After two  SOLD OUT seasons at The Mill for Adelaide Fringe 2025/2026 and recipient of the prestigious Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE Award, DUST is now performing at The Pleasance, Edinburgh, Bunker 1 – 2:10pm from 5th – 30th August at part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026. 

DUST is delighted to have been supported by Creative Australia (MatchLab 2024), and has also been supported by the Adelaide Fringe Fund Foundation. 

As writer, director and producer Charlaina Thompson was also the recipient of the Producer Mentorship grant to work alongside Joanne Hartstone of Hartstone Productions to support the delivery of DUST. 

DUST

Written and Directed  by Charlaina Thompson

Produced by YELLOW BRICK THEATRE COMPANY PTY LTD

Performed by Craig McArdle

Sound Design by James Oburn (Edinburgh Fringe 2026)

DUST Synopsis

England. 2020. Pinderfields Hospital. Lock Down. 2:20am.

A man fights with each breath to make it home to Dot. In his isolated and morphine fuelled delirium, we witness a frail man reliving his fragmented past; a boxer, a soldier, a boilermaker, and a miner, dancing around the ring with Lady Luck and he fights to win. But is it fate or our will to survive that decides when we return to dust?

‘Dust’ is one man’s unforgettable journey examining generational trauma, resilience, and survival against the backdrop of a post-World War II England. ‘Dust’ is dedicated to the servicemen who fought for their country, the seven men who tragically died in the Loft house Colliery disaster of 1973, and to every miner who lived their lives in the darkness, so we could live in the light. Based on a True Story and infused with Northern heart, humour and grit.