Belt Up Theatre, company in residence at York Theatre Royal, are swapping homes for the month of August.

From today, they will be occupying The House Above, a kitsch and cosy abode where every nook and cranny has a tale to tell, at C soco, Studio 1a, Adam House, Chambers Street, Edinburgh.

Belt Up first stamped their mark on the Edinburgh Fringe while students at the University of York in 2008, building a reputation for deconstructing classic tales with site-specific shows rebuilt around the audience.

This year’s visit, their first since taking up their residency at the Theatre Royal, adds up to 16 actors, nine new shows, five writers and one home, where they invite audience members to make themselves comfortable as whole worlds and stories unravel around them.

“Comprising of numerous rooms that constantly shift and change to reveal their secrets as they will, The House Above will play host to shows throughout the day before unlocking its doors for late-night events,” says co-artistic director James Wilkes.

“Audiences might discover a garden party, parlour games or a surrealist ball. There’s no place like our home.”

Belt Up’s programme includes their return to the Franz Kafka story that hatched their collective, with Wilkes’s new adaptation of Metamorphosis.

Alexander Wright takes Sophocles’s Antigone and shifts the focus from the political to the familial in the form of a musical garden soiree; Dominic J Allen twists Homer’s Odyssey into a claustrophobically intimate post-apocalyptic nightmare; and Victor Hugo receives the Belt Up treatment in Jethro Compton’s adaptation of Quasimodo in the house’s junk room, late at night.

Original work will form an important part of the programme, too.

Wright’s play The Boy James offers a new spin on the trials and tribulations of childhood and adolescence inspired by the life and work of Peter Pan author, J M Barrie, while late-night audiences will gain an insight into the surreal subconscious of an ageing artist in Wilkes’s dark comedy Atrium.

“Surreal meta-theatricality” will reign supreme in Allen’s Lorca is Dead: or A Brief History Of Surrealism, wherein the legendary Paris Surrealist group attempt a re-enactment of the life and death of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca.

For the first time, Belt Up will open their doors to a family audience with Compton’s retelling of Cornish fairytale Octavia, an epic adventure set in a magical indoor garden inhabited by bizarre characters.

In addition, The House Above will host emerging young company Paper’s Weight’s retelling of Peter Pan in The Second Star To The Right.

“Without question this is the most audacious project that Belt Up have ever undertaken, but we’re confident that such an exhausting, frenetic and an energetic programme will create a crucible of creativity, out of which will emerge our best work yet,” says James.

The House Above season runs from today until August 30. See beltuptheatre.com for more details.

• Belt Up Theatre will perform yet another show, Macbeth, at York Theatre Royal on October 6 and 7. Box office: 01904 623568.