fringe top shows

8/8/2019 Fringe Top Shows

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Theatre

Uber Hate Gang. Horizon Arts

Category Theatre

Genres drama

Group Horizon Arts with Richard Jordan Productions Ltd

Venue Underbelly, Cowgate

Event Website www.uberhategang.com

Date 9-29 August

Time 12:00

Duration 1 hour10 minutes

Suitability 16+

Warnings Loud gun shot within performance

Attention Fringe-goers, you're invited to join the movement and change your lives forever! Are you sickof being average? Are you ready to make your mark? Are you willing to change the world? Then come ondown, the time is right! Join us, the Uber Hate Gang, for an unforgettable theatrical experience whereanything is possible if you play your cards right! We're dying to meet you; what could possibly go

wrong? An explosive new play from the writer and creative team behind 2009 award-winning hit'Heroin(e) for Breakfast'. 'The UK's hottest young theatre company' (BBC.co.uk).

I, Elizabeth. Guy Masterson/TTI

Category Theatre

Group Guy Masterson/TTI in Association With Dyad Productions

Venue Assembly @ George Street

Event Website www.theatretoursinternation...

Date 6-30 August

Time Times vary. Select a date from the calendar below for show times.


Suitability U

Warnings Suitability: U

Elizabeth I - Queen at 25 and the most educated woman of her Age: political phoenix and famouslyunmarried, but who was the woman beneath the crown? Using Elizabeth's own words from her letters,poems, speeches and prayers, 'I, Elizabeth' explores her struggle to reconcile her womanhood with


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sovereignty. Written and performed by Rebecca Vaughan, who stunned Edinburgh audiences last yearwith 'Austen's Women', teams up again with Guy Masterson, director of 2009's Fringe First, West Endand Olivier Award-winning 'Morecambe'.

The Girl in the Yellow Dress. Citizens Theatre/LIVE Theatre/Market Theatre

Category Theatre

Genres drama

Group Citizens Theatre/LIVE Theatre/Market Theatre

Venue Traverse Theatre

Event Website www.traverse.co.uk

Date 10-29 August



Suitability 14+

Craig Higginson's powerful new play is a dark, witty and sexually-charged psychological drama. Set in

Paris, it explores the relationship between Celia, a beautiful young English teacher and Pierre, her

French-Congolese pupil. Brimming with humour, rage and longing, this gripping play provides a minute

exploration of an increasingly hazardous romantic entanglement. It gives insight into the tensions

around class, race, language and identity that lie at the heart of present day South Africa and beyond. An

exciting co-production from the internationally renowned Market Theatre from South Africa and two of

the UK's most prestigious theatre companies

The Cry. Badac Theatre/Escalator East to Edinburgh/Pleasance Theatre/Ghazi Hussein

Category Theatre

Group Badac Theatre/Escalator East to Edinburgh/Pleasance Theatre/Ghazi Hussein

Venue Pleasance Dome

Event Website www.badactheatre.com

Date 9-30 August

Time 20:00

Duration 1 hour

Suitability 14+

Warnings

Absolutely no latecomers. Please direct people to Palm Court in the Dome (by the coffee

stand), in plenty of time. PLEASE NOTE SHOW CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND

VIOLENCE.


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Site-specific examination detailing the true story of Palestinian poet, Ghazi Hussein, and the brutal

attempts of worldwide governments, through repeated periods of imprisonment and torture, to crush his

spirit and freedom of expression. 'The Cry' highlights the persecution suffered by artists across the

world, who are, on a daily basis, beaten and humiliated for expressing their beliefs. An intense, moving

and violent retelling of human suffering, created around poems written in prison in defiance of the very

torture that was designed to stifle them. Ghazi Hussein now lives in exile in Edinburgh. 'Life-affirming'

(Scotsman). 'Near-flawless acting' (List). www.badactheatre.com

The Author. News from Nowhere/Royal Court. At the Traverse

Category Theatre

Genres drama

Group News from Nowhere Presents a Royal Court Theatre Production



Date 10-29 August



Suitability 18+

Warnings Contains material that may be disturbing. Contains some graphic textual imagery

'I have the choice to continue. I have the choice to stop.' Settle back into the warmth of your seat. Relax

as the story unfolds. Its for you. With you. Of you. A story of hope, violence and exploitation. A new play

by Tim Crouch about the abuse carried out in the name of the spectator. 'Its about us, what we see, and

what we choose to see A dazzling theatrical experience that lets nobody off the hook, opening our

eyes to what should be blindingly obvious: we all have a choice' **** (Guardian).

