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Award-winning Fringe favourites Grid Iron present the world premiere of Mayflies, a site-specific adaptation of Andrew O'Hagan's best-selling novel. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend that defines your life. This tale of 80s youth and facing mortality in middle age is a joyous and heart-breaking elegy to the young people we still carry within us. With an epic soundtrack forged straight from the heart of the 80s, a former metalworks in Leith echoes the iconic venues of Manchester's music scene, providing an ideal setting for this love letter to friendship, and a pledge: go at life…
This is an archived listing from the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Mayflies is by Grid Iron, listed under Theatre in the Fringe programme. It plays at Brown's of Leith, 5-6 Shore (Tower Street entrance), EH6 6QS, 7 August to 30 August.
The show runs 95 minutes and is suitable for ages 14+. Tickets from £23.50. Content warnings: Distressing or triggering themes, Strong language and Strobe lighting.