St Stephen’s Church is located in Edinburgh’s New Town, at the bottom of Saint Vincent Street. It was built in 1828 to a design by architect William Henry Playfair. Momentum Venues offers three performance spaces of different scales, geared to accommodating the highest calibre of fringe production on offer in 2015. The St Stephen’s Centre, formally operated by Northern Stage, The Traverse and The
Arches, is now under new management. Momentum Venues will be curating a season of twenty diverse, daring and dynamic shows to present across the three spaces. Artistic Director David Hutchinson and Commercial Director Phillip Rowntree have produced over 20 shows at the Edinburgh Fringe to date and from this experience understand the importance of a strong venue/company relationship. Momentum Venues will pioneer this vision and support companies throughout their production period. As part of the Momentum Venues season, visiting companies will be offered a comfortable get-in and fit-up period along with ample set storage in order to increase production values and encourage risk takin in physical production as well as in performance. All companies will be afforded the opportunity to discuss budgets and financial planning with one of the Management team as well as assistance in finding the best deals for print artwork, graphic design and technical provisions. Our collaborative and understanding approach to producing will allow our visiting companies to focus on what’s important: creating top quality work.
