Edfringe2008_bats.txt :: You are here http://www.nightnews.net/fringe2008/Edfringe2008_bats.txt ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ .:: Nightnews.net recommendations lists :: Updated 08 Aug 2008 Dark Contents on this text file - Introduction - Unmissable Category - Recommendations lists for Dance and Physical Theatre, Events, Exhibitions, Music, Musicals and Operas, Childrens Shows and Unmissable Dark Shows at the EIF are below - Nightnews Theatre List continued in full at this file http://www.nightnews.net/fringe2008/theatre08.txt - Nightnews Comedy List continued in full at this file http://www.nightnews.net/fringe2008/comedy08.txt - Link to your Show bat Award and Review - 2008 Nightnews Review Team - New Photos Links - Updates ::. ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: Introduction This is a note of our our raw listings of dark recommendations, these files will be updated periodically. Look up these shows at http://www.edfringe.com also at the specified venue websites and at any show, production, promoter links on their hard copy publicity.. ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ .:: Recommendations lists ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: Unmissable categories: Unmissable Dark Shows at the Fringe - this section is consolidated from all the categories.. Mudfire - Sweet ECA The Vanishing Point - Sweet ECA Phantomysteria - Old College Quad Ousia - Out of the Blue Drill Hall Scottish Dance Theatre - Zoo Southside 'The Red Room' Immersive venue and boudoir - C Central http://www.beltuptheatre.co.uk/ Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (Installations) - Fruitmarket Gallery Tracey Emin: 20 Years - Scottish National Galleries of Modern Art Anti-Winehouse - Zoo Southside Dada Noir: Patti Plinko - C Central Digitalism - Edge Festival Liquid Room Louis IV - The Edge Fest. Cabaret Voltaire Nouvelle Vague - The Edge Fest. Liquid Room Assassins (Sondheim) - Bedlam Theatre A Bite at the Opera - Venue 13 The Great American Trailer Park Musical - C Chambers St HMS Pinafore (EUSOG) - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House Kiddy-Fiddler on the Roof - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House Bouncy Castle Dracula - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Britt Ekland: Britt on Britt - Assembly @ George St The Feast of the Ants - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Simon Callow A Festival Dickens - Assembly George St The Factory - Badac Theatre Company 5 gold bats The Chinese State Circus - European Entertainment Corp 5 gold bats Footsbarn's 'A Midsummers Night's Dream' - Footsbarn's Big Top Titus Andronicus - C Chambers St Wheels of Life - Theatre workshop The White Rose - The Space @ The Thistle Henry Rollins - Gilded Balloon Teviot Junk Band Story - Uh! - Universal Arts Freemasons Hall Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler Double Down Hearts - Assemble @ George St Paganini - Universal Arts Freemason's Hall ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: Dance and Physical Theatre - an especially strong part of the program in 2008 and well worth exploring our picks... Aequus - Zoo Behind the Mirror - Pleasance Courtyard Ceasar Twins - Undderbelly's Pasture Chess - UA Freemasons Hall Children of the Khmer - World St George's West The Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaughs present 'Dancing On Your Grave' featuring Corpse de Ballet - Assembly The Clown's Dreams (free) - Arts Complex Club Noir - EICC Damned Beautiful - Pleasance Dome Enclosure 44 Humans - Edinburgh Zoo Inbetween - Dance Base Parallel/Parallels - Dance Base Danceforms' The 42nd International Choreaographers Showcase - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House Driven - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House The Factory - Zoo Southside The Flame of Tibet: Sacred Music Sacred Dance - The World at St G The Fooligan - Pleasance Courtyard The Gospel of Anton - Pleasance Courtyard The Gymnast - Pleasance Courtyard Hemingway's Havana - The World at St G Holdin' Fast - Zoo Southside I'm Not Convinced - Holyrood 2 @ Faith Interrupt - Zoo Southside The Judgement of Paris - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House The Lie-in, the Itch and the Whore's Robe - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House Lost in the Wind - The Zoo Pleasance Mime For laughs - Hill St Theatre Mudfire - Sweet ECA NYCHT-HYMERON - C Chambers St One More Than One - C Central Ousia - Out of the Blue Drill Hall Pericles Redux - Pleasance Courtyard Phantomysteria - Old College Quad Samurai Spirit - Zoo Southside Scottish Dance Theatre - Zoo Southside Sushi Tap Show - Greenside Three Ladies, Three Whores and an Uninvited Guest - The Space @ The Thistle The Vanishing Point - Sweet ECA You Don't Know Jack - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: Events - some unusual 'events' this year, many free, we highlight a few interesting ones... 