Anyone going to THE MAD FRINGE? - A Fundraising Festival packed full of Cabaret, Comedy, Theatre, Music and Conversation in aid of TheatreMAD

Monday 18th to Saturday 23rd August 2008

GERTRUDE'S SECRET by Benedick West
Starring: Natalie Cassidy & James Alexandrou (BBC TV's Eastenders)
Helen Fraser (ITV's Bad Girls)

IN CONVERSATION WITH...DAME EILEEN ATKINS
Interviewed by Michael Billington, theatre critic for The Guardian.

TWO by Jim Cartwright

FALLING STARS
Starring Peter Polycarpou and Sally Ann Triplett

IN CONVERSATION WITH...MISTER GEE
Interviewed by BBC London's Breakfast Show Presenter, JoAnne Good.

MAD Comedy Night
Starring: Shappi Khorsandi, Norman Lovett, Ava Vidal, Matt Reed, Aaron Counter, Pete Johansson
Compered by James Mullinger

THE ELEPHANT'S CHILD AND OTHER STORIES
Critically acclaimed theatre company, Metta Theatre, present a new puppet opera based on Rudyard Kipling's classic tale, The Elephant's Child, and tell several other improvised and interactive Just So stories.

RAINDOGS by Andrew MacBean
A New Musical based on Lanford Wilson's ground-breaking play, Balm In Gilead.
Starring: Stefan Booth (ITV’s Dancing On Ice, The Bill), Tim Howar (Tonight’s The Night), Jessie May, Rochelle Neil & Graduates of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

VULGAR VOLES & HAIRY HOGS
by Vayu Naidu Company resident storytellers, Emily Parrish and Craig Jenkins, high up in the treetops to hear some of their favourite furry tales with curly tails.

THE SHOW GIRLS
West End girls bringing Burlesque back to town!

For details, visit www.theatremad.org.uk

Trafalgar Studios 2
14 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2DY

How To Book
By Phone: 0870 060 6632
Online: www.theambassadors.com/trafalgarstudios

I can thoroughly recommend RAINDOGS by Andrew McBean and Paul Chant

9.40am saturday morning tune into lbc london radion to hear david pendlebury discuss the MAD FRINGE

BBC LONDON RADIO IS ON 94.9FM

i went to see gertrudes secret last night, it was fantastic, it was very similair to alan bennets talkings head, if it had been co/written with victoria wood, some of the stories were really sad and thought provoking, the others were absolutely hilarious, special mention must go to helen fraser(body bag badgirls) she was stunning, angela lonsdale( played emma, curlys wife in corrie) she did a fabulous monolouge that finished with a flash of bra panties and suspenders) but the highlight was definitely natalie cassidy, who gave a fantastic comic performance as a cleaner who had a habit of getting words wrong, (she sid that she got a nubile phone from the carphone whorehouse), all in all a great nights entertainment, i am so looking forward to falling stars , raindogs and showgirls, if last night was anything to go by im in for a treat