Programme 2011

Genre: Theatre and Food

A great new addition to your Fringe experience...we've teamed up with our friends at Belushi's to offer sneak peaks of this year's Fringe acts over lunch time, mention the magic word "FRINGE" and receive a special 25% discount! Between 12 and 2pm you might just catch Fringe 2011 show previews featuring the stars themselves! Meet with fellow Fringe Friends and enjoy the surprise pop-up performances of fringe shows, conversation, hot tips and tasty grub (Belushi's offers 15 sandwiches, including veggie...sample a new one daily!). Who (and what) will be your favorites this year?

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Comedy/Text based

A hilarious collection of six 1-act plays by David Ives, performed by Award-Winning British youth group Windermere Productions. These are off-beat pieces about all manner of topics: form the awkward trepidation of first love to the regrets when facing death to chimps writing Shakespeare! All dealing with the communication, or lack of it, that transcends language barriers! Utterly Delightful." – The New York Times

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Puppet Theatre

Smoking Apples invite you to embark on a journey with us, through trial and tribulation, but for the ultimate destination where we give you back your dreams… "Rain was pouring in London Town"… people pass you by, time ticks away through a typical British morning until, out of the settling gloom an almost tangible and apparently invisible force emerges… what this force offers is for every individual to discover... A romantic, tragic, cheeky tale of human endeavour and heartbreak.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Clown/Little use of language

Outside the Pearly Gates the original sinner, Adam, waits for God. There's been a terrible mistake and it wasn't Adam's fault! He wants to be back in Paradise! Prague Fringe 2009 Inspiration Award nominee Simian Features' latest production - inspired by Mark Twain's irreverent stories The Diaries of Adam and Eve - is a surreal mix of physical theatre, wordless clown comedy, and biblical balloon modelling! Warning: May contain nuts!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Thearte/Text based

Het Geluid Maastricht winner of the Amsterdam Fringe, explores in Life is too good to be true the role of truth in our present day (pop)culture. Starting as a portrayal of infamous young American lying Journalist Stephen Glass this performances becomes a theatrical exploration that involves some grouptherapy, some pinkribbons, a bit of lady gaga, a lot of scary dogs and a whole lot of the lies we all tell ourselves today.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A tour de force performance following a woman through her crisis of faith as she prepares to sing during the services of her snake-handling church in the American South. Overwhelmed by a flood of childhood memories, she struggles to understand the frightening truth about the attempt on her life by her husband...death by snake! A welcome return to the Fringe for critically acclaimed company, The Bear Gardens.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Dance Theatre

Sam? is the story about a small town man's journey to New York City for his one true love. Can simplicity survive amongst modern chaos? Combining minimalistic theatre with multimedia maximalism, we find out. "An earnest and encouraging American company....the troupe's energy is infectious and winning." - Prague Post

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Comedy/Text based but visual

The unexpected adventures of a soul searching, middle-aged American academic who dyes her hair blue as an experiment, performed by a cast of versatile comedians, who will lead you through her strange encounters in her new, "dark blue world." "A bemused persona lost in Woody Allenesque angst who invites the audience to join her on a personal search for a place to fit in." - Critic Jill Taft-Kaufmann

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

Dr Brown returns to the Prague Fringe for a third year of earth-shaking madness. Surrealism mixed with pictures of his cousins eating rice, Dr Brown will make you laugh, stare, wonder, and paint your teeth red. "About as bonkers an hour of comedy as ever you would find - part Mr Bean, part Buster Keaton, all odd." - Sunday Times Pick of the Prague Fringe, 2009 and 2010

Language: In English and Swahili

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Refreshingly surreal and bursting with energy, Impossible N’est Pas Français is a celebration of the inevitable humiliation of being a foreigner. Lucy Hopkins weaves a dark and funny tale of ex-patriotism without borders.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Alone on Valentine’s Day in a wood cabin in the far north of Alberta’s cattle country, how did Marjorie, a city girl, get so far out of her depth? Hailed as “One of the most important playwrights working in Canada today,” Joan MacLeod’s play Jewel” is a hauntingly beautiful story of an every-day extraordinary woman finding the unexpected resilience of her own heart. A tour de force performance!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Evocative, humorous, deeply touching, yet delicately challenging solo physical theatre. The piece opens to find the philosopher reflecting and deliberating on the question: "What is a Man?" - and unfolds through a skilful fusion of movement, theatre, poetry, mime, and poignant symbolism, taking us on an evocative journey through the lives, personal identities, and tangible experiences of different characters, offering compelling physical-dialogue and yearning insight into the complex identity of ‘man’/kind.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Little use of language

There’s a beautiful home for sale in Sunnyville right next door to Ted, Alice, Bob and Mae! You could play golf every day with Ted, bake apple pie with Alice, walk your dog with Bob, and make homemade lemonade with Mae. But what if you were different? A hilarious, fast-moving show combining weird and wonderful masked characters and outrageous physical comedy from these Fringe 2010 award nominees!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music & Cabaret/Text based but visual

You'll laugh, cry and everything else in between as you join Liz Merendino on her personal journey through stormy weather, sunny days and a lot of time spent indoors. Hop aboard for a cabaret ride through one woman's life – from the happy, sunny days and funny moments to its inevitable tempests, droughts and tsunamis! "Liz Merendino's voice is pure, honest and enthusiastically compelling." - Tamara Keshecki, Artistic Director, Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble, New York.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: In English/Text based

Jump aboard this naughty romp in a behind-the-curtains peek at Buckingham Palace loos, Princess Anne's hair-style, and gin-soaked royal antics. Follow an all-American (bad) boy with wide eyes, a sharp focus, and money to raise as he navigates past butlers and duchesses to where the royal power lies, taking narrative corners fast and missing not one trick along the way.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Cheese, robots, zombies, mutant sea creatures, true love…everything you could want in a Hollywood movie musical, but all ground up, compressed and oozed into a sixty minute, multi-media stage performance. Amorphous folk musician and animator Ken Nash presents an evening of music and video that raises and answers the age-old metaphysical question "Why are we here?…and what were our other options anyway?"

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

Can the most vulnerable hold the most power? Saskia & Rembrandt. Maar & Picasso. Lydia Cassatt & Mary Cassatt. Lupe Marin & Diego Rivera. Renee Monchaty & Pierre Bonnard. What is the artist’s role in the life of a model? What is the model’s role in the biography of an artist? Using fragments of found text, this solo piece uncovers the unsuspected power of the naked person in the room.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only. This show contains full frontal nudity.

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What starts as a riddle seems so charming and pure, but beneath the veneer is a manipulative lure. Be careful what you wish for, because it may very well come true, and in the end you'll figure out that the trick is being played on you. A welcome return for award winning In the Name of…Theatre Creations.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Yotam, an eleven years old child, obsessed with documentation, records everything in his children's tape recorder, "My First Sony". He follows the events and reports them accurately, a fact which emphasizes the comic aspect of painful developments, such as his parents' separation and the inevitable ending… An award-winning monodrama, which has toured Israel, Europe and America, for more than 15 years! "A pleasant surprise. Beautifully crafted and performed." - Global T.V., Canada

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Music, comedy/Little use of language

You won't believe this show. You just won't! Gail Whitmore AKA The Human Jukebox knows around 2,000 songs across a host of eclectic genres. This is your show too so holla out your requests, don't be shy! The Human Jukebox will perform them unaccompanied and from memory from her vast song book. The medley that caps the show - from opera to rap - must be seen to be believed!

Language: In English/Czech

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

Dr Brown returns to the Prague Fringe for a third year of earth-shaking madness. Surrealism mixed with pictures of his cousins eating rice, Dr Brown will make you laugh, stare, wonder, and paint your teeth red. "About as bonkers an hour of comedy as ever you would find - part Mr Bean, part Buster Keaton, all odd." - Sunday Times Pick of the Prague Fringe, 2009 and 2010

Language: In English and Swahili

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

In the mid-1600s, the Elders of a Moravian village ordered their Executioner to open 31 graves. The medical examiners’ conclusion was that 21 corpses were to be hacked into pieces and burnt, the ashes dispersed in a river. The villagers stared into the sky to avoid the gaze of the priest. The healer was gone and her husband was waiting to pay for what she’d done.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Is there a more positive value than professionalism? A hit man is in deep crisis. His prospective future is now a boring and lonely retirement, but the assassin, a consummate professional, must find a way to recover brilliantly. "The script is elegant and beautiful, and there is no denying Borgia’s personal charm. Variations on Paolo Conte’s classic ‘Via con me’, seamlessly fade into the most important moments of the monologue, making the experience irresistibly swish in a way that only Italians ever manage." - FEST

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Hailing from Sydney, Australia this young, vibrant musician brings a new flavour to Pop music. Mashing, Electro, Indie and Jazz soundscapes her performances are refreshing yet quirky. "Vocally, a mix of Regina Spektor and Norah Jones"- Triple J Unearthed. After performing her new E.P "PINK LEMONADE" in Australia and New Zealand Phebe has set sail to the Praha Fringe Festival. If you like intelligent pop, you will love Phebe Starr!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

In Carlo Jacucci’s funniest acts of 2010, five characters animated by frantic incoherence turn life upside down creating an absurd show that opens a special place in your mind. A runner’s improbable robberies, a ferocious parody of fashion and men’s attributes, a caterpillar joyfully eating, a dancing sailor learning to communicate: Vitamin is a hilarious and provocative piece of comic theatre emerging from the distillation of cabaret scenes across Europe.

Language: In Gibberish

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Alasdair makes a triumphant return to the Fringe with his acclaimed new album Second-Hand Lullabies, chock-full with uplifting, lighter-waving anthems and heartbreakingly intimate paeans to love. Melodic power-pop meets blue-eyed soul in this atmospheric acoustic concert, with special guests and a few surprises. "Terrific... as if the ghost of Otis Redding has stumbled into the room." - The Guardian,UK "Sophisticated song writing... every song strikes you as an instant classic." - Expats.cz

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre and Food

A great new addition to your Fringe experience...we've teamed up with our friends at Belushi's to offer sneak peaks of this year's Fringe acts over lunch time, mention the magic word "FRINGE" and receive a special 25% discount! Between 12 and 2pm you might just catch Fringe 2011 show previews featuring the stars themselves! Meet with fellow Fringe Friends and enjoy the surprise pop-up performances of fringe shows, conversation, hot tips and tasty grub (Belushi's offers 15 sandwiches, including veggie...sample a new one daily!). Who (and what) will be your favorites this year?

