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The Annual Edinburgh
Fringe Festival will be held  on the 3rd August, 2008 till 25th August, 2008

There will be a wonderful selection of art exibits, musical entertainment, theater, dance, food and fun to be had by all.

Everyone will have a great time with many local and international artists and entertainers displaying their talents.

Live Radio add on Radio Firth One and Radio Forth two plus details in the Edinburgh's Evening News Special Fringe Program published by the Scotsman Newspapers in Edinburgh

I Love The Fringe

Events

Special Visit
We are fortunate to have Joan Public, artist extraordinaire, speak with us in our new conference hall. She will be discussing the power of art in uplifting a community. Joan will also be fielding questions from those in attendance. We are excited to have such an honored guest!

Whats on at  EdinburghFringFest.com
An official 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Wind Uo nught  will take place on Sunday 24th August, 2008 at  the Base Night Club, Cowgate Edinburgh . There will be previews from Edinburgh Fringe Shows, music, films and highlights of Edinburgh Fringe Shows and
the 2008 Edinburgh Festival 100 Star USA Weekly News Awards will be announced .
The Main Show is expected to start at 7:00PM, there will be a day time shows of films, music and previews from the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe shows for people that want to have the last taste of the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe, meeting others involved with the Edinburgh Fringe and see what happened at prior Edinburgh Fringes.
Get your tickets from

The EdinburghFringeFest.com
Email: info@edinburghfringefest.com

Exciting News Folks!!!!!!
Yes!!!! The now very famous
 Bite Size Team are in Back!!!!
at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
performing at the Roman Eagle Lodge
The Big Bite Size Breakfast Show
2 Johnston Terrace  Edinburgh  EH1 2PW Tel: 0131 226 7202
Email: romaneaglelodge@yahoo.co.uk Email (Press): the lodge.press@yahoo.co.uk

 


Come down to Marks and Spencer's this Saturday 28th October,
where the Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity and Halloween party runs from 10.00am to 4.00pm!! Venue - The Atrium and Marks & Spencer's store at Holmbush centre just off the A27!!! Massage chairs to help you relax, Bite-Size 7-minute plays all over the store every 15 minutes to make strange things happen to you, displays of goods and fayre to pore over, charity boxes to hurl your cash into and a merry go-round to dump your children on and make a break for it. See you there (yes, it's this weekend!!! The day before the clocks go back and some crawl off to cover themselves with blankets and wail/gnash until next April). All the best, The Bite-Size team!!

Jokes of the week:

 A foursome of senior golfers hit the course with waning enthusiasm for the sport. "These hills are getting steeper as the years go by," one complained. "These fairways seem to be getting longer too," said one of the others. "The sand traps seem to be bigger than I remember them too," said the third senior. After hearing enough from his Senior buddies, the oldest, and the wisest of the four of them at 87 years old, piped up and said, "Just be thankful we're still on the right side of the grass!"

Jokes of the week:

The Ten Last Things a Man Would Ever Say 1. I think we're lost, we better pull over and ask directions. 2. Honey, do you need any help? 3. While I'm up, can I get you a drink? 4. Sometimes I just want to be held. 5. We haven't been to the mall for ages, let's go shopping and I can hold your purse. 6. Who cares about Monday Night Football, let's watch Opera. 7. Sure I'd love to wear a condom. 8. I think hairy butts are really sexy. 9. Her legs are just too long. 10. I think he is one cool guy.

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Bite-Size Animated Dining

Bite-Size Animated Dining

Short video of a new way of enjoying theatre and food together - full meals or Bite-Size snacks served up with snappy ...

1. Check out our BRAND NEW! website on www.bite-size.org
 
2. Come and see our EXCITING! Edinburgh Festival Preview Shows next weekend at the Sanctuary - 3 selections of the best of three years of Bite-Size! Details and booking lines (this email address and/or telephone) in the News section of the website (and flyer attached!)
 
3. Pass on our details to people you know are coming to Edinburgh this year - Our BIG! Bite-Size Breakfast Show will perform at the NEW World Festival Hub - Venue 21, 10.30 every morning with FREE coffee, croissants and strawberries!
 
Please join us and and share these exciting new projects!
 
