http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/rss/festivalpreview.xmlLatest Edinburgh Festival Previews from Scotsman.comen-GBCopyright 2011, Johnston Press PlcMon, 05 Sep 2011 11:15:02 GMThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss30 http://www.scotsman.com/template/group/images/rss/SCOT_rss.gif http://www.scotsman.com 144 http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3360TODAY I will deliver a lecture at the Edinburgh Book Festival that I first gave as the WG Sebald Memorial Lecture, in London, in January of 2010.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3360Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:39:15 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3350How has this year’s Fringe been for you? It seems to have been a success, given your nomination for the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award...http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3350Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:17:39 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3225Tim Key’s Masterslut is a cool hybrid of poetry, stand-up and character comedy, with a bit of stalls scaling thrown in, writes Bruce Dessauhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3225Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:51:01 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3223AN Wilson has a string of biographies in his back catalogue, but none of those writers has fired his imagination in the same way as his latest subject, hears David Robinsonhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3223Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:51:01 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3222What does your show involve?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3222Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:51:01 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3219The arts has a truly dynamic role to play in inspiring a different kind of world for us to live in, writes Joyce McMillanhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3219Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:43:46 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3177Tell us about Who Is Jean? Go The Distance.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3177Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:51:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3176UN spokesman during the bloody end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Gordon Weiss says the organisation ‘should have pushed harder’ to save lives, especially those of trapped civilians...http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3176Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:51:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3173Every year Carol Tambor picks one Fringe show and takes it to New York. She tells Catriona MacLeod why she loves the festivalhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3173Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:51:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3172Tim Cornwell reports on the Forest Fringe’s fight for survival, while Catriona MacLeod looks at this year’s programme, which could be the iconic venue’s lasthttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3172Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:51:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3168Every face tells a story and for the past 25 years Susan has been collecting passport photographs and surprisingly, they’re not all of her.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3168Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:54:50 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3121Le Gateau Chocolat, closing act at this year’s Scotsman Fringe Awards, talks to Tim Cornwell about drag, opera, and his bid to challenge the ‘ghettoisation’ of black performershttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3121Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:55:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3120What is the Holden Street Theatres Edinburgh Fringe Award?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3120Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:55:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3119The Scotsman Fringe Awards are back this Friday, at Assembly George Square at 11am. Want to join us and our star guests, for free? Here’s howhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3119Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:55:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3117Geoff Dyer has a flat in Notting Hill and seems to do exactly as he pleases as a writer and still pick up praise from his peers. Not bad for a man once described as a slacker...http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3117Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:55:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3078'I GREW up thinking the great mottos of Scottish culture happened to be written on whisky bottles,andquot; said Andrew O'Hagan, pictured right, at the Book Festival on Monday afternoon. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3078Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:14:35 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3070You spend quite a bit of time podcasting these days. What's the appeal? http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3070Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:14:35 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3062WILL Self crosses Frith Street at a lope, a very tall man with a very small dog. Today, the writer, psychogeographer and urban wanderer has agreed to walk with me across London, from Bar Italia, at the throbbing heart of Soho, to the White Cube gallery, in the now-trendified East End. Maglorian, his Jack Russell, will accompany us. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3062Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:26:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3022They’re coming for your children …some of the least likely comics on the Fringe have decided to stage comedy shows for kids this year, finds Kate Copstickhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3022Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:28:52 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3021Kelly Apter gets in touch with her inner primate in an experiment that shuts her up in a penhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3021Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:28:52 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3013Tell us about your new solo show, Non-Bio.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3013Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:28:51 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3010Alison Gangel tells it like it was but her account of life in a children’s home is no misery memoir, focusing instead on how music became her saviour, discovers Susan Mansfieldhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3010Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:28:51 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3003BUMPER sticker philosophy states that when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. Canadian comic Glenn Wool has his own take on the old saw: when life threatens you with a cavity search at an Indonesian customs post, turn it into a hit Fringe show.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3003Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:24:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3000Ahead of his new commission with Scottish Ballet, Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo tells our dance critic about the ice hockey swerve that signalled his leap into contemporary dance http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=3000Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:24:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2996It was the first ever one in 1947. I'd just started as an actor, having done five years as an engineer on Clydebank in order to please my family - Glasgow is my adopted city, for which I have great affection. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2996Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:24:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2995I HAVE realised that my tendency to the cuttingly critical may be genetic. On the phone to my father last week he mentioned that he had read my five-star review of Glenn Wool.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2995Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:24:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2992Decades after glasnost and despite international acclaim, Belarus Free Theatre explain to our reporter why they are still living in fear of the KGBhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2992Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:24:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2976Cabaret has its own section in the Fringe programme this year. Why do you think there's so much of it now?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2976Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:28:29 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2936After he read the book, Stephen Earnhart knew The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle was the new direction that he had been seeking, writes Susan Mansfieldhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2936Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:28:28 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2931Peter Buckley Hill’s Free Fringe inspired Alex Petty’s Free Festival, but now there’s trouble in paradise, writes Claire Smithhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2931Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:28:28 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2922Alan Hollinghurst admits that shutting himself away from the world to write has become his ‘modus operandi’. It’s obviously one that works well, albeit slowly, for him, writes Chitra Ramaswamyhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2922Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:28:28 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2890Evan Davis believes that explaining things clearly is all about disregarding irrelevant information and looking at the bigger picture, writes David Robinsonhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2890Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:20:47 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2887You describe your Fringe show, Our Broken Voice, as a subtlemob. What is a subtlemob?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2887Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:20:47 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2884Soy de Cuba and Le Gateau Chocolat will be playing at our awards show next Friday.Doyou want free tickets? Read on...http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2884Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:20:47 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2843The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra is no stranger to breaking barriers, while at the same time being sure of its roots and influences, writes Anna Burnsidehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2843Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:19:25 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2831A hit debut novel which then transferred to cinema has put Joe Dunthorne at the centre of new writing...http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2831Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:19:24 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2830Comedians are finding humour in some surprisingly dark subjects at this year’s Fringe. Susan Mansfield investigates...http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2830Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:19:24 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2827Tell us about your show this year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2827Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:19:24 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2802Can one of Shakespeare’s iconic plays be transformed into a Chinese musical and visual feast? That is the question, asks Chitra Ramaswamyhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2802Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:12:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2800The story of Scotland’s infamous cannibal is the inspiration for an intriguing new multi-discipline work, writes Kelly Apterhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2800Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:12:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2795Are you enjoying being in Edinburgh?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2795Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:12:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2794The crimes, and the people, in Gavin Knight’s book, Hood Rat, are real, and so much more chilling than most crime fiction. Interview by David Robinsonhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2794Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:12:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2790This year is the 20th anniversary of your Pick of the Fringe show. What do you remember about the first one?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2790Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:34:34 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2747You could cut the sexual tension between Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler with a knife, finds Jay Richardson. But these comedy partners are only playing it for laughshttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2747Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:34:33 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2734Aged 71, Michael Longley is producing some of his best work, shaped by the arrival of beloved grandchildren and the departure of dear friends, writes Susan Mansfieldhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2734Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:34:33 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2733The exploits of Oates and Shackleton and their ilk have been ripe comedy territory in the past, says Roger Cox. But this year’s shows are just as in awe of the intrepid explorers as amused by themhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2733Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:34:32 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2680How did you come up with the idea for your new show, Twonkey's Castle?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2680Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:25:27 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2679WHEN westen civilisation began, it was in the Agora, or marketplace, of Athens. There, in the Golden Age of Athenian democracy, about 450 years before the birth of Christ, Socrates - the man who, remember, thought the unexamined life not worth living - would contribute his pennyworth to discussions of ethics.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2679Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:25:27 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2677BRYONY Kimmings is talking favourite film drunks in one of the Assembly venue's bars. andquot;Oh, yeah, Dudley Moore in Arthur.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2677Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:25:27 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2675IRMA Voth is 19 and living a life so lonely and restricted she spends afternoons andquot;embroidering dangerous words onto the inside of my dresses, words like lust and agonyandquot;. She contemplates bringing a cow into the house for company. andquot;Just one. A small one.andquot; She wonders: andquot;How do I behave in this world without following the directions of my father, my husband, or God?andquot;http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2675Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:25:27 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2653The amazing life stories ofsomeof the young performers in Circolombia are matched by their feats of strength and agility in their Fringe show. Tim Cornwell hears how they found their way from streets to show and how they want to change the perception of Colombiahttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2653Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:43:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2650What is Steve Pretty's Perfect Mixtape?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2650Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:43:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2649Arts editor Andrew Eaton-Lewis introduces this year’s first round of Scotsman Fringe First winnershttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2649Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:43:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2648The Scotsman’s Fringe show returns on Monday, and today we’re very pleased to announce the line-uphttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2648Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:43:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2645'A minute of your time' with Desiree Burchhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2645Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:37:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2624Stuart Kelly wanders away from Charlotte Square to look at a new writing event that could prove to be the ‘fringe’ the Book Festival has always been missinghttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2624Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:37:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2623After he helped his former wife to assisted suicide, Chris Larner was determined to confront the subject on stage. He tells Susan Mansfield whyhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2623Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:31:46 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2622Brett Goldstein and Bobby Gordon share more than just their initials - they tell Mark Fisher how much their lives are linkedhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2622Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:31:46 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2617Paul Sinha is British-Asian, andquot;openly gayandquot; (his phrase), a qualified doctor, a stand-up comedian with a show at the Fringe and one of Britain's top quizzers - a skill which has just got him his own TV slot. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2617Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:04:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2615A BOUNCY, fresh-faced blonde, dressed in classic Mad Men style in diamante-trimmed turquoise chiffon, is daintily sipping a frothy coffee in an Edinburgh cafe. Sitting nearby is a balding guy, in satin bomber jacket, T-shirt and jeans, tackling a bacon roll and a mug of caffeine.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2615Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:04:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2614CHRIS Larner was pacing up and down outside a chic hotel in Switzerland when he realised he wanted to write a play. He was in Switzerland because he had helped his ex-wife, Allyson, who had multiple sclerosis, travel there to end her life with assisted-dying organisation Dignitas. He was pacing because this was the day it would happen.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2614Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:04:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2589Korean dance star Kook Soo-Ho’s Fringe debut is the legacy of decades spent travelling the worldhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2589Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:14:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2587Has anyone ever asked you what it is like being married to Gwyneth Paltrow?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2587Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:14:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2586American W. Kamau Bell uses PowerPoint, statistics and breaking news to create his Fringe show comedy. The result is seriously funny, says Chitra Ramaswamyhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2586Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:09:03 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2583A COUNTRY disenchanted with its brutal military dictatorship. A growing protest movement with students, school pupils, academics and ordinary citizens joining together in a spot that comes to symbolise protest against the regime. And then, a flashpoint, and the military comes rolling in.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2583Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:09:03 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2554Hi there Randy. Last time we met, in August 2009, you were downing shots in Greyfriars Bobby's Bar at 10 o'clock in the morning. Do you still like a drink? http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2554Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:36:06 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2529It’s hard to believe Tom Green is the man behind the most puerile film ever made. But, says Kate Copstick, though gentle and thoughtful in person, he always plays by his own ruleshttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2529Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:06:58 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2528I HAPPENED to notice while flicking through the Fringe programme that this August there are six chat shows hosted by openly gay people, myself included.
