2010 free festival programme
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Over 300 free entry shows from the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.TRANSCRIPT
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WELCOME TO THE 2010 FREE FESTIVALWelcome to our programme! We’re in our 7th year and 2010 sees our biggest ever Free Festival programme, with over 4,300 performances of 300 shows – an amazing figure if you consider in 2004 we started with only three shows in a single venue! This year we have brought together another huge selection from around the world, ranging from headline comedy performers, hit cabaret shows, challenging theatre, outdoor stages full of entertainment, music and bands, children’s shows, magicians, storytellers, opera, musicals and much, much more!
PUTTING THE ALTERNATIVE BACK INTO THE FRINGEAt the Free Festival we’re really trying to put the alternative back into the Fringe! A Festival isn’t just about star names - like the Fringe pioneers back in 1947 who started the Edinburgh Fringe as an alternative to the international festival, the Free Festival now exists as an alternative within the Fringe, where performers are not charged thousands of pounds to take part, and audiences aren’t charged high ticket prices. The Free Festival is your chance to go and see something you would never normally see.
WHO ARE WEThe Free Festival is organised by Alex Petty, of Laughing Horse Comedy, along with a large team of volunteers and all of the performers producing and running shows. It’s a big team effort and we all hope you enjoy our 2010 programme, which we think is more fun filled than ever!
GREENING THE FRINGEThere is a huge amount of paper printed at the Fringe each year, and that is one of the reasons we keep this brochure as a small listings leaflet, instead of producing a monumental brochure that would take up 100 pages. Keep hold of this leaflet to remind you where our shows are, and if you want to find out more about our shows have a look at our website www.freefestival.co.uk
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LAUGHING HORSE @ THE ARGYLE Venue 353, 17 Argyle Place. 0131 221 9759
SHOWS IN THE ARGYLE
Start Finish Dates Show
13:15 14:15 Aug 6-29 (not 16, 23)
I Can't Stand up for Falling Down
14:30 15:30 6-29 (not 9, 16, 23)
Adventures of a Singing Acupuncturist: Olivia in Caledonia
15:45 16:45 5-13 Still Life: Tales From the West Bank
15:45 16:15 15-22 Exemplary Crimes of The Mind
17:00 18:00 24-27 Community Vibe Comedy Show
18:15 19:15 5-29 (not 16,17,23,24)
6 and a Half a 7
19:30 20:30 5-29 Two Bloody Queens
20:45 21:45 5-14 (not 8,9) Online Courting
22:00 23:00 5-12 Emerald Smiles
22:00 23:00 14-22 The Complexity of Nonsense
22:00 23:30 27-29 Hang Up The Moon
LAUGHING HORSE @ THE COUNTING HOUSE Venue 170, 38 West Nicolson Street. 0131 667 7533
SHOWS IN THE BALLROOM
Start Finish Dates Show
12:10 13:00 5-29 (not tue) Twonkey's Cottage
13:15 14:15 5-16 Flat Pack Radio Happy Hour
13:30 14:15 17-26 Partisan Babies
13:30 14:15 24-29 A Clown, A Mime and a Minstrel
14:30 15:30 5-13 Amoeba to Zebra
14:30 15:30 14-18 Are You Lonesome tonight?
14:30 15:30 19-29 The Classics of Magic!
15:45 16:45 6-30 Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised!
17:00 18:00 7-21 Rogues Handbook
17:00 18:00 22-29 Let's Learn English Yourself
18:15 19:15 5-14 Richard Crawley: The Boy
18:15 19:15 15-21 3D Comedy
18:15 19:15 22-29 Opera Larks: Are We There Yet?
19:30 20:30 5-29 Lewis Schaffer: Free Until Famous
19:30 20:30 29 Amoeba to Zebra
20:45 21:35 5-29 (not 21) You've Been Stooched and Dunn
20:45 21:50 21 Phil Buckley's Charity Show
21:00 01:00 4 Free Festival 2010 Launch Show and Party
22:00 23:00 6-29 (not 16, 23) Bruce Fummey - About Nothing in Particular
23:15 00:15 5-14 Mostly Comedy Club - Free
23:15 00:15 15-29 Snigger Happy
00:30 01:40 5-18 Maxina Todd NVQ
00:30 01:30 19-29 Cabahooray!
