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.

   
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.

  Sigridur Kristjansdottir -Last Hope
 

A phone call in the middle of the night leads to life-changing events.

   
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.