Best of the best,
White Room Theatre's Bite-Size Team




Aims of Bite Size live from Bite-Sizes creator Nick Bryce

Photography Workshop
In this photography class, students will have the opportunity to learn about the styles and techniques used in traditional film photography. Experienced photographers will share their secrets and offer new approaches the fascinating world of Fringe Film Making.

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Whatever happened to the American Dream?

Strange Bedfellows - Mad Divas in association with the Impulse Company

In part two of our look at shows about America we take a peek at a very alternative reading of history; the enduring impact of one of America’s greatest cultural figures, Jack Kerouac; and a more personal account of what happens when the American Dream turns into a nightmare.

Mad Divas in association with the Impulse Company are looking to rewrite American history with their show Strange Bedfellows. Principally they want to explain some of the key events by asking some much-pondered questions. Did Lee Harvey Oswald shoot JFK because he lusted after Marilyn Monroe? Was the American Revolution caused by a lovers tiff between George Washington and King George III? Probably not, but it should make for some thought provoking theatre.

“There are some relatively serious satirical points about America,” says the director Scott Williams. “The play culminates with the case of the figure skater Tonya Harding who was involved in an attack on a fellow competitor in the 1994 US Skating Championships. Harding is shown as the epitome of the American Dream.”

“Americans are bent on getting what they want, you can be anything and anyone,” says the playwright, Stuart Spencer. “Wanting it all is a very American idea. Sometimes this is a good thing, but this ambition knows no bounds. So we started pairing significant figures in American history and explaining our history through these imaginary relationships.”

Nocturne - The Almeida Theatre

The Almeida Theatre are also looking at what it means to be American, and the concept of the American Dream, in their production of Adam Rapp’s one-man play, Nocturne. When a young man gets a letter from his dying father he is forced to return home, and confront some disturbing memories from the past, including the death of his sister.

“He returns to say goodbye to his dad, but there are no easy answers,” explains Artistic Associate of the Almeida, Jenny Worton. “There is no obvious redemption. The show is about the American Dream, but also about the theory of chaos, and living with loss. For him it’s the duality of his sister’s death and subsequent loss of music from his life. He does find some creative outlet in writing, and in literature. But again it’s not an easy or complete redemption. One does not replace the other. Having said that the ending, whilst not definite, is deliberate and offers possibility.”

Kerouac: And All That Jazz - One Off Productions

One Off Productions, by way of contrast, are looking to celebrate American culture, and in particular the effect that Jack Kerouac had on it. Their show Kerouac: And All That Jazz is timed to coincide with the Fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Kerouac’s seminal work, On The Road. But why should an English group want to celebrate an American writer?

“I remember the first publication of it,” explains the writer Barrie Wheatley. ”I remember how it influenced me, what an influence it had over here and in the US. The Beatles, Dylan, Morrissey and so many more were all influenced by his beat poetry. It’s a very authentic, and original show, with some of the guys from the period, such as Neal Cassady, Alan Ginsberg, and even Kerouac’s mother. It’s a celebration, a homage, a tribute to him as a serious writer, not as a ‘hipster’; a phrase which he himself didn’t like.”

Read part one HERE

2009 New York International
Theater, Film & Arts Festival
https://nyitfest.com/

In this year's Fringe lineup, released yesterday, theatre companies are focusing on London's brief euphoria between winning the 2012 Olympics and the July bombings, westerners shopping for cosmetic surgery in Iran, the deaths of recruits at Deepcut barracks and the thousands of Britons still living in caravans after last year's floods.
The apparent liberation brought by social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace is also challenged. Performers instead claim the digital age can be alienating, oppressive and anti-social.

One Royal Court production, Free Outgoing, exposes the darker side of video-sharing when images of a girl having sex in a classroom spread nationwide, while the comedian Justin Moorhouse purges his electronic address book.

"I think that goes to the heart of the Fringe," said Jon Morgan, the new Fringe director. "Because it's not programmed and not curated, performers can say what they like. It's democratic and so you get a much better reflection of what's going on in the world and what issues are preoccupying performers."

Morgan was particularly struck by how strongly these themes had emerged, and in contrast to previous years is highlighting the serious theatre and comedy.

More than 31,300 performers from 47 countries will appear this August. There are 2,088 shows, up on last year's 2,050.