SHOWS IN THE LOUNGE
Start Finish Dates Show
12:00 12:50 5-29 (not16, 21) Dave Baucutt: Exceptionally Average
13:00 13:45 6-19 Jeff Leach: Leach on Society
13:00 13:55 20-22 Dave Cohen: My Life as A Footnote
13:00 13:55 23-29 Mothers Boy
14:05 14:50 5-29 Jonathan's World
15:10 16:05 5-29 The (Almost) Carbon Neutral Comedy Club by Day
16:15 17:15 5-29 Amy, Fate and Me
17:30 18:15 5-14 Lewis Schaffer: Free Until Famous
17:30 18:15 15-29 Bored Stiff
18:30 19:30 8-9 Aaaaaaaargh! Malcolm Hardee Documentary Preview
18:30 19:30 see venue Lara A King - Four Stars and Two Thumbs Up
18:30 19:30 22 Kevin McCarron - Only Going to Stay a Year
18:30 19:30 23 Kevin McCarron - Nuclear War 2010
18:30 19:30 15,16 Ian Smith: Losing Christina (Work in Progress)
19:45 20:45 5-29 (not 18, 25) Nik Coppin: Pasquinader
19:45 20:45 18 Liam Mullone: Crap Empires
21:00 22:00 5-29 (not 17) Frisco Fred's Comedy Hour
22:15 23:15 6-29 (not 18) Beacon of Health and Fitness: Racy Comedy with an Open Heart Chakra
23:30 00:30 5-29 Rebecca Donohue: Bilingual Comedian
01:00 02:00 17 Ian Smith: Losing Christina (Work in Progress)
01:00 02:00 22-27 Carrie Westwater
01:00 02:00 12-16, 18-21 Greaves, Maskell and Tucks Late Night Laughter
SHOWS ON THE PEAR TREE STAGE
Start Finish Dates Show
12:00 22:00 5-29 The Pear Tree Outdoor Stage
13:15 13:50 5,6,8-12 Mookin Man
15:30 16:30 5,6 From Japan to Scotland
17:00 18:00 13 Nimming Ned
17:00 18:00 15 Paul Gilbody
17:00 18:00 5, 6 Sounds of Summer
17:00 18:00 8,9 From Japan to Scotland
17:00 18:00 20 Douglas Kay Band
17:00 18:00 10,11,12 Dunwell Brothers Band
18:30 19:30 15, 22 Manky Bastard
18:30 19:30 26 Douglas Kay Band
18:30 19:30 9, 20 Emma Forman Band
18:30 19:30 5 Paul Gilbody
18:30 19:30 29 Nuala Kennedy and Jen Butterworth
18:30 19:30 6 Dave Desmelik
18:30 19:30 17, 20 The Elements
18:30 19:30 27, 28 Wasted www.freefestival.co.uk
LAUGHING HORSE @ CAFE RENROC Venue 84, 91 Montgomery Street. 0131 556 0432
SHOWS IN CAFE RENROC
Start Finish Dates Show
17:45 18:45 6-23 Free Booze
17:45 18:35 24-29 T Time
19:00 19:40 5-29 Don't Be a Comedian in Northern Ireland While Drinking Your Buckfast Under a Bridge
20:00 21:00 6-16 Tit's Up
20:00 21:00 17-29 Craig Shaynak: Fat, Bald And Loud
21:15 22:15 6-29 (Not wed) Hi, How Can I help you?
LAUGHING HORSE @ THE CITY CAFEVenue 85, 19 Blair Street. 0131 220 0125
SHOWS IN CITY CAFE
Start Finish Dates Show
12:00 13:00 5-14 Kooky Babooshka
12:00 13:00 15-29 The Beta Males' Picnic Present...
