Theatre Fringe for a Fiver
Show that darned credit crunch who’s boss this Fringe with the definitive guide to the best preview shows for a tiny little fiver
Adventures of Butt Boy and Tigger Australia‘s Out Cast Theatre turn their outrageous attentions to the world of intemet dating. Two boys leap from one pornographic online encounter to another in this comic romp. Pleasanee Dome. Wed 30 Jul—Fri I Aug. 10.50pm. £5. Banterbury Tales Combining poetry. comedy and erotica to a score of urban electronica. Cellinette the Moon Fairy Meets Santo Sucio the Dirty Saint. in a very modern conversation. Sweet Grassmarket, Tltu 3/ Jul. 5. I 5pm. £5. Black Stuff Shams Theatre explores the avan'cious global oil crisis in this topical tale. Pleasance Courtyard. Wed 30 Jul—Fri I Aug, 4.20pm. £5.
Bombay to Beijing By Bicycle A frantic one-man show featuring 20 characters in 60 minutes. based on Russell McGilton's book of his own adventures. Yakety Yak. Gilded Balloon. Wed 30 Jul—Sat 2 Aug. 5pm. £5.
Britt EkIand: Britt on Britt Everyone’s favourite Bond girl. and all round top totty. delves into her past. revealing the truth behind her colourful life. Assetttbly Rooms, Thu 3 I Jul—Sat 2 Aug, 6.30pm. £5.
Bully One of the most hard-hitting one- man shows this Fringe. as writer and perfomter Richard Fry talks through a traumatic childhood with humour. anger and a bit of rhyme. Gilded Balloon 'l‘evt'ot. Wed 30 Jul—Sat 2 Aug. I 2pm. £5.
By the Way Performance company Chopped Logic combines its trademark mix of devising and text in Noelle Renaude's road trip through France. as two friends make a doomed journey to the sea. Pleasance C ourtyard. Wed 30 Jul—I’ri I Aug, 2.05pm, £5.
Call Me If You Feel Too Happy Drama about a young woman dealing with the highs and lows of bi-polar disorder. Sweet 'Ieviot Place. Thu 31 Jul—Sat 2 Aug. 3.50pm £5.
Caruso and the Quake Italian Tenor Enrico Caruso's escape from the I906 San Francisco disaster is recounted. with live opera to boot. Pleasance (.‘ourtyard. Wed 30 Jul—Fri I Aug. I 2.55pm. £5. Correspondence Claire Macdonald's new play explores the intimacy available on a train journey as a man and woman travel together exchanging memories and secrets. Pleasance (.‘ourtyard. Wed 3&Thu 3 / Jul. 5.50pm. £5.
Damned Beautiful Drawing on Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. C ambridge- based Helix Dance collaborate with Cuban sound artist Cesar Alvarez in this physical duet for two men. Pleasanee Dome. Wed 30 Jul—Fri I Aug. 2.40pm. £5. Dirt Robert Schneider‘s dramatic monologue explores racism and the damage it can do to the human spirit. Gilded Balloon Tevt'ot. Wed 30 Jul~Sat Aug 2, 12.15pm. £5.
A Drunk Woman Looks at the Thlstle Grappling with Scottish identity. Denise Mina‘s adaptation of Hugh MacDiannid‘s finest poem stars Karen Dunbar, with strong language and thoroughly modem references. A seriously entertaining appraisal of the Scottish personality. Assembly Rooms. Thu 3 I Jul—Fri I Attg. [0.10pm. £5.
The Expert at the Card Table Erdnase‘s classic treatise on card manipulation gets conjurer Guy Hollingworth’s dazzling treatment with his unique performance style and sophisticated gentlemanly humour. Assetnbly Roonts. Thu 3 I Jul—Sat 2 Aug. 3.35pm. £5.
The Feast of the Ants Modem incarnation of Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard? Make your own mind up as this beautiful. tragic and funny slice of Japan comes from Arizuka town to Edinburgh‘s Roxy. Rocket@Demarco Roxy Art House. Thu 3 I Jul—Sat 2 Aug. 5.20pm. £5.