http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2528Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:06:58 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2527Three years ago Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez, aka the Pajama Men, had a cult following in Edinburgh.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2527Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:06:58 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2497Sabrina Mahfouz tells Jackie McGlone how she learned about human nature in a strip club and how David Schwimmer came to direct her Fringe showhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2497Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:42:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2495For spiritual stand-up Imran Yusuf, achieving an out-of-body-experience is all in a day’s work, finds Jay Richardsonhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2495Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:42:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2494Your 2010 Fringe show, Chameleon, had something of a theme; what can we expect from Feel?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2494Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:42:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2493In White Tea, David Leddy had audiences sitting in paper kimonos. In his new play, he tells Susan Mansfield, he’ll wrap us up with warm, chocolatey voices as he transports us to the very heartbeat of the city of canalshttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2493Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:42:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2492Comedian Dave Gorman is returning to the style of the first stand-up shows he performed in Edinburgh in the mid-1990s, but this time he’s just going to be himself, he tells Susan Mansfieldhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2492Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:42:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2490Self-proclaimed ‘cult figure’ Gyles Brandreth has passed on the performance bug to son Benet. Here, the pair tell Jackie McGlone the truth - but perhaps not the whole truth -about this family traditionhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2490Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:42:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2488Bathtime with Adrian Howells could hardly be more intimate. Chitra Ramaswamy dares to go bare to explore the unsettling extremes of one-on-one theatrehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2488Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:08:09 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2487She’s eight-and-a-half months pregnant, but the irrepressible Wendy Wason tells Kate Copstick she has no intentions of putting her feet up just yethttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2487Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:57:13 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2486American Antifolk founder Lach tells Lee Randall how his open stage nights will lure Scotland’s performing talents of tomorrow out of their bedroomshttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2486Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:57:13 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2485As Julian Sands and John Malkovich unite in their shared passion for Pinter, Sands tells Jackie McGlone how the late Nobel laureate gave him pause for thoughthttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2485Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:57:13 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2483Mike Wilson tells Kelly Apter he’s ready to give audiences a run for their money with his extreme urban acrobaticshttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2483Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:57:13 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2482It has taken rare courage for a pan-Arab cast to continue to rehearse One Thousand And One Nights against the backdrop of the recent uprisings. Mark Fisher talks to them at rehearsals in Moroccohttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2482Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:57:13 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2481Don’t even think of sitting down at Dance Marathon - the best way to experience this high-energy show is to join in and get into the groovehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2481Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:57:13 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2479Technology is taking the theatrical experience out of the theatre and into the wider world, while at the same time making shows into something much more personalhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2479Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:35:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2478They visited a pig farm, heard about beauty pageants that celebrated the atomic bomb and stumbled on 21st-century ghost towns - now New York theatre company TEAM are ready to unveil their latest powerful work, a musical about the collapse of American capitalismhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2478Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:35:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2477Wherever it’s listed in the programme, Sharron Matthews thinks the genre has something for everyone (whether or not you want nudity)http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2477Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:35:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2476Roisin Conaty thinks TV is behind the curve on funny women, writes Jay Richardsonhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2476Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:35:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2475Comedians might be getting younger, but, nearly ten years on from his last bit of stand-up, Phill Jupitus reckons it all gets funnier with agehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2475Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:35:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2474Phil Nichol is a man doing what he loves for its own sake, not for fame, not for money and not for the opportunity to play to tens of thousands of people in a stadiumhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2474Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:35:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2473"Touring does tend to become quite lonely, I miss the camaraderie of my old job in the zoo"http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2473Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:35:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2472The personal politics and psychological make-up of Charlie Chaplin provide the basis for a fascinating play, finds Leo Ramsayhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2472Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:35:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2471A visually striking new venue with a quirky, eclectic programme, Summerhall’s highlights include an all-night where bunk beds are provided for audience members to sleep in. David Pollock gets a guided tourhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2471Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:35:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2470The latest twist in the burlesque revival is a Fringe show in an old-fashioned strip club. Harmless fun, or exploitation? Tim Cornwell examines the evidencehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2470Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:35:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2469Internationally acclaimed sculptor Anish Kapoor hopes that his exhibition at Edinburgh College of Art will help to draw attention to the plight of schools facing government cutshttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2469Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:35:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2467Dundee Rep’s new Fringe offering looks under the skin to see the people and group dynamics of performers at the end of the road, writes Tim Cornwellhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2467Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:56:29 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2465ONE is an inflatable walk-through “luminarium” with an extravagant name that has enticed adults, and undoubtedly children, the world over.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2465Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:46:12 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2461There’s a wealth of great Scottish drama on the Fringe this year, encouraged by the Made In Scotland programme and a theatre industry in rude healthhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2461Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:38:05 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2456Pianist Melvyn Tan’s Edinburgh International Festival performance will be a blend of old and new as he compares the structure of Scarlatti and John Cage - whose instructions for piano tuning are a little unconventional http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2456Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:00:37 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2452EUN-ME Ahn couldn’t be further removed from the typical Korean woman. In a land which has adopted the high-necked, freshly pressed cream blouse as a national uniform, Ahn prefers flowery leggings, tunics and draped cardigans in scarlet, frozen pea green and Tango orange. To set off her shaved head, she has raided the EastEnders wardrobe for Pat Butcher’s most ostentatious earrings.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2452Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:33:52 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2451Margaret Cho has battled homophobia, racism, booze, drugs and anorexia. And throughout it all, her stand-up comedy has been her biggest allyhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2451Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:29:14 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2450OUTSIDE on the street, the hot Cuban sun blazes down unforgivingly. Inside the dark cinema, currently doubling as a rehearsal space for the Soy de Cuba cast, the temperature is only fractionally more favourable.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2450Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:26:35 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2449As a self-confessed torchbearer of the Aids generation, Marc Almond puts heart and soul into a Great Plague musical http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2449Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:22:35 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2448Richard Herring: What Is Love Anyway? is at Underbelly’s Pasture, Wednesday until 28 August. Richard Herring’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast is at The Stand Comedy Club, Wednesday until 29 August www.richardherring.comhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2448Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:17:52 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2447AH, AUGUST in Edinburgh - the rustle of discarded flyers underfoot, the mingled scents of overpriced beer and hopefulness in the air.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2447Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:13:23 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2444Ruby Wax has had a low profile recently as she's been working on a show to help her and others confront their demons, which she's bringing to the Edinburgh Fringehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2444Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:39:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2434The rediscovered music of an Edinburgh jazz legend will be played again tomorrow night, says Sue Wilsonhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2434Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:34:37 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2424Concerned David Cameron’s government is on course to wreck the NHS through privatisation, comedian Laurence Clark went to america to see just how bad things could gethttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2424Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:48:26 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2429The Fringe cometh, yet again, and as Edinburgh cranks itself into cultural overdrive, it’s worth reminding ourselves that it’s not all stand-up comedyhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2429Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:13:00 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2428Classical music on the Edinburgh Fringe may not enjoy the same high profile as at the Edinburgh International Festival, but there are plenty of concerts to whet the appetite in Augusthttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2428Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:09:06 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2427Greyfriars Kirk may have been dropped from this year’s International Festival programme, but its Beethoven Concert Series, as part of the Fringe, promises to be a class acthttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2427Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:05:04 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2423Scotland On Sunday's critics select some festival shows to watch out for this summer in Edinburgh http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2423Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:05:06 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2416Free shows have made the Edinburgh Fringe Festival experience accessible to everyone. Here are the top five free events in Edinburgh this August...http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2416Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:57:02 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2415The Edge Festival 2011 marks the 12th anniversary of the music branch of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2415Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:59:29 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2411Godfrey Reggio's ground-breaking Qatsi Trilogy is being screened at the festival with a live score by Philip Glass. It's a rare chance to see an epic, extraordinary, though sometimes exasperating work of arthttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2411Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:41:25 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2410IF you want to catch up on Korean history, you have to start with the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2410Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:37:38 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2409EIF director Jonathan Mills discusses the themes behind this year's festival, in conversation with our columnist and theatre critichttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2409Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:57:00 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2408The Peony Pavillion is China's Romeo and Juliet. Now one of the country's most celebrated love stories is coming to Edinburghhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2408Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:48:45 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2395There is more than enough room for both International and Fringe festivals in Edinburgh in August - one brings massive audiences, the other essential international prestigehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2395Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:38:28 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2391As the Art Festival develops into a force to be reckoned with, remember that we have another who is here all year and his collection deserves proper recognitionhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2391Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:18:05 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2270BO Burnham wrote his first joke in fifth grade, aged about 10. andquot;It was, a teacher walks up to a student and says hey, how do you spell calculator? He goes C-A-L, see you later. That's when I peaked.andquot;