Beautiful Burnout. Frantic Assembly at the Pleasance Courtyard

Category Theatre

Genres dance, physical theatre

Group Frantic Assembly/National Theatre of Scotland/Bryony Lavery

Venue Pleasance Courtyard

Event Website www.franticassembly.co.uk

Date 4-29 August



Suitability 14+


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Warnings Strobe Lighting, Strong Language

Cameron is going places. Hes going to see lights. Hes going to make the world take notice and kneel at

his feet. He's fighting for his club, his Mum, his place in the world. And this boy is a natural. He has an

affinity with the violence, the balance, the ritual, the grace, and the power. He is indestructible. A thrilling

new piece of highly physical theatre taking you into the explosively visceral world of boxing, 'Beautiful

Burnout' will assault your senses and challenge your preconceptions about the most controversial sport

of our time

Cirque De Legume. Aurora Nova Productions

Category Theatre

Genres comedy

Group Aurora Nova Productions

Venue Gilded Balloon Teviot

Event Website www.cirquedelegumes.com

Date 9-30 August

Time 14:30

Duration 1 hour

Suitability U

Pure mayhem as two idiots put on the greatest vegetable circus on Earth! Marvel at the Veget-animal!

Gape at the Magical Carrot! Fantasize over the Onion Striptease! In these acts and more the award-

winning Cirque de Legume shows us how beautiful life can be if we only stop to play with it.

Djupid (The Deep). Labrador

Category Theatre

Group Labrador

Venue Underbelly, Cowgate

Date 9-29 August

Time 17:50

Duration 45 minutes

Suitability U

'Djupid (The Deep)' is based on a miraculous true ocean event. A beautiful and universal story of love in

adversity, brilliantly and movingly performed by Liam Brennan, translated into Scots idiom and directed

by Graeme Maley. **** (Scotsman). Icelandic writer Jon Atli Jonasson - with director and translator

Graeme Maley, and star actor Liam Brennan, in superb form - offer a simple, compelling and

unforgettable confrontation with the last things of life and death. ''Djupid (The Deep)', Jonasson's award-

winning play, moves brilliantly from the absurdity of life to the pain of losing it' (Mark Fisher, 2009).


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Category Theatre

Group Richard Jordan Productions Ltd in Association with Assembly


Date 9-30 August

Time 13:00


Suitability 14+

Warnings Suitability: 14+

Winner of the Writers' Guild Award for best play, 'Jordan' is the powerful and moving true story of a

young woman's journey from the soggy chip papers of Morecambe to her trial for the murder of her baby

boy, having saved him from his abusive father. 'Anna Reynolds ('Precious', 'Red', 'Push!') and Moira

Buffini ('Dinner', 'Welcome to Thebes', 'Gabriel') are two of the UK's most exciting playwrights. Their

compelling and urgent play, combined with Allie Croker's electric performance, creates an unmissableand vital powerhouse both for women and theatre' (BBC Radio).

Keepers. Pleasance and Plasticine Men

Category Theatre

Genres devised, physical theatre

Group Pleasance and Plasticine Men


Event Website www.theplasticinemen.co.uk/

Date 9-30 August

Time 16:00

Duration 1 hour

Suitability U

Two-hundred years ago, far off the Welsh coast, one man faced an ordeal so diabolical that it would go

down in maritime legend, changing the way lighthouses were run forever. Using original live music and

little more than a ladder and a trapdoor, The Plasticine Men conjure up the confines of the infamous

Smalls Lighthouse and the stormy companionship of its two keepers. Based on an extraordinary true

story, an enchanting tale of sudden loss of life and drawn out loss of sanity unfolds between the flashesof the lamp that the pair must tend each and every night.

Lidless. Hightide/Escalator East to Edinburgh

Category Theatre

Group HighTide/Escalator East to Edinburgh


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Venue Udderbelly's Pasture

Event Website www.hightide.org.uk

Date 9-30 August

Time 12:15

Duration 1 hour

Suitability 14+

Warnings Adult themes and strong language NO DISABLED / WHEELCHAIR ACCESS

Fifteen years ago, Alice was an interrogator in Guantanamo. Because of the pills she took at the time,

she can't remember what she did. Fifteen years ago, Bashir was a prisoner there, he can't forget what

she did. Now dying of liver failure, he visits her. 'Lidless', Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's devastating first

play, won the 2009 Yale Drama Series Award for playwriting. A work of extraordinary intelligence and

finely-balanced sensibility, it marries the implacable logic of a Greek tragedy with an all-too modern

setting

Lovesong. English Touring The

Category Theatre

Genres comedy, musical

Group English Touring Theatre


Event Website www.ett.org.uk

Date 9-21 August

Time 17:20

Duration 50 minutes

Suitability 16+

Warnings Contains graphic language

'How many times I gotta be taught the same lesson?' Oscar lives in the fast lane. He pays for sex and

drugs. But something's missing. Brooding over what might have been, he is forced to reflect on his

reckless lifestyle and is taken by surprise, finding love where he could never have expected. Featuring

his own music and lyrics, this unmissable one-man show is performed by soul legend, Omar (founder of

nu-classic British soul) who joins forces with award-winning writer/director Che Walker, following theirtriumphant collaboration last year on the soul/funk musical 'Been So Long', at the Traverse.

