Fringe Diary 2011

SCDA Clubs at the Fringe are:-

EPT, Leitheatre, EGTG, Mercators, Saughtonhall, Makars, Arkle, Holy Cow and St Serfs, St Magnus Festival Players of Orkney and Bowhouse Theatre of Grangemouth

Tickets from www.edfringe.com in addition to other methods quoted. All dates August.

 

Listed in performance date order then alphabetically by club name:-

 

Edinburgh People’s Theatre present The Honours Of Drumlie venue 17, St Peter’s Church Hall, Lutton Place. 7, 10-14, 17-21, 24-27 at 7:45pm & 28 at2:30pm Tickets www.ept.org.uk

It's 1746. Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites are returning to Scotland from Derby, rumoured to be causing mayhem on the way. Where to hide the honours of Drumlie? A mad plan is hatched, leading to various complications - with a bit of romance thrown in.

 

Leitheatre, Edinburgh present Educating Agnes. St. Serf`s Hall Clark Road, Goldenacre, Edinburgh. 7th to 20th (except Sundays) at 7.30p.m. plus 21st at 2.30 p.m. Tickets £9 (£7 concs.) from Fringe Box Office, Tel. 0131 226 0000 or On-line at www.edfringe.com Also available from Elliott Clark Flowers, 14 Montague Terrace, Goldenacre , EH3 5QX or at venue. This year, the Fringe SPECIAL OFFER 2 for 1 will apply to tickets for Mon. 9th and Tues. 10th Aug. This offer is based on full-price tickets only. We look forward to seeing you at our Fringe Show this year - OUR TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR ON THE FRINGE. Please contact Don Arnott, tel./fax. 0131 552 4845 or email Don or email leitheatre for group bookings and special offers or any other information..

A delightful new adaptation of Moliere`s "L`Ecole des Femmes" by leading Scottish poet and playwright, Liz Lochhead. Middle-aged Arnolphe believes that all wives cheat on their husbands. He has kept his young ward, Agnes, in a convent for years, sheltered from the ways of the world. He decides to marry her when she comes of age, believing that her innocence and ignorance of the world, will protect him from cuckoldry. Whilst away on a business trip, he leaves her in the care of two daft servants, with strict instructions that she be kept in isolation. His best laid schemes go agley when she meets and falls in love with young Horace. Much of the comedy lies in Arnolphe`s jealousy, fuelled by the fact that he has actually fallen in love with Agnes, despite his attitude towards women.


 

Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group present The Tempest 9th to 21st at 7:30pm. “When I waked, I cried to dream again.” Shakespeare’s classic tale of escaping reality - set on the Venue 281 Mary Of Guise barge,. The Shore (up from The Granary), Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6QU. See map.

Magic, mystery and music. Drugs, delusion and deviancy in this site-specific production from award-winning local group Twelve years ago, Prospero and her daughter Miranda were unceremoniously booted out of home town, Milan. And were lucky enough to wash up in Leith. The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's best known plays and charts the progress of Prospero as she tries to regain her lost empire. With the ensuing madness and mayhem. Fresh from last year's sell-out success, award-winning EGTG and the Leith Agency present this site-specific modern-day production. see www.egtg.co.uk Architecturally designed to enhance the conservation status of Leith, the Mary of Guise Barge is moored on the Water of Leith near Malmaison. The barge is a unique addition to this year’s festival venue selection. Not accessible to wheelchair users. Access to the venue via narrow drawbridge with internal stairs being used by audience during performance.

 

The Mercators, Edinburgh present Abbotsford Revisited – venue 11 Diverse Attractions, Riddles Court. 9th –14th at: 5.30pm Tickets: £10 (£8)

A dramatised reading in period costume staged in one of the Old Town's finest 16th century houses, documenting Sir Walter Scott's life and featuring extracts from many of his works. The performance includes not only famous poems and popular novels but some lesser known novels, plus a rare sample of a Scott play. See www.themercators.org.uk

 

St Magnus Festival Players, Orkney present The Doctor and The Devils (an adaptation by the director, Vivia Leslie, of Dylan Thomas' screen play, ( transferred from The St Magnus Festival in Orkney) from 9-14 at Venue 45, Old St Pauls, Jeffrey St.

 

Saughtonhall Drama Society, Edinburgh present Pack of Lies Venue 273 Saughtonhall United Reformed Church. 9th to 14th at 7.30pm + 14th at 2.30pm; Tickets: £7 (£6) www.saughtonhall.com

Based on the true story of the Jacksons who are cajoled by a government agency to allow use of their home for surveillance on their neighbours the Krogers. They become increasingly embroiled in a world of deceit and treachery, eventually forced to choose between friendship with the Krogers and loyalty to their country.

 

Edinburgh Makars present Season's Greetings, venue 104 Murrayfield Parish Church Centre 11th to 21st (not Sun 15 August) at 7.30pm: Tickets: £10 (£8.50 conc). www.edinburghmakars.com or at the door during the run

Ayckbourn's black but hilarious comedy about a dysfunctional family Christmas. Nevelle prefers his garden shed to his fussy wife Belinda. They have invited seven friends and relatives. Bernard, a feeble doctor with an alcoholic wife, (Phyllis), is obsessed with the puppet show he puts on each year. Eddie is a failed entrepreneur with a nagging, pregnant wife (Pattie). Belinda's emotionally confused sister, Rachel, has invited Clive, a suave writer, whose wandering eye soon leads to trouble. Harvey, a belligerent military type, completes the slide into mayhem. A very funny exposure of human frailty with moments of high farce.

 

Arkle, Edinburgh present two shows - both 16th to 21st . Venue 241 Royal Scots Club, Abercrombie Place. Tickets £10 (£8) - email arkle. At 6.15pm 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' The classic tale of the two pairs of star crossed lovers. Add in woodland fairies and a man with a head like a donkey and you have a recipe for mayhem. At 8.30pm 'Forgotten Voices' A heart-rending play about the recollections of those that survived the trenches of WW1 and those left at home for whom their loved ones never returned.

 

Holy Cow Performing Arts Group, Edinburgh present The Mathemagician at two venues. Acoustic Music Centre, St. Brides Community Centre, Orwell Terrace on 21st at 10.15pm and 22nd at 5.15pm plus St Serfs Church Hall, Clark Road from 25th to 28th.

A multi-genre monodrama interweaving text, visuals, traditional Indian and Sufi music, poetry, and choreographed movement adapted from ethnic Indian rituals, trance and prophecy. See the rise and decline of young Nikor - a man with a head for Math and a heart full of unbridled emotion.

 

Bowhouse Drama Group, Grangemouth - Presents An Evening of Christopher Durang at Riddles Court Studio Theatre, 322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh on 23rd - 28th . Show begins 5.30 p.m. Tickets £10 (£8 conc.)

 

St Serfs Players, Edinburgh present Treasure Island . Venue: St Serfs Church Halls, 25th to 27th at 7pm 28th at 2.30pm. Tickets £8, children + students £6 and family tickets £22

Long Jean Silver and her hapless buccaneers turn the tide of Literature in this version of Stevenson's classic. Cast off from reality and be carried away on a sea of laughter. St Serf's, in the Fringe for the first time, present their rollicking world premiere. Romance, adventure, world travel, suspense, action and cheese!