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Dateline: 18th March, 2005
EIF Theatre Programme Announced The Edinburgh International Festival's theatre programme will open with a new play from David Harrower. Blackbird will be directed by German director Peter Stein and will run at the King's Theatre from 15th to 24th August (except 18th). Tickets will be £7.50. From The Variety Theatre Company of Gibraltar comes Nuts CocoNuts by Jordi Milán. With song and dance and extravagant costumes the VTCG keep alive a variety tradition once very popular but now often scorned. Given the opportunity to tour Great Britain the company can’t believe their luck when told they open at the Edinburgh International Festival. But, as so often with showbusiness, things don’t quite go to plan… But the Show must go on! Nuts CocoNuts plays at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall from Monday 15th August to Saturday 3td September (except Mon 22nd & Mon 29th August). Tickets are £20. From Japan comes the Noh play Sumidagawa (The Madwoman at the Sumida River) and the Kyogen Kagyu (The Snail). Noh plays focus on tragic themes and portray symbolic, magical events through music and dance. Sumidigawa is the story of a woman, mad with grief, who goes on a journey searching for her lost son. The stories in the comic tradition of Kyogen, on the other hand, are taken from daily life. Kagyu tells the tale of a servant sent to search for snails in a thicket, who comes back with a Mountain priest, having mistaken his master’s description. From 15th to 17th August at The Hub (tickets £15). From 19th to 22nd August, also at The Hub, Krétakör Színház of Budpest present a Hungarian version of Chekhov's The Seagull, with simultaneous English translation. Director Árpád Schilling is reckoned one of the most exciting young talents working in Europe today. Stripped back to its essence, this production of Chekhov’s classic tragic comedy abandons traditional notions of theatre and theatrical performance, instead inhabiting the skins of the characters. Performed without set or costumes it is simple, bringing theatre as close as your fellow audience members and making the lives of those on stage more real than anything we now watch on ‘reality television’. At the Royal Lyceum Theatre (22nd to 28th August), Birmingham Rep presents Prayer Room by Shan Khan. Specially commissioned for the Festival, it is described as a "witty and provocative new play about multicultural life." Shan Khan won the Verity Bargate Award in 2000, for his stage play Office, which received its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival 2001, before transferring to the Soho Theatre London and Teatro Belli Rome. Tickets are £7.50 From 27th August to 3rd September, the King's Theatre gives theatregoers the chance to see all of J.M. Synge's plays. In fact, on Saturday 27th August, Wednesday 31 August and Saturday 3rd September, it will be possible to see all of his plays - The Shadow of the Glen, The Playboy of the Western World, The Tinker’s Wedding, The Well of the Saints, Riders to the Sea and Deirdre of the Sorrows on the one day in a performance that lasts for eight and a haf hours. Tickets start at £15. On 28th August and 1st September there will be perfromances of The Shadow of the Glen and The Playboy of the Western World (2 hours 50 minutes: tickets from £7.50), and on 29th August and 2nd September Riders to the Sea and Deirdre of the Sorrows can be seen in one performance (2 hours 10 minutes: tickets from £7.50). The Synge plays are presented by Irish group the Druid Theatre Company. It will involve an ensemble of 25 actors. From 31st August to 3rd September at the Royal Lyceum, Stellar Quines present Three Thousand Troubled Threads by Chiew Siah Tei. Commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival from Chinese writer Chiew Siah Tei, Three Thousand Troubled Threads is set in present day Glasgow and tells the story of Ying, a young second generation Chinese woman. Tickets are £7.50. Tickets for all of these shows can be booked by phoning 0131 473 2000. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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