After All

Update 22/01/25: Please note that this performance has been rescheduled to 30/06/25. Ticket holders have been contacted with more information.

To conjure a better sort of space, for all of us – to be with death, dying and loss. 

Created by Dundee-based French contemporary dance and performance artist Solène Weinachter, AFTER ALL is an Edinburgh Festival Fringe sell out dance-theatre show that celebrates the intricacies of humanity’s vulnerable and courageous existence, encouraging us to feel these essential emotions to their fullest.

Skillfully comedic and emotionally introspective, AFTER ALL explores the death rituals we have, the ones we’ve lost, and the ones that need inventing. Although death comes to everyone, talking about it is often a taboo that results in people holding their grief in isolation – something Solène aims to recast and remould through a fresh outlook on the human experience. 

Through a series of hilarious, impassioned re-enactments of the funerals of those she’s loved – as well as imagining her own – Solène attempts to conjure a better sort of space, for all of us, to be with death, dying and loss; bringing us together to explore the role that dancing may play in healing. 

Enmeshing dance, theatre, storytelling, and comedy, Solène asks us how we truly feel about our shared eventuality, what happens at the end of it all – and if the ‘end’ really exists at all? 

“bursting with vitality”

★★★★  The Times 

“Weinachter hits the spot every time” 

★★★★  The Scotsman 

“confidently warm and funny”

★★★★  The Guardian