Fringe 2009

Monday 24 until Saturday 29^th August

Featuring British Council Showcase performances, a Gaelic Festival and Robin Harper’s Buskers Ball

TWS

34 Hamilton Place

Edinburgh

EH3 5AX

Box Office 0131 226 5425

www.theatre-workshop.com

The Post Show Party Show

Michael Pinchbeck

Award-winning writer and performance maker Michael Pinchbeck takes his parents on tour to recreate the post-show party where they met in 1970 after an amateur dramatic production of The Sound of Music. The Post Show Party Show asks what is present and what is absent, what is professional and what is amateur.

Tickets £10/5

i-witness

Volcano Theatre Company

The story of our obsession with an extraordinary book. A surreal Richard-and-Judy club, with power tools. i-witness is inspired by The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald.

“This  charismatic, suitably unclassifiable production leaves us in no doubt that books matter.” The Guardian.

Tickets £10/5

Pilots

Reckless Sleepers

Two men are pretending. Two men are pretending to be pilots. Two men are

pretending to be George Michael and Andrew Ridgely in the Club Tropicana video

pretending to be pilots.

Tickets £10/5

HARD HEARTED HANNAH AND OTHER STORIES

Cartoon de Salvo

18:15 (70 mins), Theatre Workshop, 24-29 August £11.00 (£9.00)

From your imagination and the thin air, a unique improvised adventure every night! With live jug band music.  From the team behind Meat and Two Veg and outdoor allotment set epic The Sunflower Plot. ‘Surreal, unpretentious, swashbuckling theatre’ (Time Out). 

“You come away in awe of the human imagination and feeling like you have been to the best party in town.  Magic.” 

TOP 10 COMEDY GIGS OF 2008 The Telegraph

www.cartoondesalvo.com

Gaelic Culture in the Capital:  25^th – 31^st August 2009

Experience the unique traditions and cultural wealth of Scottish Gaelic with a lively week of musical and literary events featuring the best of Gaelic singing, storytelling, instrumental and drama activities, culminating in a special celebration of St Kilda Day – “Latha Hiort”.  For details of daily events see www.duneideann.net . Tickets £10/8

Featuring -

Glèusta (Glay-sta)

Celtic funk on the harp? Add in percussion and what do you get? An exciting new duo in the form of Màiri Macleod and Ross Garrod. Since meeting at the RNCM in Manchester, these two have successfully fused their backgrounds in jazz and folk for an exhilarating experience. Their contemporary nature is brought out in their eclectic personalities, which are so finely tuned you’d think they were communicating via telepathy. Their original compositions and innovative arrangements will blow you away. You’ll love this powerful duo! It will be a night well worth staying up late for!

Also, for One Night Only!

In aid of Childline Scotland

7-8 The 10th Anniversary MSP show, Compere. Robin Harper MSP

Songs political and folk and modern - an eclectic mix from the top talent among the MSPs in parliament.

Rob Gibson MSP . Singer song writer from the Highlands

Cathy Peattie MSP - Folk Singer, well known for her lovely interpretation of Burn's Songs

Pauline McNeill MSP- Talented performer of modern repertoire, ballads and political songs

Jamie McGrigor MSP-singer songwriter from the highlands very popular on his home ground

Special guest artist Campbell Gunn Political Editor, Sunday Post.

Singer and prolific song writer, recorded artist.

Tickets £5

8.30 - 10, with an interval

Robin Harper and Friends

Robin comperes and sings with the usual mix of some of the top singing talent that has entertained Edinburgh for the last four years with songs old and new, gaining a three star review on its last outing. We will conclude with the first Buskers Ball - an opportunity for the best of this years street buskers performing to help us raise money for Childline Scotland

Tickets £5