With Edinburgh Fringe 2017 well and truly in swing, we’ve had several shows on at the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre and look forward to hosting more in the next two weeks.
An exciting upcoming one act play about Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling will be on stage at the Centre for five performances, 23-27th August.
‘If Only: An Audience with Rudyard Kipling’, by Lynn Pegler, explores his extraordinary life and devastating personal consequences of World War One. The Nobel Literature Prize winner is famous for writing the nation’s favourite poem ‘If’ – which will feature along with other popular poems and stories woven into the one hour stage show.
Lynn said: “We are particularly thrilled to bring this production to the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre as the two authors were apparently good friends. Kipling actually invited Conan Doyle to stay with him in America when he was living in Vermont. It appears that Conan Doyle taught him to play golf in the snow – by painting the golf balls red!
“I originally wrote the show for a festival of authors staged in Liverpool’s splendid grade one listed St George’s Hall in March. The more I delved into Kipling’s fascinating itinerant life, the more it became apparent that he suffered a series of major regrets – hence the title.
“I am delighted to say the previews have gone down a storm and we are very much looking forward to performing the show in this beautiful Victorian building which has so many associations for both great writers.”
‘If Only: An Audience with Rudyard Kipling’, performed in costume by Matt Jones and Lynn Pegler, will be on stage at 12 noon daily from Wednesday 23 to Sunday 27 August at the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 25 Palmerston Place, EH12 5AP. Venue 290, near Haymarket.
Tickets are priced £8 (£7) and are available from the Fringe Box Office online or on 0131 226 0000.
