A baby is to be at the centre of its own Fringe show in Edinburgh this summer.
Come Look at The Baby will feature a sixth month old baby, who is remaining unnamed, in the show by Thorium Theatre.
The show will invite an audience to "enter a room and spend thirty minutes doing nothing but look at a baby".
The baby, currently four months old, is apparently "chilled" in rehearsals, according to the show's organisers.
However, they are aware it could be teething when the curtain opens on its show in August.
In the show, at Just The Tonic at The Community Project, the baby will be accompanied by its granny.
The baby "might play with its hands, stare into space, or sleep peacefully" the theatre company said.
The baby is "undoubtedly the youngest solo performer ever at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe" it adds.
Thorium Theatre say the show, which will run through August and give its profits to Unicef and Save The Children, is in the tradition of "anti-theatre."
Hannah Madsen, co-director of Thorium Theatre, said: “The show knows it’s a theatre performance. The audience knows it’s a conceptual show. Ironically, the baby doesn’t know.”
The notion is to offer “an experience”, enhanced by footage of baby’s face.
“People get mesmerised staring at babies,” said Ms Madsen, 34, from Oxford. “You look at babies in a way you don’t look at other people. "You have permission to stare. In fact, parents are very happy for you to stare. It’s when they get to two or three years old that suddenly it isn’t right to stare.”
The company has a licence allowing its star to perform over six successive days, resting on the seventh.
The baby cannot be identified, nor can its parents.
Its gender will also remain unknown to the audience, although this is an artistic decision.
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