Berkoff Takes on Hollywood & Ground Zero at Fringe???

Writer, actor and director Steven Berkoff has made a late entry to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his new solo piece which adds to the growing tally of 11 September events at the festival. Written shortly after the terrorist attack in New York, Requiem for Ground Zero gives Berkoff’s own personal reaction to the event. It is due to open at the Assembly Rooms on 14 August 2002, the same day that Hollywood’s Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins have their first Edinburgh appearance in The Guys, the two-hander about a journalist who helps a grieving fire captain write eulogies for his colleagues killed when the Twin Towers collapsed. Berkoff’s one-man show replaces the scheduled premiere piece performed by American satirist Michael Moore. It, too, was meant to ruminate on last autumn’s disaster, but Moore had to withdraw after personal disaster struck this summer when his mother passed away. Berkoff’s recent festival outings have included Messiah and The Secret Love Life of Ophelia.

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