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Comedy/Text based

A hilarious collection of six 1-act plays by David Ives, performed by Award-Winning British youth group Windermere Productions. These are off-beat pieces about all manner of topics: form the awkward trepidation of first love to the regrets when facing death to chimps writing Shakespeare! All dealing with the communication, or lack of it, that transcends language barriers! Utterly Delightful." – The New York Times

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Puppet Theatre

Smoking Apples invite you to embark on a journey with us, through trial and tribulation, but for the ultimate destination where we give you back your dreams… "Rain was pouring in London Town"… people pass you by, time ticks away through a typical British morning until, out of the settling gloom an almost tangible and apparently invisible force emerges… what this force offers is for every individual to discover... A romantic, tragic, cheeky tale of human endeavour and heartbreak.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Clown/Little use of language

Outside the Pearly Gates the original sinner, Adam, waits for God. There's been a terrible mistake and it wasn't Adam's fault! He wants to be back in Paradise! Prague Fringe 2009 Inspiration Award nominee Simian Features' latest production - inspired by Mark Twain's irreverent stories The Diaries of Adam and Eve - is a surreal mix of physical theatre, wordless clown comedy, and biblical balloon modelling! Warning: May contain nuts!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Thearte/Text based

Het Geluid Maastricht winner of the Amsterdam Fringe, explores in Life is too good to be true the role of truth in our present day (pop)culture. Starting as a portrayal of infamous young American lying Journalist Stephen Glass this performances becomes a theatrical exploration that involves some grouptherapy, some pinkribbons, a bit of lady gaga, a lot of scary dogs and a whole lot of the lies we all tell ourselves today.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A tour de force performance following a woman through her crisis of faith as she prepares to sing during the services of her snake-handling church in the American South. Overwhelmed by a flood of childhood memories, she struggles to understand the frightening truth about the attempt on her life by her husband...death by snake! A welcome return to the Fringe for critically acclaimed company, The Bear Gardens.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Dance Theatre

Sam? is the story about a small town man's journey to New York City for his one true love. Can simplicity survive amongst modern chaos? Combining minimalistic theatre with multimedia maximalism, we find out. "An earnest and encouraging American company....the troupe's energy is infectious and winning." - Prague Post

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Comedy/Text based but visual

The unexpected adventures of a soul searching, middle-aged American academic who dyes her hair blue as an experiment, performed by a cast of versatile comedians, who will lead you through her strange encounters in her new, "dark blue world." "A bemused persona lost in Woody Allenesque angst who invites the audience to join her on a personal search for a place to fit in." - Critic Jill Taft-Kaufmann

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

Dr Brown returns to the Prague Fringe for a third year of earth-shaking madness. Surrealism mixed with pictures of his cousins eating rice, Dr Brown will make you laugh, stare, wonder, and paint your teeth red. "About as bonkers an hour of comedy as ever you would find - part Mr Bean, part Buster Keaton, all odd." - Sunday Times Pick of the Prague Fringe, 2009 and 2010

Language: In English and Swahili

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Refreshingly surreal and bursting with energy, Impossible N’est Pas Français is a celebration of the inevitable humiliation of being a foreigner. Lucy Hopkins weaves a dark and funny tale of ex-patriotism without borders.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Alone on Valentine’s Day in a wood cabin in the far north of Alberta’s cattle country, how did Marjorie, a city girl, get so far out of her depth? Hailed as “One of the most important playwrights working in Canada today,” Joan MacLeod’s play Jewel” is a hauntingly beautiful story of an every-day extraordinary woman finding the unexpected resilience of her own heart. A tour de force performance!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Evocative, humorous, deeply touching, yet delicately challenging solo physical theatre. The piece opens to find the philosopher reflecting and deliberating on the question: "What is a Man?" - and unfolds through a skilful fusion of movement, theatre, poetry, mime, and poignant symbolism, taking us on an evocative journey through the lives, personal identities, and tangible experiences of different characters, offering compelling physical-dialogue and yearning insight into the complex identity of ‘man’/kind.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Little use of language

There’s a beautiful home for sale in Sunnyville right next door to Ted, Alice, Bob and Mae! You could play golf every day with Ted, bake apple pie with Alice, walk your dog with Bob, and make homemade lemonade with Mae. But what if you were different? A hilarious, fast-moving show combining weird and wonderful masked characters and outrageous physical comedy from these Fringe 2010 award nominees!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music & Cabaret/Text based but visual

You'll laugh, cry and everything else in between as you join Liz Merendino on her personal journey through stormy weather, sunny days and a lot of time spent indoors. Hop aboard for a cabaret ride through one woman's life – from the happy, sunny days and funny moments to its inevitable tempests, droughts and tsunamis! "Liz Merendino's voice is pure, honest and enthusiastically compelling." - Tamara Keshecki, Artistic Director, Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble, New York.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: In English/Text based

Jump aboard this naughty romp in a behind-the-curtains peek at Buckingham Palace loos, Princess Anne's hair-style, and gin-soaked royal antics. Follow an all-American (bad) boy with wide eyes, a sharp focus, and money to raise as he navigates past butlers and duchesses to where the royal power lies, taking narrative corners fast and missing not one trick along the way.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Cheese, robots, zombies, mutant sea creatures, true love…everything you could want in a Hollywood movie musical, but all ground up, compressed and oozed into a sixty minute, multi-media stage performance. Amorphous folk musician and animator Ken Nash presents an evening of music and video that raises and answers the age-old metaphysical question "Why are we here?…and what were our other options anyway?"

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

Can the most vulnerable hold the most power? Saskia & Rembrandt. Maar & Picasso. Lydia Cassatt & Mary Cassatt. Lupe Marin & Diego Rivera. Renee Monchaty & Pierre Bonnard. What is the artist’s role in the life of a model? What is the model’s role in the biography of an artist? Using fragments of found text, this solo piece uncovers the unsuspected power of the naked person in the room.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only. This show contains full frontal nudity.

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What starts as a riddle seems so charming and pure, but beneath the veneer is a manipulative lure. Be careful what you wish for, because it may very well come true, and in the end you'll figure out that the trick is being played on you. A welcome return for award winning In the Name of…Theatre Creations.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Yotam, an eleven years old child, obsessed with documentation, records everything in his children's tape recorder, "My First Sony". He follows the events and reports them accurately, a fact which emphasizes the comic aspect of painful developments, such as his parents' separation and the inevitable ending… An award-winning monodrama, which has toured Israel, Europe and America, for more than 15 years! "A pleasant surprise. Beautifully crafted and performed." - Global T.V., Canada

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Music, comedy/Little use of language

You won't believe this show. You just won't! Gail Whitmore AKA The Human Jukebox knows around 2,000 songs across a host of eclectic genres. This is your show too so holla out your requests, don't be shy! The Human Jukebox will perform them unaccompanied and from memory from her vast song book. The medley that caps the show - from opera to rap - must be seen to be believed!

Language: In English/Czech

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

Dr Brown returns to the Prague Fringe for a third year of earth-shaking madness. Surrealism mixed with pictures of his cousins eating rice, Dr Brown will make you laugh, stare, wonder, and paint your teeth red. "About as bonkers an hour of comedy as ever you would find - part Mr Bean, part Buster Keaton, all odd." - Sunday Times Pick of the Prague Fringe, 2009 and 2010

Language: In English and Swahili

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

In the mid-1600s, the Elders of a Moravian village ordered their Executioner to open 31 graves. The medical examiners’ conclusion was that 21 corpses were to be hacked into pieces and burnt, the ashes dispersed in a river. The villagers stared into the sky to avoid the gaze of the priest. The healer was gone and her husband was waiting to pay for what she’d done.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Is there a more positive value than professionalism? A hit man is in deep crisis. His prospective future is now a boring and lonely retirement, but the assassin, a consummate professional, must find a way to recover brilliantly. "The script is elegant and beautiful, and there is no denying Borgia’s personal charm. Variations on Paolo Conte’s classic ‘Via con me’, seamlessly fade into the most important moments of the monologue, making the experience irresistibly swish in a way that only Italians ever manage." - FEST

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Hailing from Sydney, Australia this young, vibrant musician brings a new flavour to Pop music. Mashing, Electro, Indie and Jazz soundscapes her performances are refreshing yet quirky. "Vocally, a mix of Regina Spektor and Norah Jones"- Triple J Unearthed. After performing her new E.P "PINK LEMONADE" in Australia and New Zealand Phebe has set sail to the Praha Fringe Festival. If you like intelligent pop, you will love Phebe Starr!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

In Carlo Jacucci’s funniest acts of 2010, five characters animated by frantic incoherence turn life upside down creating an absurd show that opens a special place in your mind. A runner’s improbable robberies, a ferocious parody of fashion and men’s attributes, a caterpillar joyfully eating, a dancing sailor learning to communicate: Vitamin is a hilarious and provocative piece of comic theatre emerging from the distillation of cabaret scenes across Europe.

Language: In Gibberish

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Alasdair makes a triumphant return to the Fringe with his acclaimed new album Second-Hand Lullabies, chock-full with uplifting, lighter-waving anthems and heartbreakingly intimate paeans to love. Melodic power-pop meets blue-eyed soul in this atmospheric acoustic concert, with special guests and a few surprises. "Terrific... as if the ghost of Otis Redding has stumbled into the room." - The Guardian,UK "Sophisticated song writing... every song strikes you as an instant classic." - Expats.cz

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre and Food

A great new addition to your Fringe experience...we've teamed up with our friends at Belushi's to offer sneak peaks of this year's Fringe acts over lunch time, mention the magic word "FRINGE" and receive a special 25% discount! Between 12 and 2pm you might just catch Fringe 2011 show previews featuring the stars themselves! Meet with fellow Fringe Friends and enjoy the surprise pop-up performances of fringe shows, conversation, hot tips and tasty grub (Belushi's offers 15 sandwiches, including veggie...sample a new one daily!). Who (and what) will be your favorites this year?

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: A special fringe event

Come and join us for a minute long taster of some of the shows on offer at this years event. Expect tantalising glimpses of shows which tempt you to see more, enjoy the chance to chat to some of the shows organisers to find out why they think theirs is the show you shouldn't miss, meet fellow fringe goers and swap hot tips - this event is the start of your fringe adventure! A light hearted fast, paced event, but remember there are other jewels to find at the fringe whose magic can't be captured in a snippet, shows represented here are the tip o the iceberg in your fringe adventures.

Language: Various with czech introduction

Age accessibility:

Genre: Theatre, Comedy/Text based

A hilarious collection of six 1-act plays by David Ives, performed by Award-Winning British youth group Windermere Productions. These are off-beat pieces about all manner of topics: form the awkward trepidation of first love to the regrets when facing death to chimps writing Shakespeare! All dealing with the communication, or lack of it, that transcends language barriers! Utterly Delightful." – The New York Times

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Puppet Theatre

Smoking Apples invite you to embark on a journey with us, through trial and tribulation, but for the ultimate destination where we give you back your dreams… "Rain was pouring in London Town"… people pass you by, time ticks away through a typical British morning until, out of the settling gloom an almost tangible and apparently invisible force emerges… what this force offers is for every individual to discover... A romantic, tragic, cheeky tale of human endeavour and heartbreak.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Clown/Little use of language

Outside the Pearly Gates the original sinner, Adam, waits for God. There's been a terrible mistake and it wasn't Adam's fault! He wants to be back in Paradise! Prague Fringe 2009 Inspiration Award nominee Simian Features' latest production - inspired by Mark Twain's irreverent stories The Diaries of Adam and Eve - is a surreal mix of physical theatre, wordless clown comedy, and biblical balloon modelling! Warning: May contain nuts!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Thearte/Text based

Het Geluid Maastricht winner of the Amsterdam Fringe, explores in Life is too good to be true the role of truth in our present day (pop)culture. Starting as a portrayal of infamous young American lying Journalist Stephen Glass this performances becomes a theatrical exploration that involves some grouptherapy, some pinkribbons, a bit of lady gaga, a lot of scary dogs and a whole lot of the lies we all tell ourselves today.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A tour de force performance following a woman through her crisis of faith as she prepares to sing during the services of her snake-handling church in the American South. Overwhelmed by a flood of childhood memories, she struggles to understand the frightening truth about the attempt on her life by her husband...death by snake! A welcome return to the Fringe for critically acclaimed company, The Bear Gardens.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Dance Theatre

Sam? is the story about a small town man's journey to New York City for his one true love. Can simplicity survive amongst modern chaos? Combining minimalistic theatre with multimedia maximalism, we find out. "An earnest and encouraging American company....the troupe's energy is infectious and winning." - Prague Post

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Comedy/Text based but visual

The unexpected adventures of a soul searching, middle-aged American academic who dyes her hair blue as an experiment, performed by a cast of versatile comedians, who will lead you through her strange encounters in her new, "dark blue world." "A bemused persona lost in Woody Allenesque angst who invites the audience to join her on a personal search for a place to fit in." - Critic Jill Taft-Kaufmann

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

Dr Brown returns to the Prague Fringe for a third year of earth-shaking madness. Surrealism mixed with pictures of his cousins eating rice, Dr Brown will make you laugh, stare, wonder, and paint your teeth red. "About as bonkers an hour of comedy as ever you would find - part Mr Bean, part Buster Keaton, all odd." - Sunday Times Pick of the Prague Fringe, 2009 and 2010

