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Article: Let's do the show right here!
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2009
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From canal boat to confession box, theatre at the Edinburgh
Festival is finding some strange stages. By Alice Jones
A canal barge Three Sisters
They've done a "jive-infused" Measure for Measure, Lysistrata on
a trapeze and a barbershop-style Revenger's Tragedy. Now Metra
theatre company present Three Sisters on a canal barge - it's "the
voyage Chekhov never let them take", apparently - with tea and
biscuits thrown in.
14-23 Aug, Re-Union Canal Boats Ltd, Edinburgh Quay
A public toilet Still Waiting for Godot
The Beckett estate wasn't too happy at the thought of the
theatrical masterpiece being performed in a public convenience,
though one imagines Vladimir and Estragon would see the funny ...