angry plays become hit shows in edinburgh

Sarah Leo
Edinburgh, 2006, August. 23 —
If, at this year\'s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a potential theme emerges from the chatter, the subject is the wrath of justice.
It stands out most in the Black Watch, a drama about the Scottish forces in Iraq, which have become three
The week\'s runaway blow and conscience capture the mood and set the tone.
Told by Gregory Burke\'s fledgling Scottish national theater, the play is about a black watch camp from which 850 of soldiers were sent to the Iraqi horse in 2004.
Known as the triangle of death to help clean up the situation after the attacks of the faruja allies.
The deployment is heavily announced-
The pride and bloody history of Knit Black Watch dates back to the 18 th century and will be absorbed by other armies as part of a bureaucratic restructuring.
The \"Black Watch\" part is based on interviews
Burke spoke with former soldiers and moved between bars and Iraq, where three of their fellow soldiers were killed by suicide bombers on an unsafe Iraqi road.
The show\'s performance was rated by fanfare, with a full audience and a standing ovation every night.
Lynn Gardner wrote in The Guardian that when she called it \"a mature and complex political drama,\" she echoed the views of other critics here, \"In terms of the quality of the edges, it is at the highest end of the spectrum.
Advertising, but elsewhere on the edge, anyone can perform, no matter how bad the show is, the unknown position --
Comedians perform for a tiny audience behind the bar.
People are making works on Apple, donors, fundamentalist Christians, prostitutes, difficulties in finding husbands, and Austrian physicist Irwin schrörörör (Without his cat)
He plays a role in two works.
Student groups are trying out their embarrassing sophomore ideas in the crumbling little room on the stairs.
There\'s an hour, three hours.
The actor\'s refinement of \"Macbeth\" and \"Hamlet\", the actor performs when jumping up and down in an inflatable castle.
Performances in music, theater, comedy, and dance, from local to meaningless, hilarious to frustrating, fantastic to weird scary.
Even now, with the festival ending before Monday\'s closing, hundreds of actors are walking on the streets of Edinburgh, handing out leaflets to random passers-
Trying to make two bucks.
The second case.
\"Edinburgh is a place where it\'s hard to get people to see a show,\" said 26-year-old James Lark, a late member of the Cambridge Footlights band, who is a very interesting one for him.
The man performed \"The Rise and Fall of Deon Vonniget\" the other day. With stand-
Comedy, improvisation, puppets, music, and even a bit of mime.
The performance of the Lark tells the story of a past history.
The famous musician, after working with Pinke Floyd and bee Giles, finally died in obscurity and was swallowed up by Andrew Lloyd Webber\'s jealousy, and was greeted by fans with a song about cheese and romance in his early hit music. (Mr.
Lark may be the only \"red Lester\" on the edge or anywhere that has succeeded in using \"healthier, and\" stroking her \"and\" harassing her \". ”)
\"Can\'t say Deon Vonniget\" has got the edge of several glowing reviews-
Related publications and fringe websites.
But it is competing with about 1,866 other performances attended by about 16,989 people. Once, Mr.
Lark performs to an audience
He said he knew a little about the audience, but it was not good enough to cancel it).
At the end of the run, he may take about 2,200 out of his pocket (roughly $4,000)
Without the £ 2,000 he received from his sponsor, the figure would be higher.
He said his confidence was actually enhanced through this humble experience.
\"If you can survive on the edge, you can survive anywhere,\" he said . \". Mr.
The performance of the Lark gave him a chance to run away with his own distorted imagination.
Other shows are also pure inventions, like a real holiday hit show \"walk into the hood\".
Performed by ZooNation, a British dance troupe, imagine Stephen thornheim\'s walk into the forest as a funky show
The jumping city fairy tale is set in the context of a daunting housing project with residents including spindera, leerred and a little fairy godmother Fairy G.
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Up comedy is one of the main focus of \"The Edge\" and every year there is a big complaint that the festival rewards big names at the expense of newcomers.
Only one of the five nominees for the film festival\'s coveted Comedy Awards --
Gay British Paul Sinha part-time doctor from Bangladesh
Almost unknown.
The winner, once known as the Perrier Award, is now if.
The sponsored Comedy Awards will be announced on Saturday night.
But humor aside, the theme of this year\'s festival is anger: anger over the whole world, especially the United States.
According to the background, comedians only need to show photos of President Bush to stir up empty laughter or angry booing.
One of the plays that the audience admired very much was Simon Levy\'s \"What I heard about Iraq\", a clear recitation of the actual citation --
Some stupid, some difficult to understand, some very sad
Instigators and participants from the war in Iraq.
The play is not so much a drama as an indictment, an exercise in controlling anger, and performers are preaching to converts.
The anger of the audience flashed through the final applause.
Religion and its excesses are another obsession.
On a show, Wisconsin comedian Ryan Paulson described his childhood as a natural
Pentecost once again stressed that his religious emphasis always speaks in dialect, which is in conflict with his town --to-
Scandinavian silence.
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Another show uses man-on-the-
Street interviews and audience participation have led to a sudden decline in Western ignorance of Islam.
In \"according to Jesus\", darkness-
British comedian Jason Kavan, under the guise of Jesus, turned water into wine and said, \"the real miracle is to catch these chemicals that look like this.
In Jesus: The Year of Guantanamo, comedian Abby Bowman imagined Jesus as a comedian and was sent back to Earth by \"my dad\" to try to solve the chaos of the world.
But when he came to the immigration center in the United States and described himself as an unmarried Palestinian fundamentalist with no fixed address, he came from a cave in Lebanon and he was sent to Guantanamo Bay, and be sir.
Performance costume of Bowman (
And a moderate Crown of Thorns).
\"Welcome to the land of freedom . \"Bowman says.
\"Conditions apply.
At first, Jesus played to laugh.
He said that Guantanamo is like KFC because they all keep prisoners in small cages, the staff are ignorant teenagers, and there is a completely desperate atmosphere.
Then, when he recited the actual thing about the prison in real time, the tone darkened --
Hunger strike, suicide, solitary confinement-
Imagine yourself being a prisoner tied to a chair for 26 hours, unable to use the bathroom, then waking up, wearing an Israeli flag and being repeatedly interrogated only by people who hate him
In his prayer, Jesus, who was imprisoned, first said, \"Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.
But his jailer knocked him down and he shouted, \"Father, why are you allowing this to happen ? \"?
Why don\'t you open the eyes of these people?
Why are you abandoning me?
\"A version of the article appears on the cover of The New York edition with the title: angry drama has become a hit show in Edinburgh.
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