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College News
9 August 2004
Fringe benefits: Students head for Edinburgh
Two student companies from Royal Holloway, University of London head for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this week.
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Royal Holloway production companies, Bite The Egg and The Royal Holloway Music Theatre (RHMT), will perform at the event, which runs from 8 to 30 August. The festival aims to provide open-access for all performers and sells over 1 million tickets each year. Bite The Egg's production: Crime Comb: Delousing the Law premiered in March 2004 at the Pleasance Theatre in Islington and received praise from both The Stage and The List. Written and directed by Royal Holloway students, the performance is a "pitch-black comedy of songs, sketches and serial killers". Bite The Egg was formed in 2004 by students Eiriona Jackson and Victoria Heathcock, and operates with the support of Royal Holloway's drama society.
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| Personals will be performed by The Royal Holloway Music Theatre. A musical written by the creators of Friends, the piece is a "patchwork of both amusing and emotional anecdotes". |
Royal Holloway students (clockwise from left) Natasha Lewis, Daniel Taylor, Dave Clapham, Tina Muir and Eiriona Jackson star in Bite The Egg's production: Crime Comb: De-lousing the Law |
The performance will be the RHMT's seventh at the Edinburgh Fringe, following successful performances of Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along in recent years.
Co-producer Matthew Searle said: This year's young and talented company are already working hard to make this year's show the best ever. We are rehearsing in an intensive two week period, which will be a challenge, but I am confident that Royal Holloway Music Theatre will continue to be the hallmark of a high standard of musical theatre."
One of the largest and most prestigious theatre departments in the country,
the Department of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of
London offers courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Students have access to extensive facilities, including theatre space,
rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, wardrobe, scene dock and workshops.
The Department has established the Centre of Multimedia Performance
History and the Centre for the Study of Noh Drama, which focuses on
the Handa Noh Theatre, housing the only Noh stage in Europe. Other facilities
include the fully equipped 100-seater Studio Theatre and the new Boilerhouse
Experimental Theatre, a 'found space' in the College's original Victorian
boilerhouse. For more information visit www.rhul.ac.uk/Drama/
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Hi-res images available
For further information contact Royal Holloway, University of London,
Press Office:
Christine Long
Press & PR Officer
01784 443967, christine.long@rhul.ac.uk
Vicky Cousins
Assistant Press & Communications Officer
01784 414480, victoria.cousins@rhul.ac.uk
