DONKEY WORK present THE CASE

22 - 27 June 2009
7.30pm (plus extra 9pm shows Fri 26 and Sat 27)

Oubliette, 170 Westminster Bridge Road SE1 7RW
Nearest Tubes Lambeth north and Waterloo

The Case is based on a true story set in the First World War. A damaged soldier returns home from the trenches. A widow moves to London looking for work and falls into prostitution. After meeting the girl, the soldier hires her and, overwhelmed by shell shock, throttles her to death. Gripped by panic at the sudden realisation of what he has done, the soldier chops up the woman's body and leaves the dismembered corpse in a suitcase at King's Cross station.

The former English Language School and Hostel near Waterloo has recently been squatted by the Oubliette art collective, who have already built two art galleries and a cinema, with a theatre space and studios in development. In addition to this, Oubliette have carried out extensive repairs and refurbishment to the building, which has stood empty for two years. 

FINGER IN THE PIE present SWEENEY TODD
a brand new fiendishly funny adaptation

5 - 31 August 2009
2.15pm (except 18 and 22 August)

The Gilded Balloon (Debating Hall), Teviot Place, Edinburgh

Roll up, roll up, and witness the terrible tale of Sweeney Todd. Meet the iniquitous murderer, hear his monsterous story, then watch him hang horribly for his grisly, ghastly and gruesome crimes.

Finger in the Pie present a deliciously depraved black comedy of slapstick humour, grotesque characters, physical storytelling, puppetry and live cabaret music. Dare you miss it?

Directed by Alexander Parsonage, artistic director of Finger in the Pie and grand master of a selection of burlesque and cabaret nights across the capital and beyond.  

Featuring: Frank Wurtzinger as Sweeney Todd, Lizzie Wort as Mrs Lovett and an ensemble including Helen Taylor and Alfie Boyd 

"Visually spectacular, nerveshredding theatre ... Sweeney Todd is grisly, sexy and hectic." SPOONFED LONDON

GLYN CANNON presents COFFEE
a comic play at the Pleasance Courtyard

5 - 31 August 2009
1.15pm (Not 18 August)

Pleasance Courtyard (the attic), Edinburgh

Three characters in search of an ad campaign find little inspiration or solace in one another as time keeps ticking and tensions rise to boiling point.  A breakneck-paced comedy that will leave you roasted, ground and freeze-dried.  An instant hit!
 
In Mad-Men-meets-Huis-Clos-with-punchlines, COFFEE asks:  if the adverts are right and our lives are empty, should we fill the emptiness with the right thing?  Or just anything?
 
Cast features: ZOE GARDNER (Katy Brand's Big Ass Show (ITV2), Ideal (BBC3), Cowards (BBC4), Live Ghost Hunt (Pleasance) and 50% of THE CONGRESS OF ODDITIES), ALEXANDER KIRK (Jam and Jerusalem (BBC1), Eastenders (BBC1), My Family (BBC1), Time Trumpet (BBC2) and Pete and Dud: Come Again (Assembly Rooms, West End) and 50% of KIRK AND MESSINGHAM) and STEPHEN EVANS (Hyperdrive (BBC2), Nighty Night (BBC3), The Green Green Grass (BBC1), My Family (BBC1) and is 20% of the Perrier-Nominated DUTCH ELM CONSERVATOIRE). Collectively they are eminently qualified in advertising, having previously tried to sell you cat food, cornflakes, gossip magazines and mobile phones, and make you fill in your tax return.
 
Glyn Cannon writes and directs after previous Edinburgh success with Gone (Fringe First and Guardian Best Play Award winner 2004): "Shockingly good" 4 stars GUARDIAN "Funny and savage by turns" 4 stars THE SUNDAY TIMES, "Brisk, compelling and cleverly done" 4 stars METRO, "A sharp focus of ideas" «««« THE TIMES, "electrifying" 4stars THE SCOTSMAN