THE EVENTS, ROBERT GOLDING, Katie Goodman, The Magnets and More Set for Edinburgh Fringe 2013

Edinburgh Fringe 2013 has announced some of its upcoming shows, including theatre productions The Events, No Direction, Who Wants to Kill Yulia Tymoshenko, Robert Golding and The Inventor and the Escort, comedy acts New Art Club's Feel About Your Body and Katie Goodman's I Didn't F*ck It Up, and musicians The Magnets. Scroll down for details!

THEATRE

Actors Touring Company, Young Vic Theatre presents
THE EVENTS
By David Greig
Directed by Ramin Gray
Traverse Theatre

Screams reverberate through corridors. A forest echoes with the sound of gunfire. Innocent blood is shed and lives ripped apart. As the wounds on a community are left gaping, a young choir leader begins her quest to heal and to understand.

Acclaimed director Ramin Gray teams up with celebrated playwright David Greig with a bold new work that explores the impact of a horrific politically motivated crime on a small community and delves into the nature of forgiveness, reconciliation and understanding.

The Events asks how far forgiveness will stretch in the face of atrocity. Featuring local choirs and a soaring soundtrack by Irish composer John Browne, what unfolds is a tale of tragedy, obsession and our destructive desire to fathom the unfathomable.

THEATRE

TTI - Guy Masterson presents
NO DIRECTION
A play by Albert Welling
Directed by Bob Golding
Assembly Three George Square

FRINGE FIRST AND OLIVIER AWARD WINNER Bob Golding RETURNS TO EDINBURGH WITH DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

Four years ago Bob Golding was the talk of the Fringe with his stunning performance of the late great Eric Morecambe in Morecambe by Tim Whitnall. After winning a fringe first and unanimous critical praise, the play was whisked off to run in the West End where it won the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and an Olivier nomination for Best Actor. It was the dream Edinburgh Fringe success. Returning to the festival for the first time since, Bob Golding makes his directorial debut with the world premiere of No Direction by Albert Welling.

Two men embark on a task together. They need direction but neither is taking control and, as is inevitable when a pair of followers occupy the same space, they are going round in circles. However one of them seems to be running out of steam while the other has grand dreams to pursue and there is a fair chance they could both get horribly lost unless they sort themselves out quickly. Waiting for Godot meets Sleuth with twists and turns at every junction. No Direction is a switchback ride comedy about friendship, loyalty and two headless men in a muddle.

COMEDY

NEW ART CLUB
FEEL ABOUT YOUR BODY
Assembly Three at George Square

The boys are back in town! New Art Club (aka Tom Roden and Pete Shenton) return to Edinburgh after a two-year gap and this time they're serious. Well, not exactly serious but they will be tackling a serious subject with their satisfying mix of puerile, emotional and intellectual chatter ... along with some moving about.

Feel About Your Body strips down to the basics, laying bare how we all feel about the one thing that's with us all the way from the cradle to the grave. Worshipped, revered, adorned, abused, laughed at, pampered, pierced, poked and occasionally rubbed lovingly with oil, the human body is truly an object of wonder. Of course, the show's title has a double meaning - it's sexy AND intellectual and very very silly.

During the course of this pulsating, visceral and flesh-filled hour, a man will talk to his bottom, bits will bounce and bellies will be bared. There will also be some invaluable advice on what not to do during a heart attack - Pete should know, he had one in his early thirties when his partner was eight months pregnant. All this comes with a warning - in tests eight out of ten audience members were left feeling "a little bit dirty". There will be some brief nudity (long enough to see 'the works'), some brief dancing (silly and emotional) and some puerile songs (there's a good one about a shed).

THEATRE

Ines Wurth Presents
The World Premiere of
WHO WANTS TO KILL YULIA TYMOSHENKO
By Hrvoje Hitrec
Assembly Roxy

Twice prime minister of Ukraine, heroine of the Orange Revolution, Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2011 on a charge of abuse in office relating to gas deals with Russia. In April this year The European Court of Human Rights declared her imprisonment "politically motivated". Tymoshenko has always claimed that her detention was intended to keep her out of politics and that her rights have been violated The court agreed unanimously that she had been jailed "for other reasons" than those permissible by law. Yulia Tymoshenko remains in a Ukrainian prison.