The Man who was Hamlet. George Dillon

Category Theatre

Genres drama


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Group George Dillon

Venue Hill Street Theatre

Event Website www.georgedillon.com

Date 9-30 August

Time 19:10


Suitability PG

In his seventh solo show, George Dillon (HeraldAngel Award winner: Berkoff's 'Graft') reveals the

tragical, comical and utterly scandalous history of the man behind 'Hamlet' - not the illiterate merchant of

Stratford, but the real 'William Shake-speare', Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. 'It's easy to see why

Dillon's performances have made him the toast of Edinburgh ... direct and absorbing ... A virtuoso

display of dramatic range' (BritishTheatreGuide.info); 'An exciting piece of writing, witty and sharp,

ironic, comedic and sometimes philosophical and, as usual, a masterclass in delivery and individual

performance' (FringeReview.co.uk).

Long Live the King. Guy Masterson/TTI

Category Theatre

Group Guy Masterson/TTI and The Fixed & the Free


Event Website www.theatretoursinternation...

Date 9-30 August

Time 14:00


Suitability U


Meena - Indian, heavily pregnant - touches down in Australia the day Elvis Presley dies. Both events,

equally shocking, her vagina clenched against the overwhelming grief, she braces herself for the afterlife

in the new world. A rockin' and rollickin' tale of spice, soul and sunburn. Ansuya Nathan ('Feasting on

Flesh', 2008) is directed by Guy Masterson, multiple Fringe First awardee and director of last year's

smash hit, the Olivier Award winning 'Morecambe', the sell-out 'Austen's Women' (2009) and this year's 'I,

Elizabeth'.

Memoirs of a Biscuit Tin. Maison Foo

Category Theatre

Genres devised

Group Maison Foo


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Event Website www.maisonfoo.co.uk

Date 9-30 August

Time 14:00

Duration 1 hour

Suitability 12+

Warnings Caution this show may contain wheat!

A topsy-turvy tale for grown-ups. This intriguing tale follows the story of a decaying house, a forgotten

old lady and the memories that lie within. With an inventive blend of clowning, visual theatre and

puppetry Maison Foo brings to life the imaginative topsy turvy world lurking behind the door of number

92. Co-commissioned by Deda, supported by National Lottery through Arts Council England. Quite

simply a stunning piece of theatre (DerbyEveningTelegraph); Ingenious (Leicester Mercury).

Metamorphoses. Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

Category Theatre

Genres physical theatre, storytelling

Group Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

Venue The Vault

Event Website www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk

Date 17-28 August

Time 15:45

Duration 1 hour

Suitability PG

In Ovid's vast, irreverent poem, love in all its forms causes Gods to transform into beasts, men into

women and almost everyone into plants of one variety or another. For 2,000 years these tales from Greek

mythology and Roman legend have entertained, thrilled and inspired the world. This vibrant new

adaptation brings many of the stories to life, each with their own style and tone, ranging from lyrical to

laughable, stormy to serene and sexy to silly. 'Forever Young' 2009: The Stagemust see, ****

(BritishTheatreGuide.info). 'Revolting Rhymes' 2009: The Stage must see. 'Clay' 2008: *****

(Broadwaybaby.com).

My Romantic History. Bush Theatre and Sheffield Crucible

Category Theatre

Genres drama

Group Bush Theatre and Sheffield Crucible


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Date 10-29 August



Suitability 12+

If you havent met someone by the time you graduate, youre going to marry some idiot from your work.

Its that simple. Office romances are tricky. One moment youre colleagues, then a quick grope after

Friday night drinks and suddenly youre in a relationship. When Tom and Amy get together after an office

social, they find themselves living in each others pockets. But its not their lack of chemistry thats the

problem: its that neither of them can get over their childhood sweethearts. A new comedy about love,

loss and laminating machines.

Naked Splendour. Andy Jordan Productions

Category Theatre

Genres comedy, storytelling

Group Andy Jordan Productions, Hackney Empire Theatre and Cheap and Cheerful Productions

Venue C central

Event Website www.CtheFestival.com

Date 9-30 August

Time 15:10

Duration 55 minutes

Suitability 16+

Warnings Contains nudity, drawing involved.

