Issue #2 - 5th August - FREE

MORE INSIDE...Top tips for Fringe flyerers

All about Waverly Care

The days line-up listings (and why they’re so brilliant...)

5 most unpleasant shows

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MEET THE STAFF “Hey Pleasance Staff! What should everyone be looking forward to about Pleasance 2010?”

Ellie Cahill – Box Office“The Pleasance at Ghillie Dhu is such a beautiful space. It’s great to have a music-focussed venue that is open so late every night.”

Theo Davis - Crew “The projectors in Pleasance Dome and Courtyard look spectacular and hypnotic - check them out.

Amber Hine - Crew“Chilling out in the courtyard after shifts and chatting to all the nice people there.”

Roxy Philip – Crew (Beside)“I can’t wait for everyone to come and see the colourful windmills on Beside wall; they’re brilliant!” Ian Dutia - Front of House“Every year you find a screamer of a new show at the Pleasance. You just have to make sure you’re here to find it.”

Jordan Dawes – Bar Staff“The main bar at Pleasance Dome is going to be the best place to chill out during the Fringe. I’m really looking forward to Emma Thompson Presents: Fair Trade.”

Lauren Bassam – Front of House“I love the campervan in the Pleasance courtyard that’s being used for Running On Air. We think it’s a really sweet idea and that Laura Mugridge is lovely.”

Catherine Stroud – Street Team“The CIAO! Ark is an amazing addition to the Pleasance Courtyard. It looks incredible and helps us cater for absolutely everybody who wants to enjoy the Pleasance.”

Stormy – Security“Us. We aim to keep everybody safe – staff, punters and performers alike – and make sure it’s a pleasurable experience of a month.”

Hiba Khan – Bar Staff“Spotting celebrities in the Pleasance Courtyard.”

Gaz, AKA Golaiath – Security“Hot dogs and chili sauce.”

Richard Kelman – Street Team“Emerging talent like Delete the Banjax...and you!”

Allie Gahan - Street Team “It’s exciting to be flyering for some of Pleasance’s excellent kids program and for the Kidzone & Kidzone Dropzone daycare.”

Duncan Rutherford – Front of House“As ever, Pleasance this year is undoubtedly where it’s at.”

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With such a vast Pleasance programme, choosing a show to see can be a daunting task. Our brochures should help you pick out some possiblities, but how do you make a final choice with confidence?

Why not book yourself a ticket to one of our many Daily Line-Up Shows? Bringing the best of Fringe talent into one line-up, these shows invite special guests to perform parts of their act, or perhaps even fresh material. You’ll then be able to book shows with confidence having distinguished between

HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR FIRST PLEASANCE SHOW

those you like and those you don’t.

Line-Up shows exist for comedy, dance, theatre, cabaret… in fact, almost any Fringe performance.

Celebrating his 19th Year at the festival, Mervyn Stutter brings Pick of the Fringe to the Pleasance this year. Pick of the Fringe does what it says on the tin, scouting out the best performers from the entire Fringe for this daily showcase – a perfect start to your day.

For your comedy fix, try Best of Edinburgh: Showcase Show to whet your appetite at 13:10,

BBC Comedy Presents at 23:00 which brings the best headline and new talent to the stage or After Hours to finish off your night from 00:40. New this year, Popcorn Comedy combines live comedy line-ups with online video content for a real delve

into the comedy world.All these shows and

many, many more will be booking acts throughout the Fringe. To find out what’s on, check at box office or read the pack page of this publication, out 6 days a week.

19 YEARS SUPPORTING WAVERLY CARE

Look around the Pleasance Courtyard during the Fringe and you will inevitably see Waverley Care’s bucket collectors, wearing their vibrant green T shirts and distributing tartan ribbons in return for donations.

This unique relationship between the Pleasance and Waverley Care is now in its 19th year. Since 1992 the charity has raised almost £150,000 from bucket shaking and as a result of the annual Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit (this year’s is on Tuesday 17th August and is selling fast!).

The money raised enables Waverley Care to provide care and support to people whose lives are touched by HIV or Hepatitis C. Since those early days, the focus of their work has moved away from caring for people with a terminal illness and towards supporting people with a long-term chronic condition. Waverley Care helps to make a positive difference to the lives of many adults and children in this great Festival city and beyond.

One of the things which hasn’t changed in the years since the relationship was established is the stigma

which is associated with HIV. Stigma has a major impact on mental health and self-esteem. Waverley Care’s first ever social media campaign, #laffoffstigma, encourages users of Facebook and Twitter to add a #laffoffstigma logo to their profile picture. You can find more information on this campaign by visiting www.waverleycare.wordpress.com

As you see the bucket shakers in the courtyard, do brighten their day by dropping some money into their buckets – and help Waverley Care make a positive difference!

