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Dateline: 2nd December, 2005
The Edinburgh International Festival has released details of some of the major events planned for the 2006 Festival, which will run from 13th August to 3rd September. The full programme for Brian McMaster's last Festival will be announced on Wednesday 22nd March. Theatre at Festival 2006 includes Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida directed by Peter Stein; an Edinburgh International Festival production which will transfer to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon after its Festival performances. A collaboration with the new National Theatre of Scotland sees the world premiere at the Festival of a new play by Anthony Neilson, who returns after his successes with 2004's The Wonderful World of Dissocia and last year's The Death of Klinghoffer. Chekhov's Three Sisters will be performed by American Repertory Theater, in the first English language venture of acclaimed Polish director Krystian Lupa. Dance includes the British premiere of Balanchine's full length ballet Don Quixote, performed by The Suzanne Farrell Ballet from the Kennedy Centre, Washington DC. Brazilian dance star Bruno Beltrao, who uses street dance and hip hop as a starting point for his work, brings his Grupa de Rua de Niteroi to the UK for the first time, and Festival 2006 also sees the return of the immensely popular Nederlands Dans Theater 1. The Festival has also commissioned a new opera from young Scottish composer, Stuart MacRae, with a libretto by writer and poet Simon Armitage. The work will be staged by Emio Greco and Pieter C Scholten and conducted by Garry Walker. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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