http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2270Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:49:49 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2259If you're looking for a complete spectrum of Scottish songwriting, look no further than Ilka Joy and Treasure.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2259Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:14:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2235How many shows at the Fringe are you involved with this year?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2235Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:05:51 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2232Tom McCarthy’s third novel, C, is an archaeology of literature, vividly stratified and stuffed with curious artefacts. It’s also on the longlist for the Man Booker prize. Interview by Lee Randallhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2232Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:05:51 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2202It’s 47 years since Tony Tanner was last in town for the Fringe. So, has he been up to anything much? asks Kate Copstickhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2202Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:21:37 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2201Tom Wrigglesworth tried to write his new show while still touring his old one. No wonder he pulled his hair out, he tells Kate Copstickhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2201Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:21:37 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2200Flamenco guitar master Paco Peña is back in Edinburgh next week with a new show about the consequences of crossing borders.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2200Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:21:37 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2195Catherine O’Flynn’s love affair with her hometown of Birmingham’s landscape, emotional and architectural, shows no sign of diminishing in hernewnovel, discovers Susan Mansfieldhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2195Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:21:36 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2193New Zealand comedian The Boy with Tape on His Face doesn't speak. Not even for The Scotsman. Following yesterday's nomination for the Foster's Best Newcomer award he did agree to be interviewed, but only on the condition that his mouth remained covered with tape at all times. Here's what he had to say. Or, rather, not say.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2193Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:21:36 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2184July in Santiago de Chile means winter, and 2010 proved unusually freezing. Despite this, Teatro Cinema director Juan Carlos Zagal tells me, the queues outside the Matucana 100 cultural centre (formerly the central railway station), for their new show, El hombre que le daba miel as las mariposas (The Man Who Fed Butterflies) were surprisingly large.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2184Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:49:53 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2183AS I write this, images of the floods in Pakistan continue to assault our television screens, another disaster caused by extreme weather leaving thousands dead and millions displaced. And after the humanitarian catastrophe, the analysis: are the floods simply caused by an unusually heavy monsoon, or are they a harbinger of climate-change Armageddon?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2183Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:42:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2179Tell me about Mr Swallow, the character you play in this year's show.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2179Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:20:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2124Hi Daniel, how's it going?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2124Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:07:36 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2096From the prison camps of Phnom Phen to the slums of Bangladesh, Henry Rollins has been on a journey of discovery. And what he found isn’t pretty, says Lee Randallhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2096Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:07:35 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2087Mark Billingham’s crime writing is all the more gripping because he knows what it means to be a victim, writes David Robinsonhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2087Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:07:34 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2078How are you enjoying your Edinburgh Fringe debut?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2078Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:36:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2066In a Fringe driven increasingly by commerce and less by passion, a producer like Michael Blaha is fresh lemonade in a Coca-Cola world. He's spent ten years at the Fringe frequently putting his own money where someone else's mouth is, his passion not diluted by flyering in the rain, nor damaged by having the venue for all his shows collapse under him the day he arrived (remember the Wigwam? Blaha had four shows there).http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2066Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:36:56 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2057WHEN Brian Keenan was a child, he would go for walks with his mother which often seemed to end in a graveyard. Young Keenan thought nothing of it. Playing cowboys and Indians among the tombstones was fun. But, as an adult, he wondered why.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2057Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:36:56 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2009Mary, the schoolgirl at the centre of your show Roadkill, is based on a real-life person. How did you come to meet her?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=2009Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:11:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1962The Kronos Quartet are about to make their Edinburgh Festival debut with a repertoire increased even since last week, finds Claire Prenticehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1962Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:11:41 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1961Caledonia may be set 300 years ago, but its story of the dire incompetence that ultimately led to the spectacular failure of the Darien scheme resonates today, discovers Chitra Ramaswamyhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1961Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:11:41 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1956Carsten Jensen earned his father’s scorn by becoming a writer rather than a sailor, and then won the Danish equivalent of the Booker.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1956Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:11:41 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1954The Scotsman has been looking for Fringe performers to andquot;sell their showandquot; in (roughly) two minutes.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1954Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:22:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1949Art reflects life for actress Hannah Chalmers in her Fringe production, Stripped. As a poverty stricken drama student she subsidised her income by working in a strip club. Here she explains how she escaped a life of pole dancing and turned her experiences into a one-woman show.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1949Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:00:46 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1945HERE comes the bride, but where is she going? Where has she been? I might as well nail my own colours to the mast and say I'm not a fan of the modern, massive white wedding, especially when held in a church that neither the bride nor groom has any intention of setting foot in again. Even as a proud atheist I think religion deserves more respect than borrowing their buildings for nothing more than a wedding album backdrop. And I'm certainly not a fan of the meticulously planned wedding. I'm more of a spontaneous chap, even where life-long decisions are made.
http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1945Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:00:34 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1944ANDREW BIRD is seen as just a lad by everyone... except for actual lads, hence the title of his new Fringe show, The Unlikely Lad. Here, he muses over why you should never judge a book by its cover - or a Bird by its feathers.
http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1944Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:00:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1938LIKE Marmite, John Gibson's column and swingers clubs, Mika is an acquired taste.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1938Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:00:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1937SCOUSE band The Coral’s understanding of what makes their fans tick means there’s nothing particularly new on sixth album Butterfly House in terms of influences - The Byrds; Love; Crosby, Still andamp; Nash; Captain Beefheart etc. The songs are just better.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1937Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:00:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1882She’s been loved by the stars and is a Hollywood icon in her own right, but there’s one role Sylvia Miles just cannot get out of her head, discovers Jackie McGlonehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1882Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:10:00 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1876What's the idea behind Lovelace - A Rock Musical? That Linda Lovelace was a tragic heroine?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1876Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:29:22 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1872Arts editor Andrew Eaton introduces our second week of Fringe First winners, and reveals the line-up of our free, star-studded awards show next Fridayhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1872Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:29:22 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1871Vampires, which seem to be everywhere these days, are the perfect metaphor for the pressures of modern family life, Matt Haig tells Chitra Ramaswamyhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1871Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:29:22 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1868With a plethora of comedians to chose from at this year's Fringe, some good, some bad and some downright awful, why not take the advice of those who've seem them first hand.Our reviewers have covered a phenomenal amount of comedy shows during this year's festival and the selection below represents the best of the rest so far. We'll be updating this list when more comedians are receive a star rating of four or more. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1868Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:34:02 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1867The book business is on the cusp of the biggest change since Gutenberg invented moveable type. Andrew Franklin assesses the far-reaching implications of the digital revolutionhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1867Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:12:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1864How have you been enjoying the Fringe?I just got here a couple of days ago so I feel like I'm going to a party late, and everybody's already drunk and I have to catch up really fast.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1864Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:42:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1842Creator of the first peer-reviewed hip-hop show, Darwin devotee and science celebrant Baba Brinkman is intent on spreading the word, discovers Roger Coxhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1842Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:42:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1841Andrew Lawrence says he is 'too ugly for TV'. Would a style makeover at Harvey Nichols Help? Kate Copstick finds outhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1841Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:42:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1800How has your Fringe been so far?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1800Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:17:02 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1767Thinking he wasn’t cut out for singing, Plan B began his music career as a rapper. Then he changed his mind, and was rewarded with a No 1 album.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1767Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:17:01 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1756Zaiba Malik's memoir of growing up in Bradford is a perceptive, evocative and humorous account of conflicting identities. David Robinson - who is from there too - talks to her about ithttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1756Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:17:01 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1753The Scotsman has been looking for Fringe performers to andquot;sell their showandquot; in (roughly) two minutes.The concept couldn't be simpler: we point a video camera, they perform a routine from their show.Today we feature Bach to the future who promise to take classical music out of the confines of the concert hall and break down the barriers between audience and the musician. If you want to have your show featured in our 2 minute series, you can find entry details here.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1753Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:58:30 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1718His demons were many, but this solo débutant has come out the other side a winner, says Aidan Smithhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1718Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:51:44 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1715Nicholas Phillipson took the David Attenborough approach to his biography of the great Scottish economist, he tells Susan Mansfieldhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1715Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:44:34 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1711How's the show going?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1711Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:44:34 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1665How are you enjoying the festival?Good. I was a bit late up for various reasons. I was actually just coming out of the toilet of the Wetherspoons when you rang, sorry, yes I'm always delighted to come to Edinburgh and there is always a party atmosphere during the festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1665Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:59:48 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1658'READING a feminist book really was like cracking a code and once I'd done it I couldn't go back.andquot; Kat Banyard, 27, is explaining what awakened her to feminism in her first year at university. andquot;It was frustrating because I felt that nobody was talking about it. Feminism was this outdated notion, I'd only come across the suffragettes in history programmes. I didn't have it in my head that it was still an issue. At least not for me.andquot;http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1658Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:32:21 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1657IF YOU bought tickets at the Gilded Balloon box office in 1994, you might well have been served by a lanky, curly haired, fresh-faced lad with partially formed dreams of a career on the stage. These are the kind of fairytales made at the Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1657Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:27:02 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1654IN NEW York, it's the equivalent of belonging to a secret society - if you are one of the lucky few who have seen the audacious staging of F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, by rising stars of the American avant-garde, the Elevator Repair Service.
