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Dateline:
30th June, 2002
Edfringe Snippets 3
News Items about the Forthcoming Edinburgh Fringe
Festival
Newbury Youth Theatre
Robbie Williams, Who's He? is a new comedy for young people,
written by Caroline Reader and performed by the Newbury Youth Theatre.
The play is a moral dilemma set against the backdrop of today's celebrity
culture.
Quaker Meeting House from Monday 12 until Saturday 17 August starting
at 4.30pm
Hookin for Jesus
New World Stage presents Hookin for Jesus, the epic journey of one woman
waging war with her arse. After hearing a sermon about how a person
can turn their mundane existence into a miracle if they just use their
God- given talents for His greater glory, Shasta decides that she will
make a great test for God. Perceiving the obstacle to her miracle to
be her couch potato arse, she wages war on her offending bottom. Shasta’s
epic confrontation takes her into the bowels of her subconscious to
face off with talking arses, Dick Cheney and “The Penis Guy”.
August 13th-17th, 19th-24th at 20:35 at St. John’s Hall, West
End Princes Street (Venue 126)
Cleansing
Cleansing is a desperate love story set in a political prison, in a
fascist and corrupt Britain, where those with freedom are a constant
threat. A hard-hitting piece of theatre, the play explores the effects
on society's reformation, from brainwashed propaganda to resurgent hope,
by asking the question - must we speak louder?
Presented by Artts Skillcentre at the Pleasance Cavern from 31st July
to 7th Augus,t every day at 12:15.
The Sitcom Trials
The comedy show in which three sitcoms compete, the audience vote and
only see the ending of the winner, is returning for a second run at
the Edinburgh Fringe with an exciting new twist.
Each competing sitcom is a star vehicle, written by and starring top
circuit comedians. LA improv comedienne Jovanka Steele will be going
head to head with character actor James Holmes and a double act of magician
Mandy Muden and Comedy Store regular Justin Moorhouse.
Who will be the favourite? Only the audience can decide.
The Gilded Balloon: 4pm daily.
Jack Pleasure
Jack Pleasure,by Adrian Berry, is aco-production between Tiny
Dynamite and The Bull Theatre. It's a theatrical road movie with a twist.
Terry, a 36 year-old coach driver, has left his wife and now wants to
escape his childhood town. Tired of sleeping on his dad's sofa and unable
to see a way out, one day in a bar he eavesdrops on a bizarre anecdote
about a failed Dutch porn star. Fascinated, Terry becomes inspired and
makes plans to steal the man's identity and leave for a career in the
American Porn film industry. And thus, JACK PLEASURE is born.
C, Wednesday 31st July to Sunday 25th August (not 13th Aug). Time:
8.45pm
Big Bad Duvet Terror
In Big Bad Duvet Terror, three children awake to find themselves
all alone. Faced with their worst nightmares, they set out on an imaginary
journey, which takes them from a small bedroom to the whole world and
beyond. Will Winkle be turned into jam at the local corner shop? Will
Doodah be suffocated by the old ladies' difficult questions? Will Bun
escape the army of fingers that has trapped him in the toilet? This
darkly comic, scary and very silly show is suitable for families with
children aged 8 and over.
Big Bad Duvet Terror is performed by Quiconque: Catherine Alexander,
Seán Buckley and Petra Wahlqvist, who all trained at Ecole Jacques
Lecoq. The company recently completed a three week tour of Ireland,
a run at Camden People's Theatre Sprint Festival and a matinee performance
at The Bull in Barnet.
C too: Thursday 1st August to Sunday 25th August at 4.00pm.
Mike Maran Productions
Three shows this year:
- The stage adaptation of Captain Corelli's Mandolin which
has broken box office records in theatres all over the UK and is returning
to the tiny venue where it was first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe
in 1999
- The award-winning Did You Used to be R.D.Laing? which sold
out all performances in Edinburgh in 2000 & 2001
- The stage adaptation of Private Angelo by Eric Linklater
- once a film by Peter
Ustinov
Mike will be performing in all three shows in the tiny theatre which
is upstairs at Valvona & Crolla.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of his first fringe production
Penny Whistles (about the life and work of Robert Louis Stevenson)
which he presented in 1977. David Rose came to see it. He was then the
head of Drama at the BBC, and he subsequently produced and directed
it for television.
Roadmovie
A play by Nick Whitfield and Wes Williams at Pleasance Over the Road
Two .
Nick Whitfield (Best Actor nominee, The Stage) stars in this funny,
fantastical tale of the extremes of humanity .. as found in an independent
video shop.
Alex (favourite film - Spinal Tap) works at the video shop with
Jermaine (Face Off), Christine (Three Colours White) and
the furious Elvis ('Don't ask stupid questions.'). This isn't Blockbusters,
however, this is the Independent Sector, where the customer is rarely
right.
The traffic through here is relentless, dizzying - just like the A5
outside the door. There's Jim (no criminal record, impeccable rental
history, probably insane), the sharp-suited Cockney permanently flanked
by 12 Chinamen ("…fucker's got his own mobile jury…")
and The Woman With No Name who watches her films in the afternoon and
always needs help choosing. Using a blend of solo performance and film,
Roadmovie explores the histories, the dreams and the fears of people
who live and work along the Kilburn High Road.
1st to 26th August at 2.00pm
Caryl Churchill: This Is a Chair
This is a Chair: a cryptic study of urban isolation and social
tension. Caryl Churchill: award-winning and celebrated contemporary
British playwright, author of Blue Heart, Cloud Nine and
Top Girls. Androgynous Productions: the new and resourceful theatre
company from Reading, dedicated to producing modern texts through physical
and ensemble processes.
This play is unusual and dramatically riveting, constantly juxtaposing
image and words, movement and sound. A cast of four bring fifteen 'ordinary'
modern personas to life in this excitingly visual and challenging production.
C cubed: Thursday 15th August to Sunday 25th August at 2.00
NPLS Spectrum Youth Theatre Company: The 8th Sin
This new musical follows the fortunes of Joe and his two sons, Charlie
& Max (and Max's shopaholic girlfriend Janine) as they rush to commit
the seven deadly sins in exchange for their father's estate.
The two brothers have never really got on and when they begin their
challenge rivalry sets in, not least in competing for the affections
of their favourite coffee frother Louise, or the services of the best
hairdressers and plastic surgeons in town.
But they soon decide to work together as a team. Joe, meanwhile, has
his own cunning plan to make himself a bit of cash. For a start, there's
that film he always wanted to make…
Who will get the money?
Is there any money?
Why does Janine wear such disgusting clothes?
And what is it about the way Louise froths the milk that drives them
insane?
Augustine's: Tuesday 20th August - Friday 23rd August at 1.00pm
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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