Musical Comedy
On The Island Of Aars
by Chris Larner and Mark Stevens
Clarkson & Crouch Away With
The Fairies
David Benson Sings
Noël Coward
Elena Duran Mexico
Of My Heart
Elizabeth
and Raleigh
Late But Live
Footsbarn's
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Learn to Play the Ukulele in Under an Hour (How George Formby Saved My Life)
Nola Rae - Exit Napoleon Pursed By Rabbits
Potted Potter
The Unauthorised Harry Experience A Parody
By Dan And Jeff
The Tiger Lillies Seven
Deadly Sins
The new show from the creators of The Translucent Frogs of Quuup (Guardian Best Musical Award 2004).
Come and join us on Aars: a rock off Scotland, so remote that only the north wind remembers it.
There you’ll find Hamish MacSurname, a dour, hectoring puritan and The Donald of Donald who is not nearly so liberal. The Donald will hold no truck with anything nice. Biscuits for example: works of the devil. Hamish MacSurname does at least permit singing, which is fortunate as he is in a musical. The two men hate each other with a passion that only the ecumenically deranged can sustain.
Stuck between them is Morag McMac, the sweetest flower of womanhood that ever plucked Haggis. Morag believes that the island is a giant turtle, sleeping in the sea. She is clearly insane. Or is she? None of them know about cave-dweller Dave Bladgett, ex Tungsten Orkid (the Stourbridge sweat-metal band), who has delusions of being a narrator.
Into this eccentric idyll comes a stranger: a voracious Dutch Health & Safety officer, whose arrival threatens the very existence of Aars. Hamish won't tolerate it, neither will The Donald. Dave Bladgett probably won't, once he wakes up. And Morag is falling in love. Something must be done…
'The funniest, nuttiest show on the fringe.'
Daily Telegraph on The Translucent Frogs of Quuup
Pleasance Courtyard
(Venue 33)
30 July - 25 August
(except 6 & 13 Aug)
2.10pm - 3.20pm
Online Booking
Pleasance.co.uk
Edfringe.com
Offline Booking
0131 556 6550
0131 226 0000
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