Gift to the Future Join John Heminges, first gatherer of the Bard‘s works into one
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The acclaimed one-man play, with a consummate performance from Philip York as the man previously known as Jan Ludwik Hoch. IAssemb/y Rooms, Thu 37 Ju/—Fr/' 7 Aug. 2pm, £5.
volume. as he casts doubt over the authorship of the great works. Sweet 'Ieviot I’luee. Thu .i’ I Jul. 6.05pm. £5. Greenstick Boy Star of lunchtime favourite Doetors. Maggie Cronin performs her own one ‘woman show featuring love. tragedy. punk. Irish dancing and heroin. Assembly Rooms. Thu 3 I Jul~»Sa12Aug. 11.50am. £5.
The Gymnast Deviser and performer Jane Arnfteld turns research from the worst time of the Khmer Rouge genocide into unflinching physical theatre. I’leasatu'e Courtyard. Wed 30 Jul-~l'rt' / Aug. 2.30pm. £5.
The Idiot Colony 'I‘hrcc women. locked away in the 1940s. are forch to spend decades wandering lonely asylum corridors in this piece based on first- person accounts. I’leasatu'e Dome. Thu 3’] III/«Sat 2 Aug. 1.10pm. £5.
I Love You, Bro A desperately lonely boy creates a fantasy world on an MSN chatroom in this disturbing expose of the Internet‘s powcr for destruction. Pleasance Dome. Wed 31) Julrul’ri / Aug. 2.25pm. £5. In a Thousand Pieces A live. original score accompanies this harrowing account of the British sex trade. Gilded Balloon It't'ittt. Wed .i()~-Thu .t’l .lttl. [.45pm. £5. In Conflict Based on a book of interviews with Iraq war veterans. director Douglas C. Wager paints a compelling portrait of the most controversial of American conflicts. Assembly Rooms. Thu 3 I Jul-«l‘t'l I Aug. 2pm. £5.
Involution This futuristic tale sees a London where gcnclic cures are possible but forbidden. Pleasatu'e Dome. Wed 30 Jul- Hi I Aug. I 2pm. £5.
Itsoseng Cape Town's Baxter 'I‘heatrc tells the story of one man's love for his childhood sweetheart against the backdrop of South Africa’s ‘new demticracy'. I’leasatu'e Dome. Wed 3!) Jul ~ I’ri 1 Aug. 6.50pm. £5.
Jonny Woo - International Woman of Mr ‘E’ Woo‘s first full-length solo show finds London's most extravagant alt-drag act immersing audiences in a surreal run of cheesy numbers that‘s guaranteed to please. Gilded Balloon Tia‘iot. Wed 30 .lul«Sat 2 Aug. 9pm. £5. Just Out of Beach The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble brings film. drama and movement together fora unique touring
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House. Tlttt 3] Jul—Sun 3 Aug. 3.45pm. £5.
Krapp’s Last Tape Beckett's classic onesacter. An old man listens to the tape he recorded 30 years before. musing on a fleeting love affair he had in his prime. Assembly Rooms. Thu 31 Jul—Fri I Aug. 3.55pm. £5.
The Last Yak 'I‘raditional Japanese puppet theatre combines with modem shadow and glove puppetry to tell a melancholic fable as the last yak is discovered in a world where the mountains are dying. I’leasanee Dome. Wed .i’U Jule-Fri I Aug. 3.50pm. £5.
Lie of the Land Matching the success of The L'neonquered won't be easy. but Torben Betts‘ new drama. set in a future remote wilderness. might manage it. I’leasattee (.‘ourtyard. Wed 3(IJul—‘Fri 1 Aug. 12.30pm. £5.
Lies Have Been Told: An Evening with Robert Maxwell See caption. Lynn Ferguson -— Heart and Sole Return of the stand-up comic's award- winning Fringe show of l995. about a woman who falls in love with a fish. Gilded Balloon let't'ot. Wed 30 Jul-«Sat 2 Aug. 4.15pm. £5.
Not Everything is Significant Ben Moor tells the story of a biographer with writers block. a diary, some destiny and a lot of insignificant exaggeration. I’leusanee Courtyard. Wed 3()Jul--/"t't' I Aug. 3. I 5pm. £5.
Pericles Redux The No Man Apart Iinsemble brings physical theatre to Shakespeare. presenting a trio of shaven headed performers among a gifted cast of gymnastic prowess and physical exploration. I’leasatu‘e Courtyard. Tlttt 3/ Jul—Sat 2 Aug. 3pm. £5.
P.I.E. Private investigators Hatcher and Velvet investigate in a devised comic crime caper. I’leasatu'e Courtyard. Wed 30 ./ul~-/"t't' 2 Aug. 3.25pm. £5.
