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Dateline: 17th June, 2010
The Traverse at the Fringe The Traverse has announced its programme for the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe, featuring eighteen productions: seven world premieres, five UK premieres and four Scottish premieres including five off-site and site-specific productions. Traverse Theatre Company will this year produce one major new play by Sam Holcroft and a programme of specially commissioned breakfast plays by top writers from the UK and Ireland. Headlining the programme of major new work is While You Lie (6-29 Aug, Traverse 2), a new play by Sam Holcroft, directed by award-winning writer and director, Zinnie Harris. The season of breakfast plays returns this year as a fusion of film and theatre takes the Traverse Festival to cinemas across the UK. Specially commissioned plays by Marina Carr, David Eldridge, Linda McLean, Simon Stephens and Enda Walsh will be performed script in hand, first thing in the morning, with breakfast included in the ticket price. This year’s programme, Impossible Things Before Breakfast (18 – 29 Aug, Traverse 2), sees the Traverse Theatre Company teaming up with Hibrow Productions, who will film the performances live for later webcast on the world’s first comprehensive online platform for the performing and visual arts. A one-off live performance, Traverse Live! (23 Aug, Traverse 2), will be simultaneously broadcast to Picturehouse cinemas across the UK, including Edinburgh’s Cameo Cinema. The Traverse ventures further out into the city this year, with five off-site and site specific productions. The star of last year's hit Midsummer [a play with songs], Cora Bissett, directs the World premiere of Roadkill (11-29 Aug). This is an immersive, multi-artform production which lifts the lid on the hidden world of sex-trafficking. It takes its audience on a journey by bus to an Edinburgh tenement. Pedestrian-based live art from Melbourne hits the streets of Edinburgh with en route (7-29 Aug), while St. Stephens Church becomes the site of a feral mix of theatre, art and taxidermy as the existential clowns of USA’s Barrow Street Theatre perform Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl (7-28 Aug). At the Scottish Book Trust, Andy Manley takes 2-4 year olds into the world of White (5-29 Aug), in a new production by children’s theatre company Catherine Wheels. Celebrating ten years since its original production, Grid Iron bring Douglas Maxwell’s coming of age story, Decky Does a Bronco (5-21 Aug) back to Scotland Yard Playground, the site where the show was first created. The temptation-prone teenagers of Richard Milward’s cult novel Apples (11-28 Aug) also take over St. Stephens Church, negotiating a Garden of Eden where adults are absent and drugs are everywhere, in a production by Northern Stage featuring scenic design by the author. Back in Traverse One, a darker tale of disaffected youth unfolds with Teenage Riot (18-29 Aug), the sequel to Once and For All We’re Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen, as Belgium’s Ontroerend Goed return following last years hit at the Traverse Festival, Internal. Also returning to the Traverse are Glasgow’s Vox Motus, with their trademark use of comedy, music and magic telling the bizarre true story of The Not-So-Fatal Death of Grandpa Fredo (8-29 Aug, Traverse 1). Dublin’s award-winning Corn Exchange are back with the UK premiere of Michael West’s Freefall (8-29 Aug, Traverse 1). The pairing of Druid and Enda Walsh is celebrated once again at the Traverse Festival with their brand new production, Penelope (8-29 Aug, Traverse 1), relocating the story from Homer's epic to a surreal summer afternoon at the bottom of a drained swimming pool. Making his fourth visit to the Traverse is Tim Crouch with The Author (6-29 Aug, Traverse 2), a highly original Royal Court commission, performed within its audience, about the harm carried out on stage in the name of the spectator. Traverse Festival favourite Daniel Kitson makes a switch from his late night slot to early morning with his new show It’s Always Right Now Until It’s Later (11-29 Aug, Traverse 1). Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed makes his first visit to the Traverse this year with his first ever dance work, Ballet Work no. 1020 (8-15 Aug, Traverse 1), a sell-out hit when it premiered at Sadlers Wells last year. This Scottish premiere accompanies a major solo exhibition of Creed’s work at The Fruitmarket Gallery. This year’s Traverse Festival features a number of new collaborations between some of the UKs most prestigious companies. Shared Experience and Sherman Cymru present the World premiere of Speechless (6-29 Aug, Traverse 2), a play inspired by Marjorie Wallace’s incredible modern tragedy, The Silent Twins, the true story of sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons. Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre return to the Fringe after many years, in a major international project with the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, The Girl in The Yellow Dress (6-29 Aug, Traverse 2), Craig Higginson’s sexually-charged psychological drama inspired by Ovid’s story of Echo and Narcissus. Comedy from DC Jackson pokes fun at the office romance in My Romantic History (6-29 Aug, Traverse 2), in a production by Bush Theatre and Sheffield Theatres in association with Birmingham Rep.
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