Edinburgh 2008Sweet Entertainments

TODAY AT SWEET - AUGUST 25th

11:20

Sweet Grassmarket

Mr Fizzywigg's Story Factory
Craig Ricci Shaynak / Kingswell Productions

Come help jolly Mr Fizzywigg create an original story! Spin the Giant Wheel of Silly Voices! Choose from the Massive Box of Zany Hats! Watch as your kids write and star in the show!

Mr Fizzywigg's Story Factory

12:50

Sweet ECA

Painting Music - Workshop
Painting Music

Can you hear colour or see sound? Now you can come and try painting them! Suitable for the entire family. Be inspired by classical music and recreate through paint what you hear!

Painting Music Workshop

13:00

Sweet Grassmarket

Head to Head
Caravanserai Productions

5 plays in 15 days. Featuring a series of hilarious, sometimes devastating, power tangos as wounded egos sabotage attempts at achieving intimacy.

Head to Head

13:30

Sweet ECA

Teechers
University of Lincoln Drama Society

Let us take you back to being 15 again and experience a year at Whitehall High. Originally written by John Godber, we show you the ups and downs of this interesting school.

Teechers

13:45

Sweet ECA

Mr Loveday's Little Outing
Theatrical Theatrics Productions

Lunacy, absolute lunacy ... this adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's amusing classic offers an exhilarating hour for all. A quirky yet thought-provoking tale presenting a fresh perspective on confinement and lunacy from a Fringe sell-out company. Absolutely mental.

Mr Loveday's Little Outing

14:00

Sweet Teviot Place

Pictures on the Air
Wopsle Productions & Questors Theatre Company

A teacher near retirement, full of regret for lost opportunities; two sixth formers on the cusp of adulthood. Each life is thrown into crisis by a shocking and incomprehensible incident. A gripping, funny and moving play.

Pictures on the Air

14:20

Sweet Grassmarket

Regretrosexual - The Love Story
Stain Entertainment

Destiny brought Dan to the one woman with as many issues as he has. But there's one last item Dan needs to confess. He was sort of ... gay for two years. She'll understand. These things happen. Right?

Regretrosexual - The Love Story

14:30

Sweet Teviot Place

Edinburgh Harvest Festival
HF Productions

Comedy's new kids on the block - Alex Hardy, Josh Widdicombe, Martin Hill, and Paul Parry - celebrate Britain's obsession with mediocrity throughout the ages. Stand-up, sketches, and stuff - from 'Howard's Way' to 'Haddaway'. Go on, it'll be splendid.

Edinburgh Harvest Festival

14:30

Sweet Teviot Place

How Hard it Happens
Heart Off Guard Theatre Company

(How it hardly seems to happen.) One crashed school coach. One sonless flat. A television screen. This award-winning new play, set in the cat-kissed city, invites you to spy on four faces in two wreckages.

How Hard it Happens

14:40

Sweet Grassmarket

Seven Ages of Man
Band of Brothers

Join us on a magical musical cabaret journey through life: from 'Lullaby' to 'Alzheimer's Blues'. Young musicians Mark and Simon Nathan are your guides with seven original songs, bad jokes, witty repartee and 'brotherly love'.

Seven Ages of Man

15:15

Sweet ECA

'Crave' by Sarah Kane
3Bugs Fringe Theatre

Sex and death. Cruel and tender. This 10th anniversary production by the university where Kane studied is semi-physical, high-impact theatre. Involving a gelatinous set and live music - a modern classic as never before!

'Crave' by Sarah Kane

15:30

Sweet Teviot Place

Tokyo Bound
Sepia Scipio

One-woman show examines the experiences of a young Japanese-Finnish-American who journeys to Japan. Through the encounters with different types of Japanese women, she starts to see and understand her mother in a different but more affectionate way.

Tokyo Bound

15:50

Sweet Teviot Place

Call Me If You Feel Too Happy
Reduced Circumstances

Bipolar is a buzzword in celebrity chic, but what if you're not on the A-List? A witty and candid account of the highs and lows of a pill-popping twentysomething.

Call Me If You Feel Too Happy

15:50

Sweet Grassmarket

Fully Committed
Cafe Society

One reservations clerk, one telephone, 40 screaming VIPs and no tables. Sam Peliczowski juggles the needs of scheming socialites, name-dropping wannabees, fickle celebrities and egomaniacal bosses in a 70 minute, breakneck, tour de force by Becky Mode.

Fully Committed

16:00

Sweet ECA

James Campbell's Shut Up Stupid
Neopolitan Theatre

The creator of 'Comedy 4 Kids' and 'The Onomatopoeia Society' etc has written and directed another experimental black comedy for children and grown-ups, looking at language, idiots, teddies, neuro-linguistic nightmares and blankies. Stupid. Bumface.

James Campbell's Shut Up Stupid

16:20

Sweet Teviot Place

The Rules of Drama and Suspense with Bronya & Siony
Bronya and Siony

A playful, off-beat comedy exploring drama and ... suspense. Be scared, be very scared, not that scared, now you've scared us, let's all calm down and have a biscuit.

The Rules of Drama and Suspense with Bronya and Siony

16:45

Sweet ECA

Flamenco Tablao
Aristas Flamencas

The tablao is where the locals meet. Typical of Spanish culture, a social and familiar place where artists come together to express themselves through flamenco. Enjoy this visual and rhythmic performance. Contemporary and traditional dance suitable for all ages.

Flamenco Tablao

16:45

Sweet ECA

P45's in the Post
Blue Bud Stage Company

Inspired by Frida Kahlo's passion for life and fags, two girls discover their inner 'Warriors of Light' lie within their Rimmel lipsticks and UGG boots. Full -time dreamers, part-time workers. No experience necessary.

P45's in the Post

17:20

Sweet Grassmarket

Puppets on Prozac
St George's Medics Revue

Snappy, sardonic sketch show guaranteed to keep you on your toes. Even the limp-wristed will wet themselves with laughter before they can reach an NHS-funded, smoking-free toilet. Contains offensive material and strong language.

Puppets on Prozac

 

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