Language: In English and Swahili

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Refreshingly surreal and bursting with energy, Impossible N’est Pas Français is a celebration of the inevitable humiliation of being a foreigner. Lucy Hopkins weaves a dark and funny tale of ex-patriotism without borders.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Alone on Valentine’s Day in a wood cabin in the far north of Alberta’s cattle country, how did Marjorie, a city girl, get so far out of her depth? Hailed as “One of the most important playwrights working in Canada today,” Joan MacLeod’s play Jewel” is a hauntingly beautiful story of an every-day extraordinary woman finding the unexpected resilience of her own heart. A tour de force performance!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Evocative, humorous, deeply touching, yet delicately challenging solo physical theatre. The piece opens to find the philosopher reflecting and deliberating on the question: "What is a Man?" - and unfolds through a skilful fusion of movement, theatre, poetry, mime, and poignant symbolism, taking us on an evocative journey through the lives, personal identities, and tangible experiences of different characters, offering compelling physical-dialogue and yearning insight into the complex identity of ‘man’/kind.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Little use of language

There’s a beautiful home for sale in Sunnyville right next door to Ted, Alice, Bob and Mae! You could play golf every day with Ted, bake apple pie with Alice, walk your dog with Bob, and make homemade lemonade with Mae. But what if you were different? A hilarious, fast-moving show combining weird and wonderful masked characters and outrageous physical comedy from these Fringe 2010 award nominees!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music & Cabaret/Text based but visual

You'll laugh, cry and everything else in between as you join Liz Merendino on her personal journey through stormy weather, sunny days and a lot of time spent indoors. Hop aboard for a cabaret ride through one woman's life – from the happy, sunny days and funny moments to its inevitable tempests, droughts and tsunamis! "Liz Merendino's voice is pure, honest and enthusiastically compelling." - Tamara Keshecki, Artistic Director, Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble, New York.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: In English/Text based

Jump aboard this naughty romp in a behind-the-curtains peek at Buckingham Palace loos, Princess Anne's hair-style, and gin-soaked royal antics. Follow an all-American (bad) boy with wide eyes, a sharp focus, and money to raise as he navigates past butlers and duchesses to where the royal power lies, taking narrative corners fast and missing not one trick along the way.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Cheese, robots, zombies, mutant sea creatures, true love…everything you could want in a Hollywood movie musical, but all ground up, compressed and oozed into a sixty minute, multi-media stage performance. Amorphous folk musician and animator Ken Nash presents an evening of music and video that raises and answers the age-old metaphysical question "Why are we here?…and what were our other options anyway?"

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

Can the most vulnerable hold the most power? Saskia & Rembrandt. Maar & Picasso. Lydia Cassatt & Mary Cassatt. Lupe Marin & Diego Rivera. Renee Monchaty & Pierre Bonnard. What is the artist’s role in the life of a model? What is the model’s role in the biography of an artist? Using fragments of found text, this solo piece uncovers the unsuspected power of the naked person in the room.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only. This show contains full frontal nudity.

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What starts as a riddle seems so charming and pure, but beneath the veneer is a manipulative lure. Be careful what you wish for, because it may very well come true, and in the end you'll figure out that the trick is being played on you. A welcome return for award winning In the Name of…Theatre Creations.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Yotam, an eleven years old child, obsessed with documentation, records everything in his children's tape recorder, "My First Sony". He follows the events and reports them accurately, a fact which emphasizes the comic aspect of painful developments, such as his parents' separation and the inevitable ending… An award-winning monodrama, which has toured Israel, Europe and America, for more than 15 years! "A pleasant surprise. Beautifully crafted and performed." - Global T.V., Canada

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Music, comedy/Little use of language

You won't believe this show. You just won't! Gail Whitmore AKA The Human Jukebox knows around 2,000 songs across a host of eclectic genres. This is your show too so holla out your requests, don't be shy! The Human Jukebox will perform them unaccompanied and from memory from her vast song book. The medley that caps the show - from opera to rap - must be seen to be believed!

Language: In English/Czech

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theater

"Unnervingly and painfully hilarious, like tickling with a sharp metal brush" - unintelligible demystifying piece to last forty-five minutes. Neither very theatrical, nor audible, nor particularly important. Certainly idealistic though. And quick. Too quick some might say. "Their work incarnates a very rare and exciting mode of live performance which is at once art and entertainment [...] enlivened by a relentless openness to risk." - Cambridge Literary Review, Easter 2010

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based

In the mid-1600s, the Elders of a Moravian village ordered their Executioner to open 31 graves. The medical examiners’ conclusion was that 21 corpses were to be hacked into pieces and burnt, the ashes dispersed in a river. The villagers stared into the sky to avoid the gaze of the priest. The healer was gone and her husband was waiting to pay for what she’d done.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Is there a more positive value than professionalism? A hit man is in deep crisis. His prospective future is now a boring and lonely retirement, but the assassin, a consummate professional, must find a way to recover brilliantly. "The script is elegant and beautiful, and there is no denying Borgia’s personal charm. Variations on Paolo Conte’s classic ‘Via con me’, seamlessly fade into the most important moments of the monologue, making the experience irresistibly swish in a way that only Italians ever manage." - FEST

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Hailing from Sydney, Australia this young, vibrant musician brings a new flavour to Pop music. Mashing, Electro, Indie and Jazz soundscapes her performances are refreshing yet quirky. "Vocally, a mix of Regina Spektor and Norah Jones"- Triple J Unearthed. After performing her new E.P "PINK LEMONADE" in Australia and New Zealand Phebe has set sail to the Praha Fringe Festival. If you like intelligent pop, you will love Phebe Starr!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

In Carlo Jacucci’s funniest acts of 2010, five characters animated by frantic incoherence turn life upside down creating an absurd show that opens a special place in your mind. A runner’s improbable robberies, a ferocious parody of fashion and men’s attributes, a caterpillar joyfully eating, a dancing sailor learning to communicate: Vitamin is a hilarious and provocative piece of comic theatre emerging from the distillation of cabaret scenes across Europe.

Language: In Gibberish

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Alasdair makes a triumphant return to the Fringe with his acclaimed new album Second-Hand Lullabies, chock-full with uplifting, lighter-waving anthems and heartbreakingly intimate paeans to love. Melodic power-pop meets blue-eyed soul in this atmospheric acoustic concert, with special guests and a few surprises. "Terrific... as if the ghost of Otis Redding has stumbled into the room." - The Guardian,UK "Sophisticated song writing... every song strikes you as an instant classic." - Expats.cz

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre and Food

A great new addition to your Fringe experience...we've teamed up with our friends at Belushi's to offer sneak peaks of this year's Fringe acts over lunch time, mention the magic word "FRINGE" and receive a special 25% discount! Between 12 and 2pm you might just catch Fringe 2011 show previews featuring the stars themselves! Meet with fellow Fringe Friends and enjoy the surprise pop-up performances of fringe shows, conversation, hot tips and tasty grub (Belushi's offers 15 sandwiches, including veggie...sample a new one daily!). Who (and what) will be your favorites this year?

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Comedy/Text based

A hilarious collection of six 1-act plays by David Ives, performed by Award-Winning British youth group Windermere Productions. These are off-beat pieces about all manner of topics: form the awkward trepidation of first love to the regrets when facing death to chimps writing Shakespeare! All dealing with the communication, or lack of it, that transcends language barriers! Utterly Delightful." – The New York Times

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Puppet Theatre

Smoking Apples invite you to embark on a journey with us, through trial and tribulation, but for the ultimate destination where we give you back your dreams… "Rain was pouring in London Town"… people pass you by, time ticks away through a typical British morning until, out of the settling gloom an almost tangible and apparently invisible force emerges… what this force offers is for every individual to discover... A romantic, tragic, cheeky tale of human endeavour and heartbreak.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Clown/Little use of language

Outside the Pearly Gates the original sinner, Adam, waits for God. There's been a terrible mistake and it wasn't Adam's fault! He wants to be back in Paradise! Prague Fringe 2009 Inspiration Award nominee Simian Features' latest production - inspired by Mark Twain's irreverent stories The Diaries of Adam and Eve - is a surreal mix of physical theatre, wordless clown comedy, and biblical balloon modelling! Warning: May contain nuts!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A tour de force performance following a woman through her crisis of faith as she prepares to sing during the services of her snake-handling church in the American South. Overwhelmed by a flood of childhood memories, she struggles to understand the frightening truth about the attempt on her life by her husband...death by snake! A welcome return to the Fringe for critically acclaimed company, The Bear Gardens.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Dance Theatre

Sam? is the story about a small town man's journey to New York City for his one true love. Can simplicity survive amongst modern chaos? Combining minimalistic theatre with multimedia maximalism, we find out. "An earnest and encouraging American company....the troupe's energy is infectious and winning." - Prague Post

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

A monologue with the scent of food and spices. Dutchman Iwan Dam sings, acts and above all, he cooks in this culinary drama play. Grinding, dicing, and cooking the food; every action has a theatrical meaning and slowly reveals the chefs troubled love life. "Unrequited love, songs and cooking, Iwan Dam has hit on a winning combination." - Stage Edinburgh "You’ll have to watch and taste his show." - Herald Scotland

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 12+

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

Dr Brown returns to the Prague Fringe for a third year of earth-shaking madness. Surrealism mixed with pictures of his cousins eating rice, Dr Brown will make you laugh, stare, wonder, and paint your teeth red. "About as bonkers an hour of comedy as ever you would find - part Mr Bean, part Buster Keaton, all odd." - Sunday Times Pick of the Prague Fringe, 2009 and 2010

Language: In English and Swahili

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Refreshingly surreal and bursting with energy, Impossible N’est Pas Français is a celebration of the inevitable humiliation of being a foreigner. Lucy Hopkins weaves a dark and funny tale of ex-patriotism without borders.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Alone on Valentine’s Day in a wood cabin in the far north of Alberta’s cattle country, how did Marjorie, a city girl, get so far out of her depth? Hailed as “One of the most important playwrights working in Canada today,” Joan MacLeod’s play Jewel” is a hauntingly beautiful story of an every-day extraordinary woman finding the unexpected resilience of her own heart. A tour de force performance!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Evocative, humorous, deeply touching, yet delicately challenging solo physical theatre. The piece opens to find the philosopher reflecting and deliberating on the question: "What is a Man?" - and unfolds through a skilful fusion of movement, theatre, poetry, mime, and poignant symbolism, taking us on an evocative journey through the lives, personal identities, and tangible experiences of different characters, offering compelling physical-dialogue and yearning insight into the complex identity of ‘man’/kind.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Little use of language

There’s a beautiful home for sale in Sunnyville right next door to Ted, Alice, Bob and Mae! You could play golf every day with Ted, bake apple pie with Alice, walk your dog with Bob, and make homemade lemonade with Mae. But what if you were different? A hilarious, fast-moving show combining weird and wonderful masked characters and outrageous physical comedy from these Fringe 2010 award nominees!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Cabaret/Text based

Merri-May Gill has a dream: to turn the small country town of Moree, Australia, into the cultural capital of the world. She is taking the best of European cities and dumping them on the unaware country folk back home. After starting with Paris, she is now targeting Prague for cultural inspiration. With the help of Janice (from Moree Public Library), Merri-May will take you on a stupendous cabaret journey!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

Can the most vulnerable hold the most power? Saskia & Rembrandt. Maar & Picasso. Lydia Cassatt & Mary Cassatt. Lupe Marin & Diego Rivera. Renee Monchaty & Pierre Bonnard. What is the artist’s role in the life of a model? What is the model’s role in the biography of an artist? Using fragments of found text, this solo piece uncovers the unsuspected power of the naked person in the room.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only. This show contains full frontal nudity.