http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1654Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:40:45 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1653Katie Goodman pretty much defies all reasonable expectations. She lives in the foothills of the mountains above Bozeman, Montana, a small town boasting a vast number of not-for-profit ecological organisations and Montana's biggest medicinal marijuana clinic, in a three-storey house she built herself. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1653Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:40:45 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1648(Sock on the Left answers most of my questions, with occasional input from Sock on the Right, where noted.)http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1648Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:40:45 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1640They say the best ideas can be encapsulated in a single sentence. On that basis, The Slap, by Christos Tsiolkas, cannot be bettered: andquot;One day, at a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.andquot;
http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1640Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:40:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1638The Scotsman has been looking for Fringe performers to andquot;sell their showandquot; in (roughly) two minutes.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1638Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:52:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1637The Scotsman has been looking for Fringe performers to andquot;sell their showandquot; in (roughly) two minutes.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1637Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:06:32 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1635George Dillon plays Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, in The Man Who Was Hamlet... but who wrote Hamlet? That is the question. Here the actor explores the arguments that have made de Vere the leading alternative candidate for the authorship of 'Shakespeare's' works.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1635Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:52:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1634FOR a man who has yet to open his mouth, Clarke Peters has a hell of a presence. A blue bandana covering his head, he looks more like his old foe on The Wire, gay stick-up man Omar Little, than the character that made him a star in HBO's epic crime drama.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1634Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:52:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1633Ma Joyce, brought to life by Victoria Evaristo, is the latest in a long line of working class comic heroines to come out of Liverpool. Here she reflects on Edinburgh in August.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1633Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:52:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1631Date of birth?A gentleman should never ask. (King is 34, says our mole).http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1631Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:52:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1630SAM Duckworth, the Southend troubadour who records under the Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly! moniker, is set to give fans an early taster of his forthcoming new album at Electric Circus tonight.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1630Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:52:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1629FIRING Blanks, the first play by Tom Spencer, tackles the issue of sperm donation and infertility. It centres on Richard, played by Robin McLoughlin, a married man who has just discovered he is infertile.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1629Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:52:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1591Five years on from the murder of BBC journalist Kate Peyton in Somalia, her sister tells Susan Mansfield why she is putting their ordeal on stagehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1591Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:27:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1590Noel Tovey was not always a political figurehead for Australian aborigines, but after a lifetime of learning, he feels he may now have earned that right, finds Lee Randallhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1590Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:27:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1588Is this your first time at the festival, and have you seen anything so far?
http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1588Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:27:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1586Conductor Sakari Oramo has chosen an unusual pairing for Festival audiences with Danish composer Carl Nielsen and Germany’s somewhat better-known Richard Wagner. People may not know it, but there is a link, he tells Susan Nickallshttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1586Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:03:44 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1544We first met when you paid a flying visit to the Fringe. Now you're onstage. it's better, right?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1544Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:15:31 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1537IN STREETCARS and in half empty trains travelling across Krakov sits an old man in a straw hat and a checked jacket, writing into a notebook. This is Boguslaw Schaeffer - a Polish composer, graphic artist and playwright so prolific that he writes almost constantly, particularly on trains.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1537Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:42:17 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1535I can't quite believe this is happening. I'm in a pub in the Lake District, and John Cooper Clarke is telling me how to cook liver and onions. andquot;You have to fry the sage - that's the key - you need to cook it to unlock the flavour.andquot;http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1535Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:35:01 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1534GYLES BRANDRETH is a man who wears many hats. In time, we'll get on to the one that says andquot;playwrightandquot;, perhaps touching on andquot;journalistandquot; and andquot;novelistandquot; and andquot;former Tory MPandquot;. But right now, I need to get to grips with the hat which he calls andquot;born-again stand-up comicandquot;.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1534Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:30:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1530Taking new risks and pushing new boundaries, the ‘Underbelly Boys’, Ed and Charlie, have West End ambitions with their musical, discovers Tim Cornwellhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1530Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:13:49 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1501Belt Up stormed the festival in 2008 with a Fringe First-winning show. This year they’re taking overawhole venue - and playing the EIF too.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1501Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:05:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1500Ventriloquism is “a hard, unforgiving art,” according to David Strassman, with little new talent showing signs of emerging. So we should feel lucky to have three of its biggest stars at the festival, says Roger Coxhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1500Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:05:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1499The veteran fringe comic may try to convince as a grumpy old man but inside he's a boy behaving badly...http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1499Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:05:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1496The story of a cocktail-swilling socialite couple has its principal actors facing the same big challenges, finds Jackie McGlonehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1496Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:29:04 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1493ALL these headlines have held our attention at some point in the past five years and have variously led to political campaigns, new legislation and charity-raising efforts. But what happens when the news agenda moves on? For those who have lost their homes, been bereaved or suffered an injustice, the story does not go away even if the journalists do.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1493Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:05:45 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1492George Wendt admits to having at least one thing in common with Norm in Cheers. TV's best-loved barfly is funnier - andquot;Hey Norm, what's shaking? All four cheeks and a couple of chins, Woodyandquot; - but Wendt is better at both turning up for work and remembering to go back home to the wife, having been happily married to the same woman for 30 years. No, what Wendt and his alter ego share, and could natter about until they're asked to shift their sizeable frames while the floor is swept under them, is beer.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1492Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:54:29 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1454You talk to the audience a lot. is your gig mainly improvised? I have my act, I can always do my act, but it's so much more fun for me to interact with the crowd. There's a different audience every night, and that's the different ingredient in your recipe. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1454Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:24:55 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1426One young woman and a ukulele add up to a mind blowing performance . . .http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1426Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:41:31 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1425With the worldwide credit crunch at its height, Annie Ryan and Michael West wanted to make a show about what it was like to have the rug pulled from underneath you. Freefall is the much-acclaimed result . . .http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1425Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:38:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1424Nilaja Sun's one-woman show about the state of New York schools is a lesson to us all . . .http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1424Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:33:13 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1423Hello Paul. I've just been listening to the Radio 2 interview you did with the BNP's Simon Darby last year. You must have been a bit surprised to find yourself accused of coming out with andquot;extreme anti-white vitriolandquot;...http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1423Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:28:45 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1375The unofficial first lady of Portland, actress, activist and shock rocker Storm Large chews over her past with Kate Copstick, explaining how she moved from an all-you-can-eat teen sex buffet to organic quinoahttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1375Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:26:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1374Sex trafficking is closer to home than we may know, and theatre is raising awareness. The tricky bit is not to kick audiences in the gut, but engage all their emotions and even make them laugh, writes Susan Mansfieldhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1374Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:26:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1373Sex pulls punters but this year’s crop of naked shows are exposing deeper truths, finds Mark Fisherhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1373Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:26:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1372IN A supreme act of irony, my interview with Martin Creed is delayed because he has food poisoning. This from the artist who employs the act of being sick as a metaphor for making art.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1372Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:26:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1371Jon Richardson feels that he has been misunderstood, says Jay Richardsonhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1371Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:26:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1369What do you do when people die and your marriage collapses? If you’re Doon Mackichan, you write about it, finds Lee Randallhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1369Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:26:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1368Brendon Burns creates sell-out shows by mining his own despair. Now he’s rising above his madness to ponder the existence of God. Is he having a laugh, asks Lee Randallhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1368Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:26:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1366Hello Bo, I've just been watching a YouTube clip of you trying to perform with Katy Perry sitting on your piano. Was that distracting? http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1366Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:26:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1361WHEN I meet Tim Crouch in London, the talk of the town is the acclaimed adaptation of The Railway Children being staged at the former Eurostar terminal in Waterloo. The ads on the buses boast that it andquot;contains a real steam trainandquot;.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1361Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:24:03 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1356BY rights, I should be red with embarrassment. Sitting in a busy coffee shop in Brooklyn, wearing a fedora hat and reading dialogue out loud in an American accent isn't the way I usually spend a Sunday. But then that's the effect Gyda Arber has on people.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1356Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:35:04 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1355WE'RE in the Phoenix Artists Club on London's Charing Cross Road where the walls are hung with paintings of 1950s beauties and ancient black and white publicity shots - and Topping and Butch are telling me why they have decided to split up.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1355Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:31:32 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1354A FRAZZLED MAN is locked in mortal combat with a fly, a doe-eyed woman cradles a rabbit like a baby, a plant erupts from a water fountain.