The Rebel Cell It's‘ 2013 and an accused terrorist stands trial in Iingland in this exploration of civil rights. democracy. tyranny and freedom of speech. I’leasattt'e Dome. Wed 30 .lul—~I"t'i I Aug. 5.40pm. £5. Red Peter Inspired by Kalka's short story A Report For an Aeademy. this tale finds an ape recounting his journey from jungle to music hall. Sweet ECA. The 31 Jul~Sat 2 Aug. 2.40pm. £5.
St Nicholas by Conor McPherson From one of Ireland‘s best contemporary playwrights comes the story of a jaded theatre critic. walking from his ordinary life into a series of macabre events. Assembly Rooms. Thu 3/ Jul—Fri I Aug. 2.10pm. £5.
Saving Tania’s Privates Breast cancer survivor Tania Katan satirises her experiences in an outrageously funny and painfully moving take on one woman's struggle and stoicism. I’leasatu‘e Dome. Wed 30 Jul—Fri I Aug. I pm. £5. Shoppers Without Borders Erin Donovan‘s tale of marriage and money set on a ‘iloating rabbit hutch‘ in Chelsea Harbour. Gilded Balloon ’Ievt‘ot. Wed 30 Jul-Sat 2 Aug. 4.15pm. £5.
The Six Wives of Timothy Leary The controversial American psychologist who advocated the use of LSD for therapeutic reasons provides the base for Philip de (iouveia's slant on the lives of his multiple spouses. Pleasatu'e Dome. Thu 3 I Jul-Sat 2 Aug. 5pm. £5.
Stefan Golaszewski Speaks About a Girl He Once Loved Writer. performer. director and pop singer (iolaszewski muses with sophisticated originality on the problems of being a teenager. in love. and unable to do anything about it. Plt’ltSlt/tt‘t’ Courtyard. Wed 30 lulu-Fri / Aug. 3.15pm. £5.
The Straight Man Simon is Jewish. His girlfriend isn‘t. What better way to convince his orthodox parents to bless the marriage than to come out of the closet he was never in‘.’ Pleasance Dome. Thu 3] lit/"I'Tl I Aug. 3.45pm. £5.
Supper Headphones allow audience members to eavesdrop on the thoughts of two couples at a dinner party in John Harvey and Judith Adams binaural treat. Assembly Rooms. Thu 3 I Jul~Sutt 3 Aug. 2.30pm. £5.
The Tailor of lnverness Spanning most of the 20th century. this tale of a boy from Western Ukraine features live music as the boy becomes a man in his travels through war torn Europe. Assembly Rooms. Thu 3/ Jul-«Fri 1 Aug. 2.55pm. £5. Tied Up in Knotts In her one-woman show Karen Knotts talks candidly about her experiences growing up as the daughter of a very famous father. Gilded Balloon 'Iet'iot. Wed 30 Jul-Sat 2 Aug. 3pm. £5.
Time Bomb Controversial political drama. Only 48 hours until a controversial vote to Nuke Iran as cover~ups and scandal abound. Sweet 'Ieviot I’laee. Thu 3] Jul. 3pm. £5.
The Time Step Blind Summit‘s puppets. doing for Bunraku what South Park did for cartoons. join Linda Marlowe and Marnie Baxter on stage for fantasies. talent shows and tap. I’leosanee Courtyard. Wed 30 Jul-«Fri I Aug. 6pm. £5.
Torn Out Pages Featuring dance. live music and film. 39-year-old Elaine has a flashback to a blistering ()(ls' summer as a dark and comic tale of forgotten memories is revealed. Gilded Balloon 'Ievt'ot. Wed 30 Jttl-St112 Aug. 2pm. £5.
Which to Burn? Rachel Ogilvy from High Road returns to the Fringe in this intriguing piece about love. loss and long forgotten family secrets. which deals with one woman‘s obsession. not with a man. but a bridge. Gilded Balloon Ti’viot. Wed .i’l) lit/«Sat 2 Aug. I. 15pm. £5.
You Don’t Need to Know That Featuring verbal and physical slapstick. (ionzo Moose presents a story of human survival in the face of absurdity as Beresford Jones is arrested and facing execution. I’leasatu'e Courtyard. Wed 30 Jul—Fri l Aug. 3.15pm. £5.
Booking Information
Assembly 0131 623 3030 Gilded Balloon Teviot 0131 668 1633 0131 556 6550
Pleasance Stand Comedy Club 0131 558 7272
Underbelly 0844 545 8252