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No Apologies

Traverse TheatreEdinburgh

12–13 November 2026

2 scheduled performances

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No Apologies is a show written and performed by Emma Frankland, with direction from Harry Clayton Wright and music by Keir Cooper. The show is produced by Marlborough Productions and has won awards including the Bragi Award and a Besties Award.

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No Apologies is a radical mis-remembering of Nirvana’s iconic 1993 MTV Unplugged concert. After a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Festival in 2025 (winning the Bragi Award for creativity and artistic excellence and a Besties Award for new writing) this brilliantly witty and emotionally powerful show embarks on a major world tour. Urgent and politically sharp, No Apologies is a spectacular collision between theatre and grunge, autobiography and alternate history, weaving together threads of pop culture with mythology and ritual, fuelled by the experience of coming-of-age in the nineties. Written and performed by Emma Frankland, multi award-winning writer for theatre and TV. With spectacular direction from Harry Clayton Wright, featuring original music and an anarchic sound score by punk composer Keir Cooper, produced by Marlborough Productions - nationally and internationally re

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