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Will Adamsdale
The Human Computer
by Will Adamsdale

PREVIEWS
Wed 1 Aug (9pm)
Preview Ticket Price £11 (£5)

DATES & TIMES
Thu 2 Aug (12 noon),
Fri 3 Aug (3pm), Sat 4 Aug (6pm), Sun 5 Aug (9pm), Tue 7 Aug (12 noon), Wed 8 Aug (3pm), Thu 9 Aug (6pm), Fri 10 Aug (9pm), Sat 11 Aug (12 noon), Sun 12 Aug (3pm), Tue 14 Aug (6.30pm), Wed 15 Aug (9pm), Thu 16 Aug (11am), Fri 17 Aug (1.30pm), Sat 18 Aug (4pm), Sun 19 Aug (6.30pm), Tue 21 Aug (9pm), Wed 22 Aug (11am), Thu 23 Aug (1.30pm), Fri 24 Aug (4pm), Sat 25 Aug (6.30pm), Sun 26 Aug (9pm)

TICKETS
£16 (£11/unemployed £5)

EARLY BIRD
£12 (£8.25/unemployed £5) on Thu 2 Aug if bought before Thu 19 July (subject to availability)

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STOP PRESS
Read a feature length interview with Will Adamsdale on The Scotsman website by clicking here http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1218242007.

Or read another feature length interview with Will Adamsdale on the Scotland on Sunday website by clicking here http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1222172007

I’ve never had a happy time with computers. I’ve avoided them for as long as I could but recently this has become an impossible position. I think they prosecute people who don’t have an email address.

This is a show about computers, by someone who knows nothing about them. In it, amongst other things, I have become a computer, or fallen into a computer, or something. My head sort of becomes a computer. You’d have to see it.

Lots of it isn’t about computers. It’s stories. It’s a cardboard cabaret. A skewed stand-up quest to the wiry heart of the cyber web, and into the reasons I once hit a seven year old girl with a stick (I was six and she was annoying).

A world premiere from 2004 Perrier Award winner and 2006 Fringe First winner Will Adamsdale with dramaturgy by Kate McGrath. The Human Computerwas originally a BAC Scratch Commission and is produced by Fuel.

PLEASE NOTE The Human Computer takes place at Traverse 3, University of Edinburgh Drill Hall, 41 Forrest Road, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL. Tickets are available from the Traverse Box Office at either Cambridge Street or the Drill Hall (subject to availability). Click here for a map of the Drill Hall's location (via Multimap website)

Website www.fueltheatre.com
Running Time 1 hour (no interval)

A superb, almost Gogol-like meditation on the fate of the little man in the big 21st-century city.
(The Scotsman on The Receipt)

A veritable wizard, a virtuoso of the transcendently absurd. An exquisitely idiosyncratic worldview that is as funny as it is wonderfully weird.
(New York Times on Jackson’s Way)

It’s a real cracker… This is a show that makes you yearn to get off the hamster wheel and make a bid for freedom.
(The Guardian on The Receipt)