13:15 14:15 6-29 (not 26) Lessons in Chaos with Mike Belgrave and Friends
14:30 15:30 6-29 (not sun) Ivor Dembina: Ivor's New Show
15:45 16:45 7-13 Those Bloody Teenagers Stand-up
15:45 16:45 14-22 Sheep Ahoy!
15:45 16:45 23-29 Time Warper
17:00 18:00 5-29 The Last Trilogy Part 2
18:15 19:15 5-29 (not sun) Ivor Dembina: This is Not a Subject for Comedy
19:30 20:30 5-29 (not 26) Belgrave and Manera's Music Club
20:45 22:00 5-29 (not 26) Beach Hut Mutts
22:15 23:15 6-29 (Not17, 26) Manslag
23:30 00:30 5-10 Sounds of Summer
23:30 00:30 11-15 The Invincible Man
23:30 00:30 16-29 (not 26) Psychic?
00:45 01:45 6-20 The Young and the Feckless
00:45 01:45 20-29 (not 26) Patchwork
LAUGHING HORSE @ EDINBURGH CITY FC Venue 164, 7 Baxter’s Place, Leith Walk. 0131 556 9628
SHOWS IN ROOM 1
Start Finish Dates Show
13:30 14:30 17-29 Samantha’s Hotline
14:45 15:45 6-29 I can Make Your Life Slightly Better
16:00 17:00 6-29 Mary's Extraordinary Story Club
17:15 18:15 5-29 (not 16) Confessions of a 'Smart' Wrestling Fan
18:25 19:05 21,22 The Mysterious Extra Show
18:25 19:05 7-15 9 to 5 idiot
19:15 20:15 5-17 (not13) Chris McGlade - The Bad Lad Lands
19:15 20:15 13, 20 Coming... Ready Or Not
19:15 19:45 18-19, 21-22, 25-29
By Name and Nature
20:40 21:30 7-29 (not mon) Great Yarmouth Social Club
21:45 22:45 5-14 David Innes Full Glory
21:45 22:45 15-21 Tobias Persson: Calm Me Old Fascist...
21:45 22:45 22-29 An Alright Wedding
23:00 00:00 5-28 Sidos Eklektic Fix
LAUGHING HORSE @ ESPIONAGE Venue 185, 4 India Buildings (Entrances on Victoria Street and Cowgate). 0131 4777 007
SHOWS IN KASBAR
Start Finish Dates Show
12:15 13:15 6-29 Twins
13:30 14:30 6-29 Bang Out of Order
14:45 15:45 5-29 (not 16, 23) Julie Jepson: Being Julie Jepson
16:00 17:00 5-29 Topical Storm
17:15 18:15 5-29 Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe (Early Show)
18:30 19:30 6-29 Granny's Gone Wild
19:45 20:30 6-15 The Phil Knoxville Superhero Sideshow
19:45 20:45 16-29 Rik and Jon Don't Know any Better
20:40 21:20 5-15 Alistair Greaves, Darren Maskell and Laurence Tuck in 3D!
21:30 22:30 5-29 Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe (Late Show)
22:45 23:45 5-29 Lynn Ruth Miller's Late Night Cabaret
00:00 01:30 5-29 Late 'n' Free
02:00 05:00 5-29t Free Festival Nightclub in Kasbar
SHOWS IN PRAVDA
Start Finish Dates Show
12:15 13:15 5-29 Hi Class
13:30 14:00 5-29 (not mon) Too Middle Class for Chlamydia
14:15 15:15 5-29 The Chelsea Grin
15:30 16:30 5-29 (not 16) The Monumental Joke Disco
16:45 17:45 5-29 The Great Big Comedy Picnic
18:00 19:00 5-29 Laughing Cows Comedy
19:15 20:15 6-28 (not 16) A Calculated Risk
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20:30 21:30 6-18 Jay Sodagar: Opinions are Free
20:30 21:30 19-20 Arguments and Nosebleeds
20:30 21:30 21 Kevin McCarron: Life after Divorce
20:30 21:30 22-29 East End Boy West End Girl
21:45 22:45 5-29 All the King's Men
SHOWS IN MATA HARI
Start Finish Dates Show
12:00 12:50 6-20 Mugging chickens
12:00 12:55 21-29 Making Faces
13:05 13:55 5-21 Too Early to Laugh
13:05 13:55 22-29 Scraping the Barrell
14:05 15:05 6-29 The Laughing Penguin Showcase
15:15 16:15 6-29 The Lost Letters of Cathy G
16:30 17:30 6-29 An Audience with Imran Yusuf
17:45 18:45 6-29 Dan Willis: Ferris Bueller's Way of...
