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Dateline: 7th June, 2007
2007 Edinburgh Fringe Launches Two thousand and fifty shows, seven new awards, a few new venues - that's the 61st Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which continues to be the world’s most unique celebration of the arts and provides the best platform in the world for new work. This year a series of new awards confirms that Edinburgh is still the essential destination for performers and producers. New Awards
Paul Gudgin, Director of the Fringe, says, “With over 2000 shows in the programme this year for the first time, I am pleased to see an increased interest from organisations all over the country, keen to help nurture and support Fringe artists with this diverse range of new accolades.” Some ShowsThe power of sexuality is explored in Venus As A Boy (National Theatre of Scotland), whilst John Peel’s life is examined in Teenage Kicks (Home Truths Present). Stonewall (Team Angelica) looks back to the 1969 Manhattan Stonewall Inn Riots - a major catalyst in the progression of gay rights. In The Container (Nimble Fish) the audience shares the confines of a container with illegal immigrants travelling to the UK, while RE: ID (Gappad) questions what cultural identity really means for Polish immigrants in Scotland. David Greig explores two very different Scottish stories in Damascus (Traverse Theatre Company) and Yellow Moon (TAG Theatre Company). Not For Sale (Freefall Theatre Company) examines the devastating impact of human-trafficking and Miracle in Rwanda (Leslie Lewis Sword), tells the story of eight women who survived the Rwandan genocide by hiding in a room measuring three foot by four. Ravenhill For Breakfast (Paines Plough) is a thirty minute play written and rehearsed the day prior to performance, and for dinner and theatre in a city centre flat there is Just To(o) Long(?) (Breathe/Escalator East to Edinburgh). Tony! The Blair Musical (White Rose Theatre) and Tony Blair: The Musical (Io Theatre Company) prove the outgoing PM is still very much on people’s minds. Whilst Chav: It’s A Musical, Innit? (Crowded Logic Theatre Company), Jihad: The Musical (Silk Circle Productions) and Asbo: The Musical (Z Theatre Company) suggest musicals are undergoing a satirical renaissance. Eurobeat: Almost Eurovision (Glynn Nicholas Group/No Mates Productions) allows the audience to participate in their own Eurovision Song Contest, whilst Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical (Sexy Boys and Girls & Co. Present) and Orgasm: The Musical (Seven Dwarves Ltd) offer a very different type of aural stimulation. The Silent Disco will be taking their brand of headphone-related clubbing to McEwan’s Hall, whilst Interpol, Jamie T and recently reformed favourites, The Happy Mondays and James will all appear at T on the Fringe. Long-term favourites the Soweto Gospel Choir return, as will the recent stars of American Idol, the African Children’s Choir. Argentina’s Fuerzabruta are bringing a purpose-built, 1,200 seat venue to Ocean Terminal to house their hybrid mix of physical theatre, dance and clubbing, whilst the team behind Fringe favourites Jump will do all they can to escape from prison in Break Out! (Yegam & Sevensense Company). Scottish Dance Theatre will be saying Sorry For The Missiles!, whilst Andrew Dawson’s Leitmotif unites eight different directors utilising a recurring theme. HipHopScotch (Dancebase) and Tom Tom Club (Strut & Fret Production House) will bring hip-hop and break dancing to new audiences and South Africa’s House of the Holy Afro (Third World Bunfight and Assembly) merges Gospel, Soul and Afro-pop. Children will be able to experience poetry and music with international best-selling author Louis de Bernieres in Nightingales, Elephants and Alexander Beetle (Louis de Bernieres and The Antonius Players). James Campbell’s Onomatopeia Society III and Spinistry of Moonerism (Fat Cat Productions) will share simultaneous stage time and casts. The Amazing Bubble Man shows that there’s more to bubbles than washing the dishes in The Greatest Bubble Show on Earth, whilst Does A Monster Live Next Door? (Tall Stories) asks one of life’s most important questions. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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