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Dateline: 30th June, 2005
Petherbridge on the Fringe Edward Petherbridge is about to take his statuary European Court of Human Rights time off from his "gem of a performance" (John Peter, Sunday Times) in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman In White at the Palace Theatre to celebrate his 50th year on the stage in a miniscule Edinburgh Fringe venue, the Pleasance Jack Dome. His sixty ninth birthday party will be the first preview there on Wednesday 3rd August of his play about Symeon Stylites, the 5th Century Syrian saint who lived on top of a pillar for thirty four years. Pillar Talk is a theatrical sketch for saint and pillar, subtitled 'Backcloth and Ashes'. The short tail piece, Slapdash, charts his pilgrimage from a Bradford Sunday School to Damascus, Aleppo, and tea at the Baghdad Café 60 kilometres from the Iraq border, to what's left of Symeon's pillar - (every one wanted a piece of it and even took the powdered stone as medicine). Notwithstanding Rolf Harris being on the fringe this year, Petherbridge will be mixing paint with photography, poetry and motion to round off his tight packed one hour and a quarter show. The play's publication by Author House coincides with this premier. The show previews from 3rd to 6th August, opens on 7th and runs until 28th August at 13.15 in th Pleasance Dome, 1 Bristo Square. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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