Genre: Thearte/Text based

Het Geluid Maastricht winner of the Amsterdam Fringe, explores in Life is too good to be true the role of truth in our present day (pop)culture. Starting as a portrayal of infamous young American lying Journalist Stephen Glass this performances becomes a theatrical exploration that involves some grouptherapy, some pinkribbons, a bit of lady gaga, a lot of scary dogs and a whole lot of the lies we all tell ourselves today.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What starts as a riddle seems so charming and pure, but beneath the veneer is a manipulative lure. Be careful what you wish for, because it may very well come true, and in the end you'll figure out that the trick is being played on you. A welcome return for award winning In the Name of…Theatre Creations.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Yotam, an eleven years old child, obsessed with documentation, records everything in his children's tape recorder, "My First Sony". He follows the events and reports them accurately, a fact which emphasizes the comic aspect of painful developments, such as his parents' separation and the inevitable ending… An award-winning monodrama, which has toured Israel, Europe and America, for more than 15 years! "A pleasant surprise. Beautifully crafted and performed." - Global T.V., Canada

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theater

"Unnervingly and painfully hilarious, like tickling with a sharp metal brush" - unintelligible demystifying piece to last forty-five minutes. Neither very theatrical, nor audible, nor particularly important. Certainly idealistic though. And quick. Too quick some might say. "Their work incarnates a very rare and exciting mode of live performance which is at once art and entertainment [...] enlivened by a relentless openness to risk." - Cambridge Literary Review, Easter 2010

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

Anti-hero or Villain? Abused minority or fat cat banker? Shakespeare's portrayal of Shylock, continues to provoke and divide audiences around the world. Middlesbrough College BA (Hons) Theatre students present a contemporary re-imaging of 'The Merchant of Venice', creating a nightmare vision of 'Shylock's' darkest thoughts.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

In the mid-1600s, the Elders of a Moravian village ordered their Executioner to open 31 graves. The medical examiners’ conclusion was that 21 corpses were to be hacked into pieces and burnt, the ashes dispersed in a river. The villagers stared into the sky to avoid the gaze of the priest. The healer was gone and her husband was waiting to pay for what she’d done.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Is there a more positive value than professionalism? A hit man is in deep crisis. His prospective future is now a boring and lonely retirement, but the assassin, a consummate professional, must find a way to recover brilliantly. "The script is elegant and beautiful, and there is no denying Borgia’s personal charm. Variations on Paolo Conte’s classic ‘Via con me’, seamlessly fade into the most important moments of the monologue, making the experience irresistibly swish in a way that only Italians ever manage." - FEST

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Hailing from Sydney, Australia this young, vibrant musician brings a new flavour to Pop music. Mashing, Electro, Indie and Jazz soundscapes her performances are refreshing yet quirky. "Vocally, a mix of Regina Spektor and Norah Jones"- Triple J Unearthed. After performing her new E.P "PINK LEMONADE" in Australia and New Zealand Phebe has set sail to the Praha Fringe Festival. If you like intelligent pop, you will love Phebe Starr!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

In Carlo Jacucci’s funniest acts of 2010, five characters animated by frantic incoherence turn life upside down creating an absurd show that opens a special place in your mind. A runner’s improbable robberies, a ferocious parody of fashion and men’s attributes, a caterpillar joyfully eating, a dancing sailor learning to communicate: Vitamin is a hilarious and provocative piece of comic theatre emerging from the distillation of cabaret scenes across Europe.

Language: In Gibberish

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre and Food

A great new addition to your Fringe experience...we've teamed up with our friends at Belushi's to offer sneak peaks of this year's Fringe acts over lunch time, mention the magic word "FRINGE" and receive a special 25% discount! Between 12 and 2pm you might just catch Fringe 2011 show previews featuring the stars themselves! Meet with fellow Fringe Friends and enjoy the surprise pop-up performances of fringe shows, conversation, hot tips and tasty grub (Belushi's offers 15 sandwiches, including veggie...sample a new one daily!). Who (and what) will be your favorites this year?

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What starts as a riddle seems so charming and pure, but beneath the veneer is a manipulative lure. Be careful what you wish for, because it may very well come true, and in the end you'll figure out that the trick is being played on you. A welcome return for award winning In the Name of…Theatre Creations.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre/Little use of language

There’s a beautiful home for sale in Sunnyville right next door to Ted, Alice, Bob and Mae! You could play golf every day with Ted, bake apple pie with Alice, walk your dog with Bob, and make homemade lemonade with Mae. But what if you were different? A hilarious, fast-moving show combining weird and wonderful masked characters and outrageous physical comedy from these Fringe 2010 award nominees!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Clown/Little use of language

Outside the Pearly Gates the original sinner, Adam, waits for God. There's been a terrible mistake and it wasn't Adam's fault! He wants to be back in Paradise! Prague Fringe 2009 Inspiration Award nominee Simian Features' latest production - inspired by Mark Twain's irreverent stories The Diaries of Adam and Eve - is a surreal mix of physical theatre, wordless clown comedy, and biblical balloon modelling! Warning: May contain nuts!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

Can the most vulnerable hold the most power? Saskia & Rembrandt. Maar & Picasso. Lydia Cassatt & Mary Cassatt. Lupe Marin & Diego Rivera. Renee Monchaty & Pierre Bonnard. What is the artist’s role in the life of a model? What is the model’s role in the biography of an artist? Using fragments of found text, this solo piece uncovers the unsuspected power of the naked person in the room.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only. This show contains full frontal nudity.

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Dance Theatre

Sam? is the story about a small town man's journey to New York City for his one true love. Can simplicity survive amongst modern chaos? Combining minimalistic theatre with multimedia maximalism, we find out. "An earnest and encouraging American company....the troupe's energy is infectious and winning." - Prague Post

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

A monologue with the scent of food and spices. Dutchman Iwan Dam sings, acts and above all, he cooks in this culinary drama play. Grinding, dicing, and cooking the food; every action has a theatrical meaning and slowly reveals the chefs troubled love life. "Unrequited love, songs and cooking, Iwan Dam has hit on a winning combination." - Stage Edinburgh "You’ll have to watch and taste his show." - Herald Scotland

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 12+

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

Dr Brown returns to the Prague Fringe for a third year of earth-shaking madness. Surrealism mixed with pictures of his cousins eating rice, Dr Brown will make you laugh, stare, wonder, and paint your teeth red. "About as bonkers an hour of comedy as ever you would find - part Mr Bean, part Buster Keaton, all odd." - Sunday Times Pick of the Prague Fringe, 2009 and 2010

Language: In English and Swahili

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Refreshingly surreal and bursting with energy, Impossible N’est Pas Français is a celebration of the inevitable humiliation of being a foreigner. Lucy Hopkins weaves a dark and funny tale of ex-patriotism without borders.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Alone on Valentine’s Day in a wood cabin in the far north of Alberta’s cattle country, how did Marjorie, a city girl, get so far out of her depth? Hailed as “One of the most important playwrights working in Canada today,” Joan MacLeod’s play Jewel” is a hauntingly beautiful story of an every-day extraordinary woman finding the unexpected resilience of her own heart. A tour de force performance!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Evocative, humorous, deeply touching, yet delicately challenging solo physical theatre. The piece opens to find the philosopher reflecting and deliberating on the question: "What is a Man?" - and unfolds through a skilful fusion of movement, theatre, poetry, mime, and poignant symbolism, taking us on an evocative journey through the lives, personal identities, and tangible experiences of different characters, offering compelling physical-dialogue and yearning insight into the complex identity of ‘man’/kind.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A solo-show full of heart, humor and magic about a young man who’s the first to own a camera in his entire village and how with it he creates a connection spanning a century between a Serbian woman escaping a war and an American writer in search of his roots. A collaboration between a Serbian and American theater company, Visitor is about imagining history, slowing time and collaboration itself.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Little use of language

FAT CATS, VANITIES, THE NOBODIES and other characters, meet Pilgrim on his dream-like journey towards self-discovery. Told through mime, dance and dialogue, with a diverse soundtrack of musical styles, this allegorical tale is at times, funny, touching, outrageous, surreal and beautiful. Winners of Best Musical On The Fringe for "The Bird" - Fringe Report 2008 This multi-award winning company challenges all preconceptions.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Cabaret/Text based

Merri-May Gill has a dream: to turn the small country town of Moree, Australia, into the cultural capital of the world. She is taking the best of European cities and dumping them on the unaware country folk back home. After starting with Paris, she is now targeting Prague for cultural inspiration. With the help of Janice (from Moree Public Library), Merri-May will take you on a stupendous cabaret journey!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: In English/Text based

Jump aboard this naughty romp in a behind-the-curtains peek at Buckingham Palace loos, Princess Anne's hair-style, and gin-soaked royal antics. Follow an all-American (bad) boy with wide eyes, a sharp focus, and money to raise as he navigates past butlers and duchesses to where the royal power lies, taking narrative corners fast and missing not one trick along the way.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

The most vivid, surprising and entertaining of Charles Dickens’ unforgettable creations bear witness to injustice in Victorian England. In our global economy, cruelty and exploitation have not gone away; Dickens' message has a renewed relevance. He knew how to sway to an audience, using both comedy and tragedy. This solo performance by Fringe favourite Michael McEvoy, featuring Charles Dickens’ most fantastical, comical and larger-than-life characters, is brim-full of both. "The audience was enthralled." - Lahore Daily Times.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Thearte/Text based

Het Geluid Maastricht winner of the Amsterdam Fringe, explores in Life is too good to be true the role of truth in our present day (pop)culture. Starting as a portrayal of infamous young American lying Journalist Stephen Glass this performances becomes a theatrical exploration that involves some grouptherapy, some pinkribbons, a bit of lady gaga, a lot of scary dogs and a whole lot of the lies we all tell ourselves today.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A tour de force performance following a woman through her crisis of faith as she prepares to sing during the services of her snake-handling church in the American South. Overwhelmed by a flood of childhood memories, she struggles to understand the frightening truth about the attempt on her life by her husband...death by snake! A welcome return to the Fringe for critically acclaimed company, The Bear Gardens.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Yotam, an eleven years old child, obsessed with documentation, records everything in his children's tape recorder, "My First Sony". He follows the events and reports them accurately, a fact which emphasizes the comic aspect of painful developments, such as his parents' separation and the inevitable ending… An award-winning monodrama, which has toured Israel, Europe and America, for more than 15 years! "A pleasant surprise. Beautifully crafted and performed." - Global T.V., Canada

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Non-verbal

Winner of Inspiration Award, Fringe Festival Praha 2010 for Kaguya, Makoto Inoue returns with this captivating new piece. "Neo Japanesque Mime Art ! A new approach to William Shakespeare !" "The extreme concentration of this actor was felt with my whole body. Breathless, I watched, listened and experienced nearly an hour of movement. In return I was moved, both physically and emotionally." *****Fringe Review of Amsterdam Fringe 2010

Language: Non-verbal

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theater

"Unnervingly and painfully hilarious, like tickling with a sharp metal brush" - unintelligible demystifying piece to last forty-five minutes. Neither very theatrical, nor audible, nor particularly important. Certainly idealistic though. And quick. Too quick some might say. "Their work incarnates a very rare and exciting mode of live performance which is at once art and entertainment [...] enlivened by a relentless openness to risk." - Cambridge Literary Review, Easter 2010

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

Anti-hero or Villain? Abused minority or fat cat banker? Shakespeare's portrayal of Shylock, continues to provoke and divide audiences around the world. Middlesbrough College BA (Hons) Theatre students present a contemporary re-imaging of 'The Merchant of Venice', creating a nightmare vision of 'Shylock's' darkest thoughts.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Comedy/Text based but visual

"Dependably and consistently funny" (ThreeWeeks Magazine) comedy theatre group WastedINK are proud to present Seventh Circle, a darkly comic and peculiar tale that sees two charlatan clairvoyants pay the price for their ill-gotten fame. Following on from their success at Edinburgh Fringe 2010, WastedINK’s second attempt at comedy is a bizarre yet touching story with hilarious consequences and a devilish outcome.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 12+

Genre: Theatre/Text based

In the mid-1600s, the Elders of a Moravian village ordered their Executioner to open 31 graves. The medical examiners’ conclusion was that 21 corpses were to be hacked into pieces and burnt, the ashes dispersed in a river. The villagers stared into the sky to avoid the gaze of the priest. The healer was gone and her husband was waiting to pay for what she’d done.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Is there a more positive value than professionalism? A hit man is in deep crisis. His prospective future is now a boring and lonely retirement, but the assassin, a consummate professional, must find a way to recover brilliantly. "The script is elegant and beautiful, and there is no denying Borgia’s personal charm. Variations on Paolo Conte’s classic ‘Via con me’, seamlessly fade into the most important moments of the monologue, making the experience irresistibly swish in a way that only Italians ever manage." - FEST

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Hailing from Sydney, Australia this young, vibrant musician brings a new flavour to Pop music. Mashing, Electro, Indie and Jazz soundscapes her performances are refreshing yet quirky. "Vocally, a mix of Regina Spektor and Norah Jones"- Triple J Unearthed. After performing her new E.P "PINK LEMONADE" in Australia and New Zealand Phebe has set sail to the Praha Fringe Festival. If you like intelligent pop, you will love Phebe Starr!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

In Carlo Jacucci’s funniest acts of 2010, five characters animated by frantic incoherence turn life upside down creating an absurd show that opens a special place in your mind. A runner’s improbable robberies, a ferocious parody of fashion and men’s attributes, a caterpillar joyfully eating, a dancing sailor learning to communicate: Vitamin is a hilarious and provocative piece of comic theatre emerging from the distillation of cabaret scenes across Europe.

