The Gilded Balloon's Programme
for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009

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Music
Bang Bang
GB
TEVIOT - NIGHT CLUB
00:30 - 05:00
The Gilded Balloon’s subversive grownup club night where Twin Peaks meets Edinburgh underground.

A decadent mashed up mix of tunes that would have Dale Cooper slow dancing with Dennis Hopper. Featuring all the best in live music, djs...
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Comedy
Late 'n' Live
Gilded Balloon
TEVIOT - DEBATING HALL
01:00 - 05:00
The first and still the very best late night show on the Fringe. The most talked about Late night show – great acts, great music, and a great
atmosphere – it’s exciting, it’s funny and it’s very, very late!

Not for the fainthearted!
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Dance & Physical
Faites l'amour pa La guerre
B.A.D. Barking Abbey Drama
TEVIOT - BILLIARD ROOM
11:00 - 12:00
“Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?”
“No!” say the girls of the Moulin Rouge.
With their legs locked together, life becomes particularly hard for the men... can they stand it? Or will they flop? Find out in a comedy based on Ranjit Bolt’...
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Childrens
The Gigalees Crazy Circus Show
Gigalees Productions
TEVIOT - DINING ROOM Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th AugUK Premiere
11:00 - 11:50
Australia’s top comedy show for kids was a smash hit at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2009!

Don’t miss the Gigalees side splitting comedy, awesome acrobatics, juggling, slapstick and toe tapping music which makes a non-stop ...
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Comedy
The Guardian Live at the Gilded Balloon
Dabster Productions
TEVIOT - NIGHT CLUB
12:00 - 13:00
Get the best of the festival, free all week! Join The Guardian Live at the Gilded Balloon for the recording of our unmissable podcast. Comedian Miles Jupp is your host for a fast paced show featuring great acts, reviews and chat from top comedians, p...
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Childrens
Crabbit!- The Musical
Halyon
TEVIOT - DINING ROOM Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th Aug
12:15 - 13:15

The tale of Crabbit, the bullying crab,
Michelle the Scallop and her friends
Hermie and Starfish in a brand new musical adaptation for the stage, based on the ‘Michelle’ series of children’s books by Julie Hegarty.

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Theatre
The Virginia Monologues - Why it is Great to be Sixty
Virginia Ironside
TEVIOT - BILLIARD ROOM Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th AugEligible for Fringe First AwardWorld Premiere
12:15 - 13:15
When an agony aunt reaches sixty, she can lie like a trooper, jump off a bridge – or take to the stage. Virginia Ironside explains that unlimited free drugs, boring for Britain, fun funerals, grandchildren and sex – or, even better, no sex – make the...
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Childrens
Wind in the Willows
Cambridge University ADC
TEVIOT - DEBATING HALL Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th AugWorld Premiere
12:30 - 13:45
Join Moley, Ratty, Badger and Toad in this comedic adaptation of a classic: jampacked with wit, high-energy silliness and big belly-laughs for all ages. Expect to encounter mischievous lady weasels, madcap puppetry and an epic baguette duel… n...
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Theatre
Bully
Richard Fry
TEVIOT - THE TURRET Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th Aug
12:45 - 13:45
From the first smack, the cycle begun,
There’s blood on his hands, like father like son.

