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Next Stop Edinburgh 2008!

07/07/08 - 26/07/08

OJST hosts a second season of preview shows before they go up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008.

Last Remaining Shows of the SEASON!!

Thursday 17 July - Zoe Lyons & Scott Capurro

Friday 18 July - Reginald D Hunter & Jason Cook

Returning is THROUGH THE WINDOW THEATRE, who premiered BLOOD FROM STONE at OJST before going to Edinburgh last year. This year they are performing Sondheim's ASSASSINS on Thursday 24 July & Saturday 26 July

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17 July

Zoe Lyons & Scott Capurro

Scott Capurro - Scott Capurro goes Deeper. is one of those acts that tends to polarise an audience, pushing the boundaries of some audience members to breaking point and beyond. This brash, gay San Franciscan takes the view that he has the right to speak his mind and that if anyone is offended, its they who have the problem, not him. Whilst this can cause a walk out or two from the more sensitive souls in the audience, those that can cope with some seriously straight talking will find more to enjoy than mere shock value. A veteran of the Edinburgh Festival having won the Best Newcomer Award in 1994, Scott is an accomplished and brilliant comedian fully prepared to engage with an audience in an linguistic, orgiastic purge of liberal guilt and hypocrisy.
"breathtaking... incandescently witty"
The Scotsman

Zoe Lyons - Mangled Mantra of The Messed Up Modern Mind. If.Comedy Newcomer Nominee 2007 and Funny Women Award winner Zoe Lyones returns to the Edinburgh Festival with a packed new show. Zoe's manta is mangled, the daily chants that ricochet around her head are all messed up. She knows she should grow up but she is far too busy being a middle class binge drinker.
"An Hour of high octane hilarity from this rising star, a natural talent"
Three weeks *****

18 July

Reginald D Hunter & Jason Cook

Reginald D Hunter - No Country for Grown Men. Reg started his comedy career in Birmingham where he lived and gigged for some years after arriving in the country to study acting at RADA. Incredibly natural onstage and a deeply thoughtful and engaging presence, he is now one of the most successful acts to appear regularly at Edinburgh where he consistently sells out large venues and recently acquired the Writers' Guild Award for Comedy to complement his collection of three nominations for the Perrier. Whilst Reg still regularly demonstrates an almost unparalleled ability to command an audience in the rowdiest of comedy clubs, its perhaps here in a theatre setting where his philosophical insight, and calm, measured and devastatingly funny comedy is best appreciated .
"the hottest stand-up living and working in Britain today"
The List
Jason Cook - Joy. Jason cut his comedy teeth in the lively rough and tumble of the comedy clubs of Northern England. Last year, his debut Edinburgh show "My Confessions" was a major hit, earning a raft of five star reviews and a nomination for Best Newcomer before going on to pick up "Best International Show" at the New Zealand Comedy Festival and in the process making room after room of grown men and women laugh consistently for a full hour and very often shed tears in the remarkable final ten minutes. This year Jason brings “Joy”. A show about joy, about how it is all around us, we just have to know how to look for it. And of course, there is a twist at the end. “I was writing the show and it was nearly finished, then something happened which made me re-evaluate everything the show and ultimately the meaning of the word ‘Joy’ is all about”. Jason once again puts his own life, even the bad bits, under the microscope with one guarantee: total honesty.
"a genuinely life-affirming hour.”
The Herald

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