FRINGE 2005 SCHEDULE
VENUE:
Cafe Royal
17 West Register Street
Edinburgh
DATES:
Monday, 15 August 2005 - Sunday, 28 August 2005
TIME:
4.00pm - 5.00pm (doors open 3.50pm)
| Schedule of Readings | |
Every show, with the exception of the Family Show, will finish with a half hour one act play called Veritaphobes by Rachel Marsh Two strangers meet in a motel room: a man who buys holidays he never takes and an enigmatic woman who tries to reveal his secrets. There are three different endings to Veritaphobes, and each evening a different ending will be performed. |
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| August 15, 2005 | Shawn Dunkley -Laying Claim (read more) |
A miner pursues his greed into the centre of a mountain where he discovers something unexpected, something that will pursue him in turn. |
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| Sigridur Kristjansdottir -Last Hope | |
A phone call in the middle of the night leads to life-changing events. |
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| August 16, 2005 | Joanna Whiteley -Honeysuckle |
| A recently widowed woman writes a letter to her former lover revealing why she abandoned him. But will she send it? | |
| Stephen Livingston - A day in a life in Glasgow | |
| 24 intoxicated hours in the life of a young Glaswegian. | |
| August 17, 2005 | Family Night |
| August 18, 2005 | Hope Jennings - A Prodigal Daughter (read more) |
| Mina ignores her mother's advice and falls in love with the first man to chase after her, discarding far more than she expected to lose. | |
| Tamara Simpson - Crash (read more) | |
| Life is ruled by routine: eating, drinking, working, playing. Unexpected changes make daily existence crumble into something surreal especially for a five-year-old boy with no comprehension of death's finality. | |
| August 19, 2005 | Kathleen Gray - One Short Hour |
| For Magda, the dressmaker, disappointment is wedding white and bodices must be made tight and tough so a broken heart won't bleed through. | |
| James Hopkin - I'll be watching you (read more) | |
| Julia's husband has died, but that doesn't stop him coming back to keep an eye on her. | |
| August 20, 2005 | Rachel Marsh - Made for Each Other |
| A one act play in which the secret fantasies of two chronically bored megalomaniacs are revealed. | |
| Annie Kelly - Visions (read more) | |
| A woman adrift in London slowly comes to terms with a tragic past. | |
| August 21, 2005 | Shawn Dunkley - Laying Claim (read more) |
| A miner pursues his greed into the centre of a mountain where he discovers something unexpected, something that will pursue him in turn. | |
| Derek Vaughan - The Nun and the Boy | |
| An orphaned boy becomes infatuated with the nun who looks after him. | |
| August 22, 2005 | Joanna Whiteley - Honeysuckle |
| A recently widowed woman writes a letter to her former lover revealing why she abandoned him. But will she send it? | |
| Kirsty Lee - Jasper and the Sacred Sceptre (read more) | |
| Lost and abandoned, Jasper the mischievous Golden retriever is taken in by an old professor. But discovery of his real identity sets him off on a new adventure… | |
| August 23, 2005 | |
| Tamara Simpson - Crash (read more) | |
| Life is ruled by routine: eating, drinking, working, playing. Unexpected changes make daily existence crumble into something surreal especially for a five-year-old boy with no comprehension of death's finality. | |
| August 24, 2005 | Sigridur Kristjansdottir - Last Hope |
| A phone call in the middle of the night leads to life-changing events. | |
| Marilee Newell - The Dragon's Tale (read more) | |
| A fierce dragon or an angry witch-burning mob: Morganza is forced to choose between the life she's been raised with or the magical talents she's been given. | |
| August 25, 2005 | Hope Jennings - The Judas Tree |
| A father discovers his son hanging in a tulip poplar and is forced to confront his own betrayals. | |
| Christiana Worley - The Fear of Not Flying (read more) | |
| In a small Texas town, thirteen year old Thailand and her friends know how to fly. So when brothers Fleet, Morris and Jethro ask Thai to meet them at the top of a hundred foot water tower… | |
| August 26, 2005 | James Hopkin - I'll be watching you (read more) |
| Julia's husband has died, but that doesn't stop him coming back to keep an eye on her. | |
| Derek Vaughan - Timbuctoo | |
| Dumped in the desert…modern adventures in the fabled city of dreams. | |
| August 27, 2005 | Rachel Marsh - Made for Each Other |
| A one act play in which the secret fantasies of two chronically bored megalomaniacs are revealed. | |
| Annie Kelly - Visions (read more) | |
| A woman adrift in London slowly comes to terms with a tragic past | |
| August 28, 2005 | Kathleen Gray - One Short Hour |
| For Magda, the dressmaker, disappointment is wedding white and bodices must be made tight and tough so a broken heart won't bleed through. | |
| Stephen Livingston - Recycling | |
A mother and child come to terms with their new life now that their husband/father is gone. |
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