Three Flying Solo

A triple bill, presenting a new solo play each week.  Contemporary British Asian theatre, directed by
Annie George and produced by Ekua Bayunu for
Wave Theatre.

Dates: Sun 3-Mon 25 Aug
Time: 2pm (50 mins)
Tickets: £8.50/£7.50
Bookings:at venue +44 (0)131 527 1562 (from 3 Aug)
or from Fringe Box Office boxoffice@edfringe.com
or Tel. No. +44 (0) 131 226 0000
Venue: Invasian Festival,
Club West @ Quincentenary Hall,
Royal College of Surgeons,
Nicolson Street Edinburgh EH8 8DH   
Click here for Invasian Web Site

’NOOR’

by Annie George

Sun 3 – Sat 9 Aug

performed by

Annie George

With her life flashing before her eyes, Noor sees
the light at the end of the tunnel, with the help
of an angel from the past.

Annie George is Artistic Director of Wave Theatre

’STRANGER’

by Dharmesh Patel

Sun 10 – Sat 16 Aug

performed by

Imran Mirza

A young man.  A dark crime.  A culinary journey into the arena between good and evil.

DHARMESH PATEL trained at Hope St Ltd. Physical Theatre School.  Previous theatre includes: Slowtime (National Theatre), Satyagraha (Improbable Theatre and English National Opera); Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Beauty and the Beast (Told By An Idiot); Silent Cry (Red Ladder Theatre Company), Bollywood Jane; Happy Prince (Leicester Haymarket), Animal Farm (Italy & Siciliy Tour), Charity Commissioner, Beauty and the Beast(Unity Theatre, Liverpool),and Too Close to Home (Rasa Productions).TV credits includes Doctors, Casualty and England Expects (BBC).

Dharmesh is an Associate Artist with Wave Theatre.

’THE DICTATOR’S WIFE’

by Mohammed Hanif

Sun17 – Mon 25 Aug

performed by

Nimra Bucha

The First Lady has received five thousand roses for her thirty-fourth wedding anniversary. Her husband, the sixth most powerful man in the world, has started bringing a briefcase to bed. The only problem is that the brief case contains active controls for the country’s nuclear weapons. Can this family feud be contained to the family bedroom?

MOHAMMED HANIF is a journalist and a writer, currently the head of BBC’s Urdu Service.  His radio play “What Now, Now That We Are Dead?” was produced and broadcast by BBC World Service.

His first novel “A Case of Exploding Mangoes” will be published by Jonathan Cape in UK and Knopf in the USA. Translation rights have been bought by leading publishers in France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Holland and Hungary.

He will also be appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 12 August.

NIMRA BUCHA has acted on stage and radio in Pakistan and the UK.   She was actively involved in and performed with Baang Theatre, an actor’s collective in Pakistan before she moved to London.  She has also acted in plays for BBC World Service and Radio 4 and was in the radio adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children”. 

She has performed previously with Wave Theatre in their readings of “The Dark Prince” at the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh and Glasgow Citizens.