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Dateline:
4th July, 2004
Already Sold Out
A number of shows for this year's Edinburgh Fringe and International
Festivals are already sold out.
At the EIF, all tickets for the Hanover State Opera’s Il Trovatore
and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s concert with Alfred Brendel
(conductor Sir Charles Mackerras) have gone, as have Fringe tickets
for the two Perrier Awards shows at the Assembly and (free) tickets
for two BBC shows at the Pleasance, Just a Minute and Dead
Ringers.
The first theatre show to sell out is the Traverse's A Mobile Thriller,
for which £15 tickets for all 28 performances are now gone. However,
as the show takes place in a Maserati Quattroporte which is driven through
the streets of Edinburgh, each performance has an audience of three!
Theatre Photo Exhibition
One of the more unusual events at this year's Fringe will be
an exhibition of theatre photographs by Douglas McBride, whose pictures
of Scottish theatre productions often appear on the BTG.
Douglas' exhibition, entitled Invisible, is at the Gateway,
Elm Row, which is this year marketed as Scotland's Theatre Gateway.
Entrance to the exhibition is free and it runs from 7th to 29th August
Among the theatres for which Douglas works are the Royal Lyceum, the Perth
Theatre and the award-winning Dundee Rep.
Ticket Sales "Faster than Ever
Before"
Tickets for this year's Fringe have been selling faster than ever before.
In the first week of booking, the Fringe box office was selling tickets
at the rate of one very two seconds and, in the first four days, the
Assembly sold £100,000 worth.
Hedwig Comes to Edinburgh
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the theatrical rock concert, which
began off-Broadway in the nineties and has been going strong internationally
ever since, comes to Edinburgh for nine performances from 6th to 14th
August at the Sub Sanctuary of Greenside Church, Royal Terrace.
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by Robert Workman / Emile Tobenfeld |
Dillon's Gospel Returns
Nominee for last year's Stage Best Actor award, George Dillon returns
to the Fringe with his version of The Gospel of St Matthew. After
an extract was featured on BBC's Songs of Praise from Edinburgh
last year, the whole performance was filmed to be broadcast (in Scotland)
as two episodes of Grampian's Sunday Service program on 11th & 18th
July.
The Gospel of St Matthew is at Assembly @ St George's West Church
in Shandwick Place from 6th to 30th August (not 17th).
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