Language: In Gibberish

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre and Food

A great new addition to your Fringe experience...we've teamed up with our friends at Belushi's to offer sneak peaks of this year's Fringe acts over lunch time, mention the magic word "FRINGE" and receive a special 25% discount! Between 12 and 2pm you might just catch Fringe 2011 show previews featuring the stars themselves! Meet with fellow Fringe Friends and enjoy the surprise pop-up performances of fringe shows, conversation, hot tips and tasty grub (Belushi's offers 15 sandwiches, including veggie...sample a new one daily!). Who (and what) will be your favorites this year?

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What starts as a riddle seems so charming and pure, but beneath the veneer is a manipulative lure. Be careful what you wish for, because it may very well come true, and in the end you'll figure out that the trick is being played on you. A welcome return for award winning In the Name of…Theatre Creations.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre/Little use of language

There’s a beautiful home for sale in Sunnyville right next door to Ted, Alice, Bob and Mae! You could play golf every day with Ted, bake apple pie with Alice, walk your dog with Bob, and make homemade lemonade with Mae. But what if you were different? A hilarious, fast-moving show combining weird and wonderful masked characters and outrageous physical comedy from these Fringe 2010 award nominees!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

Dr Brown returns to the Prague Fringe for a third year of earth-shaking madness. Surrealism mixed with pictures of his cousins eating rice, Dr Brown will make you laugh, stare, wonder, and paint your teeth red. "About as bonkers an hour of comedy as ever you would find - part Mr Bean, part Buster Keaton, all odd." - Sunday Times Pick of the Prague Fringe, 2009 and 2010

Language: In English and Swahili

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Clown/Little use of language

Outside the Pearly Gates the original sinner, Adam, waits for God. There's been a terrible mistake and it wasn't Adam's fault! He wants to be back in Paradise! Prague Fringe 2009 Inspiration Award nominee Simian Features' latest production - inspired by Mark Twain's irreverent stories The Diaries of Adam and Eve - is a surreal mix of physical theatre, wordless clown comedy, and biblical balloon modelling! Warning: May contain nuts!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

"I was born in 1931 in Prague into a Jewish family and as such I was condemned to death …". Devised using first hand testimony and performed by students from The English International School of Prague, Empty Hands tells the captivating story of the unexpected highs and appalling lows of life at Terezín, through the eyes of a 10 year old girl who is deported to the ghetto in 1941.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

Can the most vulnerable hold the most power? Saskia & Rembrandt. Maar & Picasso. Lydia Cassatt & Mary Cassatt. Lupe Marin & Diego Rivera. Renee Monchaty & Pierre Bonnard. What is the artist’s role in the life of a model? What is the model’s role in the biography of an artist? Using fragments of found text, this solo piece uncovers the unsuspected power of the naked person in the room.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only. This show contains full frontal nudity.

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Evocative, humorous, deeply touching, yet delicately challenging solo physical theatre. The piece opens to find the philosopher reflecting and deliberating on the question: "What is a Man?" - and unfolds through a skilful fusion of movement, theatre, poetry, mime, and poignant symbolism, taking us on an evocative journey through the lives, personal identities, and tangible experiences of different characters, offering compelling physical-dialogue and yearning insight into the complex identity of ‘man’/kind.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

A monologue with the scent of food and spices. Dutchman Iwan Dam sings, acts and above all, he cooks in this culinary drama play. Grinding, dicing, and cooking the food; every action has a theatrical meaning and slowly reveals the chefs troubled love life. "Unrequited love, songs and cooking, Iwan Dam has hit on a winning combination." - Stage Edinburgh "You’ll have to watch and taste his show." - Herald Scotland

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 12+

Genre: Spoken Word/Text based

How many ways does Glue hold our lives together? Festival favourite Annie Moir considers them all in her one-woman show, a unique, thought provoking collage of poetry and reflections on life all lovingly pasted and bonded together with music. "You’ll be Glued to your seats throughout.. Moir’s poetry is built out of her great appetite for life, uncomplicated, light-hearted fare, served up warmly." - Prague Post 2009

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Refreshingly surreal and bursting with energy, Impossible N’est Pas Français is a celebration of the inevitable humiliation of being a foreigner. Lucy Hopkins weaves a dark and funny tale of ex-patriotism without borders.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Alone on Valentine’s Day in a wood cabin in the far north of Alberta’s cattle country, how did Marjorie, a city girl, get so far out of her depth? Hailed as “One of the most important playwrights working in Canada today,” Joan MacLeod’s play Jewel” is a hauntingly beautiful story of an every-day extraordinary woman finding the unexpected resilience of her own heart. A tour de force performance!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Dance Theatre

Sam? is the story about a small town man's journey to New York City for his one true love. Can simplicity survive amongst modern chaos? Combining minimalistic theatre with multimedia maximalism, we find out. "An earnest and encouraging American company....the troupe's energy is infectious and winning." - Prague Post

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A solo-show full of heart, humor and magic about a young man who’s the first to own a camera in his entire village and how with it he creates a connection spanning a century between a Serbian woman escaping a war and an American writer in search of his roots. A collaboration between a Serbian and American theater company, Visitor is about imagining history, slowing time and collaboration itself.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Little use of language

FAT CATS, VANITIES, THE NOBODIES and other characters, meet Pilgrim on his dream-like journey towards self-discovery. Told through mime, dance and dialogue, with a diverse soundtrack of musical styles, this allegorical tale is at times, funny, touching, outrageous, surreal and beautiful. Winners of Best Musical On The Fringe for "The Bird" - Fringe Report 2008 This multi-award winning company challenges all preconceptions.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Cabaret/Text based

Merri-May Gill has a dream: to turn the small country town of Moree, Australia, into the cultural capital of the world. She is taking the best of European cities and dumping them on the unaware country folk back home. After starting with Paris, she is now targeting Prague for cultural inspiration. With the help of Janice (from Moree Public Library), Merri-May will take you on a stupendous cabaret journey!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: In English/Text based

Jump aboard this naughty romp in a behind-the-curtains peek at Buckingham Palace loos, Princess Anne's hair-style, and gin-soaked royal antics. Follow an all-American (bad) boy with wide eyes, a sharp focus, and money to raise as he navigates past butlers and duchesses to where the royal power lies, taking narrative corners fast and missing not one trick along the way.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

The most vivid, surprising and entertaining of Charles Dickens’ unforgettable creations bear witness to injustice in Victorian England. In our global economy, cruelty and exploitation have not gone away; Dickens' message has a renewed relevance. He knew how to sway to an audience, using both comedy and tragedy. This solo performance by Fringe favourite Michael McEvoy, featuring Charles Dickens’ most fantastical, comical and larger-than-life characters, is brim-full of both. "The audience was enthralled." - Lahore Daily Times.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Thearte/Text based

Het Geluid Maastricht winner of the Amsterdam Fringe, explores in Life is too good to be true the role of truth in our present day (pop)culture. Starting as a portrayal of infamous young American lying Journalist Stephen Glass this performances becomes a theatrical exploration that involves some grouptherapy, some pinkribbons, a bit of lady gaga, a lot of scary dogs and a whole lot of the lies we all tell ourselves today.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A tour de force performance following a woman through her crisis of faith as she prepares to sing during the services of her snake-handling church in the American South. Overwhelmed by a flood of childhood memories, she struggles to understand the frightening truth about the attempt on her life by her husband...death by snake! A welcome return to the Fringe for critically acclaimed company, The Bear Gardens.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Yotam, an eleven years old child, obsessed with documentation, records everything in his children's tape recorder, "My First Sony". He follows the events and reports them accurately, a fact which emphasizes the comic aspect of painful developments, such as his parents' separation and the inevitable ending… An award-winning monodrama, which has toured Israel, Europe and America, for more than 15 years! "A pleasant surprise. Beautifully crafted and performed." - Global T.V., Canada

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Non-verbal

Winner of Inspiration Award, Fringe Festival Praha 2010 for Kaguya, Makoto Inoue returns with this captivating new piece. "Neo Japanesque Mime Art ! A new approach to William Shakespeare !" "The extreme concentration of this actor was felt with my whole body. Breathless, I watched, listened and experienced nearly an hour of movement. In return I was moved, both physically and emotionally." *****Fringe Review of Amsterdam Fringe 2010

Language: Non-verbal

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

Dr Brown returns to the Prague Fringe for a third year of earth-shaking madness. Surrealism mixed with pictures of his cousins eating rice, Dr Brown will make you laugh, stare, wonder, and paint your teeth red. "About as bonkers an hour of comedy as ever you would find - part Mr Bean, part Buster Keaton, all odd." - Sunday Times Pick of the Prague Fringe, 2009 and 2010

Language: In English and Swahili

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

Anti-hero or Villain? Abused minority or fat cat banker? Shakespeare's portrayal of Shylock, continues to provoke and divide audiences around the world. Middlesbrough College BA (Hons) Theatre students present a contemporary re-imaging of 'The Merchant of Venice', creating a nightmare vision of 'Shylock's' darkest thoughts.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Comedy/Text based but visual

"Dependably and consistently funny" (ThreeWeeks Magazine) comedy theatre group WastedINK are proud to present Seventh Circle, a darkly comic and peculiar tale that sees two charlatan clairvoyants pay the price for their ill-gotten fame. Following on from their success at Edinburgh Fringe 2010, WastedINK’s second attempt at comedy is a bizarre yet touching story with hilarious consequences and a devilish outcome.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 12+

Genre: Theatre/Text based

In the mid-1600s, the Elders of a Moravian village ordered their Executioner to open 31 graves. The medical examiners’ conclusion was that 21 corpses were to be hacked into pieces and burnt, the ashes dispersed in a river. The villagers stared into the sky to avoid the gaze of the priest. The healer was gone and her husband was waiting to pay for what she’d done.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Is there a more positive value than professionalism? A hit man is in deep crisis. His prospective future is now a boring and lonely retirement, but the assassin, a consummate professional, must find a way to recover brilliantly. "The script is elegant and beautiful, and there is no denying Borgia’s personal charm. Variations on Paolo Conte’s classic ‘Via con me’, seamlessly fade into the most important moments of the monologue, making the experience irresistibly swish in a way that only Italians ever manage." - FEST

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Hailing from Sydney, Australia this young, vibrant musician brings a new flavour to Pop music. Mashing, Electro, Indie and Jazz soundscapes her performances are refreshing yet quirky. "Vocally, a mix of Regina Spektor and Norah Jones"- Triple J Unearthed. After performing her new E.P "PINK LEMONADE" in Australia and New Zealand Phebe has set sail to the Praha Fringe Festival. If you like intelligent pop, you will love Phebe Starr!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

In Carlo Jacucci’s funniest acts of 2010, five characters animated by frantic incoherence turn life upside down creating an absurd show that opens a special place in your mind. A runner’s improbable robberies, a ferocious parody of fashion and men’s attributes, a caterpillar joyfully eating, a dancing sailor learning to communicate: Vitamin is a hilarious and provocative piece of comic theatre emerging from the distillation of cabaret scenes across Europe.