'The Red Room' Immersive venue and boudoir - C Central http://www.beltuptheatre.co.uk/ 0900-1700 03-25 08 Seems Promising Edinburgh Book Fringe - 43-45 W Nicolson St C Presents Establishment Live (free shows from 21:00hrs) - C Chambers St, C Soco, C Urban Garden, C too, C Cubed, C Central Fringe Racenight 12 08 - Musselburgh Racecourse Fringe Sunday 10 08 - Meadows Invasian Festival: Taste of Japan - clubWEST Multiple Snorgasm - Edinburgh Sleep Centre Street Performers: Royal Bank on the Royal Mile - Festival Fringe Soc Window on the Fringe (Various Acts) John Lewis Store Window - John Lewis St James centre There are also some important workshops ranging from, 'Running your own performing arts company,' to several of the Festival Fringe Society fringe 'How to' series of presentations. The Sweet Filmmaking Workshops. ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: Exhibitions - We recommend the following, (especially the first two) for interest and significance.. Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (Installations) - Fruitmarket Gallery Tracey Emin: 20 Years - Scottish National Galleries of Modern Art Art Late (opening) - Stills Aug 28, 1800 Cambridge Shorts (short film) - C venues Foto: Modernity in Europe 1918-1945 - Dean Gallery Fragments of Place - The GRV Fringe Film Festival - C venues Garden of Delights - Studio 1 Gallery Harry Potter - Hippogriffs and Beyond - 18 Chester St We Are All Born Free - St John's Church ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: Music Acoustic Edinburgh Festival - Medina and Negociants Anti-Winehouse - Zoo Southside Beating of the Russian Heart - C soco Beyond Breaking Glass: Hazel O'Conner, Cormac de Barra - UA Freemasons Hall Camille the Dark Angel - Assembly Queens Hall Celebrate the Music of the Scottish Harp in Roslin Chapel - Rosslyn Chapel Dada Noir: Patti Plinko - C Central Digitalism - Edge Festival Liquid Room Elena Duran: Mexico of my Heart - UA Freemasons Hall Faure Requiem by Candlelight - Old St Paul's Frank Satan in Person - Cameo Cinema George Melly Where Are You - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House Gutter Twins - Edge Fest. Liquid Rooms Harpsichords at St Cecilia's Hall Kaoru Iwamura - St Cecilia's Hall Just Like a Woman: Barb Jungr sings Nina Simone - Assembly Queens Hall Leonard Cohen, Songs of, - Diverse Attractions Lawnmarket Longview - The Edge Fest. Cabaret Voltaire Louis IV - The Edge Fest. Cabaret Voltaire Meow Meow - Assembly @ George St Metropolitan Cathedral Vespers - St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral, Broughton St Misterioso: a Journey into the Silence of Thelonius Monk - Assembly Queens Hall Music at the Museum (free) - National Museum of Scotland, Chambers St Nouvelle Vague - The Edge Fest. Liquid Room Old St Pauls Festival Evensong - Ols St Paul's Church One from the Heart In Concert - C Chambers St Painting Music - Sweet ECA Romances and Arias from Opera and Operetta - St Marks Artspace Silent Disco Visual Galaxy - Udderbelly's Pasture Songs of Kleptomania - C central Tricky - The Edge Fest. Liquid Room The Two Tall Girls - Acoustic Music Centre St Brides ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: Musicals and Operas - This category always presents an ultra rich seam of dark content... And the Devil May Drag You Under Musical Theatre @ George Square http://www.andthedevilmaydragyouunder.com/ 07 08 08 4 gold bats Apocalypse The Musical - C Chambers St Assassins (Sondheim) - Bedlam Theatre A Bite at the Opera - Venue 13 The British Ambassador's Belly Dancer - Gilded Balloon Teviot Cannibal the Musical - Musical Theatre George Sq Company (EUSOG) - Augustine's 41 George IV Bridge Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens - Zoo Southside Ella, Marilyn, Marlene and Me - The Vault Faeries - SL Productions Far From Kansas - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House The Flying Dutchman - Musical Theatre George Sq The Great American Trailer Park Musical - C Chambers St A Gypsy Prayer for the South - C Central Happyland - C Chambers St Hero - C Chambers St HMS Pinafore (EUSOG) - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House Kiddy-Fiddler on the Roof - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House Kiss of the Spider Woman - C Chambers St Little Shop of Horrors - Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House Miss Sign-on - Musical Theatre George Sq Plague the Musical - C Chambers St Return to the Forbidden planet - C Chambers St The Riot ShowGrrrls Club - Gilded Balloon Teviot The Spitfire Grill - Musical Theatre George Sq A Stranger in the House - The Space @ Venue 45 Striking Gold - Hill Street Theatre Sweeny Todd (Sondheim) - Greenside Tick, Tick, Boom - Spotlites @ Merchant Hall TutankHamun All Wrapped Up - Musical Theatre George Sq Whiskey Bars - The Vault Zanna Don't - Musical Theatre George Sq ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: Theatre - These seem to be the darkest themed or otherwise likely best shows to experience, some we have seen are undernoted.. Just Out of Reach - Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, a Theatre of Music production Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House http://www.pnme.org/ 03 08 08 4 gold bats The Factory - Badac Theatre Company Pleasance Undergrand http://www.badactheatre.com 06 08 08 5 gold bats The Chinese State Circus 'Olympic Nation Spectacular' - European Entertainment Corp Meadows Theatre Big Tops http://www.chinesestatecircus.com/ 07 08 08 5 gold bats Nightnews Theatre List continued in full at this file http://www.nightnews.net/fringe2008/theatre08.txt ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: Comedy HollyWould - Holly Burns Laughing Horse @ The Counting House http://www.hollyburn.org.uk/ 03 08 08 3 silver bats Nightnews Comedy List continued in full at this file http://www.nightnews.net/fringe2008/comedy08.txt ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: Childrens Shows - we try and spot the shows that will hopefully, scare small children and their parents!... The Apple Tree Maiden - Gilded Balloon Teviot Circus for Success - Bonaly Outdoor Ctre The Echo Chamber - Underbelly Baby Belly Escape - Charlotte Chapel Jabberwocky - C cubed Jungle Book: a Murderous Song - the Space @ Venue 45 Russian Play - C Chambers St The Sun Dragon - Pleasance Courtyard We All Fall Down - Underbelly You're a Good Man Charlie Brown - Sweet ECA ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ EIF Footnote: Unmissable Dark Shows at the EIF - there are also numerous dark shows at the official EIF this year.. Krol Roger - EFT 4.48 Psychosis - Kings Theatre The Tell Tale Heart - Royal Lyceum Devils Ship - The Hub Mortal Engine - Edinburgh Playhouse Matthew Bourne's New Adventures of Dorian Gray - Kings Theatre Deca Dance 2008 - Edinburgh Playhouse from 08 08 08 onwards, details, links at http://www.eif.co.uk ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ Updates and ratings will be published until the end of the Fringe 2008 and finalised shortly afterwards in the following format Title: venue :: see links :: category :: Reviewed date :: Review :: n gold or silver bats ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: Link to your Show bat Award and Review :: Links to reviews here from edfringe will be of the form http://www.nightnews.net/fringe2008.htm#anchor_here Review links download file see: http://www.nightnews.net/fringe2008/08batlist.txt ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: 2008 Nightnews Review Team Contact: webmaster @ nightnews.net ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: New Photos Links Edfringe_2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/nightnews/sets/72157606491363415/ 2008 impressions photos will go here ^V^ ^V^ ^V^ :: Updates 31 08 Reviews for shows we saw and rated 29 08 Bat ratings list published for shows we reviewed 20 08 Late accreditation of nightnews.net accepted by Fringe office 10 08 Recommendations List 01 08 First published ::. 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