Collaboration by Aurora Engine and poets JL Williams, Dean Atta and Kirsty Logan, fusing music, voice, electronica, poetry and performance as the closing act of Push the Boat Out.
Aurora Engine bring On Slack Tide to The Pleasance on Sunday 15 November, the closing act of Push the Boat Out, the festival whose 2026 theme is 'The Space Between'. It's a collaboration commissioned specially for the festival, so it's a one-off rather than a touring show. The title comes from the definition of slack tide: that brief window at the turn of the tide when the water stays still.
Across three acts, music, voice, electronica, poetry and performance fuse into a single soundscape. It looks at the transitions that shape a life — pregnancy, birth and matrescence, coming of age, and death and grief — and the waiting, the stasis, and the sudden flurries of action or emotion that often come with them. It's been described as haunting, holding, magical and meaningful.
The line-up brings together Aurora Engine with poets JL Williams, Dean Atta and Kirsty Logan. Jenni Fagan is no longer participating in the piece.
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It runs from 8:00pm to 9:00pm at The Pleasance Theatre, Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ. Standard tickets are £15.00 plus a £1.32 booking fee, coming to £16.32; concessions are £12.50 plus a £1.17 booking fee, which is £13.67. Concessions are available to students, registered unemployed, disabled customers, senior citizens, and children and young people under 18, with an additional free companion ticket for anyone requiring personal assistance.
