In autumn 2010 the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents ON THE FRINGE: Eye on Edinburgh, a festival of new and imaginative UK performance in Washington DC, plucked from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Eye on Edinburgh celebrates the excitement, energy and community of artistic entrepreneurship that exists in Scotland’s capital city each summer. The Kennedy Center is transformed over three weeks of performances, free events and panel discussions that aim to surprise and challenge audiences as they engage with art that’s considered “fringe” today, but may redefine the mainstream of tomorrow.
Seven outstanding British artists and companies were identified for Eye on Edinburgh via nearly a decade’s worth of visits to the British Council’s biennial Edinburgh Showcase. During the Showcase, over 200 arts professionals from more than 50 countries experience an intensive week of contemporary British theatre during the largest arts festival in the world.
Autobiographical | Verbatim
Bette Bourne
A LIFE IN THREE ACTS
October 28- 30, 2010
The story of celebrated performer and key figure in Britain's post-war gay liberation struggle, Bette Bourne, A Life in Three Acts is more than a memoir.
Celebrated performer Bette Bourne shares his living history in a performance that reveals a portrait of an amazing individual and marks the momentous struggles and achievements of his generation, as Bette discusses his post-war childhood, life in a Notting Hill drag commune in the 1970s, his seminal role in the formation of the Gay Liberation Front in Britain and his world-famous BLOOLIPS theatre troupe. Dramatizing what was originally a series of private conversations between Bette and UK playwright Mark Ravenhill, this is a staged recreation of the reminiscence of a lifetime.
UK artists Cartoon de Salvo perform "Hard Hearted Hannah." Image credit: Ian Whittaker.
Improvisational | Interactive | Live Music
Cartoon de Salvo
HARD HEARTED HANNAH AND OTHER STORIES
October 30, 2010
Cleverly mixing storytelling, improvisation and live music, Brighton-based Cartoon de Salvo has been captivating audiences with its highly accessible and irreverently honest brand of theater for the last 10 years. In Hard Hearted Hannah, a title chosen from a random audience suggestion and a few popular songs picked from a playlist act as the catalysts for three performers, working entirely unscripted, to create a new and unique story from scratch every night. Free and open to the public.
Physical Theater | Site-Responsive | Installation
Stan's Cafe
OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN ALL THE WORLD
November 1-7, 2010
In this simple performance installation, Stan’s Cafe brings five tons of rice to the Kennedy Center, a grain representing everyone in the United States. Over the course of one week, a team of performers will weigh this rice out into any array of human statistics. When brought together to create a shifting sculptural landscape, these hills and mountains tell powerful stories of the world, its struggles, challenges and triumphs.
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