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| The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents ON THE FRINGE: Eye on Edinburgh in Washington DC. |
| Though it once piggy-backed off the International Festival, the Fringe today is by far the largest of the Edinburgh festivals. |
| Each year Edinburgh renews its title as Festival City, with twelve major cultural festivals featuring more than 25,000 artists. |
| A unique collaboration between UK's Digital Theatre and partners in Qatar to translate and make 6 Arabic plays available for free online. |
| Check out the British Council's weekly online radio show featuring the best in new British music. |
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ON THE FRINGE: EYE ON EDINBURGH |
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Eye on Edinburgh celebrates the excitement, energy and community of artistic entrepreneurship that exists in Scotland’s capital city each summer. The Kennedy Center is transformed over three weeks of performances, free events and panel discussions that aim to surprise and challenge audiences as they engage with art that’s considered “fringe” today, but may redefine the mainstream of tomorrow.
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Seven outstanding British artists and companies were identified for Eye on Edinburgh via nearly a decade’s worth of visits to the British Council’s biennial Edinburgh Showcase. During the Showcase, over 200 arts professionals from more than 50 countries experience an intensive week of contemporary British theatre during the largest arts festival in the world. |
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Explore the impact of Fringe performance through a series of free public events at the Kennedy Center, including a close look at the traditions of arts criticism, artistic entrepreneurship within the fringe and the mainstream, and a "Meet Market + Roadshow" for local artists interested in taking their work to Edinburgh. |
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Fire Exit/David Leddy
SUSURRUS
October 28- November 7, 2010
Glasgow-based playwright and director David Leddy’s Susurrus (the name for the noise of wind rustling in the trees) uses simple technology, quality writing, vocal performances and beautiful soundscapes in this audio production. Narrated via headphones and set on the grounds of the Kennedy Center, audience members are locked in a private play as anonymous speakers tell stories of opera, botany and relationships, all linked to the pathways around them. Susurrus is a complex, layered and moving narrative of love and loss, loosely based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in a performance that is part radio play, part sonic art.
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The story of celebrated performer and key figure in Britain's post-war gay liberation struggle, Bette Bourne, A Life in Three Acts is more than a memoir.
Celebrated performer Bette Bourne shares his living history in a performance that reveals a portrait of an amazing individual and marks the momentous struggles and achievements of his generation, as Bette discusses his post-war childhood, life in a Notting Hill drag commune in the 1970s, his seminal role in the formation of the Gay Liberation Front in Britain and his world-famous BLOOLIPS theatre troupe. Dramatizing what was originally a series of private conversations between Bette and UK playwright Mark Ravenhill, this is a staged recreation of the reminiscence of a lifetime.
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Cleverly mixing storytelling, improvisation and live music, Brighton-based Cartoon de Salvo has been captivating audiences with its highly accessible and irreverently honest brand of theater for the last 10 years. In Hard Hearted Hannah, a title chosen from a random audience suggestion and a few popular songs picked from a playlist act as the catalysts for three performers, working entirely unscripted, to create a new and unique story from scratch every night. Free and open to the public.
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Stan's Cafe
OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN ALL THE WORLD
November 1-7, 2010
In this simple performance installation, Stan’s Cafe brings five tons of rice to the Kennedy Center, a grain representing everyone in the United States. Over the course of one week, a team of performers will weigh this rice out into any array of human statistics. When brought together to create a shifting sculptural landscape, these hills and mountains tell powerful stories of the world, its struggles, challenges and triumphs.
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Lone Twin
NINE YEARS
November 4-5, 2010
Nine years ago two friends decided to see the world. On foot and bicycle, the two traveled the length and breadth of Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Australia. As they moved around the world Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters offered theatrical presentations as a gift to the people they met on their journey. Nine years and seven hundred performances later they have returned home, the journey is complete. Nine Years brings together the entire body of work in one ninety-minute show. The heart-shaped topography of Brussels, the shores of Lake Lucerne, downtown Philadelphia, the North Sea, the Arctic Circle, the blue skies of Lisbon’s July and most of Switzerland will be revisited in an attempt to make some sense of the world around us.
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Oxford Playhouse
ONE SMALL STEP
November 6-7, 2010
Produced by Oxford Playhouse, One Small Step recreates the race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to send the first man to the moon. In this eccentric, funny, and surprisingly moving history lesson, two performers and a set of household objects magically conjure dozens of characters as well as space pods and atom bombs.
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Traverse Theatre Company
MIDSUMMER
November 11-13, 2010
From Scotland’s theater for new writing comes Midsummer, a story of two strangers whose one-night stand turns into a long weekend of bridge burning, car chases, midnight meetings, hung-over misery and the redistribution of a small fortune in stolen money. Unflinching in its stare at the panic that hits everyone as they approach middle age, this bitter-sweet romance charms in a modern-day Edinburgh setting. |
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