I’ve just this second come from the preview performance of Clint’s Reality, and I’m delighted to say it was a huge success. An eager audience queued all the way up the cobbled entrance to the Underbelly (no doubt as a result of a concentrated campaign on the Royal Mile by the cast and crew) and...
And we’re off. Previews opened today in Edinburgh, but the shows that really count start tomorrow (Thursday) in the Underbelly, shortly after mid day. Clint’s Reality are up first at 12.35 in the Belly Button, followed shortly after by former WT students the Dog-Eared Collective at 15.10 in the White Belly. Alcatraz previews a day...
CLINT’S REALITY Aireborne Theatre Venue: Belly Button Clint is a media icon disgraced for rigging his reality TV shows. He has one evening to save his career, rekindle his marriage, silence his mistress and overturn the apathy of his disinterested son. Expect rushed decisions, hushed revisions and blushed derisions in a world that is anything...
ALCATRAZ Aireborne Theatre Venue: Belly Button One moment will create, destroy or alter perspectives. ‘Alcatraz’ explores the perforations and cracks in the walls of everyday perception. This new piece of writing focuses on the experiences of four very individual characters, each locked into their own world, but impacting and imposing upon one another without knowledge...
Are you taking the piss? The roles of performer and audience at the Edinburgh Fringe 2009 The first page of Peter Brooks’ The Empty Space includes the famous lines: “a man walks across this empty space while someone else is watching him, and this is all I need for an act of theatre to be...
What happens to the hurricane of creativity that is the Edinburgh Festival throughout the remainder of the year? It does not orbit the planet, a big ball of histrionic chaos (though that’s what I sometimes like to think). Equally, it does not simply come to a halt and cease to exist until the time is...
Very exciting news from the whole PoCo team can now be confirmed. The play shall be going on a mini-tour to Austria in November. During the Fringe the show was nominated amongst six others to get an all expenses paid trip to Innsbruck in Austria to be performed in a professional theatre in the centre...
I just thought I would do a quick message from the end of the festival… the last of our leeds based shows closed up yesterday (after wonderful runs), and all of the venues are starting to come down and be returned to what they function as in real life; the amount of heavy lifting is quite unreal...
Who knows what play will represent TG in next year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, but thanks to innovative directorial visions and powerful performances from Workshop Theatre Students, it is already standing in comfortable stead. This could represent a new phase in the recognition of theatre produced by University of Leeds students. Theatre review: Splinters of Light...
Former Students, the Dog-Eared Collective send greetings (and video) from Edinburgh. They tell me during the month of June The Apocalypse Roadshow (their current Edinburgh production) underwent secret filming in a London bunker. Here is the proof, and part one of The Dog-Eared Collective’s video library directed by Dan Peters and Joe Kerrigan. Share on...
Amy Powell Yeates chats with Grid Iron director Ben Harrison about the homecoming without the domestication Even the more organised of ticket-bookers may have been disappointed to find that Grid Iron’s run at this year’s Fringe is already entirely sold out. Clearly, their three year absence has created a profound hunger amongst Edinburgh audiences for...
Hello WT Luvvies! Well the Edinburgh skies have finally turned traditionally grey after a disconcerting ten days of glorious sunshine. Flyering thus becomes even more difficult (for some reason people don’t like holding bits of soggy paper) although I did have some success today with the following pitch- ‘I get to go inside when I’ve...
