The Gilded Balloon's Programme
for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008
for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008
Listing of all Gilded Balloon Fringe Shows
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| Comedy | |
| Big Jessie's bag of drag | |
| Drags Aloud & Gilded Balloon Productions & | |
| TEVIOT - WINE BAR |   |
| 00:30 - 02:00 | |
| Dip into Big Jessie's comedy-cabaret and experience a chorus line of divas and dancers, feathers, sequins and support hose.. and more costume changes than a Kylie concert. Featuring show stopping Broadway numbers, Disco Divas and irresistible mus... | |
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| Comedy | |
| Carnival des Phenomenes | |
| This Is Serious | |
| TEVIOT - NIGHT CLUB | |
| 00:30 - 04:00 | |
| To the ladies and gentlemen about town, for your amazement we present an extravagant and revelrous evening of improvised comedy spectacles, partying and entertainment. Following months of sell-out shows in London, the improv showcase and debauche... | |
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| Comedy | |
| Late 'n' Live | |
| GB Productions | |
| TEVIOT - DEBATING HALL | |
| 01:00 - 05:00 | |
| It’s late and it’s live. The Queen of the late night shows at the Fringe where comics live and die and the audience is King! Not for the fainthearted! The hottest late night compares, comedians and bands. 'The celebrated comedy abattoi... | |
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| Childrens | |
| ...Pat&Mat! | |
| Divadlo Neslysim | |
| TEVIOT - DEBATING HALL |  |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | |
| ‘...Pat&Mat!’ (‘...and that's it’) is a popular children's TV program in Europe, and our theatre performs it onstage! We use live actors, not puppets, and is hysterically entertaining. Children have responded to this performance very positively since... | |
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| Childrens | |
| Ian Billings Out Of His Mind | |
| TEVIOT - WEE ROOM |  |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | |
| Enter the wonky bonkers world of kid’s comedian and author, Ian Billings, for a tickle-filled hour of chuckle puns and giggle gags. Do dinner ladies come from outer space? Be prepared for belly laughs – remember to bring your belly. ‘Ian... | |
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| Childrens | |
| Silly Billy Bum Breath Strikes Back | |
| Black Can Productions | |
| TEVIOT - DINING ROOM | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | |
| The 2006/2007 sell-out kids' comedy sketch show is back for five days only so catch it while you can. The most fun you can have in one hour with your kids. Mess and mayhem guaranteed! 'The most enjoyable children's show on the fringe.' TH... | |
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| Childrens | |
| The Just In Case | |
| Ambidextrous | |
| TEVIOT - BILLIARD ROOM | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | |
| WHAT's in your case.. just in case? Just in case of WHAT? A host of weird, wonderful and wacky WHATs are brought to life by dance, physical theatre, puppetry and object animation! Come and join Ambidextrous and The Just In Case on an adve... | |
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| Childrens | |
| Apple Tree Maiden | |
| Divadlo Neslysim | |
| TEVIOT - WINE BAR | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | |
| With a gentle humour, and a Gothic style, from a beautiful poem, a beautiful performance. For the little kids, and the big kids too! Come in and lose yourself in a great story. Everything expected from a fairytale: a fearless prince, an enchan... | |
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| Theatre | |
| Bully | |
| Richard Fry | |
| TEVIOT - THE TURRET | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | |
| ‘Bully’ is a gripping tour-de-verse about one man’s struggle against a life of violence and oppression. Dealing with dark subject matters ranging from homophobia and domestic violence to death and Su Pollard, Richard Fry's punchy script unfolds a... | |
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| Comedy | |
| Rule of Three - Sketchual Healing | |
| Rule of Three | |
| TEVIOT - BALCONY | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | |
| Straight from their sell-out West End hit, Brooks Livermore (one for the ladies), Roisin Rae (one for the dads) and James Card (one for the road) bring you some sketchual healing to cure the Edinburgh hangover. 'Fast-paced, anarchic fun.' Reco... | |
