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Dateline:
18th March, 2010
EIF Programme Announced
The Edinburgh International Festival has announced its 2010 programme,
which has as its theme a journey of discovery through the diverse contemporary
cultures of North, Central and South America, and Australasia.
Highlights include a new production of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
by the Opéra de Lyon, Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal with
Agua and the world premiere of a new play based on Hemingway's
novel The Sun Also Rises.
Theatre
Elevator Repair Service (New York)
The Sun Also Rises
World premiere
14th - 16th August
Royal Lyceum Theatre
The Wooster Group (New York)
Vieux Carré
By Tennessee Williams
21st - 24th August
Royal Lyceum Theatre
The Gospel at Colonus
A Gospel reworking of Sophocles' play by Lee Dreuer and Bob Telson
21st - 23rd August
Edinburgh Playhouse
National Theatre of Scotland
Caledonia
By Alistair Beaton
World premiere
21st - 26th August
King's Theatre
Teatro Cinema
Sin Sangre
In Spanish with English supertitles
28th & 30th August; 1st & 3rd September
King's Theatre
Teatro Cinema
The Man Who Fed Butterflies
In Spanish with English supertitles
29th August; 2nd & 4th September
King's Theatre
Meredith Monk Company
Songs of Ascension
28th - 30th August
Royal Lyceum Theatre
Teatro en el Blanco
Diciembre
By Guillermo Calderón
In Spanish with English supertitles
2nd - 4th September
Royal Lyceum Theatre
Dance
MAU (Samoa)
Tempest: Without a Body
Birds with Skymirrors
Choreographed by Lemi Ponifasio
17th & 18th August
Edinburgh Playhouse
Grupo Corpo (Brazil)
Parabelo
Onquotô
Choreograohed by Rodrigo Pederneiras
20th - 23rd August
Festival Theatre
Alonzo King Lines Ballet (San Francisco)
Dust and Light
Rasa
Choreograohed by Alonzo King
26th - 29th August
Festival Theatre
Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal (Germany)
Agua
Choreographed by Pina Bausch
27th - 29th August
Edinburgh Playhouse
Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company
Quimeras
Directed by Jude Kelly
2ns - 4th September
Edinburgh Playhouse
Opera
Opéra de Lyon (France)
Porgy and Bess
By George and Ira Gershwin, Dubose and Dorothy Heyward
14th, 16th & 17th August
Festival Theatre
Montezuma
Music by Carl Heinrich Graun, libretto by Frederick II of Prussia
14th, 15th & 17th August
King's Theatre
Opera Australia
Bliss
By Brett Dean and Amanda Holden, based on the novel by Peter Carey
Europen premiere
2nd & 4th September
Festival Theatre
There will also be concert performances of Idomeneo (Mozart),
La fanciulla del West (Puccini), The Indian Queen (Henry Purcell)
and L'heure espagnole (Maurice Ravel) in the Usher Hall.
For full details, go to the website www.eif.co.uk
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