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Dateline:
30th July, 2002
The Fringe at the Netherbow
If you walk down the Royal Mile from the High Street, along Canongate,
you come to the Netherbow Theatre on the left. It's not one of the major
(or even experimental) venues but it does have some interesting shows
for both kids and adults.
Netherbow for Kids
- Tickets for all children's shows £5.00 / £3.50 concessions
Magic Bob presents Do Try This At Home
Grande illusion, storytelling, circus skills (?), comedy and audience
participation topped off with Magic Bob's famous sleight-of-hand expertise.
"Looking for child friendly magic … then Bob's your man"
The Scotsman
Monday 5th to Saturday 17th August 10.45am
- Ian Turbitt's Puppet Theatre: Peter Rabbit
Peter is 100 this year! So it's time to hear his story again and to
go to Mr McGregor's garden. A crafted classic in true tribute to Beatrix
Potter and a storytelling delight from Ian Turbitt's Puppet Theatre
5th to 17th August at 12.15
- Wee Stories Theatre for Children: The Hare and the Tortoise
Aesop's fable retold for 3-7 year olds and everyone else! Brave Tortoise
challenges boastful Hare to a race - who will win this famous contest?
Hilarious, interactive theatre with songs, rhymes and play. "Nimble
imagination" Herald
5th to 17th August at 1.30pm 19th to 24th August at 10.30am
- Kenspeckle Puppets: The Little Lost Dragon
Winter comes to Dragonland but one small dragon ventures forth. With
a feast of glitter, music and colour, Sylvia Troon draws young audiences
into another magical tale from Kenspeckle Puppets. Child and dragon
friendly!
5th to 17th August at 3.00pm
- Shona Reppe Puppets: Cinderella
Can Cinderella find a dress, get to the ball, dance the cha cha cha,
all before midnight? Bad hair day? Shona Reppe Puppets are a whizz
with this brand new adaptation.
5th to 17th August at 4.30pm
Theatre of Scotland
- Out of Europe - Children of the Holocaust presented by Go
4 It
The Nazi occupation of Poland and the plight of the persecuted. Written
by Rayjond Ross and performed by young artists who "go much deeper".
Standard Life Education Award 2001 for CEC community education.
Monday 5th to Saturday 10th August 6.30pm Tickets £5/£3
concessions
- Rowan Tree Company: Wandering Willie's Tale adapted from
Sir Walter Scott
A blind fiddler brought up in the great house of Redgauntlet - why?
The answer takes us "to the gates of hell - and beyond".
Walter Scott's supernatural tale performed by Rowan Tree with John
Nicol on pipes and fiddle.
Wednesday 7th to Saturday 10th and Monday 12th to Saturday 17th August
Tickets £6.50/£4.50 concessions
- Splinters Theatre: Memory Hill
John Shedden as pioneer photographer David Octavius Hill and Anna
Hepburn as Amelia Paton. Painting, politics and love on Calton Hill
Scotland in irreversible change. A life in art and theatre of memory
created for the DOH 200 Festival.
Tuesday 13th to Saturday 31st August (except Sunday 18th) at 6.30pm
Tickets £6.50/£4.50 concessions
- A Matter of Conviction by John Cargill Thompson
Enter the mind of a Church of Scotland minister convicted for child
sex abuse. Probing and unexpected this is John Cargill Thompson's
best contemporary work. A profoundly satisfying and disturbing theatre
experience performed by Robin Thomson.
Monday 19th to Saturday 31st August at 1.00pm Tickets £6/£4
concessions
- Tweed Theatre: Till All The Seas Run Dry
Refreshing, honest, sometimes shocking, Donald Campbell's play explores
Robert Burns' life through the eyes of Jean Armour and his other women.
Experience the pride and the passion in another winning production
from Tweed Theatre.
Monday 19th to Sunday 25th August 8.15pm Tickets £6.50/£4.50
concessions
- Storytellers Scotland present Scotland in Love Again
Northern breezes blow Celtic whisperings of mischief. Love, drama
and humour in the story, song and harp of internationally acclaimed
artistes storyteller David Campbell and harpist/singer Katie Targett-Adams,
"only the little white rose of Scotland".
Monday 19th to Saturday 31st August, 3.00pm Tickets £6.00/£4.00
concessions
For facts and figures of the 2001 Edinburgh Fringe,
go to our Fringe
2001 Factsheet.
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The Fringe at the Netherbow
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