19:00 20:00 6-29 Dan Willis: Michael Jackson, World's Greatest Entertainer
20:15 21:15 6-29 Late Night Laughs
21:30 22:30 5-29 (not 20-23) Sound & Fury's 'Testaclese & Ye Sack of Rome'
21:30 22:30 20-21 The grim(m) Tales
21:30 22:40 22-23 Daily Males
SHOWS IN LIZARD LOUNGE
Start Finish Dates Show
12:00 12:50 6-30 Biffs!
13:00 13:55 6-20 Post Me to the Fringe
13:00 13:55 21-29 Oli Bettesworth: Quarterlife Crisis
14:05 15:05 7-29 (not 23) Ashdwn and Maskell's Trade Show
15:30 16:20 6-29 The Very Best of Stephenson, Brice and Larter
16:35 17:35 5-6 An Arrangement of Shoes
16:35 17:35 9-29 Exile into Frugality
17:50 18:30 5-29 Espionage a Trois
18:45 19:45 5-29 Nefertiti Unveiled
20:00 21:00 5-29 (not mon) Obie: Using the Force
SHOWS IN MINUS ONE
A Spectacularly Awesome High-Tech Game of Interactive Inventiveness
16:15 & 23:45 - 21ST AUG 21:00 - 22ND AUG
LAUGHING HORSE @ THE HIVEVenue 313, 15-17 Niddry Street. 0131 556 0444
SHOWS IN THE BIG CAVE
Start Finish Dates Show
12:00 13:00 6-27 (not tues) Wanted: For Fighting the Laws of Comedy
13:15 14:15 15-29 In These Shoes
13:35 14:10 5-14 Playing Fate
14:30 15:30 6-29 The Flat
15:45 16:45 6-29 The Difference Between Gin and Bacardi
16:55 18:05 5-22 (not15) Lady In Bed
17:00 18:00 23-29 The Dead Dude Routine
18:15 19:15 5-22 Bob Slayer's Punk Rock Chat Show
18:!5 19:15 23-29 Free Booze
19:30 20:30 6-29 (not 9,16,23)
Manos the Greek: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Greece (But Were Afraid to Ask)
20:45 21:45 6-29 (not 11, 18,25)
Stand-Up Showcase at the Hive
20:45 21:45 11 Aaaaaaaargh! Malcolm Hardee Documentary Preview
SHOWS IN THE LITTLE CAVE
Start Finish Dates Show
12:30 13:30 5-11 Roman Around: A Guided Tour of the Eternal City
12:30 13:30 12-29 (not14,15) The Olympic Gene
12:30 13:30 14-15 Lee Goodall: Gelomancy
13:45 14:30 5-29 (not mon) Laura
14:45 15:45 7-21 The Guest Speakers
14:45 15:45 22-29 The Magical Faraway Tree
16:00 17:00 5-29 (not 8-10,21,22)
Phil Buckley: Jokes Not Included
17:15 18:15 6-29 (not 16,23) Kitty Go Miaow Miaow Presents... Katrina Thompson
18:30 19:30 5-29 The Pointless Comedy Debate Show
19:40 20:10 5-28 Sarah Campbell: 27 Up
20:20 20:50 6-29 Ku Klux Flan
21:00 22:00 6-29 The Johnny Foreigner Comedy Show
LAUGHING HORSE @ JEKYLL & HYDEVenue 259, 112 Hanover Street. 0131 225 2022
SHOWS IN THE CRYPT
Start Finish Dates Show
12:00 13:00 5-29 The Fools Free Theatre Show
13:15 14:15 5-12 Improv Wins!
