Elastic Fantastic was created in Edinburgh in 2023 by an ensemble of Queer and Allied Storytellers to develop a multidisciplinary platform for resilient, defiant, and rebellious LGBTQ+ voices. Utilising multiple formats of media, the team aim to develop work across theatre, film, and sound (sometimes all at once) that elevates unheard queer narratives.

Our 2024 hit show ‘Deeptime Atomic Waste Pleasure Party’ explored Nuclear Waste Semiotics through a Queer lens, and established our interest in adding to a growing syllabus of queering Sci-Fi in theatre. Our upcoming show ‘Shallowspace Cryotech Feverdream’ will explore trans-medicalisation through the themes of legacy, nostalgia, and the body.

The pre-existing media paradigm often relegates LGBTQ+ voices to an ‘Othering’. We seek to challenge this norm by empowering creatives to create Queer work that challenges heteronormative expectations and the power structures that support them. Our work is designed to be loud, vibrant, and frenetic – the realm of the physical body flitters with reconstituted gender norms and brazen sexuality in each of our works.

Our work is Made in Scotland – but we also aim to perform in locations close to our creatives’ hearts – Leeds, Bristol, Brighton, London, and further afield.