The 62nd Fringe festival has seen tensions over the decision by the four largest comedy venues to set up a "festival within a festival". The Gilded Balloon, Underbelly, Assembly Rooms and Pleasance have set up the Edinburgh Comedy festival, launched last night with a separate brochure and marketing effort. Stalwarts such as Clive James, Joan Rivers, Ruby Wax and Ed Byrne are due to appear but are still listed in the main Fringe programme.

In the Fringe itself, reality-based theatre is a recurrent theme. The Welsh company Sherman Cymru has used dialogue from the investigation into the deaths of soldiers at Deepcut barracks in Surrey, while Scamp Theatre uses transcripts from authentic black box flight recordings in Charlie Victor Romeo.

Lit Lounge
93 2nd Ave . NYC

http://litloungenyc.com/lit_home.htm

A place for musicians and artists to drown their sorrows.

COME AS YOU ARE

Upstairs: Lit Lounge offers a fully stocked bar while providing our guests with some of the best Rock DJ's in the downtown area. See the schedule of DJ's here.

Downstairs: Also offers a fully stocked bar and nightly DJ's. Early; band showcases 9-12am Mon-Sat and Karaoke Sunday nights. Also available for private parties. See the schedule of bands here.

Jessica Delfino

        

who went to Philadelphia Art School which Jessica says
                  " is the home of brotherly love..
      ......where the brothers love each other..."
after been seen by the New York International Theater, Film and Arts Festival editorial team in London and the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the NYIT Fest editors have chosen Jessica to co-host the 2008 New York International Theatre, Film & Arts Festival

Jessica who has had some her songs banned by you tube and denounced, ....yes........
denounced by the Catholic League.......

destroyed the audiencies in London and Edinburgh. when she brought her one wonan show to the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.. words are hard to describe Jessica, however the USA Weekly News described her performance as 
                                                  
            "innocently provocative.."

 

DELFINO DOES IRELAND

The lovely and clever Jessica Delfino wows them in the Galway Comedy Fest in Ireland....jessica delfino touching you comedy zeppelin joni mitchell sabbath genesis haunted pussy

and


LA's favourite son Ronnie Prouty
it is believed Ronnie travelled all the way from LA with his 18 kids and
their mattress on top of his old station wagon

Dirty Beat Up Yanks

 

America's most idiotic, obnoxious, and energetic outcasts throw

themselves onto the stage for a character comedy
A comedic character smackdown slammed with stand-up,

sketch and improvisation. Some contenders include:

 Buck, a Jewish soul loving hick and Hector,

a chauvinistic Mexican plumber.

Video Clip 0ne-Beat Up Dirty Yanks Gang-at the Mercat Bar Edinbugh Fringe Festival 2007

Video Clip Two_ Beat Up Dirty Yanks- at the Mercat Bar Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007

Video Clip Three-Beat Up Dirty Yanks- at the Mercat Bar Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007

Video Clip Four-Beat Up Dirty Yanks-at the Mercat Bar Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007
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Video Clip Five-Beat Up Dirty Yanks-at the Mercat Bar Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007


- Since 1947 thousands upon thousands of performing companies have made the epic trip to Edinburgh to realise their dream of appearing at the Fringe. The likes of Maggie Smith, Jude Law, Rowan Atkinson, Susan Sarandon, Matt Lucas and David Walliams (stars of Little Britain) to name just a few, have made appearances at the Fringe, many launching their careers here.

Incredibly, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is still an open arts festival in which anyone can take part. We enjoy the enviable position of being the largest arts festival in the world and with your help we can build on our success and continue to grow.

Ronnnie Prouty-Ty Twiss-Tim Schwartz
who also appeared with Jessica on the Battersea Barge along with 

a surprise guest in the audience trying to be lost in the crowd...Keith Richards...
When Ronnie Prouty of Dirty Beat Up Yanks as the mexican plumber in Beat Up Dirty Yanks was doing his famous  Fixi-The-Toilet Gag...
and he asked Keith Richards if he had any toilets to fixie....

Keith said.... in a rather posh uppercrust voice with a lot of authority and confidence...


                 
"..... Oh I have toilets all over the world....."

the mexican plumber quickly piped back and said to the lady sitting with Keith Richards...
"ÿou are likley to get into a lot of trouble hanging around with Keith Richards..."
                                          .........all in fun and gest of course......

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