August 2001: Fringe First winner for 'Runt', Michael Philip Edwards, and Irish actress Sarah McGuinness ('McGuinness excels' - Metro, 'Utterly convincing' - The List) from 'Justified Sinners' & 'Whacked!', are playing almost simultaneously upstairs and downstairs in the Gilded Balloon Teviot Row. One catches the end of the downstairs show, the other the beginning of the upstairs show, and a potential collaboration is born.

Both are keen to translate their work to the screen: 'Whacked!' becomes an award-winning short film, 'Angel' from Justified Sinners is due to shoot in the autumn of 2002, with BAFTA award-winning director Cat McKiernan ('Sex & Death').

HBO take up the 'Runt' script as a feature, filming in Jamaica this year.

Several months later, they decide to put together a new play, Michael writing and directing, Sarah and a colleague of Michael's from L.A., Benjamin Brown ('Introducing Dorothy Dandridge', 'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer') - acting.

August 2002: A new departure for both parties, 'BLOOD' opens at the Edinburgh Fringe at The Gilded Balloon Teviot Row, 3.45pm every day from the 2nd - 26th.

See www.blood-theplay.com for more details.