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Violence tears Lip and Tarantula’s chosen family apart and the two trans women become estranged. Lip languishes in solitude, clinging to the past and her dream of making things exist by speaking. Tarantula enters cis-het society – marrying a man, getting a good job and undergoing surgery so that she can bear her own child. After a tragic “accident” leaves Tarantula dead, Lip takes Tarantula’s corpse home, steals her unborn child and begins to make a Shabbat dinner she believes will bring back Tarantula and their 26 children.
This is an archived listing from the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Song of Lip and Tarantula is by Aviva Pearl Ocean Creation / PBH's Free Fringe, listed under Theatre in the Fringe programme. It plays at PBH's Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 23-24 Greenside Place, EH1 3AA, 8 August to 30 August.
The show runs 60 minutes and is suitable for ages 16+. Entry is free. Content warnings: Distressing or triggering themes and Strong language.