Directed by Jakov Sedlar who directed the 2012 documentary of the same name, Who Wants To Kill Yulia Tymoshenko is a searing account of the woman who has spent her life fighting for democracy and whose political opponents have taken extreme measures to silence her. Set in the prison cell she shares with a young woman who was framed for murder, the play paints a portrait of a freedom fighter who has been imprisoned by a corrupt regime, it reveals the steely determination that motivates her as well an understanding and closeness that develops with the cellmate who becomes her saviour as well as her enemy.

THEATRE

Dark Man Productions & Fringe present
The World Premiere of
ROBERT GOLDING
By Owen Thomas
Assembly Roxy

Following his 2011 Edinburgh Fringe hit Richard Parker, which won the Best International Show Award at The Hollywood Fringe, Welsh playwright Owen Thomas returns this year with the premiere of a haunting and darkly comic tale set in a world of artifice and intrigue.

An empty restaurant but for two people. A successful married couple sit opposite one another. They are celebrating the opening of their new venture as they wait for a guest to join them. When he arrives he will quietly and confidently lay waste to their comfortable lives and everything they ever believed. They wait... he enters ... and the horror gradually unfolds.

Robert Golding is a disturbing story of conspiracy, collusion and claustrophobic paranoia. Nothing is as it seems in a world where dark and unseen forces are in control and behind the seemingly ordinary the sinister is at work.

COMEDY

Fringe Management presents
KATIE GOODMAN
I DIDN'T F*CK IT UP
Gilded Balloon Teviot - Wine Bar

All guns blazing, no holds barred US comedian Katie Goodman descends on Edinburgh this August with a gutsy hour of raw humour and original satire. An internationally touring musical comedienne, Goodman is known for providing an audience with an act that is political, personal, provocative and packed with punch.

As the headliner, co-writer, and co-director (with her husband Soren Kisiel) of the internationally touring show Broad Comedy, Katie was critically praised at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010, being named a "Top-Ten Sketch Comedy Pick" (FringeReview), at the Vancouver Fringe Festival (Pick of the Fringe), and received extraordinary critical acclaim in Los Angeles and Boston during the show's extended 3-month runs in those cities.

She now returns to Edinburgh in her solo-show which has been impressing audiences, critics and comedy colleagues alike wherever she performs.

THEATRE

Ines Wurth presents
The UK Premiere of
THE INVENTOR AND THE ESCORT
An original play by Matt Morillo
Gilded Balloon Teviot - Sportsman's

"How about you and I create our own moment and it can go exactly as you want and you can create a new history?"

During the worst blizzard in New York City history, Julia, a call girl, arrives for an appointment with Jeffrey, a reclusive young man who has become rich by inventing best-selling sexual devices. What starts as a routine "trick" with trimmings (fake palm trees, suntan lotion, and lots of margaritas) ends up with Jeffrey and Julia helping each other uncover the wounds that led them to who they are, getting considerably more than they bargained for on this "first date."

Matt Morillo's sexy comedy is a cheeky but ultimately touching story of two lost souls in a big city searching for love and happiness in all the wrong places then accidentally finding each other.

MUSIC

Underbelly presents
THE MAGNETS
Underbelly

The Magnets are a cappella stars, making great music simply with their mouths. Combining glorious harmonies, virtuosi beatboxing and a very British charm they have become a must see act on the international music scene, with a hard-won reputation as festival favourites from Edinburgh to Adelaide.
In 2013 The Magnets release their latest studio album (under the Working Title Homegrown), their first since signing to Wrasse Records <http://www.wrasserecords.com/> . Celebrating the best of British songwriters of the band members' own lifetimes, it features recordings of songs by Richard Hawley, Peter Gabriel, Adele and Led Zeppelin among others, as well as a taste of the band's own award-winning original material. Drawing on influences from barbershop to Bobby McFerrin, and rooted in over a decade of experience in creating innovative vocal harmony arrangements, the band's aim is to record a career defining 'must hear' a cappella album that matches their live reputation.

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