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Dateline:
30th July, 2002
Edfringe Snippets 8
News Items about the Forthcoming Edinburgh Fringe
Festival
Bodies in Crisis : 11th September, 2001
Every night of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Ragesties will be tearing
themselves apart. This company of eight young performers makes its Edinburgh
debut at C venues with BODIES IN CRISIS, a relentless dance performance
that focuses on the artistic and emotional ramifications of September
11th. Created after the attacks in resistance to American Nationalism,
BODIES IN CRISIS presents a daring examination of the relationship between
Self and Nation, turning the human body into a site of anti-war protest.
Using Butoh, a ritual dance form founded in post-war Japan, BODIES
IN CRISIS explores ten specific images from September 11th. 'The Airplanes',
'The Collapse', 'The Television' and 'The Rubble' are four of the highly
stylized dance poems the performers recreate each night. Inspiring,
disturbing and ever-changing, Ragesties uses personal reflection, media
images and dance improvisation as a way to repeatedly challenge and
confront America’s response to the attacks. The performers put
their bodies through intense, emotionally athletic exercises in effort
to ignite the internalized anger and pain wrought by the attacks. Through
the ritual of performance, they open their bodies and bear witness for
the ghosts of 9/11, searching for a way to heal from the inside out.
C Venue.
CARNAL, BLOODY AND UNNATURAL ACTS
Following success at the First Prague Fringe Festival in May, Brighton's
Prodigal Theatre Company give the international premier of their largest
ensemble work to date: A Room of State, at the Smirnoff Underbelly
during this years fringe.
The play reintroduces the strolling players from Hamlet and
tells of their involvement in the famous Danes last days and the carnal,
bloody and unnatural acts of Shakespeares most famous tragedy.
A Room of State promises a Hamlet you have never seen
before.
Animal Crackers
Fresh from a sell-out run in Oxford, the Marx Brothers present a menagerie
of their funniest routines, gags and songs from their early vaudeville
roots to their Hollywood blockbusters.
'One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas
I don't know.'
The original stage play, written by George Kaufman, sees the return
from Africa of Captain Spaulding - Groucho - as guest of honour at society
lady Mrs Rittenhouse's Long Island home. Beaugard's famous sculpture
"After the Hunt" is to be unveiled, but its theft, retrieval
and re-theft means that the hunt has only just begun…
C, Chambers Street: 31st July to Sunday 25th August
And Now for Something Completely Different...
Think you know what quick theatre is? Think again. Youve
never seen anything quite like Rocket Take Away. Take elements
of creative brilliance, ticking clocks, and of course, take away, and
you get real theatre, real fast! Strangers from across the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival are invited to work together and create a five-minute
masterpiece in less than three full days. Topics are posted for
writers twenty-four hours before their scripts are due. The topics
includ a location and two words (one involving theatre, the other involving
take away) that must be included in the no longer than five minute script.
Actors and directors then receive the ten best scripts out of all submitted
twelve hours before they perform for an audience. Rehearsals happen
in flats, in the streets, in between shows performers are in, and anywhere
else possible before 11.00 PM the night of the show. After all
the plays are presented, the audience gets to judge the winner of the
evening. Winners receive prizes from Johnnie Walker, Jelly Belly,
Jack Daniels, and Cuervo, just to name a few of our sponsors.
Whatever happens, its a guarantee everyone involved will have the theatre
quickie of a lifetime. Come see what weve been cook ng up. . .
Rocket Take Away, presented by Rocket Venues at Apex International
Hotel, 31-35 Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2HS on 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22
August, at 11.00 PM
For facts and figures of the 2001 Edinburgh Fringe,
go to our Fringe
2001 Factsheet.
Fringe
Snippets 1
Fringe Snippets 2
Fringe Snippets 3
Fringe Snippets 4
Fringe Snippets 5
Fringe Snippets 6
Fringe Snippets 7
Fringe Snippets 8
The Fringe at the Netherbow
The
Fringe at the Traverse (23rd June)
C Venues at the 2002 Fringe
Dance Base at the 2002 Fringe
Facts about the 2002 Fringe
The Smirnoff Underbelly at the
2002 Fringe
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