Grid Iron returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to present the world premiere of Mayflies, a site-specific adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s best-selling novel. We are very proud that ‘Mayflies’ is part of the Made in Scotland showcase, which promotes high-quality music, theatre and dance from Scotland-based artists.

We are also excited to be basing our site-specific production of ‘Mayflies’ in the beautiful and historic Brown’s of Leith building on The Shore. With an epic soundtrack forged straight from the heart of the 80s, this former metal works echoes the iconic venues of Manchester’s music scene, providing an ideal setting for this love letter to friendship.

Once the George Brown & Sons Engineering Works, the building housed generations of engineers and metalworkers. Our story with them goes all the way back to 2010 when they made parts of the scaffolding that created the swings for ‘Decky Does a Bronco’ and then a large metal ring that was a main part of the set for ‘Letters Home’ in 2014.

We hope to see you there – this is a theatrical moment you won’t want to miss!