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Dateline:
29th June, 2008
Festival Highlights at the Fringe
Producing alliance Festival Highlights, established in 2003 to enhance
Fringe marketing through collaboration, has announced its programme
for the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe. This year it features twelve shows presented
by co-founder James Seabright, and ten presented by others: Louise Chantal,
Erica Fee, Anthony Field, Kali, MJE Prods, Onassis and Redcape.
Theatre productions:
Another Paradise
By Sayan Kent
Club West at Surgeons Hall, 3 – 25 August 4.45pm – 6.35pm
A new play premiere from Kali Theatre: a dark satire about love, confused
identity and being sent to Coventry. Set in a world where ID cards
and the all-powerful system still decides who you are, even if you
are sure you are someone else.
Footsbarn's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Big Top on Calton Hill, 1-25 August (not 5, 12, 19) 7.30pm –
9.30pm
The legendary travelling theatre company return with to Edinburgh
with big top in tow.
Produced by Louise Chantal
My Grandfather's Great War
Underbelly's Baby Belly, 31 July - 24 August (not 13 Aug) 2.45 - 3.55
pm
The WWI diaries of Captain Alexander Stewart meet the modern perspective
of his grandson, actor Cameron Stewart. The published diaries, as
heard on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, are adapted and directed
here by David Benson.
Produced by James Seabright
Nola Rae - Exit Napoleon, Pursued by a Rabbit
Footsbarn’s Big Top on Calton Hill, 2-15 August 5pm-6pm
Britain’s world-famous performance artist returns to Edinburgh.
This new show features an army cook who, inspired by
Napoleon, fancies his chances in charge... all he needs is dangerous
charisma, iron will and a cheese grater.
Produced by Louise Chantal
On the Waterfront
By Budd Schulberg & Stan Silverman
Pleasance, 31 July – 25 Aug (not 5, 12, 19) 2pm – 4.15pm
Steven Berkoff directs an ensemble of twelve with his trademark style
of bold physical theatre. This classic story set in
1950s New York follows the search for freedom from the mob by Terry
Malloy, the guy who ‘coulda been a contender’.
Produced by MJE Productions
The Idiot Colony
By Lisle Turner
Pleasance Dome, 31 July – 24 August (not 5, 12) 1.10pm
Premiere of show from visual theatre company Redcape. In 40s America,
three women have spent decades wandering the wards of the idiot colony:
their only respite is the hospital’s salon where they can tell
their own stories.
The Three Musteteers
Smirnoff Underbelly 31 July - 24 August (not 13 August) 12.40pm -
1.40pm
Faultless and Torrance play two intrepid idiots attempting a breakneck
romp through Dumas’ classic tale. Family-friendly hour packed
with physical comedy and ingenious plot twists. Directed by Owen Lewis
(Johnson & Boswell).
Produced by James Seabright
Musicals
On the Island of Aars
Pleasance Courtyard: 30 July – 25 Aug (not 6 or 13) 2.10pm –
3.20 pm
New musical by Chris Larner and Mark Stevens, creators of fringe hit
The Translucent Frogs of Quuup (Guardian Best Musical 2004).
Set on a distant Scottish island, Aars shares Quuup’s whimsical,
tuneful take on life as we don’t know it.
Produced by James Seabright
Children's Shows
Cloudcuckooland
Pleasance Courtyard 30 July – 25 Aug (not 1, 13 August) 12.50pm
Our feathered friends get eco-friendly and turn on human polluters,
as they battle to save the planet with bird poo. Seven all-singing,
all-dancing actor-musicians in a riotous hour inspired by Aristophanes'
The Birds.
Produced by Onassis
Potted Pirates
By Dan & Jeff and Richard Hurst
Pleasance Courtyard 30 July-25 Aug (not 6, 13 August) 3pm
Everyone’s favourite pirates stories retold in just one hour.
After the success of Potted Potter, daft double act Dan and
Jeff return in this new compressed caper, featuring a full-scale Armada
re-enactment.
Produced by James Seabright
Potted Potter - The Unuathorised Harry Experience - A Parody
by Dan and Jeff
Pleasance Courtyard: 31 July - 25 August (not 6, 13 or 14 August)
12.45pm
All seven Harry Potter books in seventy minutes. Watch the heroic
comic double act Dan and Jeff take on the ultimate challenge. This
brilliantly funny show has played three sell-out London seasons and
has toured nationally since May 2007. Now it returns to Edinburgh,
where both the show and the Potter books began, for its third and
final season.
Produced by James Seabright.
Festival Highlights
are also producing three music events and eight comedy shows.
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