Language: In Gibberish

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre and Food

A great new addition to your Fringe experience...we've teamed up with our friends at Belushi's to offer sneak peaks of this year's Fringe acts over lunch time, mention the magic word "FRINGE" and receive a special 25% discount! Between 12 and 2pm you might just catch Fringe 2011 show previews featuring the stars themselves! Meet with fellow Fringe Friends and enjoy the surprise pop-up performances of fringe shows, conversation, hot tips and tasty grub (Belushi's offers 15 sandwiches, including veggie...sample a new one daily!). Who (and what) will be your favorites this year?

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What starts as a riddle seems so charming and pure, but beneath the veneer is a manipulative lure. Be careful what you wish for, because it may very well come true, and in the end you'll figure out that the trick is being played on you. A welcome return for award winning In the Name of…Theatre Creations.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Yotam, an eleven years old child, obsessed with documentation, records everything in his children's tape recorder, "My First Sony". He follows the events and reports them accurately, a fact which emphasizes the comic aspect of painful developments, such as his parents' separation and the inevitable ending… An award-winning monodrama, which has toured Israel, Europe and America, for more than 15 years! "A pleasant surprise. Beautifully crafted and performed." - Global T.V., Canada

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre/Little use of language

There’s a beautiful home for sale in Sunnyville right next door to Ted, Alice, Bob and Mae! You could play golf every day with Ted, bake apple pie with Alice, walk your dog with Bob, and make homemade lemonade with Mae. But what if you were different? A hilarious, fast-moving show combining weird and wonderful masked characters and outrageous physical comedy from these Fringe 2010 award nominees!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

Dr Brown returns to the Prague Fringe for a third year of earth-shaking madness. Surrealism mixed with pictures of his cousins eating rice, Dr Brown will make you laugh, stare, wonder, and paint your teeth red. "About as bonkers an hour of comedy as ever you would find - part Mr Bean, part Buster Keaton, all odd." - Sunday Times Pick of the Prague Fringe, 2009 and 2010

Language: In English and Swahili

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Little use of language

We begin with nothing. We end with nothing. Clarissa finds herself in the middle. Quiet and still Clarissa watches as a couple struggles with power. She watches a woman choking on some bread. She watches liquid dripping in puddles. She watches as a woman becomes distressed with her position on stage, in life. She watches a man throw himself to the floor. She watches you. Come and watch her.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Clown/Little use of language

Outside the Pearly Gates the original sinner, Adam, waits for God. There's been a terrible mistake and it wasn't Adam's fault! He wants to be back in Paradise! Prague Fringe 2009 Inspiration Award nominee Simian Features' latest production - inspired by Mark Twain's irreverent stories The Diaries of Adam and Eve - is a surreal mix of physical theatre, wordless clown comedy, and biblical balloon modelling! Warning: May contain nuts!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

"I was born in 1931 in Prague into a Jewish family and as such I was condemned to death …". Devised using first hand testimony and performed by students from The English International School of Prague, Empty Hands tells the captivating story of the unexpected highs and appalling lows of life at Terezín, through the eyes of a 10 year old girl who is deported to the ghetto in 1941.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

Can the most vulnerable hold the most power? Saskia & Rembrandt. Maar & Picasso. Lydia Cassatt & Mary Cassatt. Lupe Marin & Diego Rivera. Renee Monchaty & Pierre Bonnard. What is the artist’s role in the life of a model? What is the model’s role in the biography of an artist? Using fragments of found text, this solo piece uncovers the unsuspected power of the naked person in the room.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only. This show contains full frontal nudity.

Genre: Music, comedy/Text based but visual

Welcome to "Hotel Red Cello" with its very rare collage of eccentric hotel residents; their confessions, accompanied by some delicious music scores. The hotel with the sonorous name conceals a collection of 'PLEASE DON T DISTURB!' rooms overridden with stories and self-spreading rumours. For guests sparkling wine or cooling seltzers, and live music with, but sex without "strings" provides a very up-to-date range of leisure activities!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Evocative, humorous, deeply touching, yet delicately challenging solo physical theatre. The piece opens to find the philosopher reflecting and deliberating on the question: "What is a Man?" - and unfolds through a skilful fusion of movement, theatre, poetry, mime, and poignant symbolism, taking us on an evocative journey through the lives, personal identities, and tangible experiences of different characters, offering compelling physical-dialogue and yearning insight into the complex identity of ‘man’/kind.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

A monologue with the scent of food and spices. Dutchman Iwan Dam sings, acts and above all, he cooks in this culinary drama play. Grinding, dicing, and cooking the food; every action has a theatrical meaning and slowly reveals the chefs troubled love life. "Unrequited love, songs and cooking, Iwan Dam has hit on a winning combination." - Stage Edinburgh "You’ll have to watch and taste his show." - Herald Scotland

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 12+

Genre: Spoken Word/Text based

How many ways does Glue hold our lives together? Festival favourite Annie Moir considers them all in her one-woman show, a unique, thought provoking collage of poetry and reflections on life all lovingly pasted and bonded together with music. "You’ll be Glued to your seats throughout.. Moir’s poetry is built out of her great appetite for life, uncomplicated, light-hearted fare, served up warmly." - Prague Post 2009

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Refreshingly surreal and bursting with energy, Impossible N’est Pas Français is a celebration of the inevitable humiliation of being a foreigner. Lucy Hopkins weaves a dark and funny tale of ex-patriotism without borders.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Alone on Valentine’s Day in a wood cabin in the far north of Alberta’s cattle country, how did Marjorie, a city girl, get so far out of her depth? Hailed as “One of the most important playwrights working in Canada today,” Joan MacLeod’s play Jewel” is a hauntingly beautiful story of an every-day extraordinary woman finding the unexpected resilience of her own heart. A tour de force performance!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Dance Theatre

Sam? is the story about a small town man's journey to New York City for his one true love. Can simplicity survive amongst modern chaos? Combining minimalistic theatre with multimedia maximalism, we find out. "An earnest and encouraging American company....the troupe's energy is infectious and winning." - Prague Post

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A solo-show full of heart, humor and magic about a young man who’s the first to own a camera in his entire village and how with it he creates a connection spanning a century between a Serbian woman escaping a war and an American writer in search of his roots. A collaboration between a Serbian and American theater company, Visitor is about imagining history, slowing time and collaboration itself.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Little use of language

FAT CATS, VANITIES, THE NOBODIES and other characters, meet Pilgrim on his dream-like journey towards self-discovery. Told through mime, dance and dialogue, with a diverse soundtrack of musical styles, this allegorical tale is at times, funny, touching, outrageous, surreal and beautiful. Winners of Best Musical On The Fringe for "The Bird" - Fringe Report 2008 This multi-award winning company challenges all preconceptions.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Cabaret/Text based

Merri-May Gill has a dream: to turn the small country town of Moree, Australia, into the cultural capital of the world. She is taking the best of European cities and dumping them on the unaware country folk back home. After starting with Paris, she is now targeting Prague for cultural inspiration. With the help of Janice (from Moree Public Library), Merri-May will take you on a stupendous cabaret journey!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: In English/Text based

Jump aboard this naughty romp in a behind-the-curtains peek at Buckingham Palace loos, Princess Anne's hair-style, and gin-soaked royal antics. Follow an all-American (bad) boy with wide eyes, a sharp focus, and money to raise as he navigates past butlers and duchesses to where the royal power lies, taking narrative corners fast and missing not one trick along the way.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

The most vivid, surprising and entertaining of Charles Dickens’ unforgettable creations bear witness to injustice in Victorian England. In our global economy, cruelty and exploitation have not gone away; Dickens' message has a renewed relevance. He knew how to sway to an audience, using both comedy and tragedy. This solo performance by Fringe favourite Michael McEvoy, featuring Charles Dickens’ most fantastical, comical and larger-than-life characters, is brim-full of both. "The audience was enthralled." - Lahore Daily Times.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Thearte/Text based

Het Geluid Maastricht winner of the Amsterdam Fringe, explores in Life is too good to be true the role of truth in our present day (pop)culture. Starting as a portrayal of infamous young American lying Journalist Stephen Glass this performances becomes a theatrical exploration that involves some grouptherapy, some pinkribbons, a bit of lady gaga, a lot of scary dogs and a whole lot of the lies we all tell ourselves today.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A tour de force performance following a woman through her crisis of faith as she prepares to sing during the services of her snake-handling church in the American South. Overwhelmed by a flood of childhood memories, she struggles to understand the frightening truth about the attempt on her life by her husband...death by snake! A welcome return to the Fringe for critically acclaimed company, The Bear Gardens.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Non-verbal

Winner of Inspiration Award, Fringe Festival Praha 2010 for Kaguya, Makoto Inoue returns with this captivating new piece. "Neo Japanesque Mime Art ! A new approach to William Shakespeare !" "The extreme concentration of this actor was felt with my whole body. Breathless, I watched, listened and experienced nearly an hour of movement. In return I was moved, both physically and emotionally." *****Fringe Review of Amsterdam Fringe 2010

Language: Non-verbal

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Little use of language

Talented singer songwriter Andi Neate returns for her 9th Fringe Festival. A compelling live performer, beautifully sculpted songs and crystal clear vocals. Andi has a gift for melody, memorable hooks and delightfully offbeat lyrics. Pick of the Fringe 09. "A talent you can’t afford to ignore." - Maverick magazine "Street-tough acoustic artist, looks set to go far." - MU magazine

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Puppet Theatre, Music, Comedy/little use of language

"We Are a Real" Theatre Company specialises very generally, using states of exhaustion and despondency to heighten the players' avoidance of theatrically viable endeavours, jars and hot dog buns. 'Men Avoid Jars' epitomises the Company's work; no genre goes untouched in this whirlwind of theatrical peculiarity. Contemporary, confusing and contagious and promising laugh a minute entertainment and a treat for anyone looking for something different at Fringe 2011.

Language: In English and part Czech

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre, Comedy/Text based but visual

"Dependably and consistently funny" (ThreeWeeks Magazine) comedy theatre group WastedINK are proud to present Seventh Circle, a darkly comic and peculiar tale that sees two charlatan clairvoyants pay the price for their ill-gotten fame. Following on from their success at Edinburgh Fringe 2010, WastedINK’s second attempt at comedy is a bizarre yet touching story with hilarious consequences and a devilish outcome.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 12+

Genre: Theatre/Text based

In the mid-1600s, the Elders of a Moravian village ordered their Executioner to open 31 graves. The medical examiners’ conclusion was that 21 corpses were to be hacked into pieces and burnt, the ashes dispersed in a river. The villagers stared into the sky to avoid the gaze of the priest. The healer was gone and her husband was waiting to pay for what she’d done.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Is there a more positive value than professionalism? A hit man is in deep crisis. His prospective future is now a boring and lonely retirement, but the assassin, a consummate professional, must find a way to recover brilliantly. "The script is elegant and beautiful, and there is no denying Borgia’s personal charm. Variations on Paolo Conte’s classic ‘Via con me’, seamlessly fade into the most important moments of the monologue, making the experience irresistibly swish in a way that only Italians ever manage." - FEST

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Hailing from Sydney, Australia this young, vibrant musician brings a new flavour to Pop music. Mashing, Electro, Indie and Jazz soundscapes her performances are refreshing yet quirky. "Vocally, a mix of Regina Spektor and Norah Jones"- Triple J Unearthed. After performing her new E.P "PINK LEMONADE" in Australia and New Zealand Phebe has set sail to the Praha Fringe Festival. If you like intelligent pop, you will love Phebe Starr!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

In Carlo Jacucci’s funniest acts of 2010, five characters animated by frantic incoherence turn life upside down creating an absurd show that opens a special place in your mind. A runner’s improbable robberies, a ferocious parody of fashion and men’s attributes, a caterpillar joyfully eating, a dancing sailor learning to communicate: Vitamin is a hilarious and provocative piece of comic theatre emerging from the distillation of cabaret scenes across Europe.

