Coldingham Fringe TimetablePresenting: Powder Jazz - West Coast JazzFriday 24 August 2007- 7.30pm
PJ play their own style of West Coast / Pacific Jazz and will be performing their arrangements of classic songs including music by Ellington, Rodgers and Hart, Gershwin, Kern and Cole Porter. The nucleus of Powder Jazz are Brian Acton (guitars and vocals) and Bruce Reid (double bass) who have toured extensively throughout Europe and the USA. Joining them will be Stuart MacDonald (tenor and soprano saxophone) who has played with Shirley Bassey, Lisa Stansfield, Pete King, Don Weller and Andy Shepherd and Martin Davies (drums), who has played with Snake Davis, Helen Watson, Stevie williams, Omar Puente, Jon Ellis and nearly every other jazz artist of note.
Presenting: Rob Howat - Story Telling For All
Saturday 25 August 2007 - 2.00pm Rob brought his storytelling talents to Coldingham for the 2006 Coldingham Ghost Walk and kept his audience spellbound. After performing in the Edinburgh Fringe and the Edinburgh Story Telling festival, Rob continues to deploy his storytelling talents across Scotland. Come along for a riveting hour of stories which will capture the imagination of all ages.
Presenting: Red Carpet Theatre - "Descent"Saturday 25 August 2007 - 7.30pm Tickets £6
Following its premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe last year Red Card Theatre has been invited to perform "descent" as part of Holocaust Memorial Day Remembrance.
Presenting: Meanwhile Theatre - "Catriona"Monday 27 August - 7.30pm
Following the success of their adaption of A Christmas Carol which was performed in Coldingham last Christmas Eve, Meanwhile theatre are premiering their new play at this years Edinburgh Festival. Alone and Wanted for Murder ... David Balfour, the young hero of Stevenson's classic adventure Kidnapped, is unhappy with the ending his creator has given him and strives for a better one is this much loved sequel. Praise for their 2006 production: "Glorious and Innovative ... left me breathless" Three Weeks
Presenting: Rowan Tree Theatre - "The Journey of Jeannie Deans"Wednesday 29 August - 7.30pm Tickets £7
Borders based Rowan Tree Theatre Company brings its latest production direct from the Edinburgh Fringe. The play combines humour, passion and tension and is performed in the intimate style and the robust Scots for which rowan Tree's productions are renowned. Directed by Catriona Taylor, with Nicola Jo Cully, Zoe Hunter, Sean Kane and Hannah Read.
Presenting: Theatre Underground - "Dark Places"Friday 31 August - 7.30pm Tickets £6
Dark Places is a collection of short plays. Each play stands alone and their interpretation is up to the audience. Is it supernatural? Is it dark realism? Is it black comedy? Is it psychological examination? "Make sense who may". Each play is different and distinct. But as a collection they question who we are. They show humanity on the brink of revelation. They show us on the edge of darkness.
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Following their success at last years Edinburgh Festival, Powder Jazz have had a busy year performing extensively throughout the UK as well as being invited to play in Portugal and at the new Wembley Stadium for the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
This powerful one woman show explores a life that descends from happiness to uncertainty. Veronicka is packing a suitcase. Selecting the memories she will carry with her and those she will discard. Tomorrow she embarks on a fateful journey - a journey that could be more than 60 years ago or could be now. From the vantage point of history her residual hope fills us with sadness. How then do we respond to those whose journey is taking place not in the past but today? 
Tickets £6
300 years on from the Act of Union between England and Scotland, Judy Steel's re-telling of walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian has powerful contemporary resonance. Political and private issues collide dramatically in post union Edinburgh. As the city erupts into riots, can Jeannie save her sister from execution?
Theatre Underground are dedicated to pioneering new venues in Scotland and keen to be associated with the launch of the first Fringe at Coldingham.