13:15 14:15 13-29 Jim Bowes: Obsession
14:30 15:30 5-29 Kingsley and I
15:40 16:20 5-29 (not 22-24) Incidental Combobulations
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15:40 16:20 22-24 Graeme Harkins & Jim Park: Two Scotsman walk into a bar
16:50 17:50 6-29 (not 16, 23) United By Liverpool
18:05 19:05 6-29 An Introduction - Free Stand-up Comedy
19:20 20:20 5-29 The Dead Comedian's Socks - Edinburgh Review
20:35 21:35 5-29 Bang Out Of Order
21:50 22:50 5-29 (not16) Funny Peculiar
23:00 00:00 5-29 (not wed) Girl Balls
00:10 01:10 6-10 A Rabbit's Foot
00:10 01:10 12-21 Berlin für Beginners
00:10 01:10 22-28 She's Black, He's Jewish, They're Still Married, Oy Vey
LAUGHING HORSE @ THE MEADOW BAR Venue 264, 42-44 Buccleuch Street. 0131 667 6907
SHOWS IN MEADOW BAR
Start Finish Dates Show
12:10 12:50 7-18 Base Notes
12:00 12:55 19-26 Stockholm Syndrome
13:05 14:05 5-14 Q-Fusion Improv: Knowledge of Randomness
13:05 14:05 15-29 Two Bloody Queens
14:15 15:10 15-29 Ashley Frieze: The Seven Deadly Sings
14:30 15:00 5-14 Fotobooth
15:15 16:10 5-29 (not17) Dr Ettrick-Hogg Presents Manly Specimens
16:20 17:10 5-14 No Traveller: a Comedy About Suicide
16:20 17:10 15-29 The Good, The Bad and the Cuddly Ride Again
17:20 18:20 5-14 (not 8) Making Faces
17:20 18:20 15-29 Jam For Tea
18:30 19:30 5-29 (not16) Doggett and Ephgrave: Big in Small Places
19:45 20:45 6-29 (not 17, 24) Amusements
21:00 22:00 5-29 The (Almost) Carbon Neutral Comedy Club by Night
21:00 22:30 Aug 30 - Sep 4
Laughing Horse Extended shows - comedy into Sepember!
22:15 23:15 6-29 The Jocks and Geordies
23:30 00:30 5-29 Laughing Horse New Acts At the Fringe
00:45 01:45 5-29 (not 16) Kunt and the Gang: Complete Kunt
LAUGHING HORSE @ THE NEWSROOM Venue 93, 5-11 Leith Street. 0131 557 5830
SHOWS IN THE NEWSROOM
Start Finish Dates Show
11:00 11:30 8-22 Clause 9
11:00 11:50 23-28 Herbie Treehead Show
12:00 13:00 6-22 Herbie Treehead Show
12:00 13:00 23-29 Mages Through the Ages
13:10 14:05 6-30 Tom McDonnell's Musical Ministry of Comedy
14:15 15:05 5-29 Tom Toal - On the Scrapheap
15:30 16:20 5-7 Carrie Westwater
15:20 16:20 8-28 Waiting for Malcolm
16:35 17:05 18-25 Martin McLaughlan
17:20 17:50 5-29 (not 13, 18, 25)
Universe shaped Colouring Book
18:15 19:15 5-15,17-23 Reality Vaccine
18:15 19:15 24-29 Ken Parsons - Celtic Harp, Songs, Poems and Yarns
19:30 20:30 5-7 The Paranoid Bucklabels
19:30 20:30 8-14 Bil & Cyn Bizarre Guitar and Terse Verse
19:30 20:30 15-29 Lies, Trickery and Deceit: A Magic Show!
