PRESS RELEASE for immediate release June 2nd 2022
Many of audiences’ favourite theatre companies are returning to Buxton Fringe this July. Despite the Monkey’s Debris won the John Beecher Award, and was one of the most startling and innovative pieces ever seen at the Fringe. This year they are back at Underground with Beast in the Jungle, a radical new interpretation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Distilling themes of love, fate, loneliness and death, and combining live performance, 3D-sound and an original score, it looks sure to be another stunning piece. Also returning to the same venue are playwright Patricia Downey and Spanner in the Works Theatre Company who took the Theatre Production award for Buttercup last year. Runny Honey is a hard-hitting drama following three women thrown together in prison. Winner of last year’s award for acting, Shaun Hennessy reprises his role in For I Have Sinned from Qweerdog Theatre Company at the URC. A Man and a Priest meet and discuss faith, innocence, justice and revenge, but an hour later - one of them is dead! Fringe Award-winning writer Mark Reid has garnered a reputation for the unorthodox and original; after last year’s Questions of England comes Report: An Enquiry into Inquiries at the Green Man Gallery. Ben and Barney explore major historical events, the inquiries that follow and the conspiracy theories that they inspire, perhaps unaware that their own friendship is what is really being explored.
The team behind hit shows like Mrs Roosevelt Flies To London, Hint of Lime Productions, is back with a trio of promising titles at the Rotunda. Mrs Roosevelt herself, Alison Skilbeck, returns with a brand new show, Uncommon Ground, about seven wildly different people, coping and connecting during one year on the Common, telling their unexpected tales of love, life, death, and downright dottiness. In The Trials of Galileo, the astronomer fails to understand that his differences with the Church were not about reason, logic, and scientific fact, but about politics. When he finally came to realise this on trial for heresy, it was too late. A Substitute for Life features Francis, who has hidden from the brutalities of his Victorian upbringing behind his love for books, but they can’t protect him when a family accident brings him face to face with reality.
Now an established part of Rotunda’s offering, the Taking Flight Festival presents the winning play from Red Dragonfly’s New Writing Festival, along with a special free performance of The Mice Go To The Cinema by Manchester HuaXia Chinese Drama Club students. Haywire Theatre made a promising debut last year, and they up the stakes in Nyctophilia, grappling with love, mystery, and magic - but with one twist, it is performed in complete darkness at Underground - a sensory journey through time that explores how our imagination opens once our eyes are closed. Also at Underground, Edinburgh Fringe First winner and lifelong nerd Joe Sellman-Leava asks why his generation is obsessed with its childhood in Fanboy, a nostalgic, love-hate letter to popular culture. Expect epic storytelling, razor-sharp impressions and a dose of theatrical magic. NoLogo Productions return with a well received show from 2021. In Make-Up, drag has become a drag for Lady Christina and as the curtain comes down one last time, there is a chance to leave the glamour and the costumes behind, and get to know the person behind the make-up.
Further theatre treats can be discovered on www.buxtonfringe.org.uk and on the free to download Buxton Fringe App.
The Fringe wishes to thank High Peak Borough Council, its Fringe Friends and the town’s many Fringe supporters and venues.
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