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Dateline:
23rd May, 2002
Edfringe Snippets
News Items about the Forthcoming Edinburgh Fringe
Festival
11th September Play to Premiere
The Assembly Rooms will be the venue for the first showing outside of
New York University of Project 9:11 - Portraits in Shock, a production
by NYU’s Playwright’s Horizon Theatre School. It is an eyewitness
account, told through seven monlogues, each of which is the actual experience
of the actors, one of whom was just coming out of the World Trade Centre
subway as the second plane hit.
"It is a very emotional play," said Scott Levy, a voice
coach, and one of the performers. "It is the first production I’ve
been involved in, where, at the final curtain, the audience don’t
say, ‘Nice work’ or ‘That was great’; they say,
‘Thank you’."
It is very unusual for a student production to be performed at the
Assembly. The last time was in 1998 when South Tyneside College was
invited to perform its musical version of The Machine Gunners
by To Kelly and John Miles.
Deep Throat: Live on Stage
Also at the Assembly will be Deep Throat: Live on Stage by Simon
Garfield, about the making of the most well-known - and profitable!
- porn movie of all time. It will not, however, be a porn stage show,
says its author, a London-based journalist: "It’s quite explicit
but it’s not salacious," he said.
Australian Hit for the Assembly
Strut & Fret will produce The Secret Death of Salvador Dali,
a major hit at the Adelaide Festival, which also played to sold-out
houses at the Sydney Opera House.
Masterson Returns
The man whom some call Mr Assembly because of the number of shows he
presents there each year, Guy Masterson, will follow up his hit of 2001,
Fern Hill, for which he won "The Stage's" best actor
award, playing Hermann Goering in Goering's Defence, a dramatisation
of the Nuremburg Trials.
Davies in New Comedy
Alan Davies, who to date has done only stand-up at the Fringe, is to
appear in a play in Edinburgh for the first time. Aunty and Me,
a new comedy by Canadian writer Maurice Panych, will also play at the
Assembly.
A Taste of the Edinburgh Festival
Newbattle Abbey College, Dalkeith, is to run the first ever residential
course on appreciating the Edinburgh festivals. For £275 for a
week, including accommodation, students on the course will begin each
day with a lecture on the theme for the day, and then will be transported
into the city to see the shows they have chosen (with, where required,
the guidance of the course staff). Later they will be returned to the
college for an evening meal where they can get together and discuss
the day’s events in pleasant surroundings over a glass or two of
wine," as college principal Ann Southwood says.
For facts and figures of the 2001 Edinburgh Fringe,
go to our Fringe
2001 Factsheet.
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The Fringe at the Netherbow
The Fringe at the Traverse
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C Venues at the 2002 Fringe
Dance Base at the 2002 Fringe
Facts about the 2002 Fringe
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