Ever wondered how it feels to be totally naked in a room full of strangers intently studying every inch of

you? Philip Herbert - comic actor, Julian Clary's long-suffering straight man - has also been a life class

model for over 30 years. A life model rarely speaks unless spoken to during class, but here the model

speaks. Modelling naked, Philip tells witty, sometimes absurd, often touching stories about his many

experiences as an art class life model. You can just watch, or draw or sketch Philip, and exhibit your

work at the end of the show (materials provided).

Others. Paper Birds

Category Theatre

Group Paper Birds



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Event Website thepaperbirds.com

Date 9-29 August

Time 15:20

Duration 1 hour

Suitability 12+

Multi-award-winning female collective premiere a visual, political exploration of 'women as Other' and

'Other' women. Based on a six month exchange of letters and emails with an Iranian artist, a prisoner and

a celebrity, The Paper Birds, with the help and input of the audience, will deconstruct the stories and

voices of women from east and west, from different sides of the television screen and different sides of

the law, attempting to give voice to the three women who are absent from our stage. 'Disarming, totally

original theatre' **** (Scotsman). 'Absorbing, inventive, highly relevant work' (Stage)

Operation Greenfield. Little Bulb Theatre

Category Theatre

Genres devised, music

Group Little Bulb Theatre

Venue Zoo Roxy

Event Website www.littlebulbtheatre.com

Date 9-28 August

Time 20:35


Suitability 12+

Somewhere in middle England four unlikely teenagers are preparing for judgment day with ladders, Elvis

and forest fruits squash - Stokelys annual talent competition is nigh. With a stage full of instruments and

an eclectic mix of recorded music, Little Bulb Theatre capture the confusing, awkward and beautifully

nave time of adolescence. The time when the once simple beliefs you held dear need re-adjusting to face

the complexities of adulthood. A bizarre and visually fantastical exploration of faith and friendship, from

Total Theatre, Arches Brick and Fringe First winners, ***** (Scotsman); ***** (Metro,, 'Crocosmia', 2008).

**** (Times, 'Sporadical', 2009

Speechless. Shared Experience/Sherman Cymru

Category Theatre

Genres drama

Group Shared Experience/Sherman Cymru


Times 10:15, 13:15, 16:00, 16:15, 18:45, 21:30


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Suitability 16+

Inspired by Marjorie Wallace's best-selling book 'The Silent Twins', Polly Teale and Linda Brogan's powerful new

play is an astonishing and moving portrayal of the secret world of a very special but ultimately destructive alliance

between two sisters

Reykjavik. Shams/Escalator East/Time Won't Wait.

Category Theatre

Genres multimedia, site-specific

Group Shams/Escalator East to Edinburgh/Time Won't Wait

Venue The Bongo Club

Event Website www.shams.org.uk

Date 12-29 August



Suitability PG

Imagine being lost in a foreign country. Bright light and fog distorting your view. Whatever possessed

you to come here? Part travelogue, part detective story, 'Reykjavik' is a journey through a city of

extremes - mysterious, absurd and beautiful - in search of a half-forgotten love affair. Created in

collaboration with neuroscientist Hugo Spiers, this immersive, multi-sensory installation and playful

performance invites you, as witness, to ask: how far can we trust our own memory? 'Smooth and

dreamlike ... it is captivating throughout ... heartfelt meditations on love, forgetting and inevitability'

(BritishTheatreGuide.info).

Teenage Riot. Richard Jordan Productions

Category Theatre

Group Ontroerend Goed, Kopergietery, Drum Theatre Plymouth, Richard Jordan Productions Ltd



Date 17-29 August



Suitability 14+

We cant help it, were changing. Were not kids anymore. We dont feel like showing you everything that

goes on inside. Youre kept at a distance. We dont need to find solutions for your problems. Were

gonna have so much fun that it hurts. Eight youngsters huddle together to explore their boundaries or

lack of boundaries, in a show about the dark side of teenage life by the creative team behind the multi-

award-winning Fringe hits Once and for All Were Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen!

and Internal


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Poland 3 Iran 2. 30 Bird Productions

Category Theatre

Genres devised, site-specific

Group 30 Bird Productions/Escalator East to Edinburgh

Venue Pleasance at Thistle Street Bar

Event Website www.30birdproductions.org

Date 11-28 August

Time 17:00

Duration 50 minutes

Suitability PG

1976, the best ever Polish football team played the best ever Iranian football team. This match featuredthe renowned players Tomaszewski, Lato and Deyna as well as the great Ali Parvin for Iran, nicknamed

the 'Sultan'. Such a clash of talent led to a memorable game with Poland edging to a 3-2 win. In a

humorous performance, Chris Dobrowolski and Mehrdad Seyf discuss football, revolution, swimming,

chess, love and Subbuteo with footage from the match, installations and stills of their family histories

from present day to WWII.

