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Dateline:
10th June, 2010
Festival Highlights Fringe Programme
Festival Highlights (James Seabright, Kat Portman and Tom Atkins for
Seabright Productions Limited) has announced its line-up of productions
for the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe. This year the company will be producing
fifteen shows - theatre, musicals and comedy - eleven of which are premieres
and four shows return because of their popularity in past years.
The two new theatre shows are:
Lockerbie: Unfinished Business
Gilded Balloon Teviot: 4 - 30 August (not 18) 2.30pm (70 mins)
When 270 people were killed in Britain's worst terrorist atrocity,
grieving father Jim Swire found his faith in his own country's legal
system shattered. Since that night in 1988, Swire has tirelessly campaigned
for justice. His full story is told by writer/performer David Benson,
and director Hannah Eidinow - a triple Fringe First winning team.
They will use a blend of verbatim material and dramatisation to portray
one man's struggle for the truth.
Potted Panto
Pleasance Courtyard: 4 - 30 August (not 18 & 25) 2.50pm (70 mins)
CBBC's Dan and Jeff, the creators of Potted Potter and Potted
Pirates, return to cram seven classic panto stories into 70 minutes.
Why wait until Christmas and see one panto when you can see seven
in just over an hour this summer? With only a glass slipper and some
magic beans, the dastardly double act dash from Aladdin to
Dick Whittington while trying to workout how two of them can
play seven dwarves. And, which of them will make the prettiest Sleeping
Beauty?
There will be four musical premieres:
The Singalong Glee Club
Gilded Balloon Teviot: 4 - 30 August (not 18) 5.00pm (75 mins)
A riotous celebration of music and singing packed with show tunes,
pub songs and surprise specialities. Lyrics provided, requests welcome,
singing optional! Hosted by Fringe First winner David Benson and pianist
Stewart Nicholls, the acclaimed musical partnership who brought David
Benson Sings Noël Coward to the Fringe.
Reel to Real: The Movies Musical
Pleasance Courtyard: 4 - 30 August (not 10, 17, 24) 6.00pm (70 mins)
Marrying clips from Warner and MGM movie musicals with a large cast
singing the greatest songs of Broadway, this show comes direct from
a world premiere season in China. The latest multimedia integrates
classic Hollywood film footage with an original story. With hits such
as New York, New York, Puttin' On The Ritz, Luck
Be A Lady and Some Enchanted Evening, together with iconic
Hollywood footage from Casablanca, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,
South Pacific, Singin' in the Rain and Guys and Dolls.
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Gilded Balloon Teviot: 6-29 August (not 18) 10.50pm & 3pm on 10,
17, 24 Aug (70min)
After two acclaimed, sell-out Spirit Of The Fringe award-winning Edinburgh
seasons, and an extensive international tour, the Showstoppers return
to create 26 new musicals. Showstopper! is entirely improvised
and has to be seen to be believed: a new musical is created from scratch
at each show using only audience suggestions and the quick wit of
the all-singing, all-dancing cast.
Barbershopera: Apocalypse No!
Pleasance Dome: 4 - 29 August (not 11, 16, 18) 10.55pm & 3.50pm
on 16, 23 Aug (60 mins)
Following MTM award-winning Fringe runs in 2008 and 2009, national
tours, a West End season and a Radio 4 adaptation of their first show,
Barbershopera return with an all-new production. Barbershop's funniest
quartet present their third a cappella comedy musical - and
this time they're apocalyptic. God summons four dastardly horsemen
to unleash total destruction on the world, but unfortunately Beth
turns up instead of Death. Cue mistaken identity, four-part harmony
and at least one hobby-horse.
The five comedy premieres are:
No Son of Mine
Pleasance Courtyard: 4 - 30 August (not 18 & 25) 3.15pm (60 mins)
New character comedy from Perrier nominee Rufus Jones and Alex Kirk
Dennis Hazeley (actor, delusional) and father Don (excruciating, Grimsby-based)
offer up fun and dysfunction. For anyone who looked at their father
and craved adoption.
The Fitzrovia Radio Hour
Underbelly, Cowgate: 5 - 29 August (not 18) 3.40pm (60 mins)
Recreating 1940's radio plays for a modern audience, evoking a dinner-jacketed
age of casual imperialism and stiff upper lips. Three short plays
- The Man Who Was Ten Minutes Late!, The Four-Minute Mystery
and Mudmen from the Thames.
Hardeep Singh Kohli - Chat Masala
Gilded Balloon Teviot: 4 - 30 August (not 5, 25) 6.30pm & 9.30pm
on 5 August (60 mins)
After last year's sell-out Fringe debut in The Nearly Naked Chef,
which has since toured nationally to sell-out audiences, Scotland's
own Hardeep Singh Kohli returns with a chat show featuring top festival
guests and live music - all topped off with delicious curry cooked
live on stage by the Celebrity Masterchef finalist.
Toby Hadoke - Now I KNow My BBC
Underbelly, Cowgate: 5 - 29 August (not 18) 6.55pm (60 mins)
A heartfelt love letter to Auntie Beeb, by the creator of Moths
Ate My Doctor Who Scarf. Hadoke justifies a square-eyed childhood
with a romp through 30 years of TV icons. Almost certainly the only
comedy show in history to mention Quatermass, The Clangers
and Juliet Bravo.
Blowers and Bly: Bald, Bold and Belligerent
Venue 150 at EICC: 12 - 14 August 7.40pm (70 mins)
After his celebrated 2009 Fringe debut, Henry Blofeld - the voice
of Test Match Special - returns together with Antiques Roadshow's
John Bly. They join forces to prove they are indestructibly young
at heart, by putting the world to rights through the medium of anecdotage
(all this, despite being both the Fringe's newest and oldest double
act).
The four revivals are:
Hit Me! The Life and Rhymes of Ian Dury
Gilded Balloon Teviot: 4 - 30 August (not 10, 17 or 24 Aug) 3.00pm
(90 mins)
This warts-and-all portrait of the Blockheads' lead singer returns
to Edinburgh prior to its second West End season and first UK tour.
Exploring the highs and lows of Ian Dury's extraordinary life and
career and featuring classic songs performed live, including Hit
Me With Your Rhythm Stick and Reasons To Be Cheerful.
Graffiti Classics
Venue 150 at EICC: 15 & 16 August, 7.40 pm (70 mins)
The comedy string quartet returns for two nights only after four previous
sell-out Fringe appearances, and international tours. This foursome
offer a quick-fire concoction of dancing and singing, all done while
they get their virtuosic fingers around a repertoire from madrigals
and Mozart to tango.
The World's Wife
By Carol Ann Duffy
Venue 150 at EICC: 17 & 19 August, 7.40 pm (70 mins)
Following wide-spread acclaim at Edinburgh Fringe in 2009, a sell-out
West End run and national tours, Linda Marlowe returns to the Fringe
for just two performances. Adapted from Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's
verse, Marlowe performs a selection of poems from the eponymous collection.
Duffy's dark humour and acerbic wit fuses with Marlowe's virtuoso
acting, imagining the female perspectives of famous men through the
ages, and casting an astute glance over the modern world.
Toby Hadoke - Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf
Venue 150 at EICC: 20 August, 9.30pm (75 mins)
Following two sold-out Edinburgh Fringe seasons, a West End run, world
tour and a Sony Award-nominated BBC Radio 7 adaptation, this acclaimed
show returns for one night only.
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