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1354Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:26:38 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1345WITH just 30 minutes to go until the curtain goes up on his new cabaret show, Alan Cumming is out walking his dogs, Honey and Leon.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1345Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:44:38 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1344WHEN Lorraine McIntosh takes to the stage for the premiere of the National Theatre of Scotland's Beautiful Burnout, she knows who her fiercest critic will be.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1344Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:38:23 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1343CHARLYNE Yi stops speaking mid-sentence and leaps up from her seat in a downtown New York cafe to rush to the aid of a man who is having problems opening the door. “That happens to me all the time,” she says by way of comfort as the man turns several shades of crimson.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1343Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:21:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1342EVERY night?andquot; says Michael Urie, eyes widening.He smiles. andquot;Wow.andquot; Michael Urie's smile is massive. A little like a beautiful, depilated version of Fozzy Bear, his head seems almost to be dissected by it.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1342Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:10:52 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1341The sun is beating down on the cobbles of the Lawnmarket but wary tourists are eyeing up the rain ponchos hanging outside shops. The sound of pipe music wafts on the air outside The Hub, a few people drink coffee and eat a late breakfast. It's an easy, sunny Saturday. The only hint that something else might be going on inside the building is the number of bikes chained to the railings. There are racers and mountain bikes, city bikes and tourers, all threaded to the fence like beads on a necklace.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1341Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:38:48 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1340 Yeeeeeesandquot;. I'm standing outside Simon Callow's flat in Brighton in a howling gale and the booming reply over the entry system couldn't belong to anyone else.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1340Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:34:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1334THE World Press Photo Exhibition Tour comes to the Festival of Politics from Tuesday 3 August, and entrance to the event is free.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1334Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:26:03 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1331FRANK Perowsky has toured with Liza Minnelli and played with some of jazz's biggest names. But the New York tenor sax, clarinet and flute player feels like he's coming home when he performs in Edinburgh.Perowsky's love affair with the capital goes back to a chance meeting six years ago, when he was playing at Smith's Bar on 8th Avenue in Manhattan. During a break, a Scottish man introduced himself and said that he was a jazz singer.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1331Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:24:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1330IT's a blazing hot day at the Udderbelly tent on London's South Bank and Toby Gough has just had a couple of the hardest days of his life.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1330Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:08:13 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1329THE Edinburgh Jazz andamp; Blues Festival, which gets under way on Friday, may no longer cater for fans of classic and mainstream jazz in the way that it used to, but amid the contemporary cross-over experiments there are still some tantalising concerts on offer to remind us of the good old days.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1329Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:42:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1327As the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival celebrates 60 years of jazz in the city, we kick off our preview coverage with reminiscences from those who were there at the beginning.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1327Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:26:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1326As the Edinburgh Jazz Festival Orchestra gears up to repeat last year's success, trumpeter Colin Steele injects fresh ideas to the project with his unique take on a classic format.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1326Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:07:46 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1325In the 1990s, for salsa and hip-hop fans there was only one club to be seen in. Sue Wilson recalls the glory days.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1325Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:59:16 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1324Last year saxophonist Phil Bancroft launched a major new project at the Edinburgh Jazz andamp; Blues Festival. This year it's the turn of his twin brother, drummer Tom Bancroft, with the latest offering from his big band, Orchestro Interrupto.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1324Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:53:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1323THE theme of the Edinburgh Jazz andamp; Blues Festival this year is andquot;60 years of Edinburgh jazzandquot;. Here are some highlights from the programme - listed according to the decades they represent:http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1323Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:47:36 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1304After surviving major surgery, divorce and drug and alcohol addiction, Robin Williams tells Siobhan Synnot why he's loving life now his doctor is his dealerhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1304Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:37:41 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1303Buzz and Woody have never looked so real, but their return in Toy Story 3 promises to be bittersweet as Andy prepares to leave home, writes Claire Blackhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1303Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:32:35 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1302LIVING in Scotland, it is easy to take the Edinburgh Fringe for granted. Veterans of the world's biggest arts jamboree flick through the programme and think they know it all. Others observe it is too big - as they have been doing since the whole event was the size of just one of today's bigger venues - and consider this a justification to ignore it altogether.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1302Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:28:14 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1292What started as a comedy play at the Edinburgh Fringe is now poised for its premiere at the city's Film Festival. Creator Ben Miller tells Siobhan Synnot why it's a subject close to his hearthttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1292Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:04:41 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1286THE voices of the New World return to the old in this year's Edinburgh International Festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1286Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:29:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1285Dates: 11th to the 20th of June The Leith Festival will host 150 events at 50 venues all within a 1 mile radius in Leith. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1285Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:09:29 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1035CLUTCHING their tickets after getting up early yesterday to join the queue for Sunday's Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert are Blue Martin, eight, and her father, Dennis.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1035Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:34:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1018THERE is more than one map of the city of Belfast. As Alistair Little drives, he's reading from one which is invisible but lies just beneath the surface, imprinted collectively on minds and memories. Here: a pub where a bomb killed seven. There: a bookmakers where five men were shot.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1018Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:11:31 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=963When in Edinburgh pay a visit to Mellis’s cheese shop on Victoria Street, says Lucy Porterhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=963Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:35:29 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=916WARMTH My show is based on my family. It’s like I’m inviting my audience into my house to sit around the dinner table while they’re all chit-chatting. It’s a very lively place. There’s always something going on - music, laughter, cooking. You’ll meet my mum, my little brother, who’s an aspiring musician although not the most talented in the world; my grandma, who’s a very old-school West Indian lady who takes no crap from no-one; and my auntie, who’s very philosophical - and a bit wild and crazy.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=916Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:20:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=912When in Edinburgh, have a drink in the Jinglin' Geordie, says Nicola McAuliffehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=912Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:46:26 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=907IN THE mid-1960s Charles Maclean - an Eton schoolboy with a family seat in Argyll, future clan chieftain and scion of one of the best-connected families in post-war Britain - was on the road in the United States with a flat-picking cowboy guitarist named Rambling Jack Elliott.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=907Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:43:01 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=888LEE BREUER’S eyes fill with tears when he speaks about his late friend and collaborator, Scottish musician Johnny Cunningham, who died suddenly in New York in 2003. “It was such a tragedy,” he says. “Johnny was only 46 years old. He was such a charismatic man, a force of nature, cherished by audiences across the world. We all miss him so much. Boy, is he ever missed by so many people.”http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=888Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:17:26 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=849SPEND quality time at the Mansfield Traquair garden, says Shappi Khorsandihttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=849Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:26:44 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=848THESE days, all the doors are open for David Simon. That's what happens when you make a TV series like The Wire, which changes the way we watch the medium and sets new standards about what we expect from it.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=848Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:23:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=823When in Edinburgh pick up a bargain at Le Chariot Express, says Aindrias de Staichttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=823Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:40:05 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=810IT WAS only a ten-minute walk between Clarke Peters's Edinburgh hotel and where he had to be, but every afternoon the journey would take half an hour, sometimes more. "All the women who stopped me wanted to talk about Damages," explains the American actor. "Unfortunately they were far outnumbered by men, all of them fans of The Wire. I shouldn't complain, and I don't. It's the greatest show in TV history, right?"http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=810Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:44:36 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=808WILLIAM BOYD is a wise, wise, writer and he knows what works with journalists. He knows that when he says this they will shuffle a bit nearer the edge of the sofa facing him in his book-lined Chelsea sitting-room, discreetly check that their tape recorder isn't running out of batteries, and that they will concentrate a little bit more, listen a little bit harder.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=808Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:29:09 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=803It was an obsession with her subject that turned Lady Antonia Fraser’s biography of Mary, Queen of Scots into a bestseller, she tells Lee Randallhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=803Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:42:25 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=802Can you save the environment with a Fringe show? Green campaigner Lucy Foster has a gohttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=802Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:42:25 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=752Nicholas McGegan, the artistic director of the International Handel Festival, tells Susan Nickalls why he has turned to Japan to mark the 250th anniversary of the great composer’s deathhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=752Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:15:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=744THERE’S famous for 15 minutes and there’s being offered 15-minute chats with Kajagoogoo, relentlessly all summer, a PR onslaught intensified by the e-mails now appearing in bold red print. Meanwhile, with Magazine coming to town accompanied by the minimum of fuss and bother, it’s obvious that some band reunions just sell themselves.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=744Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:23:24 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=743IN A London members club as I wait for Rudi Lickwood, my eyes are scanning the room not for Harlesden’s number one comedian and winner of a Black Entertainment Comedy Award, but for Eddie Murphy. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=743Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:23:21 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=742THE mainstream success of Gavin And Stacey, Rhod Gilbert and Rob Brydon has done much to change the fortunes of Welsh comedy, and rumpled 28-year-old comic Elis James is rather grateful for their pioneering work. Not that anti-Welsh sentiment is dead and buried.