Welcome return of Richard Fry’s sell-out five star tour-de-verse. Domestic violence, Bucks Fizz, homophobia, Hollyoaks, child abuse, the ginger ...
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Comedy
HELEN KEEN:
THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST GUIDE TO ARCTIC SURVIVAL
Helen Keen
TEVIOT - WEE ROOM Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th AugWorld Premiere
12:45 - 13:45
Channel 4 New Comedy Writing Award Winner tells true tales of her devout, whalehunting ancestor’s triumph against disaster in the Arctic. Packed with gags, silliness, science, stiff upper lips, dodgy props and useful survival tips for any 19th ...
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Theatre
Re___
Freddy Syborn
TEVIOT - BALCONY Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th AugEligible for Fringe First AwardWorld Premiere
13:00 - 14:00
RE____ alternates between a TV quiz and the presenter’s home. Strange voices are put in strangers’ skins. A marriage suffocates; a soldier returns, apparently from the dead. Caged animals are fed. Previewed at the Soho Theatre, RE____ is by an award-...
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Theatre
My Grandfather's Great War
Festival Highlights
TEVIOT - WINE BAR Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th Aug
13:15 - 14:25
Strictly limited return season for the 2008 fringe hit, interweaving the First World War diaries of Captain Alexander Stewart with the contemporary perspective of his grandson, the actor Cameron Stewart (Best Solo Show nominee - Stage Awards).
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Comedy
AMUSED MOOSE COMEDY'S HOT STARLETS:
10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
Amused Moose Comedy
TEVIOT - NIGHT CLUB
13:30 - 14:30
Yes, ten years of brilliant, sell-out, industryendorsed showcases! So grab your hot tickets too, for talent spotting the next Rhod Gilbert, Jimmy Carr, Sarah Millican, Mark Watson, Jack Whitehall and Simon Amstell, from amongst this year’s hand...
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Childrens
Patrick Monahan's:
Stories and Fables for Kids that like to sit at Tables!
Phil McIntyre Entertainment
TEVIOT - BILLIARD ROOM Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th AugWorld Premiere
13:30 - 14:30
Brand new stand up show from International Award Winning ‘Best Stand up Comedian’ (WAALM 2008, previously won by Omid Djalili). Regular warm up and guest appearances on BAFTA Award Winning Paul O’Grady Show (CH4)! Non-drinking, non-smoking, non-drug ...
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Theatre
The Kosh present The Storeroom
Gilded Balloon
TEVIOT - DINING ROOM Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th AugEligible for Fringe First Award
13:30 - 14:30
The Kosh present The Storeroom, a thriller of fantastic imagination and wit, told in an extraordinary style. A potent cocktail of theatre and breathtaking physical prowess. Just what is needed to keep an audience on the edge of their seats. The Kosh ...
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Comedy
Facebook Fables
Nonesuch Productions
TEVIOT - SPORTSMANS Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th AugWorld Premiere
13:45 - 14:50
Join a young, energetic, all-female cast in this fast paced comic conundrum, as they guide us
through the possibilities and pitfalls of cyber romance. You’re guaranteed to LOL* at this most
topical story. Prepare to be tagged, poked a...
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Comedy
Shane Langan - Not Also, But Only
Ed Com8 Presents
TEVIOT - THE TURRET Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th AugUK Premiere
14:00 - 15:00
Once upon a time, in a small venue up some windy stairs, there was a little show about a murderous cat, a friendly vampire and some other things that happened. Shane Langan (Diet of Worms, Friends of the Puffincat) is your host for a show about begin...
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Comedy
The Summer I Did The Leaving
Aindrias De Staic
TEVIOT - WEE ROOM Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th AugUK Premiere
14:00 - 15:00
Another grand tale from the multiaward-
winning Irish vagabond. As a 17 year-old schoolboy, his obsession with playing the fiddle takes him from Galway to Glastonbury to Scotland. Engaging storytelling, comic ingenuity, wild live music. Not a st...
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Theatre
Sweeney Todd: His Life, Times and Execution!
Finger in the Pie
TEVIOT - DEBATING HALL Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th AugEligible for Fringe First AwardWorld Premiere
14:15 - 15:30
Witness the terrible tale of Sweeney Todd, then watch him hang before your very eyes! Finger in the Pie present an hilarious black comedy of slapstick humour, grotesque characters, physical storytelling, puppetry and live cabaret music.

Gr...
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Comedy
Long Tooth
Festival Highlights
TEVIOT - BALCONY Two tickets for the price of one on 5th and 6th Aug
14:30 - 15:30
What’s your specialist subject? Liz and Julie proudly present their diverse hard-hitting show, a thought provoking action filled historical drama panorama. With added light spooning & quiz. New character comedy from Vivienne Gibbs
and Trudi Jack...
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