I really liked 'The Event' (Assembly), a one-man play, fully-scripted and tightly performed, fascinating about acting, and about being an audience, taking the phenomenon of theatre seriously - 'you cannot be serious', and and at the same time, getting to the heart of the matter. That's show business, all right.
Also Brian Friel's 'Faith Healer' - fully-staged linked monologues, full of 'stories', but can you believe them (trust me)?
You'd be lucky to miss 'Optimism', over-sold and over-blown - not just cos they're Aussies, either.

There's an ACE opportunity to see a free show on 9 and 10 August, just to ease you nicely into the month...

It's basically an invitation for female performers to come to the TRILOGY previews.
The show's had a fair bit of press, but if you've not heard about it, here's more info:
www.thearches.co.uk.

By 'performers', I think they are looking for anyone from amateur to professional - anyone with an interest in acting and theatre. There's a chance to volunteer in the show, and this is an opportunity to check it out and make up your mind. For free!

You can reserve a ticket through The Arches - call the box office on 0141 565 1000 or email jill@thearches.co.uk, and quote FRINGE WOMEN. Not sure how many tickets are left but I'd get a move on before the inevitable pre-Fringe push...

...you're welcome!

Rosie x

UWS Productions, a dynamic new Glasgow-based theatre company, is proud to present its inaugural production of Anthony Neilson’s acclaimed play The Censor


This controversial and rarely seen play revolves
around a brief encounter between an ambitious female filmmaker and the man with the licensing scissors, while his dissatisfied wife seeks attention elsewhere.

Link to myspace

http://www.myspace.com/thecensor2008


Reviews

http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/otherresources/fringe/fringe08-61.htm

www.one4review.com

Playwrights' Studio, Scotland
Bookshop and Information Point
Open daily 11am - 7pm except Mondays
August 5th-24th 2008
Traverse Theatre Foyer

It appears that the Edinburgh Film Festival has decided to ban camera phones. Any movie goers who have one will have them confiscated, apparently in a move to prevent the films being pirated(!?!?!). I mean have you seen the video quality you get off a camera phone?

If anyone happens to go a film and have their phone "appropriated", please let us know your experience. Also be the first one to send us a video of the film taken with your camera phone and we'll try to sort out some sort of prize (we would need some proof it was taken at an EIFF film though).

[Via Engadget]

Just to let you know about a great new play at the Fringe this year - "Moriarty is Crying" is playing at the Hill Theatre at 8pm from 5th -29th August (excluding 17th).

Johnny needs to get out. He's in a dead end job and his dad is driving him insane.

Playing with the audience's expectations, Moriarty is Crying is a darkly comic tale about the change from teen to adult.

Written by Raymond Friel and Derek Boyle, the play won an inaugural Willy Russell award for new writing and is directed by David O'Neill.

It's a great play with a West Coast cast (Glasgow, Renfrew, Helensburgh) and it's well worth a trip through to the capital to catch it.

I really hope some of you can make it through (I'm in the play, you see). I'm looking forward to finding out who else is going to the Festival so I can try to catch as many shows as possible in between our own performances!

Best wishes

Karen B

www.karenbartke.com

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