Sat 02 Sep 2006

The Edinburgh International Festival regrets that this evening’s scheduled final performance of Long Life has been cancelled due to an illness within the Company.

The play, which opened at the Edinburgh International Festival on 23 August, was due to be performed tonight (Saturday 2 September) at 7.30pm at The Hub.

The Edinburgh International Festival will refund ticket holders in full.

To obtain their full refund, customers are advised to post their tickets to Hub Tickets, The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh, EH1 2NE. Tickets will be refunded by the method they originally used to pay. For enquiries please contact Hub Tickets on 0131 473 2000 or call into the box office in person.

All other Festival events are going ahead as planned.

Long Life, performed by the New Riga Theatre is an extraordinary demonstration of virtuoso acting. The tender and absorbing play follows one day in the lives of elderly retired people living in a communal block in Riga, Latvia. Not one word is used to tell the story. Long Life is directed by Alvis Hermanis who won the Young Directors Project Award at the Salzburg Festival in 2003.