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Dateline: 19th June, 2005
Pleasance to the Rescue The Pleasance has offered Scottish company Vanishing Point, facing bankruptcy its venue for this year's Edinburgh Fringe, the Gateway, announced its closure due to to fire safety reasons, a lifeline. The company will now present its show Lost Ones at the Pleasance Grand, at 690 seats one of the biggest venues on the Fringe. The Pleasance has offered the use of the Grand for eleven performances. Pleasance director Anthony Alderson, who takes over this year from Christopher Richardson, said he was dleighted to be able to offer the company a new home. The show is described as a surreal, fantastical adventure about a man whose unusual past is coming back to haunt him. Strange creatures are emerging from his body and disappearing through a hole in the skirting board. Each carries a bag in which something valuable is being smuggled to the void on the other side. The company announced that the closure of the Gateway would cost it £40,000, a loss it could not sustain, and it expected that, if an alternative venue was not found, it might have to go into liquidation. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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