One-derful Solo Theatre at Buxton Fringe

PRESS RELEASE 1st June 2014 - for immediate release

Theatre is the largest category at this year’s Buxton Fringe (July 9-27) but standing out from the crowd does not necessarily mean bringing a large cast. Indeed many of the most eagerly-awaited shows involve just one performer.

Freerange Theatre gained two Fringe Award nominations and a Manchester Theatre Award nomination for Spoonface Steinberg starring Rebecca Fenwick last year and the production returns for two afternoons only as part of the company’s Unmissable Monologues at the Clubhouse.

Meanwhile Olivier Award-nominated actor Gerard Logan becomes Oscar Wilde in his prison cell in Wilde Without The Boy, a Fringe production that is also part of Buxton Festival, and Fringe Award winner Patricia Hartshorne (accompanied by pianist Peter Dobson) combines horror and humour in her First World War production When The Band Begins to Play.

Expect action and adventure from Uproot Theatre Company, responsible for last year’s popular show Around the World in 80 Days, and back with a one-man version of Treasure Island. Sian Dudley takes that spirit of adventure online with WOW, a show exploring the idea of a virtual reality in which heroic fantasies are limitless. A Lord of the Rings mega fan waits for his hero ‘Gandalf’ to sign his latest movie book in Chris Neville-Smith’s Waiting for Gandalf but what really lies behind his devotion?

Back to reality and in Dreamshed Theatre’s mysterious His Letters, a bereaved man makes a strange discovery when clearing his late mother’s possessions. The Angina Monologue, starring Doug Devaney, follows a bad patient on his comic journey from cardiac ward to media stardom while Shrew from Ami Jones finds a woman trapped by her own under-whelming destiny. Alan Bennett’s Talking Head, Soldiering On, from library theatre touring company focuses on the recently-widowed wife of a stockbroker struggling to take control of her life.

Things become more than a little risqué in the taboo-busting Phone Whore (A One-Act Play with Frequent Interruptions) starring the award-winning Cameryn Moore as a phone sex operator. And Augustus Stephens threatens to bare both body and soul in This Way Madness Lies in which his character runs away to the seaside leaving his troubles - and clothes - behind.

For further details on a wealth of Fringe theatre see www.buxtonfringe.org.uk

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