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| Comedy | |
| The Guardian at the Gilded Balloon | |
| TEVIOT - NIGHTCLUB | |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | |
| You can get the best of the festival, free all week! Join The Guardian At The Gilded Balloon for the recording of our podcast - the perfect way to start your day. Comedian Miles Jupp is your host for a fast paced show featuring some great acts, re... | |
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| Theatre | |
| DIRT | |
| Dreck Productions | |
| TEVIOT - SPORTSMANS | |
| 12:15 - 13:25 | |
| An Iraqi immigrant tells his story. His name is Sad. He lives in your city. He sells roses and loves to speak English. But nobody listens. Will you? The most powerful play about racism currently on stage. Sold out: New York/Vienna/Hamburg. ... | |
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| Comedy | |
| It Is Rocket Science! | |
| Helen Keen | |
| TEVIOT - WEE ROOM | |
| 12:30 - 13:25 | |
| Helen Keen (winner of Channel 4’s New Comedy Writing Award, ‘highly amusing’ Time Out) loves space rockets. She brings their story to life with a meteor shower of jokes, a cosmos of costumes and approximately 99 feet of tinfoil. Space-based silli... | |
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| Theatre | |
| New World Order | |
| Rogue Shakespeare Company | |
| TEVIOT - DINING ROOM | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | |
| Ryan J-W Smith's NOMINATED FOR THE AMNESTY/BIG ISSUE 'FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARD 2008' Supported by The Gandhi Foundation and Hebridean Liqueurs. Powerful, terrifying and vital Daniel Sunjata (‘Rescue Me’) From the creator... | |
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| Theatre | |
| The Patriot Act | |
| The Green Room Presents | |
| TEVIOT - BILLIARD ROOM | |
| 12:45 - 14:30 | |
| A world-famous, playwright runs afoul of US anti-terror laws and is given a stark choice: write a government-approved, anti-terror play or be imprisoned for the rest of his life. A drama by Lydia Bruce and Sandy Burns about how America faces dan... | |
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| Comedy | |
| Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe | |
| TEVIOT - DEBATING HALL | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | |
| So many shows! How do you choose? Why not watch and enjoy this 90 minute show of carefully researched live extracts from 8 of the best shows in town and then go and see the ones you like? Simple! Brilliant! 17th Year ‘A vibrant and stimulat... | |
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| Theatre | |
| Beyonce - Stop Punching Robbie! | |
| Cecilia Delatori | |
| TEVIOT - BALCONY | |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | |
| Divorcing teacher struggles at George Galloway Nursery, Bethnal Green. B*LLOCKS sprayed on sandpit covers. Christmas party clown pissed. Staffroom Bullying. Defiant little Beyonce Dimmock and mother Sade. Yet special needs teacher resembles Bollywoo... | |
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| Theatre | |
| Which to Burn? | |
| Seafar Productions | |
| TEVIOT - THE TURRET | |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | |
| Obsessed with a man is one thing. Obsessed with a bridge, quite another. A chance discovery in a second-hand bookshop forces a choice between a safe, imagined relationship and a terrifying real one. Rachel Ogilvy (High Road) returns to the Fring... | |
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| Theatre | |
| British Ambassador's Belly Dancer | |
| Nadira Murray | |
| TEVIOT - WINE BAR | |
| 13:30 - 14:40 | |
| The extraordinary true story of Nadira Murray, the British Ambassador's Bellydancer. Dismissed in the press as a dumb bimbo, she faught tooth and nail to survive an undemocratic regime that practices systematic torture of its citizens, Scraping a ... | |
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| Comedy | |
| Dan March-My Myspace Baby | |
| Unexpected Productions | |
| TEVIOT - WEE ROOM | |
| 13:45 - 14:45 | |
| Award nominated Dan March discovered he was a father...a year AFTER the birth of his daughter. The surprising, hilarious and heart-warming true tale of the one night stand, the Myspace message and the patter of tiny feet...oh and the DNA test! ... | |
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