Waverley Care, 0131 556 9710

www.waverleycare.org

Stephen K Amos puts money in a bucket held by Iain Gray, Leader of the Scottish Labour Party

This hugely talented five man bunch present a battery of brilliant sketches that will leave you violated, but in a good way. Late Night Gimp Fight Pleasance Courtyard 4-29 Aug 23:00Unperturbed at the gross injustice of his recent suspension from the Medical Register - “A trifling matter. Simple misunderstanding” - Dr George Ryegold

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19 YEARS SUPPORTING WAVERLY CARE

TOP TIPS FOR FRINGE FLYERING

Ginny Davis, former barrister, Fringe sell-out performer and writer and performer of Double Booked gives us top tips for Flyering at the Fringe:

Hand out flyers liberally and indiscriminately – You can’t read the mind of your target but, if they are in Edinburgh in August, they want to see a show, right? Shout the name of the show as you give them the flyer. The recipient may be hearing impaired, illiterate or a non English speaker. Better to be safe than sorry. Block people’s path – that way they are forced to give you their attention.Take small children aside and whisper to them about the show: parents are paranoid about what might be

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being said to their offspring – they will listen in. Interrupt other flyerers by forcing your way in between them and their subject. You will immediately get attention.Get people when they are watching street theatre. They’ll be much more interested in you than the climax of the show. If someone drops your flyer – run after them and give it back. It will have been an accident.

Double Booked is a comedic one-woman play which highlights the challenges of modern family life with teenagers and demonstrates that parents are just as capable as children of making a mess of things.

Double BookedPleasance Courtyard

4-29 Aug 12:55

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welcomes this precious opportunity to share his valuable time and exciting medical adventures with you, the layperson. George Ryegold: The Ordeal of George Ryegold Pleasance Dome 4-30 Aug (Not 16) 22:00 John-Luke Roberts attempts to make the unpleasant pleasant by performing whimsical, esoteric

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comedy to distract you from the brutal, bloody, sickening, terrifying, inhuman, soulless, nauseating, deranged, godawful murder he will be committing during the show. John-Luke Roberts Distracts You From A Murder Pleasance Dome 4-30 Aug (not 16) 20:10Despite acknowledging himself as too ugly for television, Andrew Lawrence has no qualms presenting his unpleasant self on stage. Andrew Lawrence: The Too Ugly For Television Tour 2010 Pleasance Courtyard 7-29 Aug (Not 16) 21:20Judging by his poster, Arthur Smith’s show could well become the most unpleasant sight on the entire Fringe. Arthur Smith in ‘A Cobbled Up Shambles’ Pleasance Courtyard 15-28 Aug (Not 16, 23) 16:30

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5 UNPLEASANT SHOWS TO SEE

Late Night Gimp Fight - An Unpleasant Show

#pleasancetimes@ThePleasance

RT: @ThePleasance The Pleasance is now open for 2010! For a list of all the 220 shows this year go to www.Pleasance.co.uk or get our free app

RT: @Dancing Brick Edinburgh starts today. If you’re going be sure to see Caroline Horton and Theatre Ad Infinitum (x2), all at Pleasance. Amazing performers. RT: @HamletTM #edfringe Overheard: Pleasance techie singing one of our songs while putting some finishing touches to the courtyard. Ed

RT: @WaverlyCare Ready steady GO! Good luck, break a leg etc etc to all those whose #edfringe shows start today...go on my son, gie it laldy! #laffoffstigma

RT: @rafianimatesJust clocked the rather talented & funny #DocBrown is @docbrown88 His stand up show “Unfamous” is superb. 7pm at the Pleasance #edfringe

THURSDAY 5 AUG ITCH: A SCRATCH EVENT

Pleasance Courtyard 14:00 Marcel Lucont (Alexis

Dubus)Jarred Christmas, Hils

Barker & Gordon Southern And more!

BEST OF POPCORN COMEDY

Pleasance Dome 23:30Simon Munnery

Rob Rouse

RONNA AND BEVERLYPleasance Courtyard 17:45

Hardeep Singh Kolhi Tom Allen

STORYTELLER’S CLUBPleasance Courtyard 22:00

HOST: Sarah BennettoJosie Long

Maeve HigginsStuart Goldsmith

John RobinsJames Dowdeswell

VIVE LE CABARETPleasance at Ghillie Dhu

21:30The Boy With

Tape On His FacePete Firman

Frisky & Mannish

BBC COMEDY PRESENTSPleasance Dome 23:00

Susan CalmanJoe Lycett

Stephen Carlin Nathan Caton

THE DAVE HILL EXPLOSION

Pleasance Courtyard 23:00Robert Broderick

Abandoman

Please note that all line-ups are subject to change. Check the Box Office for the latest information.