Language: In Gibberish

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre and Food

A great new addition to your Fringe experience...we've teamed up with our friends at Belushi's to offer sneak peaks of this year's Fringe acts over lunch time, mention the magic word "FRINGE" and receive a special 25% discount! Between 12 and 2pm you might just catch Fringe 2011 show previews featuring the stars themselves! Meet with fellow Fringe Friends and enjoy the surprise pop-up performances of fringe shows, conversation, hot tips and tasty grub (Belushi's offers 15 sandwiches, including veggie...sample a new one daily!). Who (and what) will be your favorites this year?

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What starts as a riddle seems so charming and pure, but beneath the veneer is a manipulative lure. Be careful what you wish for, because it may very well come true, and in the end you'll figure out that the trick is being played on you. A welcome return for award winning In the Name of…Theatre Creations.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre/Little use of language

There’s a beautiful home for sale in Sunnyville right next door to Ted, Alice, Bob and Mae! You could play golf every day with Ted, bake apple pie with Alice, walk your dog with Bob, and make homemade lemonade with Mae. But what if you were different? A hilarious, fast-moving show combining weird and wonderful masked characters and outrageous physical comedy from these Fringe 2010 award nominees!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Little use of language

We begin with nothing. We end with nothing. Clarissa finds herself in the middle. Quiet and still Clarissa watches as a couple struggles with power. She watches a woman choking on some bread. She watches liquid dripping in puddles. She watches as a woman becomes distressed with her position on stage, in life. She watches a man throw himself to the floor. She watches you. Come and watch her.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Clown/Little use of language

Outside the Pearly Gates the original sinner, Adam, waits for God. There's been a terrible mistake and it wasn't Adam's fault! He wants to be back in Paradise! Prague Fringe 2009 Inspiration Award nominee Simian Features' latest production - inspired by Mark Twain's irreverent stories The Diaries of Adam and Eve - is a surreal mix of physical theatre, wordless clown comedy, and biblical balloon modelling! Warning: May contain nuts!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

"I was born in 1931 in Prague into a Jewish family and as such I was condemned to death …". Devised using first hand testimony and performed by students from The English International School of Prague, Empty Hands tells the captivating story of the unexpected highs and appalling lows of life at Terezín, through the eyes of a 10 year old girl who is deported to the ghetto in 1941.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

Can the most vulnerable hold the most power? Saskia & Rembrandt. Maar & Picasso. Lydia Cassatt & Mary Cassatt. Lupe Marin & Diego Rivera. Renee Monchaty & Pierre Bonnard. What is the artist’s role in the life of a model? What is the model’s role in the biography of an artist? Using fragments of found text, this solo piece uncovers the unsuspected power of the naked person in the room.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only. This show contains full frontal nudity.

Genre: Music, comedy/Text based but visual

Welcome to "Hotel Red Cello" with its very rare collage of eccentric hotel residents; their confessions, accompanied by some delicious music scores. The hotel with the sonorous name conceals a collection of 'PLEASE DON T DISTURB!' rooms overridden with stories and self-spreading rumours. For guests sparkling wine or cooling seltzers, and live music with, but sex without "strings" provides a very up-to-date range of leisure activities!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Evocative, humorous, deeply touching, yet delicately challenging solo physical theatre. The piece opens to find the philosopher reflecting and deliberating on the question: "What is a Man?" - and unfolds through a skilful fusion of movement, theatre, poetry, mime, and poignant symbolism, taking us on an evocative journey through the lives, personal identities, and tangible experiences of different characters, offering compelling physical-dialogue and yearning insight into the complex identity of ‘man’/kind.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

A monologue with the scent of food and spices. Dutchman Iwan Dam sings, acts and above all, he cooks in this culinary drama play. Grinding, dicing, and cooking the food; every action has a theatrical meaning and slowly reveals the chefs troubled love life. "Unrequited love, songs and cooking, Iwan Dam has hit on a winning combination." - Stage Edinburgh "You’ll have to watch and taste his show." - Herald Scotland

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 12+

Genre: Spoken Word/Text based

How many ways does Glue hold our lives together? Festival favourite Annie Moir considers them all in her one-woman show, a unique, thought provoking collage of poetry and reflections on life all lovingly pasted and bonded together with music. "You’ll be Glued to your seats throughout.. Moir’s poetry is built out of her great appetite for life, uncomplicated, light-hearted fare, served up warmly." - Prague Post 2009

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Refreshingly surreal and bursting with energy, Impossible N’est Pas Français is a celebration of the inevitable humiliation of being a foreigner. Lucy Hopkins weaves a dark and funny tale of ex-patriotism without borders.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Alone on Valentine’s Day in a wood cabin in the far north of Alberta’s cattle country, how did Marjorie, a city girl, get so far out of her depth? Hailed as “One of the most important playwrights working in Canada today,” Joan MacLeod’s play Jewel” is a hauntingly beautiful story of an every-day extraordinary woman finding the unexpected resilience of her own heart. A tour de force performance!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Dance Theatre

Sam? is the story about a small town man's journey to New York City for his one true love. Can simplicity survive amongst modern chaos? Combining minimalistic theatre with multimedia maximalism, we find out. "An earnest and encouraging American company....the troupe's energy is infectious and winning." - Prague Post

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A solo-show full of heart, humor and magic about a young man who’s the first to own a camera in his entire village and how with it he creates a connection spanning a century between a Serbian woman escaping a war and an American writer in search of his roots. A collaboration between a Serbian and American theater company, Visitor is about imagining history, slowing time and collaboration itself.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Little use of language

FAT CATS, VANITIES, THE NOBODIES and other characters, meet Pilgrim on his dream-like journey towards self-discovery. Told through mime, dance and dialogue, with a diverse soundtrack of musical styles, this allegorical tale is at times, funny, touching, outrageous, surreal and beautiful. Winners of Best Musical On The Fringe for "The Bird" - Fringe Report 2008 This multi-award winning company challenges all preconceptions.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Cabaret/Text based

Merri-May Gill has a dream: to turn the small country town of Moree, Australia, into the cultural capital of the world. She is taking the best of European cities and dumping them on the unaware country folk back home. After starting with Paris, she is now targeting Prague for cultural inspiration. With the help of Janice (from Moree Public Library), Merri-May will take you on a stupendous cabaret journey!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: In English/Text based

Jump aboard this naughty romp in a behind-the-curtains peek at Buckingham Palace loos, Princess Anne's hair-style, and gin-soaked royal antics. Follow an all-American (bad) boy with wide eyes, a sharp focus, and money to raise as he navigates past butlers and duchesses to where the royal power lies, taking narrative corners fast and missing not one trick along the way.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

The most vivid, surprising and entertaining of Charles Dickens’ unforgettable creations bear witness to injustice in Victorian England. In our global economy, cruelty and exploitation have not gone away; Dickens' message has a renewed relevance. He knew how to sway to an audience, using both comedy and tragedy. This solo performance by Fringe favourite Michael McEvoy, featuring Charles Dickens’ most fantastical, comical and larger-than-life characters, is brim-full of both. "The audience was enthralled." - Lahore Daily Times.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Thearte/Text based

Het Geluid Maastricht winner of the Amsterdam Fringe, explores in Life is too good to be true the role of truth in our present day (pop)culture. Starting as a portrayal of infamous young American lying Journalist Stephen Glass this performances becomes a theatrical exploration that involves some grouptherapy, some pinkribbons, a bit of lady gaga, a lot of scary dogs and a whole lot of the lies we all tell ourselves today.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A tour de force performance following a woman through her crisis of faith as she prepares to sing during the services of her snake-handling church in the American South. Overwhelmed by a flood of childhood memories, she struggles to understand the frightening truth about the attempt on her life by her husband...death by snake! A welcome return to the Fringe for critically acclaimed company, The Bear Gardens.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Yotam, an eleven years old child, obsessed with documentation, records everything in his children's tape recorder, "My First Sony". He follows the events and reports them accurately, a fact which emphasizes the comic aspect of painful developments, such as his parents' separation and the inevitable ending… An award-winning monodrama, which has toured Israel, Europe and America, for more than 15 years! "A pleasant surprise. Beautifully crafted and performed." - Global T.V., Canada

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Non-verbal

Winner of Inspiration Award, Fringe Festival Praha 2010 for Kaguya, Makoto Inoue returns with this captivating new piece. "Neo Japanesque Mime Art ! A new approach to William Shakespeare !" "The extreme concentration of this actor was felt with my whole body. Breathless, I watched, listened and experienced nearly an hour of movement. In return I was moved, both physically and emotionally." *****Fringe Review of Amsterdam Fringe 2010

Language: Non-verbal

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Little use of language

Talented singer songwriter Andi Neate returns for her 9th Fringe Festival. A compelling live performer, beautifully sculpted songs and crystal clear vocals. Andi has a gift for melody, memorable hooks and delightfully offbeat lyrics. Pick of the Fringe 09. "A talent you can’t afford to ignore." - Maverick magazine "Street-tough acoustic artist, looks set to go far." - MU magazine

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Puppet Theatre, Music, Comedy/little use of language

"We Are a Real" Theatre Company specialises very generally, using states of exhaustion and despondency to heighten the players' avoidance of theatrically viable endeavours, jars and hot dog buns. 'Men Avoid Jars' epitomises the Company's work; no genre goes untouched in this whirlwind of theatrical peculiarity. Contemporary, confusing and contagious and promising laugh a minute entertainment and a treat for anyone looking for something different at Fringe 2011.

Language: In English and part Czech

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre, Comedy/Text based but visual

"Dependably and consistently funny" (ThreeWeeks Magazine) comedy theatre group WastedINK are proud to present Seventh Circle, a darkly comic and peculiar tale that sees two charlatan clairvoyants pay the price for their ill-gotten fame. Following on from their success at Edinburgh Fringe 2010, WastedINK’s second attempt at comedy is a bizarre yet touching story with hilarious consequences and a devilish outcome.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 12+

Genre: Theatre/Text based

In the mid-1600s, the Elders of a Moravian village ordered their Executioner to open 31 graves. The medical examiners’ conclusion was that 21 corpses were to be hacked into pieces and burnt, the ashes dispersed in a river. The villagers stared into the sky to avoid the gaze of the priest. The healer was gone and her husband was waiting to pay for what she’d done.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Is there a more positive value than professionalism? A hit man is in deep crisis. His prospective future is now a boring and lonely retirement, but the assassin, a consummate professional, must find a way to recover brilliantly. "The script is elegant and beautiful, and there is no denying Borgia’s personal charm. Variations on Paolo Conte’s classic ‘Via con me’, seamlessly fade into the most important moments of the monologue, making the experience irresistibly swish in a way that only Italians ever manage." - FEST

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Hailing from Sydney, Australia this young, vibrant musician brings a new flavour to Pop music. Mashing, Electro, Indie and Jazz soundscapes her performances are refreshing yet quirky. "Vocally, a mix of Regina Spektor and Norah Jones"- Triple J Unearthed. After performing her new E.P "PINK LEMONADE" in Australia and New Zealand Phebe has set sail to the Praha Fringe Festival. If you like intelligent pop, you will love Phebe Starr!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

In Carlo Jacucci’s funniest acts of 2010, five characters animated by frantic incoherence turn life upside down creating an absurd show that opens a special place in your mind. A runner’s improbable robberies, a ferocious parody of fashion and men’s attributes, a caterpillar joyfully eating, a dancing sailor learning to communicate: Vitamin is a hilarious and provocative piece of comic theatre emerging from the distillation of cabaret scenes across Europe.

