YOUR FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS AT BUXTON FRINGE

PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release May/June 2006

Young people are not forgotten at this years Buxton Festival Fringe (July 7-23) with attractions including no less than two productions of a new musical, Rap Around with Mozart, plus archaeology workshops at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery and two productions from the Buxton-based Young Rec Theatre Alice (And Her Sister) in Wonderland (a hippy extravaganza performed in the grounds of Pooles Cavern), and a specially-adapted version of Grimms Fairy Tales at the Old Clubhouse.

Dont forget that other events in the Fringe may also be suitable for children. Why not cheer on our float at the Buxton Carnival (wear orange to show support!), check out Lucky Fin Productions A Family Affair or A Midsummer Days Breakfast, or take the kids to Burbage Art Groups Annual Exhibition where there are free cakes and a childrens quiz?

Listed under Other Events, the all-new Outer Fringe at Bookstore, Brierlow Bar, offers childrens entertainment, owls and rare breeds, musical events, Shakespeare and much more. There is further Shakespeare offered on the forecourt of Buxton Opera House where the one-man Shakespeare Jukebox performs your favourite speeches on demand.

The Spoken Word and miscellaneous Other Events sections of the Fringe programme are sometimes overlooked yet feature some true gems. The Vera Brittain guided walks, Fringe Readings and King Sterndale Slides with Music evenings have become treasured Fringe institutions, but there is plenty of new blood too including Derbyshire Poet Laureate Cathy Grindrod with a poetry workshop in Pooles Cavern, Mark Twain Talks by actor Bern Budd from America, dramatic grown-up story-telling from the award-winning Freefall, a one-woman homage to New York from Aimster Productions and much more.

All this is to scratch the surface of some of the weird and wonderful goings-on at the Fringe. Whether it is ghost stories or poetry, book launches or street theatre, chances are, if it is creative, it is in the Fringe! See the new, A5 all-colour Fringe programme and the website http://www.buxtonfringe.org.uk for full details.

Or for a taster of the Fringe and all its treats, join us at Fringe Sunday, a free, open-air concert at the Pavilion Gardens on July 9, 4.30-7pm.

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