Pip Utton

Edinburgh Fringe 2009

Pip Utton Retrospective 24^th - 30^thAugust

Celebrating over a decade of the finest Fringe one-man shows, Pip Utton is 'The master of the controversial one-man show'  The Guardian
Five of the past decade's most successful solo plays: Adolf, Resolution, Bacon, Chaplin and Hancock's Last Half Hour in daily rep, presented as a tribute to 20 years of Universal Arts at the Fringe.

Chaplin: 24, 30;  Bacon: 25, 29;  Resolution: 26;  Hancock's Last Half Hour: 27;  Adolf: 28 @ 13:00  (1 hour 10 mins)

Tickets £10 - £12 Buy

Resolution directed by Guy Masterson ‘can never be more than what it is, but what it is, is devastating and unforgettable.’  The Guardian
Resolution addresses an issue very close to home... the need to see adequate punishment exacted on the perpetrators of crime and the desire or need for revenge and retribution in the face of great - or perceived - wrong. Precepts of justice are challenged.

Adolf directed by Guy Masterson is ‘terrifying, searing, transfixing’ The Scotsman; The Führer's bunker, Berlin 1945, the air is thick with betrayal as Hitler awaits the inevitable collapse of Berlin.  The 20th Century’s most notorious tyrant is daringly and divisively brought to the stage in one of the most successful and powerful solo works ever presented.

Hancock’s Last Half Hour directed by Jeremy Towler.  Utton plays comedian Tony Hancock, barricaded in his Sydney hotel bedroom with plentiful stocks of vodka, the lad from East Cheam casts a bleary eye over his wrecked career and marriages before swallowing the last handful of pills.
‘uncannily accurate, my eyes filled with tears’ Mail on Sunday

Bacon, directed by Geoff Bullen, is a one-man show based on a day in the complex and destructive life of arguably the greatest British painter since Turner. A life fuelled by drunkenness, gambling and a liking for a bit of rough…
‘compelling and unsettling’ The Scotsman ‘a masterpiece’ Scotsgay

Chaplin remains one of the greatest clowns of all time. He created an image of himself for public consumption that hid the darker sides of his personality. Directed by Geoff Bullen, Pip Utton steps in and out of the screen and becomes Charlie Chaplin, stripping away the myths and the moustache and revealing the man beneath.
‘Pip Utton is the doyen of the fringe one man show’ Daily Telegraph Top Twenty 2007

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