin, an upturned-plastic-tub-turned-drum and chopsticks, together with darbuka drum, classical guitar and keyboard.