All the town’s a stage at Buxton Fringe!

PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release May 18th 2017

This year’s Fringe sees an explosion of theatre across the town. Regular visitors Butterfly Theatre return to Poole’s Cavern, the perfect venue to head down the rabbit hole for their take on Alice in Wonderland Underground. Similarly unique, but on an entirely different scale, Scrivener’s Bookshop is the venue for enchanting storytelling about the myths and legends of Celtic Britain in The Forgotten Tales. Up at Burbage Institute, Luna C Productions presents Perilous Tales, a trilogy of three dramatic 30-minute plays.

Last year’s big word of mouth hit was fishhouse theatre’s heart-warming Cloaks. This year they have three separate plays up at the Lee Wood Hotel: Being Julie Andrews, Cat got my Tongue, and Bonemill. Over at the Palace Hotel there are two plays: in Lace Curtain Irish the family maid gives a gripping account of the infamous alleged axe murderer Lizzie Borden, while in Shafted, a man returns to a mining village in South Derbyshire for his mother’s funeral and the 30-year argument with his father over the different sides they took in the miners’ strike.

Up at Buxton Community School, Persuasion Transposed is a quirky reworking of the Jane Austen novel featuring a pair of bickering Ann Elliots aged 19 and 27, but hopefully it’s a romance with a happy ending, if Georgian realities don’t get in the way! Nature Knows Best is a delightful series of two-person plays looking at love and life from unusual perspectives, each examining man’s effect on the natural world.

The Green Man Gallery is becoming an increasingly important Fringe venue, and this year hosts an eclectic mix of plays. Pornography is set just after the Olympics have been awarded to London, it’s a time of celebration but amidst the labyrinthine connections of the capital some people seem more isolated than ever. In Super Hamet 64: Parody DLC, Lecoq-trained Edward Day battles four decades of videogame nostalgia in an explosion of Shakespeare, video projection and 16-bit mayhem. The audience will need to assist psychiatrist Margarita Upshot to coax comatose Brian Blatherwick back to reality in musical comedy Whatever Happened to Brian? In burlesque maverick Jeu Jeu la Foille’s Frontal Lobotomy, original beat poetry is fused with tormented lullabies and woozy mythology punctuated with weird science and featuring a toy shop orchestra of musical reprobates.

Across at the United Reform Church, a trio of returning Fringe performers. Fringe Award-winning company Arletty Theatre bring Quilter and the Ghost, a musical play about the magical power of stories - tomorrow Quilter will become homeless and needs help, but how do you raise an army when you’re alone on the battlefield? In Waiting for Gandalf, Chris Neville-Smith plays Kevin who is camping out waiting for his idol to sign his book, but what is the real reason for his devotion? Inamoment Theatre Company have distilled one of Shakespeare’s tragedies to its essence; in King Lear (Alone) the play is told through the mind of the man himself.

The Fringe wishes to thank its sponsor The University of Derby as well as financial supporters The Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust and High Peak Borough Council, its Fringe Friends and the town’s many Fringe supporters and venues.

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