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Dateline: 8th June, 2005
BAC Heads for Edinburgh There will be a new major presence at the Edinburgh Fringe this year: BAC is linking up with the Underbelly to present a series of shows developed at the Bettersea venue and to bring its famous Scratch event to the Fringe. "one o'clock SCRATCH embraces the innovative spirit of the Fringe as the fringe-goer's free ticket to tasty, ten minute morsels of theatrical experiment in Edinburgh. BAC producers will be scouting the Fringe for performers with the potential to create or collaborate on new SCRATCH projects while in town," BAC says, while Ed Bartlam & Charlie Wood, the founders of the Underbelly, add, "Underbelly is delighted to be collaborating with BAC, uniting the powerhouse of new theatre in London with the cutting edge venue of the Edinburgh Fringe. We are particularly excited to be co-producing one o'clock SCRATCH which will encourage artists of all types to develop new work in an unusal environment for the Fringe - one where artists can create, not just present." BAC's artistic director David Jubb commented, "BAC's and Smirnoff Underbelly's collaboration is exciting because its doing three things. It's reducing the financial risks for artists, promoting form-busting, risk-taking theatre at the Fringe and sparking new collaborations with one-o-clock SCRATCH. "We're taking SCRATCH up to Edinburgh because the Fringe is a place where thousands of artists hang out. Often they meet, sit in bars and dream up ideas together. These ideas rarely get futher than that bar. This year, BAC producers will be in Edinburgh, talking to those artists, helping to spark those ideas and take them further. BAC is hoping to make the festival once again a huge couldron of exciting new potential. Who knows, perhaps the 2006 Fringe will contain new theatre which was originally conceived and developed in the 2005 festival. As an audience member myself I think that's an amazing prospect, and I want to get involved and that's what the Fringe needs - participation." one o'clock SCRATCH is at the Underbelly on 13th to 15th, 18th to 22nd and 25th to 28th August in the Belly Dancer.
Other BA-developed shows at the Underbelly are: This Way Up winners Sound & Fury, in collaboration with Shunt artists, present Ether Frolics. An exploration of consciousness, Ether Frolics immerses its audience in a disorientating and often comical journey into the history and contemporary practice of anaesthesia. Fellow This Way Up victors Flywheel Productions present Radioplay. On the Penzance-to-London overnight bus, Frank the bus driver and his in-coach microphone journey through a host of characters and voices from Ireland, by way of Cornwall, to New York, unleashing a flow of live jazz and film along the way. Brian present the anarchic Billy Holiday. Set in Kidbrooke, London, Billy Holiday is an off-beat tale of one man who believes he is the Billie Holiday. Struck by a bad case of multiple impersonation, 'Billy' reminisces his way through his life as the first lady of jazz. Puppetry innovators, Blind Summit present The Spaceman and Low Life. Children's show The Spaceman follows the galactic adventures of puppet explorer Bud as he searches for aliens and fun, while in Low Life beery bawdy antics reveal the drunken 'under the table' side to puppetry. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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