Pip Utton is Charles Dickens. Pip Utto

Category Theatre

Genres drama

Group Pip Utton

Venue New Town Theatre

Event Website www.pip-utton.com

Date 9-29 August

Time 18:45


Suitability 12+

'Utton is the doyen of the one-man show' (DailyTelegraph). Charles Dickens, England's greatestnovellist, is on tour preparing to give a reading, railing against social injustice, fearing death, craving

love and praise, enjoying the fame and adulation. Pip Utton is one of the Fringe's best loved performers.

Following the successes of 'Adolf', 'Chaplin', 'Bacon' and 'Hancock', Pip gets under the skin of Dickens

to create a real man out of the myth. 'Pip Utton's performances are all masterclasses in acting'

(BritishTheatreGuide.info).

Our Share of Tomorrow. Real Circumstance/York Theatre Royal


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Category Theatre

Group Real Circumstance/York Theatre Royal/Escalator East to Edinburgh


Event Website www.realcircumstance.com

Date 9-30 August

Time 13:00


Suitability 14+

Tom asked Grace out when they were sitting on the quay. She was fifteen, he a year older, and they were

very happy together. But then she had to go away - something to do with her parents. So he sat on the

quay, waiting for her. And one day she came back. 'Our Share of Tomorrow' is a love story. 'Lough/Rain'

2008: 'Moving, gut-wrenching theatre' ***** (Metro); 'Intriguing...deeply poetic' (Stage); double nominated

for Acting Excellence Awards. Real Circumstance is an East of England theatre company dedicated toexploring new ways of playmaking

What Would Helen Mirren Do? Parrymelia Productions

Category Theatre

Genres comedy

Group Anita Parry/parrymelia productions


Event Website www.parrymelia.com

Date 9-22 August

Time 19:25


Suitability 12+

Susan works on checkouts in an Oldham supermarket. Shes never thought about role models until she

gets promoted and is forced to adopt one. Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren is an unlikely choice but

Susans life changes dramatically when she starts to ask herself, 'What Would Helen Mirren Do?' A one-

woman multi-character comedy about love, work, letting go and finding out who we really want to be.

Anita Parry (actress), Josie Melia (writer), Peter Ellis (director). 'A very special evening' (BristolEveningPost); 'outstanding performance' (Daily Info, Oxford); 'A show that shines' **** (FringeReview.co.uk).

While You Lie. Traverse Theatre Company

Category Theatre

Genres drama


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Group Traverse Theatre Company



Date 10-29 August



Suitability 16+

Warnings Contains explicit adult language and disturbing imagery

'Small lies, little lies, tender lies, well- intentioned untruths.' Ana calls Edwards bluff on their

disintegrating relationship and enters a deadly truthful world where honesty is celebrated in all its

dangerous glory. They dont make women like Helen anymore: loving mother, home-maker, wife. But

beneath her civilised world, a dark truth threatens to surface. Two couples explore the threat of honesty,

and our perverse need for it. A blistering play from one of UK theatres most exciting new voices, SamHolcroft. Directed by award-winning playwright and director, Zinnie Harris ('Fall', 'Further than the

Furthest Thing')

The Vaudevillians. Les Enfants Terrible

Category Theatre

Genres musical

Group Les Enfants Terribles


Event Website www.lesenfantsterribles.co.uk

Date 16 August

Time 22:45


Suitability U

The multi-award-winning Les Enfants Terribles take over the Pleasance Dome for one night only with

their brand new macabre musical extravaganza 'The Vaudevillains!' You're invited to The Empire music

hall for a night you'll never forget. Charlie the owner is dead...but whodunnit? Murder, mystery and

mayhem combine in this truly unique theatrical event. After the show the band will play on as you'reinvited to party with The Empire's acts late into the night. Spaces are strictly limited for what promises to

be the festival's hottest ticket so book now to avoid disappointment.

Private Peaceful. Beacon Theatre Group

Category Theatre

Genres drama


17/25

Group Beacon Theatre Group

Venue Augustine's

Event Website www.learning.quainton.bucks...