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=742Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:23:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=741GHOSTS with pallid faces and sunken eyes, headless mannequins, warm-blooded dancers in nipped-in tartan waistcoats, skirts and trousers. Scottish Dance Theatre’s latest work could be a Vivienne Westwood or Christopher Kane photoshoot. It looks fantastic.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=741Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:23:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=737Christopher Jamison, the thinking man’s monk, knows the secret of finding happiness. And it’s not what you think, finds Susan Mansfieldhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=737Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:33:54 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=736Seventies rock bad boy legend Malcolm McLaren is setting out to remake himself as a stage raconteur in his first Fringe show, says Tim Cornwellhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=736Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:33:54 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=735Even as some Scots were embracing the Enlightenment, others were burning a woman at the stake. Her crime? She was strong, feisty and refused to conform. Now, after 300 years of silence, the playwright and cast of The Last Witch are giving Janet Horne a voicehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=735Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:33:54 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=707Who is the better sketch troupe? The Penny Dreadfuls and Pappy’s Fun Club fight it out like gentlemen, says Roger Coxhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=707Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:00:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=695She hit the big time with what she called a ‘lesbo historical romp’, but Sarah Waters’ latest book, a ghost story set in the 1940s, has no gay characters at all. So why has she suddenly chosen to play it straight?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=695Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:40:47 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=654James Lasdun is a successful novelist, poet and screenwriter. He is also, he says, a born worrier and it’s an affliction he shares with many of his characters, finds Jackie McGlone http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=654Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:52:37 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=610The traditional circus format is changing, as stories get in on the act, says Roger Coxhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=610Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:06:00 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=607Clio Gray’s lifelong fascination with death and the macabre - and her voracious appetite for historical detail - have helped establish her as a writer of highly original, intricately plotted crime fictionhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=607Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:48:34 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=606EARLY morning rain spatters the kitchen windows of one of Edinburgh New Town's more salubrious addresses as a sock-clad, sleepy-eyed John Smeaton pours his second cup of tea of the day. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=606Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:11:25 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=602How do you make a compelling show from the story of a wife waiting for her husband for 20 years? Choreographer Christian Spuck thinks he has the answerhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=602Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:11:07 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=562Tracy Chevalier, whose Girl with a Pearl Earring became a bestseller and a film, was inspired to write her latest novel by a visit to a dinosaur museum. There, she encountered the groundbreaking career of a remarkable Victorian womanhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=562Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:30:00 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=528ONCE upon a time the denizens of Great Britain thought that spaghetti was hoop-shaped and came out of a tin. But our tastebuds have travelled a long way since then, thanks largely to the efforts of Anna Del Conte. Her bestselling, prize-winning cookery books not only celebrate the wonders of Italian regional cuisine, but they've taught us how to import those flavours into our kitchens at home.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=528Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:29:50 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=496THE presence of a television camera changes things. Which is why Dave Gorman, at the Book Festival last night, was keen to emphasise that his best-selling book, American Unchained, was more than a book-of-the-film.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=496Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:50:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=483THEME LAST year some people gave me great reviews for having no theme and some had a go that it didn't link.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=483Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:50:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=476MORE often than not comedians' on-stage personas have little in common with their off-stage personalities. Their act may be an exaggerated form of themselves but it is still an act. Refreshingly, Australian Felicity Ward is as endearingly doolally when in civvies as she is when performing her Ugly As A Child Variety Show.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=476Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:02:16 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=475TAKE a good look at the face on this page because you are going to be seeing rather a lot of it over the next couple of years.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=475Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:59:44 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=474DURING scenes when they're not required, during breaks in rehearsals and even right now when they should be themselves, Chris Polick still appears to be puffing on a philosophical but imaginary pipe, Matt Addis doesn't lose the 45-degree-head-tilt-plus-oily-grin, and Mark Burrell gamely continues to work on his supercilious sneer, despite the obvious disadvantage of not being able to look down his nose from a height of nine and a half feet.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=474Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:52:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=472WILLIAM Kentridge, South African artist, animator, set designer, director of theatre and opera, and occasional reluctant actor, is telling me about the first opera he made.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=472Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:41:01 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=462IT WAS 1973, and tour manager James “Tappy” Wright had gone to the Chelsea house of rock manager Mike Jeffrey to discuss a US tour of a film of Jimi Hendrix, released after his death. The film had already made a sensational tour of the UK accompanied by live bands, following its premiere in Edinburgh during the Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=462Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:08:46 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=443ON A DARK NOVEMBER NIGHT IN 1989, a frail but determined old man stepped out on to a balcony overlooking Prague's central boulevard, Wenceslas Square, and a million people gathered below held their breath. I was privileged to be standing three yards behind Alexander Dubcek as he began his first public address in 20 years with the words: "My dear people of Prague..." As soon as his lilting Slovak voice was heard, almost everyone started crying.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=443Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:41:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=442HARRY REID HAS SET HIMSELF A monumental task in describing reformation in western Europe and he starts with 48 pages of time-lines and biographies, many of which are repeated in the main text. This begins with a summary of the state of the church before the Reformation and introduces Martin Luther, although we get no summary of the famous theses, nor any reference to the decay in religious belief that had been growing in the 200 years since the Black Death.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=442Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:36:34 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=441MARLA GOT INTO PAST LIVES through Sal. They were friends at work - they often had lunch together, and went shopping, and sometimes to movies, with nothing unusual being said. But one day Sal confided to Marla that in a past life she'd been Cleopatra. The reason she was telling Marla this was that she'd just got engaged - out came a hulking diamond - because she'd run into a man through an internet chat site who'd been Mark Antony, and they'd got together in real life, and needless to say they'd fallen in love, and wasn't that wonderful?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=441Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:34:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=440WHO KILLED THE EDITOR? INSIDE this novel lies a beautiful story awaiting an editorial scalpel to spring its release. It is all too often spoiled by writing that's over-egged, and sometimes inadvertently comical, gesturing awkwardly for attention when it ought to be whisking the reader on to its slipstreamed magic carpet.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=440Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:32:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=439AFTER COMPLETING WORK ON her autobiography Curriculum Vitae, Muriel Spark sold her personal archive to the National Library of Scotland, but while it was still with her at her home in Italy she was visited by an academic.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=439Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:30:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=438HAVE you heard the one about the celebrity interviewer's encounters with child soldiers? Or the one about the Hollywood journalist investigating a warlord who cuts off the lips of people he thinks have badmouthed him? Actually, they're not jokes. They're true.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=438Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:25:21 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=437WHEN JULIAN CLARY'S left leg packed in during this winter's Strictly Come Dancing tour he eschewed the ministrations of the troupe's physiotherapist in favour of a private regimen of stretching combined with hoping for the best.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=437Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:23:46 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=408Arts editor Andrew Eaton introduces our first week of 2009 Fringe First winners, and invites you to join us at our final awards show on Friday 28 August at the Assembly Roomshttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=408Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:31:00 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=401Look to the Traverse for proof that today’s theatre-makers are making a new dramatic pitch, writes Susan Mansfieldhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=401Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:33:02 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=400The Fringe’s best-loved bad boy is the newest comedy hero across the Pond, with his sights set on movies, sitcoms and the stage, finds Kate Copstick. Shame about his name change, thoughhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=400Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:14:58 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=368He was an actor long before he got into dance. Now, at 78, Lionel Blair is turning the clock back, writes Kate Copstickhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=368Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:58:28 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=367HANS Teeuwen picks up my tape recorder, holds it close to his lips and says: "I love Scottish people." He sounds like a heavy-breathing telephone stalker.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=367Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:55:14 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=366LEE MINGWEI knew I was coming, so he's baked a cake - a spicy lemon cake, which is a treat but not entirely unexpected.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=366Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:52:53 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=362Former Perrier winner Frank Woodley tells Claire Smith about the role that has wooed him away from stand-uphttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=362Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:14:09 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=352The Edinburgh art collective FOUND have built a fame-hungry robot that devours its reviews all day and plays music fuelled by the way it feels. Roger Cox meets the wardrobe with a worldwide fanbasehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=352Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:14:09 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=346Only someone with the imaginative powers of Shon Dale-Jones could create a piece of theatre from 16 pictures, and still find time for his alter ego, the wide-eyed Mr Hughes, writes Susan Mansfieldhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=346Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:14:09 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=342Once again, novelty musicals are all over the Fringe. What’s the attraction, asks Lee Randall http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=342Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:14:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=310In the 1970s Robyn Peterson was queen of the catwalk. She could teach today’s models a lot about haute couture - not to mention manners, says Kate Copstickhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=310Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:16:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=309A children’s musical set in a rockpool may seem an odd place to talk about the recession. Roger Cox dips a toe in the waterhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=309Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:16:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=304Kate Copstick joins 4 Poofs and a Piano in the studio as they brush up on their Fringe show dance routineshttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=304Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:16:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=334A DANCE group which has developed a reputation for exciting and innovative performances throughout the world is returning 'home' for the Edinburgh Festivals. