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Venue: theSpace in North Bridge (V36): 2 – 24August (no performances 11th and 18th) Time: 21.05Tickets: £6-9 (previews 2nd – 4th £5)

Creatives from the National Student Drama Festival multi-award winning Nottingham New Theatre and Fringe 2012’s critically-acclaimed success ‘Wild West End’ have teamed up to form Fine Frenzy Theatre and present ‘Vessel’.

Newly written for Fine Frenzy’s Edinburgh debut, ‘Vessel’ is a bittersweet comedy about five siblings building a boat. Several years ago, their brother John went out to sea in a storm and was never seen again. Now they reunite to build a vessel in his memory and to confront their past in the way they did as children in Ireland – by telling stories, acting them out and disagreeing violently at every turn. Through fast-paced comedy, inventive physical storytelling and an evocative original score, Vessel looks at the pain and the joy of growing up and celebrates it all in the imaginative spirit of childhood play.

Fine Frenzy was set up with the principle focus of taking playful risks in order to find the most direct way of telling a story.

In line with this, our recent first project, ‘The Comedy of Errors: A Shakespearean Experiment’, was rehearsed over only 3 days in an attempt to reclaim the frantic immediacy of Shakespeare’s first performances. The following run was raucously received at the Nottingham New Theatre

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John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.