Scotsman Fringe First
Adapted from the stories and poems of Charles Bukowski
Adapted and directed by Ben Harrison
Performed by Keith Fleming, Gail Watson & David Paul Jones
7th – 31st August 2009
Traverse@The Barony Bar. Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
AWARDS
“Some people never get crazy. What truly awful lives they must lead.”
Charles Bukowski
What starts as a gateway into a liberated, loose, affectionate and flirtatious view of the world can so easily become a prison, a destruction of the body, the mind and the memory.
And yet, without alcohol, what great works of art might we have missed, what creative revelations, what relationships, what joyous and fumbled acts of love instigated at the bar and hastily consummated after a hurried taxi-ride home?
A search for meaning and pleasure in the arms and in the bodies of a series of women drives Henry to confront the darkest corners of himself and to challenge the whole ethic of the working life. Maybe more humanity, more analysis of the human psyche could be found from the edge of a barstool than from the most wide-ranging travels or the deepest research in a library.
Barflies looks at the profound liberation of alcohol, its opening up of corners of sexuality and mental activity, as well as its more undesirable effects.
Multi-award winning Fringe favourites, Grid Iron, returned to the festival after an absence of three years with a brand new site-specific performance set in their local pub, The Barony Bar.
View our Barflies 2012 production.
Video
View the trailer for Barflies here…
Cast
Henry: Keith Fleming
Cass, Vicki, Margy, Vivienne, Sarah: Gail Watson
Silent Dave: David Paul Jones
Production Team
CREW
Director/Adaptor:
Ben Harrison
Assistant Director:
Catrin Evans
Producer:
Judith Doherty
Set & Costume Designer:
Becky Minto
Composer & Sound Designer:
David Paul Jones
Lighting Designer:
Paul Claydon
Production Manager:
Fiona Fraser
Technical Manager:
Maria Bechaalani
Stage Manager:
Mickey Graham
Deputy Stage Manager:
Nichola Reilly
Design Assistant:
Harriet Kirkwood
General Manager:
Fiona Dougal
Finance Officer:
Deborah Crewe
Print Design:
Emma Quinn
Photography:
Douglas Jones
Office Dogs:
Hector & Tigger
THE BARONY BAR
Proprietor / Bar Manager:
Malcolm Binnie
Assistant Manager / Chargehand:
Christopher Reid & Richard Arthur
Bar Staff:
Amiel Clarke, John Corcoran, Katriona Harding, Gemma Harper, Alexandra Kocela, Karen Lourens, Ema Murray, Lisa Thomas & Beata Zemanek
TRAVERSE FRONT OF HOUSE
Peter Airlie, Heather Fulton, Nikki Hill, Kirsty McIntyre, Tim Primrose, Greg Sinclair, Jenna Watt & Katy Wilson.
View Our Programme
To read more information about the show, including the Director’s Note and team biographies, have a look through our production programme.
Download our programme pdf here
Supporters
The production was kindly supported by the following…
Past Productions
The productions are listed in chronological order with the most recent first.