Date 9-14 August

Time 11:35


Suitability U

France; a photograph, a young boy, 13 or 14 years old, proud in uniform, waiting to fight. Another time,

standing on a bare field, I viewed crosses, grouped and dotted, along a ridge that marked a line of

ancient wire. Michael Morpurgo's classic tale of trust, honour and injustice is brought to you by the

people for whom it is written - the young people who must never forget the horror war brings. Following

last year's staggering success with 'Lord of the Flies', this play will move you and haunt you. ***** 'Awe-

inspiringly tremendous' (ThreeWeeks).

Dinner for One. Dinner for One Onstage

Category Theatre

Genres comedy

Group Dinnerforone - Onstage


Event Website www.remarkable-arts.com

Date 9-30 August

Time 13:50, 14:30

Duration 15 minutes

Suitability U

It's Miss Sophie's birthday and she's holding a dinner party with her closest friends who unfortunately

are all dead. Step forward faithful butler James, who once more must fill the gaps and do his best to

guide the party through four drink-fuelled courses. 'Same procedure as last year Miss Sophie?' 'Same

procedure as every year James.' A captivating stage version of the legendary 60s film comedy classic

'Dinner for One', loved by millions across Europe. Directed by David Lavender, starring Chris Cresswell

and Miriam King. To see the 11-minute original go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1v4BYV-YvA.

Bane 2. Whitebone Productions

Category Theatre


Group Whitebone Productions



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Event Website whiteboneproductions.com

Date 9-29 August

Time 20:20

Duration 1 hour

Suitability 14+

Warnings Strong language.. Some strong language.

Bruce Bane returns to the stage in the sequel to last year's sell-out show 'Bane'. Having evaded the

clutches of Shelby Carpenter last time out, Bane is faced with an altogether different enemy. Join Bane

as he journeys down dark alleys and along eerie sidewalks in this hilarious one-man film noir parody. 'A

virtuoso physical and comic performance' (Stage) with a live music soundtrack from Ben Roe, 'gives

Ennio Morricone a run for his money' (WhatsOnStage.com). 'Bane' won a Fringe Review Outstanding

Theatre Award and was nominated by the Stage for best solo performance 2009.

Category Theatre


Group Whitebone Productions

Venue The GRV

Event Website www.whiteboneproductions.com

Date 9-29 August

Time 17:40

Duration 1 hour

Suitability 14+

Warnings Strong language

Bruce Bane is a hired hand that gets the job done, he shoots first and doesn't ask questions. Bane

enjoyed a sell-out run at last year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe and picked up a FringeReview 'oustanding

theatre award' as well as a nomination from Stage for 'best solo performance'. This is another chance to

see the one-man, film noir parody with live guitar soundtrack from Ben Roe. 'Gives Ennio Morricone a

run for his money' (WhatsOnStage.com). Writer-performer Joe Bone gives an astonishing performance in

the show you simply have to see. 'Astonishing' ***** (FringeReview.co.uk). 'Extraodinary' *****

(ThreeWeeks). 'Awesome' ***** (BroadwayBaby.com).

Leaping God Sly, Babolin Theatre/Gomito

Category Theatre

Genres devised

Group Babolin Theatre In Association With Gomito Productions


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Venue Bedlam Theatre

Event Website www.babolintheatre.co.uk

Date 9-14 August

Time 13:00

Duration 1 hour

Suitability PG

Mercurial. Macabre. Inventive. Lyrical. Cassie's rescue from beneath the rubble unleashes a powerful

chain reaction. Fantastical earthquake story of possession and loss. 'Sickeningly accomplished,

captivating storytelling' **** (Fest, 2009); 'Astonishing quality... sheer beauty' **** (Scotsman).

The Terrible Tales of the Midnight Chorus. The River People

Category Theatre

Genres music, puppetry

Group River People

Venue Bedlam Theatre

Date 9-20 August

Time 16:15

Duration 50 minutes

Suitability PG

The Midnight Chorus cordially invites you to a showcase of terrible tales, each more delectably darker

than the last, come bear witness to the sorrowful story of 'The Vanishing Boy', the twisted tale of 'The

Ordinaries' and the maudlin memories of 'Old Man Willow'. Each yarn is delicately spun using puppetry

and a macabre medley of live musicians. The River People bring a cacophonous cabaret to the fringe

featuring their own mix of puppetry and live music. Fringe sell-out show for 'Lilly Through the Dark' 2009,

Total Theatre Award winners 2009, Edinburgh International Festival Prize winners 2009, Time OutCritics'

Choice

Against the Odds. Jade Blue

Category Theatre

Group Jade Blue


Event Website www.tarrytheatre.com

Date 9-30 August


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Time 16:30

Duration 1 hour

Suitability U

Co-written by performer Jade Blue and director George Dillon (HeraldAngel Award winner) and inspired

by Paul Auster, 'Against the Odds' is a charming, funny and deeply moving one-woman show. Flora is adisturbed young woman who has an unbearable insight into the human predicament. Harry, her father, is

an ordinary man with an extraordinary dilemma. One woman. One story. One thousand possibilities.

