The Gilded Balloon's Programme
for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009
for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009
Listing of all Gilded Balloon Fringe Shows
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Comedy
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Music
| 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 |   |
| 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 | |
| 12:15 - 13:15 | |
The tale of Crabbit, the bullying crab, | |
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| Theatre | |
| The Virginia Monologues - Why it is Great to be Sixty | |
| Virginia Ironside | |
| TEVIOT - BILLIARD ROOM |   |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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| Helen Keen | |
| TEVIOT - WEE ROOM | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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| 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! |
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| Phil McIntyre Entertainment | |
| TEVIOT - BILLIARD ROOM | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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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