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=334Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:18:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=268The cabinet full of awards is proof that The Pajama Men are on on their way to comedy stardom. But there’s still something rather sinister about these flannel-wearing boys from Albuquerque, discovers Kate Copstickhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=268Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:30:50 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=247After seeing a string of awful one-man shows, John Clancy wrote his own - but this one is good, he tells Claire Prenticehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=247Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:30:48 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=239HORSEShttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=239Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:30:48 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=300He’s already a star in his native Australia, but Wil Anderson is deter mined to make it big at the Fringe, he tells Chitra Ramaswamyhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=300Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:46:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=299TEENAGERS don’t always get the best press. From knife crime to binge drinking, most modern ills have, at some point, been laid at the feet of hoodie-wearing teens.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=299Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:46:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=298THE Edinburgh Festival is a hotbed of creative couplings but one of the most torrid is the orgy taking place between comedy and poetry. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=298Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:46:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=297What do you get when you mix a classic of French literature with Aussie stand-up? The best of all theatrical worlds, Frank Woodley tells Senay Boztashttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=297Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:46:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=296The last ever Perrier winner hasn’t been on the Fringe since 2005. Laura Solon still doesn’t have many punchlines, but that won’t stop audiences greeting her return with grateful laughter, writes Aidan Smithhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=296Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:46:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=295His heroes may be liars, but a retrospective of Irish legend Brian Friel shows he is always true to the soul of dramatic art, writes Mark Fisherhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=295Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:46:39 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=294To meet Edwyn Collins is to marvel that he is nearing the 40th gig since the illness that almost cost him his memory, and to admire the bond with partner Grace Maxwell that supports his journey of rediscovery, writes Aidan Smithhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=294Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:46:39 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=292Analogue’s unflinching look at the consequences of suicide is literally taking theatre to the edge, writes Mark Fisherhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=292Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:46:39 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=290A multimedia celebration of St Kilda has only reached Scotland via satellite. Singer Alyth McCormack tells Chitra Ramaswamy why she is so happy to bring it closer to the island of her youthhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=290Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:46:39 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=234A major show from Singapore will offer Scots a fresh take on Homecoming. Tim Cornwell gets a sneak preview...http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=234Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:54:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=232EDINBURGH is the only city in the world that hosts nine festivals in one summer month: a diverse mix of theatre, books, art, politics, comedy, opera, dance and conversation.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=232Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:43:45 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=230What does a US political comic do when everyone thinks the president is ‘cool’? Rage on, Jamie Kilstein tells Jackie McGlonehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=230Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:10:31 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=229The Voice of Wales talks to Jay Richardson about the stress of writing and performing, how he’s so wired on coffee he can’t relax during the Fringe - and why it’s embarrassing to admit to being a comedian at a dinner partyhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=229Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:10:31 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=228There is a strong tradition of audience interaction in the theatre, but this year’s more intimate Fringe shows - involving foot-washing, cycling and group therapy -are not for the faint-hearted, writes Susan Mansfieldhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=228Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:10:31 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=225Edinburgh itself was an inspiration for Juliana Engberg’s exhibition, The Enlightenments, writes Susan Mansfieldhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=225Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:10:30 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=223Is the credit crunch hurting the Fringe? Not necessarily, writes Kate Copstick - it could just help breathe new life into ithttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=223Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:10:30 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=222Yes,they rip their trousers off for a living, but don’t underestimate The Chippendales. Beyond those buffed bodies are boys with brains - and attitude. Weclome to the ‘surprise package’ at the Fringehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=222Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:10:29 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=221WHAT could be more memorable than a fat Glaswegian Sikh cooking dinner while telling anecdotes? That's right, nothing.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=221Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:39:38 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=220IN THE year of our Lord 2000, I gave up my big city life and career as a showbiz agent to become a nun.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=220Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:35:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=219JUST because you can't remember, doesn't mean it never happened. How many times have you heard that after a night on the town?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=219Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:28:47 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=218WAHEY! Fact and fiction collide in a burst of sunshine at the Assembly Hall this year, where actor Bob Golding brings to life one of Britain's best-loved comics in his new one-man show, Morecambe, a journey into the life of Eric Morecambe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=218Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:27:07 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=217FRINGE comedy - check. Fringe drama - check. Fringe music - check. Fringe clubbing, check . . .http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=217Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:52:02 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=216AS THE Capital of Scotland, Edin-burgh represents the Scottish attitude brilliantly.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=216Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:21:31 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=215FEW will have believed Calvin Harris when he revealed, on these pages, that his post-Edinburgh Hogmanay 08 plans consisted of nothing other than “a swift glass of brandy and early to bed”.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=215Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:58:15 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=214IF David Byrne’s recent live shows are anything to go by, fans are in for a treat when he drops in at Edinburgh Playhouse tomorrow for one of the biggest shows at this year’s Edge festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=214Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:58:15 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=213I’VE just spent five minutes bitching to a colleague about Janeane Garofalo when the phone rings. It’s Janeane Garofalo.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=213Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:58:15 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=211WHEN I was young, stand-up comedy was the last thing on my mind. The only aim I had in life was to make a difference by becoming my own boss.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=211Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:58:15 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=209WHICH one’s Frisky and which one’s Mannish? That’s the first question that springs to mind as Laura Corcoran and Matthew Jones settle down for a chat in a secluded corner of Tempus in the George Hotel.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=209Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:58:15 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=203AS WE enter the despairing, old tenement building in which he's lived for more than 30 years, Edgar Oliver whispers: "I sometimes think of this house as a ship, a sinking ship since it's very, very leaky. On dark and stormy nights it feels as if you are at sea in a shuddering schooner.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=203Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:44:30 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=202FORMER jobs are often fertile territory for stand-up comics and a stint working on the diary column of the Daily Mail has gifted Bridget Christie with a glut of colourful material to work from. From being given a lapdance by Peter Stringfellow to being strangled by Gene Wilder, her five years on the diary desk have provided the Gloucester-born comic with plenty of stories to fill My Daily Mail Hell, her show at this year's Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=202Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:37:34 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=195FROM pub gigs to recitals in kirks and concert halls, the Festival cometh, bringing a bewildering mêlée of music - folk, jazz, world, you name it, as the hugely protean Fringe kicks off on Friday and the "official" Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) opens a week later.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=195Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:35:49 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=194AMONG the odd assortment of Festival opera this year, no production is more curious than that billed as Johann Sebastian Bach's Actus tragicus. After all, the greatest ever Lutheran church composer never actually wrote an opera.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=194Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:30:06 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=169WHEN Frank Skinner played the Festival Fringe two years ago - his return to the stand-up stage after a decade away - he would relax post-performance in a hot tub on the roof of his rented New Town apartment.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=169Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:54:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=185FOREST FRINGE Last year really was the moment this venue came into the spotlight, but it's still enough of a hidden treasure to justify us recommending it to you as one worthy to take you far from the madding crowd. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=185Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:32:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=184RAW Out of the Blue has carved itself a niche in Edinburgh as a space for emerging artists to hone their skills through workshops and performances, and during August the Leith venue will stage several dance performances that represent it's alternative approach to things. RAW, by Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre mixes contemporary dance and aerial skills using ropes, harnesses and poles, set in the surroundings of a club night. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=184Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:07:36 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=183OCCUPIED CITY David Peace Faber andamp; Faber, £12.99 http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=183Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:06:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=182THE STORM OF WAR Andrew Roberts Allen Lane, £25http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=182Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:04:55 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=181MANY a writer would get to Dennis Kelly's position and say goodbye to the theatre. Once you had written a series as delightfully funny as Pulling and seen it broadcast on BBC3, followed by a Bafta nomination for best sitcom and a British Comedy Award (for co-writer and star Sharon Horgan), you'd want to capitalise with further small-screen projects. But that's not the way Kelly plays it.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=181Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:57:15 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=180ALL THE COLOURS OF THE TOWN Liam McIlvanney Faber, £12.99http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=180Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:55:17 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=179LISA Hopkins is having a day which would make most of us want to run for the hills or at least reach for a bottle of sedatives. She's spent the past six hours rehearsing some fiercely complicated dance routines with a bunch of 18- to 21-year-olds and, any minute now, 85 young wannabe stars will be pouring through the door. Then begins the real fun of 16-hour days of rehearsing and chaperoning. Instead of cracking up, Hopkins is positively glowing with anticipation.