Tonight, the audience decide. Tonight, chance and choice collide. Sometimes, whatever you choose, you

lose. 'A stunning piece of theatre, which provokes without undermining the audience's perceptions. Well

worth seeing!' **** (WhatsOnStage.com); **** (FringeReview.co.uk)

Litte Black B**tard. Noel Tovey

Category Theatre

Group Noel Tovey and Glenn Elston

Venue Gilded Balloon Teviot

Event Website shakespeareaustralia.com.au

Date 9-30 August


Duration 1 hour

Suitability U

An astonishing production that is more than a story of survival, it's a story of a man who through art, is

transfigured. Noel Tovey, one of Australia's most distinguished performers and accomplished

international artists, delivers a remarkable performance. It is so articulate, sophisticated and thoroughlyabsorbing it leaves the audience wanting more. His story is gripping and intensely moving, laced with

sharp incisive humour. 'Little Black B**tard' is mesmerizing. It is an extraordinary event that affirms

notions of community, acceptance and love. 'Be brave and go see it' (Age).

Frankly Outrageous

Physical Theatre

1.Harlekin, at the Pleasance Courtyard. Details and booking here.

Category Dance & PhysicalTheatre

Genres theatre

Group Derevo



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Times 13:00

Suitability U

Multi-award-winning St Petersburg troupe. 'This is the role I've waited for. The most complicated thing about it is

keeping it simple' (Anton Adasinsky). 'Bravo, Derevo, for reminding us that it's better to be heart-broken than

heartless' (Herald)

2. The Regretrospective. Zoo Roxy. Details and booking here.

Category Dance & Physical Theatre

Genres multimedia

Group Juliet Aster/Escalator East to Edinburgh/Colchester Arts Centre

Venue Zoo Roxy

Event Website www.juliet-aster.co.uk

Date 9-30 August

Time 21:00

Duration 45 minutes

Suitability 12+

A half-human, half-horse's brief bedsit encounter with a tiger. Set amongst films, animations and props,

the piece looks at the implications of desire, regret, illusion, delusion and our inherent animal/human

natures in a surreal and offbeat way. A combination of contemporary flamenco technique, mask work

and physical theatre, rooted in the trip-hop audio visual genre. Juliet trained in visual arts before

studying flamenco to professional level. Her work places the more obscure and darker elements of

flamenco's roots in new unorthodox contexts. Supported by Escalator East To Edinburgh and Colchester

Arts Centre.

3. Roam, at Zoo Southside. Details and booking here.


Group Tom Dale Company/Escalator East to Edinburgh

Venue Zoo Southside

Event Website www.tomdale.org.uk

Date 9-30 August

Time 16:20

Duration 55 minutes

Suitability PG

Creators of must-see show 'Rise' in 2008, Tom Dale Company return with their latest collaborative

creation. 'Roam' is a captivating journey with five stunning dancers into a world of swinging sub bass

and complex percussion. Dale's raw and visceral choreographic style combines with specially

commissioned music from maverick producers Shackleton and Sion to create work that is unique and


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explosive. 'Exhilaratingly beautiful and simmering with danger' ***** (BritishTheatreGuide.info). Life's

roaming pulse; the unstoppable condition, relentlessly dragging us into the unknown, for survival,

inspiration, meaning... distraction. If you like your dance innovative, experiences rich and music new this

is for you

4. Scottish Dance Theatre:NQR and Drift. at Zoo Southside. Details and booking here. Also The Life andTimes of Girl A. Details and booking here.


Group Scottish Dance Theatre

Venue Zoo Southside

Event Website www.scottishdancetheatre.com

Date 11-22 August

Time 19:00

Duration 50 minutes

Suitability PG

SDT presents a powerful double bill: 'NQR' (Not Quite Right) and 'Drift'. Choreographed by SDT artistic

director Janet Smith, associate director fellow Marc Brew and SDTs dance agent for change Caroline

Bowditch. 'NQR' is an irreverent enquiry into normality examining our eccentricities that defy attempts to

fit into the mould. 'Stark brilliance' (Scotsman); 'at turns humorous and thought-provoking' (List). 'Drift'

by James Wilton delights audiences with the highly-charged physicality and daring surprises the

dancers throw at each other. 'An impressively powerful duet of exhilarating movement' (Ballet.co.uk).

www.madeinscotland2010.com

5 Tab. Details and booking here.


Genres circus

Group Nofit State

Venue NoFit State Circus

Event Website nofitstate.org

Date 9-30 August


Duration 2 hours

Suitability PG

Warnings Promenade Show. Promenade production

'Less of a circus more of a parallel universe' (Sunday Herald). Back on the Fringe after a four year

break, Nofit State comes straight from headlining at the Montreal International Circus Festival to

Edinburgh. This award-winning and critically acclaimed promenade production is a feast of

contemporary circus, theatre, live music, and film in which the action takes place around, amongst, and


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above the audience. ' ...an achingly beautiful two hours of circus performance, in which idea and form

seem perfectly matched' (Guardian).

