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Fest MagazineAn Evening with Ben Dover: Innocent Until Proven Filthy
Britain's foremost pornographer arrives for his show armed and ready. Bounding up the centre aisle wielding a video camera, the crowd visibly recoils at the ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineAidan Bishop: No Sissy Stuff Review
Aidan Bishop introduces his late night show as an exploration of his masculinity without any “sissy stuff.” What follows is a show with a lot of ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineMade in hell?
With all these Fringe happenings, it's easy to forget that the festival season doesn't end at shows run by amateur college theatre groups and people with stu... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Tom Basden: Now That's What I Call Music-Based Comedy
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Musical comedy runs a double risk – of a performer be... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Niall Browne & Elaine Malcolmson: All Kinds of Everything
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> This charming comedy duo from “Nireland” (North... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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On Unicyclists, Culpability, and the Odd Transience of Entertainment
Last night 300 people carried my husband around on their shoulders chanting WATSON WATSON WATSON. I had mixed feelings. I mean, I like him and ev... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009
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Frequent Flier
London was 28 degrees and sunny yesterday. The BBC weather forecast states that a ‘northwest-southeast’ divide exists, due to an Azor... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Bridget Christie: My Daily Mail Hell
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> You'd think that working in the Daily Mail’s gossip c... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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The week in Charlotte Square
Fest's roundup of the literary goings on of the past few days Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Frightened Rabbit & Meursault
Opening for Scots indie heroes Frightened Rabbit is a rather daunting thought, given the sons of Selkirk’s reputation for producing exhilarating live p... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineStripped bare
Its title looked to many like a cynical publicity stunt – but Fucked has proved to be one of the theatrical finds of the 2009 Fringe. Fern Brady talks to the women responsible for a sensitive, intensely moving treatment of female sexuality Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
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Accidental Nostalgia
There’s something slightly amiss about Cameron Seymour’s lecture on her forthcoming psychology book, How to Change Your Mind: A Self-Help Manual ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
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Broken Records at Queens Hall: Review
This was always going to be something very special. Putting the majestic Broken Records in the grand, atmospheric surroundings of the Queens Hall made for th... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
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Djupid (The Deep)
Life at sea is hard. For one fisherman, it's a life made considerably harder when his ship capsizes, killing the rest of his crew and leaving him alone; bobb... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
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Orphans
Family, eh? Helen and Danny, two youngish urbanites, have just sat down to a nice romantic meal when Liam—Helen’s younger brother—bursts i... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009