Fucked
by Penelope Skinner
6th-31st August 2009
The Drawing Room, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
5 STARS - FEST
4 STARS - Three weeks, All the Festivals.com, Whatsonstage.com
“Last night’s sex was it was a bit like a kebab? Doner, not shish. This morning I am coated in the greasy film of regret.”
Life's not looking too good for F. She's 25, down and out, and has just spent the night with the wrong man. Again. As she’s tidying up, she finds a love story she wrote aged 12. Before she knows it, she's hurtling back to the most significant mornings-after of her life.
“Fucked should soon be on everybody’s lips.” - Time Out Critic’s Choice (five stars) on the 2008 London Run
Art House
by Rachael Coopes
7th-31st August 2009
Zoo venues (Monkey House 3pm) Edinburgh Fringe Festival
5 stars - Broadway Baby
4 stars - One4review
“I gave you the world. You wanted to leave it. This was your wish. To be dead. To be free. To be alone. To paint. In peace. Now, you have it all. So for God's sake, stop complaining and act like the most sought after artist in this country.”
When brilliant painter Charlie fakes her death for fame and fortune, younger sibling Viva becomes her only lifeline to the world outside... with terrifying consequences.
World Premiere
Almost Ten
by Raphaele Moussafir
5th-31st August 2009
Pleasance Courtyard (Below) Edinburgh Fringe
Caroline Horton nominated as BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE by The Stage.
The Stage - MUST SEE!
4 stars - whatsonstage, Three Weeks, Onstagescotland
Nine year old Rachel is not sweet, not impressed and never far from trouble. With best friend Hortense in tow, Rachel’s on a quest to reach double figures. A hit show about evil teachers; annoying Bulgarian nannies; crazy psychologists and a particularly randy Ken & Barbie. A darkly comic monologue for adults about being a child
“A brilliant surprise. Bravo!” (Pariscope – France)
UK Premiere
"I really like the sound of this, especially given that it's the work of Tangram Theatre Company, who have a habit of being good." Caro Moses, THREE WEEKS
“Almost 10 is definitely on the list of charming and funny additions to this years Fringe programme… an endearingly pleasant way to spend an afternoon.” FEST
THE LIST’s Top 50 shows To see at the Fringe.
THREE WEEKS: Top 3 One Person Shows
The Origin Of Species
The origin of species by means of natural selection or the survival of [r]evolutionary theories in the face of scientific and ecclesiastical objections: being a musical comedy about Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
by John Hinton
5th-31st August 2009
Pleasance Courtyard (Beside) Edinburgh Fringe Festival
To celebrate the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150 years since the publication of a certain theory, comes a new musical comedy for all ages about barnacles, the perils of marrying your own cousin, why dolphins are actually rabbit fish and the small matter of how Charles Darwin built up the courage to publish his remarkable idea.
4 stars: Scotsman, Whatsonstage, The Herald, British Theatre Guide, Fringe Guru, Onstagescotland
5 stars: Broadway Baby, One4Review, Musicaltalk.com
The Stage - MUST SEE!
CASA Latin American Theatre Festival 2
The only Latin American Theatre Festival in the UK!
CASA Latin American Theatre Festival returned in 2008 with three UK premieres of the very best of contemporary Latin American theatre.
“Nuestra Senora de Las Nubes” by Aristides Vargas, an Ecuadorian classic
“Barceloneta, at Night” by Javierantonio Gonzales, new writing from Puerto Rico
“Seven Degrees of Tropical Entropy” by Roberto Azuaje, new writing from Venezuela:
Dr Korczak's Example
Dr Korczak's Example
30. June 2009 - 18. July 2009
by David Grieg
Arcola Theatre, London
As the summer of 1942 advances, the days of the Warsaw Ghetto are numbered. Dr Janusz Korczak, the remarkable founder of its Jewish orphanage, finds his pacifist principles pushed to the limit, not only by the advancing Nazi regime, but by the arrival of Adzio, a boy who believes in fighting back.
“I’ve trained them well. For a perfect world. How will they survive this one?”
Nuestra Senora De Las Nubes
Two exiles on the run lose themselves in the wonderfully dark history of Our Lady in the Clouds, a country conceived by incest, brought up on lust, disciplined with terror and destroyed, in true Latin American style, by the enemy within.
Seven Degrees of Tropical Entropy
A new biopic of Dr Humberto Fernandez Moran, a Venezuelan scientist who became a leading figure in the world of biochemistry and who famously turned down the Nobel Prize because it meant renouncing his Venezuelan nationality.
Barceloneta, at Night
Nazis, the Virgin Mary, the Puerto Rican Gay scene and Rollerblades combine explosively in this brilliant comic farce from Puerto Rico's most exciting young playwright.
CASA Latin American Theatre Festival 1
Bringing international writing to the UK.
CASA Latin American Theatre Festival is the first of an new annual festival celebrating Latin American theatre and culture. Each year, new plays from at least 3 different Latin American countries will be presented at the festival.