7. [Extinguish.]. The Space on the Mile. Details and booking here.


Group Ezra LeBank/Lynx Co.

Venue theSpace on the Mile @ Jury's Inn

Event Website www.thespaceuk.com/

Date 9-28 August

Time 16:00

Duration 1 hour

Suitability 14+

A physically exhilarating, linguistically delightful ride with an expressionist painter, insurgent farmer,

French clown et al, grappling with the edges of life. The performance incorporates clown, mime, slam

poetry, and even tai chi, as one person executes this 27-character roller-coaster, shadowed by a solitary

lamp. 'A virtuoso performance! LeBank's movements are graceful, precise, and joyous to witness...if you

are in search of something unusual, affecting, and joltingly real, {Extinguish.} is entirely worth your time!'

(NYTheatre). 'Ezra LeBank is a powerhouse!' (EugeneWeekly). 'Agile, compelling, and clever!'

(Philadelphia Inquirer). 'He's a lithe gymnast in ripped jeans!' (Missoula Independent).

8. 18 Feet and 4 Fringes. C Chambers Street. Details and booking here.


Genres multimedia

Group JMUpstart Dance Company

Venue C

Event Website www.jmupstartdance.co.uk

Date 11-15 August

Time 11:30

Duration 1 hour

Suitability PG

Nine performers. 18 feet. 4 Fringes. An eclectic mix of dance works oozing with infectious energy and

athletic, unfunny style. Diverse and innovative pieces draw upon the nine performers physicality,

individuality and raw vitality, featuring contemporary dance, improvised work and multimedia. 'Eclectic,

high-energy' (Judith Mackrell, Guardian). 'Attitude, daring and promise!' (Dora Petherbridge,

UnlimitedMedia.co.uk)

9. Anatomy of Fantasy. Assembly at George Street. Details and booking here.


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Group Do Theatre


Date 6-29 August

Time 17:25

Duration 1 hour

Suitability U


Triple Fringe First winners, Do Theatre, are back at last! In 'Anatomy of Fantasy' (UK premiere)

unforgettable, effortlessly expressive dance touches our emotions and thoughts: human

subconsciousness shifts into breathtaking physicality and the virtual molecules of pulsating life join in a

mesmerising fantasy that takes in the cycle of life and human relationships from birth to death. The redthread of knitting opens up new channels of human communication. Balancing on the edge of reality,

nerve-tingling body drama and the ephemeral magic of dance, music, delusions and dreams unfold as a

wind-light sensation brushes our skin

Continent

Category

Dance & Physical Theatre

Genres comedy

Group CAVA

Venue C

Event Website www.cava-mime.com

Date 9-30 August

Time 19:20

Duration 55 minutes

Suitability U

The deadline approaches. As the novelist typewrites in flow, characters come out from his manuscriptand draw him into the pages. Drifting and hovering between reality and absurdity, can he finally reach to

his Continent? A frentic fusion of contemporary dance, cinema, cartoon, and comedy. Filled with witty,

speedy and wonder movements. Japanese mime company CAVA present a mime-based fast-moving

physical theatre experience, inspired by the Coen Brothers' film 'Barton Fink'.


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Improvisation

1. The Noise Next Door: Chaos Control. thenoisenextdoor. Detailshere.

2. Nothing to Show.Watch This Theatre Company. Details here.

3. Late Night Impro Fight.The Scat Pack/Hiatus Theatre. Detailshere. And Lights! Camera! Improvise! fromthe same group! Details here.

4. The Improlympians.PBH's Free Fringe. Details here.

5. The Improverts.Edinburgh University Theatre Company, Detailshere.

6. Guest Who?The Maydays. Details here.

7. Counting Sheep. The Court Theatre. Details here.

8. Bingo! It's Off the Cuff. Off the Cuff. Details here.

9. Battle Acts Improvised Comedy. Battle Acts Productions at Laughing Horse. Details here

10. Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised.Racing Minds and Laughing Horse Free Festival.Details here.

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