2017 Edinburgh Fringe

Creatives

  • Musical (music / play)
  • 4pm (75 mins)
  • 2-14, 16-21 & 23-28 Aug 2017
  • Pleasance Courtyard
  • £11 - £14.50
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33: Pleasance Courtyard

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A dark, comic pop-opera by Irvine Welsh and Don De Grazia. Featuring the original Chicago cast and a wide-ranging original score by Laurence Mark Wythe. Paul Brenner's songwriting class is a cross-section of the Chicago music scene, with all its incestuous dysfunction, navel-gazing narcissism, bitterness and occasional brilliance. When former student, pop star Sean O'Neil, visits this group of musicians to judge a contest, the stakes are suddenly raised to new levels when both revenge and jealousies come to the fore. Produced by Lesslie Ltd.

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Press articles

Irvine Welsh: Creatives about rich domination of arts

'I think now you get a lot of rich kids going into the arts who wouldn't have bothered before because they had different career paths. But all these professions are drying up now'

Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent, 7th August 2017

Irvine Welsh on his three Fringe shows

Perhaps more than any other author you can think of, people tend to confuse Irvine Welsh with one of his characters. Mention his name, especially in the streets of Edinburgh, and most people will think of someone out caning it in a club till the small hours, or at least mouthing off drunk in a pub somewhere down in Leith.

The Scotsman, 7th August 2017

Pick of the Edinburgh Fringe - issue 7

Have a wonderful 70th Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Theatre Weekly, 1st August 2017

Irvine Welsh interview

As a novelist, Irvine Welsh needs no introduction.

Mark Fisher, Edinburgh Festivals, 1st August 2017

How the Fringe helped launch Irvine Welsh's career

The award-winning author says the Fringe was what made him think he could forge a career out of his writing.

Steve Hendry, Daily Record, 30th July 2017

The best theatre, comedy and dance to see this year

Edinburgh Fringe kicks off next week - if you're heading up, these are our highlights.

Laura Freeman, Veronica Lee and Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 28th July 2017

Fringe 2017 - Creatives

When former student, pop star Sean O'Neil, visits this group of musicians to judge a contest, the stakes are suddenly raised to new levels when both revenge and jealousies come to the fore.

Mike Smith, The Edinburgh Reporter, 2nd July 2017

Irvine Welsh to premiere new comedy play at the Fringe

The writer, who has only previously penned two stage plays, has created a black comedy about two real-life gangland figures auditioning for a role in the cult film Performance, which Mick Jagger made with Edinburgh-born director Donald Cammell in 1968.

Brian Ferguson, Edinburgh Evening News, 14th April 2017

Performances

Date Time Venue
2nd Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
3rd Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
4th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
5th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
6th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
7th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
8th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
9th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
10th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
11th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
12th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
13th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
14th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
16th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
17th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
18th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
19th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
20th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
21st Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
23rd Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
24th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
25th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
26th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
27th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard
28th Aug 2017 16:00 Pleasance Courtyard

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