The Shows

In 1976, the best ever Polish football team played against the best ever Iranian football team: the renowned Tomaszewski, against the great Ali Parvin. Poland won, but only just. In a humorous performance, Seyf and Dobrowolski discuss football, revolution, swimming, chess, love and subbuteo. Grab a pint, sit back and enjoy!

Developed at the Lakeside Theatre with support from the Polish Cultural Institute.

"A slick stylish succession of stylised vignettes."
∗∗∗∗ - The Guardian on 30 Bird's Plastic

www.30birdproductions.org

A site-specific examination detailing the true story of the brutal torture and imprisonment of poet Ghazi Hussein, and the governments who attempted to crush both his spirit and his artistic freedom.

An intense, moving and violent retelling of human suffering, created around the poems Hussein wrote whilst in prison defying the very torture that was designed to stifle him. The Cry highlights the persecution suffered by artists across the world.

www.badactheatre.com

Tom asked Grace out when they were sitting on the Quay. She was fifteen and they were very happy together. When Grace left she forgot to tell Tom why. So he waited for her on the Quay. And one day she came back. A love story.

Real Circumstance is a Colchester-based theatre company dedicated to exploring new ways of playmaking.

"Moving, gut-wrenching contemporary theatre."
∗∗∗∗ - The Metro on Real Circumstance's Lough/Rain

www.realcircumstance.com/osot

Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their Stick children three.' Julia Donaldson's fabulous book brought vividly to life by a trio of top actors. Packed full of puppetry, catchy songs, live music and funky moves, it's more fun than you can shake a stick at!

From the award-winning team behind Private Peaceful, Aesop's Fables & The Mozart Question.

"...the quality of what Scamp do is amazing..."
- The Independent

www.scamptheatre.com

Fifteen years ago, Alice was an interrogator in Guantanamo Bay. The pills she took at the time mean she can't remember what she did. Fifteen years ago, Bashir was a prisoner there. Dying of liver failure, he can't forget what she did. One day, he visits her.

Lidless is "an extraordinary and original attempt to show the enduring strain on the victims of torture in Guantanamo"
- David Hare.

www.hightide.org.uk

Ross Sutherland's job is to predict the future. Mixing darkly comic narrative, stark animation and dexterous verse, the Times' Top Ten Literary Star and Time Out Award winner presents a journey through memory and multimedia, transforming from a tabloid hack speculating on Britain's imminent collapse to timeline altering saboteur. This is his true story about time travel.

Produced by Show + Tell and supported by Writers' Centre Norwich.

"Thoughtful, articulate and very funny."
- Evening Standard

www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk

Site-responsive theatre exploring the psychology, mythology and ecology of human/wolf relationships. A sensual, unpredictable, magical journey in Edinburgh's atmospheric Caves. It's about our ears, all the better to hear you with. And noses, all the better to smell you with. And how we understand the pack, the loner, and our place on the planet.

With performers from the David Glass Ensemble, Dreamthinkspeak and Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. Original music composed by Kerry Andrew and text by Iain Finlay Macleod (St Kilda, Edinburgh International Festival 09).

"Rare, unafraid and hauntingly beautiful...breathtaking to witness."
∗∗∗∗∗ - The Metro on Kath Burlinson's The Mother's Bones

www.authenticartist.co.uk/wolf

Katie is an intelligent and feisty 18 year-old. When her boyfriend Abe gets into a fight, his mates insist they track down the kid who attacked him. What starts as an adventure becomes more dangerous as Katie is thrust into a journey she'll never forget. Exposing the complexities of multicultural inner-city life, "the dynamic young theatrical group nabokov" (The Independent) return to the Fringe with this remarkable coming-of-age tale by exhilarating writer Jack Thorne.

"...A superb 90 minutes."
∗∗∗∗Evening Standard on nabokov/Jack Thorne's 2nd May 1997

www.nabokov-online.com

Back with their genre-defining stand-up dance, Roden and Shenton, one of the most original acts in comedy, bring together the most explosive moments from a decade of award-winning shows. The clever tricks, hilarious set pieces and brilliant dances that make up their unique world get teased out of their original holes and smashed together into this combustible new show.

Produced by Gwen Van Spijk and supported by The Junction.

"Roden and Shenton caper gleefully along the dividing line between lunacy and genius."
- The Herald

www.newartclub.org

Inside everyone there is a Hamlet. They just need a stage...

After a performance of Hamlet, a woman cleaner finds herself playing the actor's definitive role, as a company of puppets come to life around her. Linda Marlowe and six brilliant puppeteers from Fingers Theatre, Tbilisi, in a performance of Hamlet as you've never seen it before.

"Marlowe is a consummate actress; gorgeous to look at, slinky and sexy, sensual and impassioned, breathtakingly versatile."
- The Scotsman on Berkoff's Women

www.lindamarlowemyhamlet.com

How does it feel to have your world (literally) blown apart? Britain is booming and Molly moves to London from deepest Cornwall full of naive dreams, high hopes and on a quest to make her life just like the movies.

Then on 7/7/2005, she finds herself on an underground train blown up by terrorists and her life is forced to take a different direction. Funny, frank and poetic; this is the true story of what happened next.

Produced by Apples & Snakes and supported by Writers' Centre Norwich.

www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk
www.mollynaylor.com

'From the Cornish hills to East Anglia's flat fens, Giants lived here long as rivals and as friends....

And there's that Jack-the-Lad, believe me that name Jack means news that's bad, a curse be on Jack and his beans wherever they be!'

A specially commissioned family theatre piece by John Agard. Using drawing with chalk and light, live video projection and puppets, to explore the folktales surrounding the adventures of Jack and the Giants.