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=179Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:52:54 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=178JANEANE Garofalo is a comedian first and an actress second. In the US this diminutive 44-year-old - who was working the bespectacled, raven-haired geek look decades before Ugly Betty - is a household name, an outspoken left-leaning stand-up and Fox News botherer who was recently voted Ignorant Twit of the Week in a US conservative blog. (Don’t feel bad for her: she gives as good as she gets.) Here, we tend to associate Garofalo with her on-screen characters: the cynical sidekick who is the brains to the leading lady’s beauty. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=178Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:50:25 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=174IN APRIL 1962, Muriel Spark briefly returned to Edinburgh. She was 44 and on the brink of becoming a major literary star.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=174Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:08:50 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=168DAVID PEACE KNOWS THAT HE shouldn't be telling me what he is telling me. He shouldn't be telling me it because it's nothing to do with what we're supposed to be talking about, which is his new novel. And it isn't as though there isn't anything interesting enough to say about that, because there's almost too much.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=168Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:04:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=167FRIDAY, 13 MAY, 1988. IT’S 3AM IN Amsterdam and Chet Baker has just fallen to his death from a second floor hotel bedroom. The jazz scene in Europe is shocked. Suicide? No! Chet was on top form. Murder? No! The bedroom door was locked from the inside and there was no sign of a struggle.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=167Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:02:07 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=165WITH HER SLEEVE ROLLED UP and fist defiantly clenched, Sarah Millican's embodiment of the iconic "We Can Do It!" poster, urging women into munitions factories during the Second World War, is one of the most striking images of this year's Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=165Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:48:56 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=164GREGORY BURKE'S GAGARIN WAY is an oddity - a play that feels more relevant now than it did when it was first performed back in 2001.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=164Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:45:49 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=163RICHARD MARITZER, VINCENT Cardinale and Shelby Bond are in the bath. The bath is in a friend's apartment in Los Angeles and, in case anyone is wondering, their modesty is protected by the generous addition of bubble bath. Still, it's hard to look the handsome young Sound andamp; Fury trio in the, ahem, eye.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=163Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:42:22 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=162EVEN AWARD-WINNING POETS like Sean O'Brien can struggle to earn a decent crust these days, the dividends from publishing poetry being woefully thin. So we could easily forgive him if he thought a tawdry tale full of sexual rivalry, sacrificial rites and murder would inch him a little closer to Dan Brown territory, and, hopefully, Dan Brown publishing deals.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=162Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:38:49 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=161"WHAT BECOMES" IS A GRACEFUL title. A touch Beckettian perhaps, but let's not be picky. The broken-hearted are never far off in this collection. When you primp its 200-odd pages a lightish riffling exhales, like the ghost of something small and possibly sad. Which is very soothing as well as disturbing.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=161Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:33:47 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=160ADAM THIRLWELL'S LATEST novel begins with a man concealing himself in a wardrobe, watching a couple fornicate. That's probably where the parallels with R Kelly's hip-hop soap opera Trapped in the Closet end. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=160Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:30:48 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=155MIKE MARAN is having a coffee in the gastronomes' grotto of Valvona andamp; Crolla's delicatessen - scene of many of his distinctive minimalist music theatre Edinburgh Fringe shows over the years. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=155Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:47:06 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=156THEY say that it's too big, too commercialised, dominated by big-name comedy, and increasingly hostile to new work: and there's a grain of truth in all those complaints.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=156Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:55:25 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=157INTRIGUING, is it not, the way an innocuous handful of notes, informed with a composer's deftness, a player's insight, can take on such potent associations?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=157Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:00:23 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=148THE most talked about show of the 2008 Fringe was a Belgian production with the snappy title Once And For All We're Going To Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen. Deliriously enjoyable, it was performed by a group of adolescents who, in a series of high-energy scenes, perfectly captured the smell of teen spirit in all its raucous, funny, vulnerable glory. It made you look at teenagers in a new light and went on to be the only hit show ever to have an international tour dictated by the Bhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=148Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:25:06 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=147AT LAST year's Fringe, London-born actress and comic Pippa Evans was nominated for the If.comedy Best Newcomer Award. She attributes the attention to her display of two key emotions: loneliness and disappointment. Not her own loneliness and disappointment, you understand, but rather that of the characters that inhabited her debut solo sketch show.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=147Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:18:17 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=146ON MY way to meet Carol Ann Duffy, in a taxi wheezing its way up into the green hills and scree-shouldered mountains of Inverness-shire, the driver expresses a commonly held view. "A female Poet Laureate?" he ponders. "I didn't know women did that job."http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=146Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:04:03 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=145IT'S time for French-Irish chanteuse Camille O'Sullivan to pour herself into her basque and Louboutins and wow festival audiences with her irresistible mélange of glamour, gallusness and Gauloises. Fresh from a performance on Later… With Jools Holland and a spell with La Clique in London's West End, she is Ireland's most unique artiste. Dripping with five-star reviews and awards, the singer, artist, storyteller and actress packs a passionate punch with her interpretations of Jacques Brel, David Bowie, Nick Cave and Tom Waits classics in a stage show that moves the audience to tears of laughter and pain.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=145Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:51:48 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=144WHEN A LITTLE PLAY WITH AN improbably long title became the sleeper hit of last year's Edinburgh Fringe, no one could have been more surprised than Stefan Golaszewski.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=144Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:13:27 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=143TEATRO ALLE TESE, VENICE. THE hipper than thou sell-out crowd at the Venice Biennale Danza are waiting, noisily for - well, what? No one really knows.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=143Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:08:04 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=1421 A toilet A "burst of early evening toilet humour" is promised as a teenage theatre company called nod/nod perform a "homage" to Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the loo at the St James Centre.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=142Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:04:53 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=140THE COMEDY section of the Fringe programme carries the following entry for the Gilded Balloon show, Hour of the Lynx.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=140Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:56:23 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=139I AM looking forward to my 43rd Edinburgh International Festival; I pay for all my tickets and so far have spent over £500 on this year's events.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=139Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:50:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=119YES, WE'RE APPROACHING THAT time of year again. So, to help you plan your festival our experienced, professional critics have scoured the Edinburgh Fringe programme from A-Z and come up with an entirely subjective - but expertly informed - list of the events you shouldn't miss.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=119Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:27:51 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=118JONATHAN MILLS, DIRECTOR OF the Edinburgh International Festival, is quite a salesman. For three years now, he's been persuasively selling each of his festivals as works of art in themselves - journeys through a series of shows with international scope but a connecting theme.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=118Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:23:56 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=117A MIXTURE OF ESTABLISHED names and fresh young talent marks this year's programme. The National Galleries of Scotland has Velasquez, Goya and Picasso in its Discovery of Spain exhibition at the Mound, while the Artist Rooms show continues at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, featuring Damien Hirst and Francesca Woodman among others.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=117Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:21:34 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=116NO NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS, NO prime ministers or vice-presidents, not even a home-grown Hollywood film star: even the most passionate supporters of the Edinburgh International Book Festival would be hard-put to argue that this August's crop of writers in Charlotte Square looks like a vintage year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=116Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:17:06 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=113It's been a fascinating and memorable festival. Shame then that it will close close tomorrow night on a depressingly bland notehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=113Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:27:12 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=112Director Kathryn Bigelow doesn't do 'chick flicks,' but powerful 'masculine' movies, such as her dark new film set during the Iraq warhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=112Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:44:00 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=103Any film director worth their salt will usually get around to making one film so personal it's tempting to read it as autobiography.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=103Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:20:32 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=90Scotland on Sunday Review's pick of the Edinburgh International Film Festival...http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=90Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:11:54 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=83EVER hear the one about the actor who became a stand-up comic? If you have, then you've probably seen Joey Frisk on stage. Indeed, when Frisk appeared at Glasgow's Stand comedy club last year, all was not what it seemed.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=83Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:54:38 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=82JULIANNE Moore can play nice with the best of them. She is encouraging when you fumble for a question, and possesses a keen, self-deprecating sense of humour.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=82Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:50:33 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=89The Scotsman's film critic offers his recommendations from the upcoming EIFF. . .http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=89Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:58:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=88THE global economic downturn may have crippled the Celtic Tiger, but the traditional Irish export of absurd storytelling is alive and well.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=88Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:48:21 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=86After three years on the moon all by his lonesome, Sam Bell is marking time, eager to sail through the final fortnight of his contract and return home to wife Tess and daughter Eve.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=86Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:41:53 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=85ANYONE who saw Andrea Arnold's raw and disturbing debut feature, Red Road, knows that she is a film-maker who likes honesty. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=85Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:02:28 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=84A FEW months ago, my wife said, 'Look at this Twitter from Sasha,'" says director Steven Soderbergh while discussing his new film, The Girlfriend Experience, starring adult film star Sasha Grey.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=84Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:59:16 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=61SCOTLAND on Sunday film critic Siobhan Synnot highlights this year's must-see movies . . .http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=61Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:29:33 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=60AT A film festival, everyone is a bit of a junkie. In fewer than two weeks, depending on your reprobate tendencies and tolerance, you can see more films than many people manage in a year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewpreview.aspx?id=60Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:26:00 GMT