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Dateline: 10th June, 2010
NTS at the Edinburgh Festivals As its contribution to the Edinburgh Fringe, the National Theatre of Scotland with Frantic Assembly will present Beautiful Burnout by Bryony Lavery, directed by Steven Hoggett and Scott Graham, at the Pleasance Forth, a new Pleasance venue, and will then tour to Tramway (Glasgow), York Hall (London) in association with the Barbican, Rothes Hall (Glenrothes), the Crucible (Sheffield) and the Minerva Theatre (Chichester). The cast will be Fletcher, Eddie Kay, Vicki Manderson, Lorraine McIntosh, Taqi Nazeer, Henry Pettigrew and Ewan Stewart. Four young men and a battling lassie are training in a Glasgow gym. They want to be champions and win fistfuls of money. They want to be like Calzaghe and land 950 punches out of 1000. Beautiful Burnout tells a bruising and lyrical tale of aspirations and counterpunches, delivered in a visceral, hearts-in-your-mouth production about one of the most controversial sports of our time. The production runs at Pleasance Forth, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, from 4th to 29th August 2010 at 7.30pm with matinee performances at 2.30pm on 14th, 21st and 28th August. The National Theatre of Scotland returns to the Edinburgh International Festival with the world premiere of Caledonia, written by Alistair Beaton and directed by Anthony Neilson, at the King's Theatre from 21st to 26th August, following preview performances at Eden Court, Inverness, on 13th, 14th & 16th August. Caledonia is a story of greed, euphoria and mass delusion. It is the story of a small, poor country mistaking itself for a big, rich country. William Paterson was a financial adventurer who in the late 1600’s planned to found a Scottish colony in Darien on the isthmus of Panama in Central America and turn Scotland, one of the poorest nations in Europe, into a prosperous colonial power. He invited the public to invest and within weeks a vast proportion of the nation's wealth had been subscribed. Distance, disease and a naive optimism all played their part in this ruinous episode. Within a few years, the Scots - demoralised and impoverished - gave up their nation's independent status and signed the 1707 Treaty of Union with England. Inspired by documents, journals, letters, songs and poems of the period, playwright and satirist Alistair Beaton has created a work that is both a tribute to heroic ambition and a darkly witty take on the deceptions and self-deceptions of rich and poor alike. It is directed by Anthony Neilson, the writer and director whose award-winning work for the Edinburgh International Festival has included the National Theatre of Scotland's Realism and The Wonderful World of Dissocia. The Edinburgh International Festival received £200,000 from the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund to produce this collaboration between the National Theatre of Scotland and Alistair Beaton. The Expo Fund supports new work by Scottish-based talent at all the Edinburgh Festivals.
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