Pleasance Theatre Islington Announces Their Full Listings

Pleasance Edinburgh opened as part of the 1985 Festival Fringe with two theatres facing onto a deserted courtyard-come-car-park at an unfashionable eastern end of Edinburgh's old town. Twenty-five seasons later the Pleasance has become one of the biggest and most highly respected venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with an international profile and a network of alumni that reads like a Who's Who of contemporary comedy, drama and entertainment.

Pleasance Islington Listings

June 2010

Territory
Play
Fiddy West Productions
14 June - 24 June
Territory returns to the Pleasance Theatre Islington for a short run at the beginning of a 4 month UK tour.
Drink, drugs and cigarettes. A group of lads are ready to have the night of their lives, until a new arrival changes everything. 'Raw and heartfelt ... frighteningly accomplished' **** (Scotsman).
Tickets: £6 -£10
http://www.pleasance.co.uk/islington/events/territory

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
Play
INDA UK
15 June - 04 July 7.45pm
INDA UK's new production is a compassionate, tragic and funny play. Inspired by the kidnapping and imprisonment of hostage Brian Keenan in 1986, it is set in a prison cell somewhere in the Middle East. A simple and moving story, of three men who forge a close friendship, whilst trying to survive the horrendous strain of captivity.
Tickets: £10
http://www.pleasance.co.uk/islington/events/someone-wholl-watch-over-me

Delete The Banjax
Comedy - Edinburgh Festival Previews
Delete The Banjax
5 July 8pm
'One of the most exciting new live acts on the comedy circuit, DELETE THE BANJAX, invite you to this preview of their highly anticipated Edinburgh Fringe 2010 show!

Known for their high energy performance style, Samuel Champion, Daniel Cook, Gareth Cooper and Caroline May-Jones present a show of subtly surreal sketches, characters and songs.
Tickets:£5.50
http://www.pleasance.co.uk/islington/events/delete-the-banjax-pleasance-previews

Six and a half loves
Theatre - Edinburgh Festival Previews
6 July 8pm

Using animation and storytelling, a tale of perfect couples that never quite reach their perfection. Adapted from Saunders' much-loved YouTube animation series. Chortle Innovation Award Winner. Writer and star of Radio 4's Dad Designs and BBC Online's Missed Connections.

Tickets: £5

http://www.pleasance.co.uk/islington/events/six-and-a-half-loves--2

The Butler
Circus / Theatre
The Loons Circus Theatre Company
7 - 31 July 7.30pm (5pm Sundays, 6pm Saturday 10 July)

It's sexy, it's stunning to look at and it's very very funny. It's The Butler. Where circus meets theatre and satire holds the mirror up to the middle classes. Critics have called it Cirque du Soleil for grown-ups and Pinter on stilts. But The Butler is what The Butler is and what it is is the must-see show of 2010.
Tickets:£7 - £14.50
http://www.pleasance.co.uk/islington/events/the-butler

Big Day Out
1 Day Family Festival of Arts
Saturday 10 July 11am - 11pm
Pleasance does what Pleasance knows best and hosts the first of many vibrant summer festivals for all the family, at our home in Islington.

From 11am until 11pm, the whole family can be entertained by any number of activities and productions, browse and buy from a wide-variety of specialist stalls, listen to brilliant bands and acts, and eat delicious food provided by the Woodstore Bar and Grill.

For full line up see
http://www.pleasance.co.uk/fun

Tickets from £5 - £10 for various events and activities

Radio Hoohah
Comedy play - Edinburgh Festival Preview
Tuesday 13 July 8pm

Hell is other people, those people are live on air. Be a part of the studio audience and rubberneck as everybody struggles to stop Radio Hoohah going into cardiac arrest.

Tickets:£5
http://www.pleasance.co.uk/islington/events/radio-hoohah---edinburgh-preview---mackenzie-mcguire

Bright Is The Ring of Words
Theatre - Edinburgh Festival Preview
14 - 16 July 7.45pm

For aging John McClachlan (Jeffrey Mayhew) sex, drugs and rock and roll meant sex, booze and world class opera - a deadly combination. Having massively over-indulged in the first two he has bombed out of the third and we find him, washed up and fading fast, in a Blackpool bedsit. His only companion is young would-be stand-up comedian Stanley (John Garfield-Roberts), desperate to succeed, who has come to John thanks to a community service order following a racist attack. Sparks fly as the hurt and confused wannabe tries to deal with the petulant brilliance of the has-been.version of Purgatory.

Tickets £5
http://www.pleasance.co.uk/islington/events/bright-is-the-ring-of-words