2010 Edinburgh Fringe

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Following the critical success of last year's sell-out show, Perrier Award winner Laura Solon returns to Edinburgh with The Owl Of Steven, a grown up adventure mystery story inspired by 8 year old Laura Solon's love of Willard Price, owls, Guernsey and a doll called Sick-Sick.

This year Laura experiments further with the multi-character narrative form. Armed with set, scenery and navy blue shorts, she will move beyond a connected series of monologues and set pieces to multi-character scenes with dialogue, action and interaction to create a one person cast of eccentric locals, naïve mainlanders and Steven's most prized resident, The Owl.

Now, from the production company that brought you Sue Barker's Basset Hound, Virginia Wade On Hedgehogs and Trevor Eve Does Slugs comes a new nature extravaganza: a film about the famous Owl Of Steven.

They've got a celebrity: Profesor Stacey Morris, an American presenter who just bought her professorship on the internet so it has only got one 's'. They've got shots of Stacey walking around the Channel Island of Steven wearing tops that reveal at least 60 percent of her boobs. They've got earnest director Katherine David, who in an ideal world would be making documentaries about Mary Wollstonecraft, quinoa or the History of Prepositions. They've got a collection of obliging islanders: Dennis, the ferryman / publican / policeman and one half of the world's only detachable conjoined twins; Stephanie who lives in a lighthouse but is definitely not the lighthouse keeper; two French secret agents; Hotel Owner Miriam; Steven Chief Residents; and sworn enemies Barry and Valerie and The Governess who rules. And Katherine's Assistant Joan whose only skills are asthma and being tall. And to be honest, she's not that tall.

However, one question remains. This 'owl', right, where the f*ck is it?