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Welcome to Rare Birds' programme for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2005. The Holyrood Tavern hosted a mixture of music, drama and comedy shows from lunchtime through to late night. International performers this year were from Australia, USA and Austria and of course plenty of home grown talent. See below for a list of who was on when. |
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George VI in Heaven: Given that there's a God - A hilarious audience with the last King of England, stuffed with treasonable titbits. 'Wonderful piece, beautifully performed'. Ralph Fiennes |
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Let's Spend the Night Together - Stillettoes, scandal and smirnoff.....what more do you need for a girls night out? |
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Gutless - Gareth Berliner, UK stand up comedian fresh from the Melbourne Comedy Festival |
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Desperately Seeking Sorrow - Danny Worthington and Johnny Sorrow perform a story that orbits around a mother's dying words to her beloved son: "Find sorrow…" |
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Dolly - She's dead. So is her boyfriend...but not quite. |
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Some - comedy sketch show, linked together innovatively via short video clips and the recurrent intervention of a very unwelcome interloper. |
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Tatlow & Stankus - Comedy duo perform sketches with a delightful mixture of charm and childish spite. |
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Forbidden - US performer Tom Papitto presents raw situations involving race, religion, sex and politics...."The strongest thing I've see on stage" |
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Wil Hodgson returns to the Holyrood where he was the WINNER: Perrier Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2004. "Skilful comic storyteller" BBC Radio and "Genius" Russell Howard |
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Radio Blah Blah - Comedian Danny James hosts a LIVE broadcast each evening with the biggest stars of the Fringe, gossip and loads of laughs. "Hilarious!" - Paramount Comedy Channel, "Awesome" - Chortle.co.uk |
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Tallulah May- Hyperactive! Country Lass Tallulah proves why mad is the new sane, "the most mind-blowing thing to emerge from Somerset since Scrumpy" Weston News. |
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The 1649 Show - They write. They perform. They take the blame. All are young, fertile and willing to be humiliated for laughs. www.the1649show.com. |
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Pear Shaped - Brian Damage & Krysstal return with their ever-popular music and comedy followed by a line up of guest Fringe comedians. Please note the Tues to Thur Venue information has been updated from the Fringe Programme. Pear Shaped is no longer running at Purple Venues since they have cancelled out of the Festival 2005. |
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George VI in Heaven: Given that there's a God - A hilarious audience with the last King of England, stuffed with treasonable titbits. 'Wonderful piece, beautifully performed'. Ralph Fiennes |
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Kopfrapers Syndrome: One Man And His Incredible Mind - find out what it's like to live with Kopfrapers. |
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Gutless - Gareth Berliner, UK stand up comedian fresh from the Melbourne Comedy Festival |
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Desperately Seeking Sorrow - Danny Worthington and Johnny Sorrow perform a story that orbits around a mother's dying words to her beloved son: "Find sorrow…" |
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Dolly - She's dead. So is her boyfriend...but not quite. |
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Some - comedy sketch show, linked together innovatively via short video clips and the recurrent intervention of a very unwelcome interloper. |
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Tatlow & Stankus - Comedy duo perform sketches with a delightful mixture of charm and childish spite. |
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Forbidden - US performer Tom Papitto presents raw situations involving race, religion, sex and politics...."The strongest thing I've see on stage" |
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Wil Hodgson returns to the Holyrood where he was the WINNER: Perrier Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2004. "Skilful comic storyteller" BBC Radio and "Genius" Russell Howard |
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Radio Blah Blah - Comedian Danny James hosts a LIVE broadcast each evening with the biggest stars of the Fringe, gossip and loads of laughs. "Hilarious!" - Paramount Comedy Channel, "Awesome" - Chortle.co.uk |
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Tallulah May- Hyperactive! Country Lass Tallulah proves why mad is the new sane, "the most mind-blowing thing to emerge from Somerset since Scrumpy" Weston News. |
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Frank Sanazi - cabaret with a difference , not for the faint-hearted! |
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Pear Shaped - Brian Damage & Krysstal return with their ever-popular music and comedy followed by a line up of guest Fringe comedians. Please note the Tues to Thur Venue information has been updated from the Fringe Programme. Pear Shaped is no longer running at Purple Venues since they have cancelled out of the Festival 2005. |
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Glass Onion - a journey through the Beatles history in words and music, some Lennon poetry, and various themes such as Magical Mystery Tour, Paul is Dead, George's Sitar, Bagism... |
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Kopfrapers Syndrome: One Man And His Incredible Mind - find out what it's like to live with Kopfrapers. |
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Gutless - Gareth Berliner, UK stand up comedian fresh from the Melbourne Comedy Festival |
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George VI in Heaven: Given that there's a God - A hilarious audience with the last King of England, stuffed with treasonable titbits. 'Wonderful piece, beautifully performed'. Ralph Fiennes |
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Dolly - She's dead. So is her boyfriend...but not quite. |
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Blau Baum Grün (Blue Tree Green - a play by gifted, young Austrian author Petra Maria Kraxner performed by SPIELHALDE Theater*Kunst*Kultur from Vienna |
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Tallulah May- Hyperactive! Country Lass Tallulah proves why mad is the new sane, "the most mind-blowing thing to emerge from Somerset since Scrumpy" Weston News. |
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Forbidden - US performer Tom Papitto presents raw situations involving race, religion, sex and politics...."The strongest thing I've see on stage" |
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Wil Hodgson returns to the Holyrood where he was the WINNER: Perrier Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2004. "Skilful comic storyteller" BBC Radio and "Genius" Russell Howard |
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Radio Blah Blah - Comedian Danny James hosts a LIVE broadcast each evening with the biggest stars of the Fringe, gossip and loads of laughs. "Hilarious!" - Paramount Comedy Channel, "Awesome" - Chortle.co.uk |
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Desperately Seeking Sorrow - Danny Worthington and Johnny Sorrow perform a story that orbits around a mother's dying words to her beloved son: "Find sorrow…" |
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Taking Care with Stan and Justin - Meet two of the best caretakers in the business. Creative cleaning comedy with Peter Maley and Dean Barker. |
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Pear Shaped - Brian Damage & Krysstal return with their ever-popular music and comedy followed by a line up of guest Fringe comedians. Please note the Tues to Thur Venue information has been updated from the Fringe Programme. Pear Shaped is no longer running at Purple Venues since they have cancelled out of the Festival 2005. |