Language: In Gibberish

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre and Food

A great new addition to your Fringe experience...we've teamed up with our friends at Belushi's to offer sneak peaks of this year's Fringe acts over lunch time, mention the magic word "FRINGE" and receive a special 25% discount! Between 12 and 2pm you might just catch Fringe 2011 show previews featuring the stars themselves! Meet with fellow Fringe Friends and enjoy the surprise pop-up performances of fringe shows, conversation, hot tips and tasty grub (Belushi's offers 15 sandwiches, including veggie...sample a new one daily!). Who (and what) will be your favorites this year?

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What starts as a riddle seems so charming and pure, but beneath the veneer is a manipulative lure. Be careful what you wish for, because it may very well come true, and in the end you'll figure out that the trick is being played on you. A welcome return for award winning In the Name of…Theatre Creations.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre/Little use of language

There’s a beautiful home for sale in Sunnyville right next door to Ted, Alice, Bob and Mae! You could play golf every day with Ted, bake apple pie with Alice, walk your dog with Bob, and make homemade lemonade with Mae. But what if you were different? A hilarious, fast-moving show combining weird and wonderful masked characters and outrageous physical comedy from these Fringe 2010 award nominees!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Little use of language

We begin with nothing. We end with nothing. Clarissa finds herself in the middle. Quiet and still Clarissa watches as a couple struggles with power. She watches a woman choking on some bread. She watches liquid dripping in puddles. She watches as a woman becomes distressed with her position on stage, in life. She watches a man throw himself to the floor. She watches you. Come and watch her.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Clown/Little use of language

Outside the Pearly Gates the original sinner, Adam, waits for God. There's been a terrible mistake and it wasn't Adam's fault! He wants to be back in Paradise! Prague Fringe 2009 Inspiration Award nominee Simian Features' latest production - inspired by Mark Twain's irreverent stories The Diaries of Adam and Eve - is a surreal mix of physical theatre, wordless clown comedy, and biblical balloon modelling! Warning: May contain nuts!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

"I was born in 1931 in Prague into a Jewish family and as such I was condemned to death …". Devised using first hand testimony and performed by students from The English International School of Prague, Empty Hands tells the captivating story of the unexpected highs and appalling lows of life at Terezín, through the eyes of a 10 year old girl who is deported to the ghetto in 1941.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

Can the most vulnerable hold the most power? Saskia & Rembrandt. Maar & Picasso. Lydia Cassatt & Mary Cassatt. Lupe Marin & Diego Rivera. Renee Monchaty & Pierre Bonnard. What is the artist’s role in the life of a model? What is the model’s role in the biography of an artist? Using fragments of found text, this solo piece uncovers the unsuspected power of the naked person in the room.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only. This show contains full frontal nudity.

Genre: Music, comedy/Text based but visual

Welcome to "Hotel Red Cello" with its very rare collage of eccentric hotel residents; their confessions, accompanied by some delicious music scores. The hotel with the sonorous name conceals a collection of 'PLEASE DON T DISTURB!' rooms overridden with stories and self-spreading rumours. For guests sparkling wine or cooling seltzers, and live music with, but sex without "strings" provides a very up-to-date range of leisure activities!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Evocative, humorous, deeply touching, yet delicately challenging solo physical theatre. The piece opens to find the philosopher reflecting and deliberating on the question: "What is a Man?" - and unfolds through a skilful fusion of movement, theatre, poetry, mime, and poignant symbolism, taking us on an evocative journey through the lives, personal identities, and tangible experiences of different characters, offering compelling physical-dialogue and yearning insight into the complex identity of ‘man’/kind.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based but visual

A monologue with the scent of food and spices. Dutchman Iwan Dam sings, acts and above all, he cooks in this culinary drama play. Grinding, dicing, and cooking the food; every action has a theatrical meaning and slowly reveals the chefs troubled love life. "Unrequited love, songs and cooking, Iwan Dam has hit on a winning combination." - Stage Edinburgh "You’ll have to watch and taste his show." - Herald Scotland

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 12+

Genre: Spoken Word/Text based

How many ways does Glue hold our lives together? Festival favourite Annie Moir considers them all in her one-woman show, a unique, thought provoking collage of poetry and reflections on life all lovingly pasted and bonded together with music. "You’ll be Glued to your seats throughout.. Moir’s poetry is built out of her great appetite for life, uncomplicated, light-hearted fare, served up warmly." - Prague Post 2009

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Physical Theatre/Text based but visual

Refreshingly surreal and bursting with energy, Impossible N’est Pas Français is a celebration of the inevitable humiliation of being a foreigner. Lucy Hopkins weaves a dark and funny tale of ex-patriotism without borders.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Alone on Valentine’s Day in a wood cabin in the far north of Alberta’s cattle country, how did Marjorie, a city girl, get so far out of her depth? Hailed as “One of the most important playwrights working in Canada today,” Joan MacLeod’s play Jewel” is a hauntingly beautiful story of an every-day extraordinary woman finding the unexpected resilience of her own heart. A tour de force performance!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Dance Theatre

Sam? is the story about a small town man's journey to New York City for his one true love. Can simplicity survive amongst modern chaos? Combining minimalistic theatre with multimedia maximalism, we find out. "An earnest and encouraging American company....the troupe's energy is infectious and winning." - Prague Post

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A solo-show full of heart, humor and magic about a young man who’s the first to own a camera in his entire village and how with it he creates a connection spanning a century between a Serbian woman escaping a war and an American writer in search of his roots. A collaboration between a Serbian and American theater company, Visitor is about imagining history, slowing time and collaboration itself.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Little use of language

FAT CATS, VANITIES, THE NOBODIES and other characters, meet Pilgrim on his dream-like journey towards self-discovery. Told through mime, dance and dialogue, with a diverse soundtrack of musical styles, this allegorical tale is at times, funny, touching, outrageous, surreal and beautiful. Winners of Best Musical On The Fringe for "The Bird" - Fringe Report 2008 This multi-award winning company challenges all preconceptions.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Cabaret/Text based

Merri-May Gill has a dream: to turn the small country town of Moree, Australia, into the cultural capital of the world. She is taking the best of European cities and dumping them on the unaware country folk back home. After starting with Paris, she is now targeting Prague for cultural inspiration. With the help of Janice (from Moree Public Library), Merri-May will take you on a stupendous cabaret journey!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

The most vivid, surprising and entertaining of Charles Dickens’ unforgettable creations bear witness to injustice in Victorian England. In our global economy, cruelty and exploitation have not gone away; Dickens' message has a renewed relevance. He knew how to sway to an audience, using both comedy and tragedy. This solo performance by Fringe favourite Michael McEvoy, featuring Charles Dickens’ most fantastical, comical and larger-than-life characters, is brim-full of both. "The audience was enthralled." - Lahore Daily Times.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Thearte/Text based

Het Geluid Maastricht winner of the Amsterdam Fringe, explores in Life is too good to be true the role of truth in our present day (pop)culture. Starting as a portrayal of infamous young American lying Journalist Stephen Glass this performances becomes a theatrical exploration that involves some grouptherapy, some pinkribbons, a bit of lady gaga, a lot of scary dogs and a whole lot of the lies we all tell ourselves today.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

A tour de force performance following a woman through her crisis of faith as she prepares to sing during the services of her snake-handling church in the American South. Overwhelmed by a flood of childhood memories, she struggles to understand the frightening truth about the attempt on her life by her husband...death by snake! A welcome return to the Fringe for critically acclaimed company, The Bear Gardens.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Yotam, an eleven years old child, obsessed with documentation, records everything in his children's tape recorder, "My First Sony". He follows the events and reports them accurately, a fact which emphasizes the comic aspect of painful developments, such as his parents' separation and the inevitable ending… An award-winning monodrama, which has toured Israel, Europe and America, for more than 15 years! "A pleasant surprise. Beautifully crafted and performed." - Global T.V., Canada

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Non-verbal

Winner of Inspiration Award, Fringe Festival Praha 2010 for Kaguya, Makoto Inoue returns with this captivating new piece. "Neo Japanesque Mime Art ! A new approach to William Shakespeare !" "The extreme concentration of this actor was felt with my whole body. Breathless, I watched, listened and experienced nearly an hour of movement. In return I was moved, both physically and emotionally." *****Fringe Review of Amsterdam Fringe 2010

Language: Non-verbal

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Little use of language

Talented singer songwriter Andi Neate returns for her 9th Fringe Festival. A compelling live performer, beautifully sculpted songs and crystal clear vocals. Andi has a gift for melody, memorable hooks and delightfully offbeat lyrics. Pick of the Fringe 09. "A talent you can’t afford to ignore." - Maverick magazine "Street-tough acoustic artist, looks set to go far." - MU magazine

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Puppet Theatre, Music, Comedy/little use of language

"We Are a Real" Theatre Company specialises very generally, using states of exhaustion and despondency to heighten the players' avoidance of theatrically viable endeavours, jars and hot dog buns. 'Men Avoid Jars' epitomises the Company's work; no genre goes untouched in this whirlwind of theatrical peculiarity. Contemporary, confusing and contagious and promising laugh a minute entertainment and a treat for anyone looking for something different at Fringe 2011.

Language: In English and part Czech

Age accessibility: Contains strong language

Genre: Theatre, Comedy/Text based but visual

"Dependably and consistently funny" (ThreeWeeks Magazine) comedy theatre group WastedINK are proud to present Seventh Circle, a darkly comic and peculiar tale that sees two charlatan clairvoyants pay the price for their ill-gotten fame. Following on from their success at Edinburgh Fringe 2010, WastedINK’s second attempt at comedy is a bizarre yet touching story with hilarious consequences and a devilish outcome.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for 12+

Genre: Theatre/Text based

In the mid-1600s, the Elders of a Moravian village ordered their Executioner to open 31 graves. The medical examiners’ conclusion was that 21 corpses were to be hacked into pieces and burnt, the ashes dispersed in a river. The villagers stared into the sky to avoid the gaze of the priest. The healer was gone and her husband was waiting to pay for what she’d done.

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for adults only

Genre: Theatre/Text based

Is there a more positive value than professionalism? A hit man is in deep crisis. His prospective future is now a boring and lonely retirement, but the assassin, a consummate professional, must find a way to recover brilliantly. "The script is elegant and beautiful, and there is no denying Borgia’s personal charm. Variations on Paolo Conte’s classic ‘Via con me’, seamlessly fade into the most important moments of the monologue, making the experience irresistibly swish in a way that only Italians ever manage." - FEST

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Music/Text based but visual

Hailing from Sydney, Australia this young, vibrant musician brings a new flavour to Pop music. Mashing, Electro, Indie and Jazz soundscapes her performances are refreshing yet quirky. "Vocally, a mix of Regina Spektor and Norah Jones"- Triple J Unearthed. After performing her new E.P "PINK LEMONADE" in Australia and New Zealand Phebe has set sail to the Praha Fringe Festival. If you like intelligent pop, you will love Phebe Starr!

Language: In English

Age accessibility: Suitable for all

Genre: Comedy/Little use of language

In Carlo Jacucci’s funniest acts of 2010, five characters animated by frantic incoherence turn life upside down creating an absurd show that opens a special place in your mind. A runner’s improbable robberies, a ferocious parody of fashion and men’s attributes, a caterpillar joyfully eating, a dancing sailor learning to communicate: Vitamin is a hilarious and provocative piece of comic theatre emerging from the distillation of cabaret scenes across Europe.

Language: In Gibberish

Age accessibility: Contains strong language