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Cover story° Elfin-111 Festival | 38 MR MCFALL'S 2 It’s easy to get lost in the statistics of the Festival. You know the claims: CHAMBER there are a million shows on the Fringe this year; a billion visitors are 43 Theatre

arriving the capital this week, and there are a squillion pages of Festival Q catalogues to flick through. Whatever the actual numbers, it’s clear that 44 LOVE HURTS

; there’s far too much information for any sane individual to take in. So, 48 ESEEmADzCH'NE/ once you’ve realised that Franz Ferdinand and Joss Whedon’s cult movie so MY PYRAMIDS

i Serenity sold out within minutes of going on sale, how are you going to 52 BREATHE]

l navigate a route through this year’s sea of potentially life-changing/deadly ,, ., dull events? The answer’s in the pages of The List, the only publication that sorts the wheat from the chaff, telling you everything you need to 68 CARHERBRESSON

know about the best, and the most talked-about shows. .

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10 Andrew Maxwell Who cares whether this man will or won't pick up an award from a multinational fizzy water maker? For our Escape

money. he's Simply the funniest stand-up on the Fringe this year.

i 78 SENSES 12 Character comedy More and more comedians are taking on r-—» ——--~--————— -- -- - l personae as vehicles for their humour. Allan Radcliffe chooses the Published by The List Ltd 3 pick of an unusually large bunch. HEAD OFFICE: 14 High Street

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offers plenty of dramas about love. But some relationships are more Fax: 0131 557 8500 straightforward than others. as Steve Cramer discovers. WWW-"SITCO-Uk

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48 Screwmachine/Eyecandy Mike McShane returns to the

Fringe with a surreal and at times terrifying look at US culture For through the lens of a crazy TV gameshow. complete eight-day information - I 8 Win tickets to the premiere ofA Woman in Winter 1 22:33:?” ; Off I 8 Win tickets to the opening night of the Fillm Festival events in i erS I 8 Win a Signed T-shirt from T in the Park gesgow tend . n "'9 9 I 8 2 for.1 tickets at the Stand Comedy Club 8“ regular I 1 1 Win tickets to T on the Fringe gigs edition of

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