"Wonderful work that celebrates the possibilities of theatre."
- The Guardian on Indefinite Article's Pinocchio

www.indefinitearticles.co.uk

Bryony Kimmings is a Sex Idiot. This year, following her first STI test, Bryony discovered she had a very common sexual disease. Not one for looking back, she was faced with the arduous task of retracing her sexual footsteps.

Based on Bryony's real life journey, this cabaret of confession is a glittering bloodbath of truths nestled somewhere between homemade-pop-song, ornithological-nature-trail and an ode to love lost.

Featuring vignettes of song, spoken word, and dance, gaffer taped to some acts of danger, rough chat and a pubic hair moustache, this show will tickle, charm and downright-shock!

Supported by The Junction.

www.axisofevilproductions.com

30,000 plastic ducks sank in the North Pacific in 1992 after their cargo ship was bombed by a US fighter jet. This is the tale of their voyage, the double life of the man who made them and thirty years of secrets and lies. Stories, poems and songs about accidental hitchhiking, swan machines and lemon trees on trains.

Funny, bittersweet journeys with one dodgy Dad and his flotilla of plucky ducks.

Supported by Writers' Centre Norwich.

"Delightful, funny and poignant."
- Radio 4, Saturday Live

www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk
www.deanparkin.co.uk

Fiercely evocative, highly-charged, physical dance-theatre by award-winning choreographer Jean Abreu, featuring five outstanding male dancers. Abreu explores violence, incarceration, solitude and hope within prison walls revealing the thoughts and vulnerabilities behind the 'criminal'.

This powerful theatrical event includes live music by instrumental guitar/noise/glitch band 65daysofstatic, fast gaining international attention for their captivating, uncompromising approach to music making. A gritty, compelling production that reveals surprising tenderness within the starkness of captivity.

Supported by The Hat Factory, Chisenhale Dance Space and Jerwood Space.

"One of the UK's most closely watched talents."
- The Guardian on Jean Abreu

www.jeanabreudance.com

Trip hop dance theatre installation with a touch of flamenco. 'Ned' half human, half horse has a brief bedsit encounter with a tiger. Set amongst films, suspended animations and props. Ethereal, unorthodox and obscure, a journey for the creatures of the night. Inviting you to come and share the regrets, illusions and delusions of the idiot beast within.

Supported by Colchester Arts Centre.

"An Occult atmosphere with a hint of humour."
- Dance Theatre Journal's Resolution! Review of Juliet Aster's The Betenoir, Destinies Carrots

www.juliet-aster.co.uk

Sacked, dumped, and stuck living back with his parents, failed writer Tim Clare struggled to see the point in carrying on. Eventually, during a 4am drive, his newly spiritual dad staged a dramatic last-ditch bid to shock him out of his misery.

Clare's comic true story of how a father-son suicide pact transformed him from cynical loser to happy failure. A stand-up show with verse, ukulele, and a psychic horse.

Produced by Show + Tell and supported by Writers' Centre Norwich.

"Shrewd and funny."
- The Scotsman

www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk
www.timclarepoet.co.uk

Following their 5 star must-see show RISE in 2008, Tom Dale Company present ROAM; a captivating journey by five stunning dancers into a world of swinging sub bass and complex percussion.

Dale's raw and explosive choreographic style, with specially commissioned music from maverick producers Shackleton and Sion, creates a totally unique experience. Life's roaming pulse; the unstoppable condition, relentlessly dragging us into the unknown, for survival, inspiration, meaning, distraction.

Produced by Time Won't Wait.

"Exhilaratingly beautiful and simmering with danger."
∗∗∗∗∗ - British Theatre Guide on Tom Dale Company's RISE

www.tomdale.org.uk

Mexican Day of the Dead is a scary day for a boy with two dead parents and an overactive imagination. As night falls, his memories run riot, entwining with his imaginary world and the real fiesta of life and death.

Total Theatre Award Nominees 2008, Gomito present a new story, told with the warmth, joy and colour for which the company is known.

Supported by The Junction.

"A verve that is irresistible…a cascade of memorable images."
- The Guardian on Gomito Productions' Before We Remember

www.gomito.co.uk

To commemorate the looming tenth anniversary of his leaving art school, Richard DeDomenici forensically re-examines the first decade of his creative output and draws some damning conclusions.

In what is described both as a groundbreaking challenge to the existing Fringe venue status quo, and a pragmatic austerity measure, DeDomenici intends to perform Dedomegamix in a small portable tent, which he stubbornly refers to as a Pop-Up Nomadic/Boutique Autonomous Microvenue.

Richard DeDomenici is an Artsadmin Associate Artist.

"DeDomenici is an excellent example of the best that live art has to offer."
- Sunday Herald

www.forestfringe.co.uk
www.dedomegamix.blogspot.com
www.dedomenici.co.uk

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

Hannah Jane Walker is a serial apologist. We use it as ellipsis in conversation; we use it to make people like us. But what if you want to apologise for something that really matters?

An intimate audience piece set around a table. Pull up a chair and drink some wine.

This Is Just To Say is a conversation with poems in it. It's about manipulation, Britishness, love and winning. This Is Just To Say is smudging its make-up, buying you bouquets and screening your calls.

Produced by Matt Burman. Devised with Chris Thorpe. Visual artist Theodora Lecrinier. Supported by Writers' Centre Norwich.

www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk
www.hannahjanewalker.co.uk

The past is a foreign country. From Total Theatre Award nominees Shams, this visually stunning promenade installation immerses you in the architecture of memory. Part travelogue, part forensic reconstruction, Reykjavik guides you through a city of extremes - mysterious, absurd and beautiful - in search of a half-forgotten love affair.

Produced by Time Won't Wait and supported by The Wellcome Trust.

"Smooth and dreamlike...it is captivating throughout."
- British Theatre Guide

www.shams.org.uk