Post-Midnight Cabarets head to the Edinburgh Fringe
TWO POST-MIDNIGHT CABARETS HEAD TO THE EDINBURGH FRINGE FROM ROSE BRUFORD COLLEGE OF THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
Cabaret Chekhov, an evening of comic dramatisations celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian short story writer and dramatist Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), and Kabaret Kantor, featuring the work of graduates of the College’s European Theatre Arts programme and directors Andrea Cusumano and Andrew Tsao, headline the late night offerings at this August’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Zoo Roxy venue, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh.
Cabaret Chekhov (17-23 August at 00:30 hours) premieres new dramatizations of some of Chekhov’s earliest and funniest stories adapted from translations by Rosamund Bartlett, the celebrated Chekhov biographer, translator and editor of his stories and letters in English. Many of these short, grotesquely funny stories come from the start of Chekhov’s career as anauthor when he turned to writing humorous and satirical magazine sketches in the early 1880s soon after his arrival in Moscow as a medical student. Cabaret Chekhov will be one of the few shows at the Edinburgh Festival to join in the world-wide Chekhov celebrations of 2010. The dozen Chekhov pieces,dramatised for the first time for the stage, feature recent Rose Bruford acting graduates and has been devised and directed by Rose Bruford Principal Michael Earley.
Kabaret Kantor (24-30 August at 00:30 hours), curated and organised by Emilio Romero and Alexia Kokkali, features performance pieces in the style of the great Polish theatre artist Tadeusz Kantor (1915 – 1990),whose work has influenced the traning techniques of ETA performers and teachers. The shows on offer include: Oedipage, devised and directed by London based artist and director Andrea Cusumano in collaboration with European Theatre Arts recent graduates; Ithaca I’ll Never See directed by Andrew Tsao in collaboration with Andrea Cusumano, Seemingly Invisible by Molly Freeman and Smoking Apples; This Could Have Been…, devised and performed by Ravian van den Hil; One Man, One Plant, devised and performed by Matthew Lloyd;I’m a Cop, devised and performed by Smari Gunn; Just Here! by Snaedis Ingadottir; and I Am Just About to Call You On the Telephone by Rosie Bedford.
The week of Kantor-inspired performances also celebrates the 80th birthday of Edinburgh Fringe founder and impresario, Richard Demarco (a new Honorary Fellow of Rose Bruford College and the first person to bring Kantor and his Cricot Theatre to the UK), who each night will narrate his ‘Personal History of the Edinburgh Fringe’.
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All performances across the two weeks begin at 12:30 AM and tickets are £10 (£8 concessions) available in advance from the
Zoo Roxy Box Office: 0131 662 6892
and the Edinburgh Fringe Box Office: 0131 226 0000;
www.edfringe.com (online sales).
26/07/2010