Matt is back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his first new show and full run since 2019

16:35 at Assembly George Square Studios – Studio 5

30th July to 24th August

Matt Winning: Solastalgia

Solastalgia: noun (sol-a-stal-gi-a) the emotional, physical or existential distress caused by environmental change to your home. A portmanteau of the words solace and nostalgia. A new storytelling climate comedy lecture about saving ourselves in time and protecting what you love by Dr Matt Winning. Host of Net Zero: A Very British Problem (BBC Radio 4). Several previous sell-out Edinburgh Fringe shows, as well as at COP28 for BAFTA. ‘Everything a Fringe show should be: hilarious, personal, inventive, and something that will stay with you for some time to come’ ***** (EdFestMag.com). Directed by Ben Target.

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Matt Winning: Solastalgia

Solastalgia: noun (sol-a-stal-gi-a) the emotional, physical or existential distress caused by environmental change to your home. A portmanteau of the words solace and nostalgia. A new storytelling climate comedy lecture about saving ourselves in time and protecting what you love by Dr Matt Winning. Host of Net Zero: A Very British Problem (BBC Radio 4). Several previous sell-out Edinburgh Fringe shows, as well as at COP28 for BAFTA. ‘Everything a Fringe show should be: hilarious, personal, inventive, and something that will stay with you for some time to come’ ***** (EdFestMag.com). Directed by Ben Target.

New climate change comedy theatre by Dr Matt Winning

Solastalgia: noun (sol-a-stal-gi-a) the emotional, physical or existential distress caused by environmental change to your home. A portmanteau of the words solace and nostalgia.

A new storytelling climate comedy lecture about saving ourselves in time and protecting what you love by UCL academic Dr Matt Winning. Host of Net Zero: A Very British Problem (BBC Radio 4). Several previous sell-out Edinburgh Fringe shows, as well as at COP28 for BAFTA.

★★★★★ “Everything a Fringe show should be: hilarious, personal, inventive, and something that will stay with you for some time to come” – EdFestMag.com

Rob Auton
Hello people of Bristol, Rob Auton here. I am taking my debut hour long story to the Edinburgh Festival and I am doing as many work-in-progress shows as possible to get it into shape. I will be reading from bits of paper and crossing things out.

Having written eleven shows on specific themes, I am now keen on telling you a story I have written about a man I made up called CAN. At one point in his life CAN was the world’s number one motivational speaker… and then something happened.

“A genuine original.”
Guardian

Matt Winning
Solastalgia: noun (sol-a-stal-gi-a) the emotional, physical or existential distress caused by environmental change to your home. A portmanteau of the words solace and nostalgia. A new storytelling climate comedy lecture about saving ourselves in time and protecting what you love by Dr Matt Winning. Host of Net Zero: A Very British Problem (BBC Radio 4).

“Everything a Fringe show should be: hilarious, personal, inventive, and something that will stay with you for some time to come.”
Edinburgh Festivals Magazine