20:45 21:45 5-15 The S&M Show
20:45 21:45 16-28 N-Euro-Sis
22:00 22:50 5-21 You're Not the One: A Guide to Love and Dating
23:05 23:45 5-17 Sh!t Theatre Presents: Sh!t Theatre
00:15 01:00 5-10 From Japan to Scotland
00:15 01:00 13, 14 The Audience
00:15 01:00 15-23 Charm//Offensive
LAUGHING HORSE @ THE THREE SISTERS Venue 272, 139 Cowgate. 0131 622 6801
SHOWS IN MAGGIES CHAMBER
Start Finish Dates Show
12:00 13:00 6-15, 17-19 The Hamwehads
12:00 13:00 20-29 The Uninvisibles - The Show You Can't Not See
13:15 14:15 5-14 Electro Gemstone! (and Other Instruments of Moderate Intrigue) -
13:15 14:15 15-29 Whores Aboard
14:30 15:30 5-29 Two Wise Men
15:45 16:45 5-29 (not 12, 20) Tales from a house of No Windows
17:00 17:50 5-17 Pig With the Face of a Boy: The Girl With the Arms Made From Marrows
17:00 17:45 19-29 Pig With the Face of a Boy Presents: Dan Woods's Oral History
18:15 19::15 5-29 (not 16, 23) Cabaret Whore - Encore!
19:30 20:30 5-19 Mat Ricardo: Three Balls and a Good Suit
19:30 20:30 20-29 Richard Crawley: The Boy
20:45 21:45 6-29 (not fri) The Blue Lady Sings - Free
20:45 23:15 9, 16, 23 Tricity Vogues Ukelele Cabaret
22:00 23:15 5-29(not mon) The 'F' Show
23:30 01:30 5-29 Shaggers
23:30 01:30 27 The Malcolm Hardee Awards (during Shaggers)
SHOWS IN ROOM WITH A VIEW
Start Finish Dates Show
12:15 13:15 23-29 Diet!
12:20 13:05 5-22 A World of Pure Imagination
13:30 14:30 6-29 (not 16, 23) Michael Piper: The Ping Pong Years
14:45 15:45 5-21 Gill Smith - OCD: The Next Generation
14:45 15:45 22-29 Aberdeen2Edinburgh - The G & T Comedy Showcase!
16:00 17:00 5-19 Fools and Drunks
16:00 17:00 20-29 100 Greatest Beekeepers in Switzerland, Ever
17:10 17:50 7-29 Alistair Greaves, Darren Maskell and Laurence Tuck in 3D!
18:00 19:00 5-14 Lasse Nilsen: The Mime who wouldn't Shut up
18:00 19:00 15-29 Spring Day: We're Not in Kansas Anymore
19:15 20:15 5-29 American Cougar of Comedy
20:30 21:30 5-29 (not16, 23) Keara Muphy's Travelling Circus
21:45 22:45 5-29 Set to Stun!
23:00 00:00 6-29 The Late Night Talky Talk
00:30 01:30 6-29 BattleActs! Improvised Comedy
SHOWS ON THE COWGATE STAGE
Start Finish Dates Show
12:00 22:00 5-29 The Outdoor Stage
18:00 19:00 9-11 Sounds of Summer
18:00 19:00 19 Paul Gilbody
18:00 19:00 13 The Douglas Kay Band
21:00 22:30 Mon Tue Acoustic Curves
21:00 22:30 Wed Music News Live Music
21:00 22:30 Thur Fire & Rain Acoustic Music
21:00 22:30 Fri, Sat & Sun The Music Party - from Ceilidh's to Rock'n' Roll
LAUGHING HORSE @ THE METROPOLE CAFE Venue 141, 29-33 Newington Road. 0131 668 4999
SHOWS IN THE METROPOLE
Start Finish Dates Show
17:00 18:00 6-28 (not sun) The Cheeky Beggars Banquet
18:30 19:00 6-9,12-15 By Name and Nature
18:30 19:30 16-29 Horse & Louis' Special Offer
20:00 21:00 9-20 Lou Sanders and Friends
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