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A Stunning new musical by Hal & David Cazalet. . . DON’T Miss The UNIVERSAL PUBLIC PREMIER SHOWS AT... The Bedlam Theatre (venue 49)
2 Forrest Road EDINBURGH August 24—29 Starting at2.15pm
Tickets: £2.50 (£2); 031 225 9893
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COCKTAILS
o BANKHEAD YOUTH THEATRE. one at Scotland's leading youth theatres. weigh in with Gemini, a musical adaptation oIA Midsummer Night‘s Dream. Previous Fringe First winners. James Gillespie’s High School (venue 93). 24-29 Aug. 7.30pm. £2 (£1).
0 RORY BREMNER WITH JESSICA MARTIN as his guest, continues to amaze as one at Britain'stinest
Impressionists. Assembly Rooms (venue 3) 226 2427/8. Until 23 Aug. 9.30pm. £5.50 (£4.50).
0 THE MUSIC OF BULGARIA should be popular after thousands had their breath taken away by the ‘Mystere de Von Bulgaires‘ LP. Assembly Rooms (venue 3), 226 2427/8. Aug 23, 27 1pm. Aug 25.26.29 3.45pm. £4.50 (£3.50).
0 MARK BUNYAN. Very funny comedian a la Oscar Wilde, with piano as guest. Southside lntemational (venue 71). 667 7365. Until 23 Aug. 10.05pm. £2.50.
0 BUSTER THEATRE take a visual and observant look at weekend distractions in Another Saturday Night. Heriot—Watt Theatre (venue 7) 229 3574. 24-29 Aug. 1pm. £3 (£2.50).
0 CRY HAVOC present a powertul all-Iemale play tracing the experience at an incest victim, using mime, puppets and shadowplay. Celtic Lodge (venue 6), 225 7097. 24-29 Aug. 12.15pm. £2.50 (£2).
0 CRY WOLF present the oft-Broadway comedy classic, Why Hanna's Skirt Won't Stay Down. Chaplaincy Centre (venue 23). 24-29 Aug. 10.20pm. £2.50 (£2).
0 THE FLYING PICKETS. Rememberthe Christmas Number One hit ‘Only You'? There's plenty more where that came Irom. Pleasance (venue 33). 556 6550. 23-30 Aug. 10.30pm. £5 (£4).
0 SENSIBLE FOOTWEAR. Feminist comedy trioteam up with Atilla the Stockbroker. Crown Theatre (venue 53), 667 7588. 23-29 Aug. 11.15pm. £3 (£2).
0 MICHELLE-SHOCKED. PowerIuI and ironic singer/storyteller on the
tolk scene. Assembly Rooms (venue 3). 226 2427/8. 26-29 Aug. 11.45pm. £5 (£4).
0 VICTORIA W000. Award-winning singer/comedienne comes to town tor one night only. Playhouse Theatre (venue 59), 557 2590. 22 Aug. 11pm. £6.50, £5.50, £4.50. £3
o ANABER present Invisible 3
Women, intriguing theatre, prisoners in a garden surrounded by wild vegetation. YWCA (venue 8), 225 4202. 24-29 Aug. 11.30am. £2.50 (2).
o APPLECORE THEATRE present an imaginative
version at that old Fringe
tavourite, Buchner’s Woyzeck, the early Expressionist play. Calton Centre (venue 56), 661 9121. 24-29 Aug. 2.15pm. £2.50 (£2).
0 BARTS DRAMA. Jack Richardson's play Gallows Humour is a black comedy taking repression as its subject. Greylriars Kirk House (venue 28), 225 3626. 24-29 Aug. 6.45pm. (£2).
0 ACTS. Trial and Error: two
‘ short plays by Steve
Blandtord.z
with original music. Riddles Court (venue 11). 24-29 Aug. 7pm. £2.50 (£1.50).
0 FAR EAST THEATRE COMPANY trom Nortolk present two plays: 0utTo Lunch, about a tat and paranoid teenager, and The World's Wide Wonder, in which Walter Raleigh reminisces Irom his death cell. Theatre ACT (venue 101), 5571785. 25-30Aug. 9.45pm and 10.45pm respectively. £2 (£1). The shows can be watched as a double bill Ior£3 (£1.50). 0 FLEXIBLE THEATRE COMPANY try their hand at and adaptation oI Heller's classic novel Catch-22. Masonic Lodge (venue 41 ), 225 7294. 24-29 Aug. 9.55pm. £3 (£2).
0 MA THEATRE present world premiere in English at controversial Israeli play It Tums. Southside lntemational (venue 82) 667 7365. 24-29 Aug. Midnight. £3 (£2).
0 MILLER, MILLER, MILLER AND SLOAN. Funky and protessional young
band Irom New York, with impressive CV. Riddles Court (venue 11), 2258961. 2429 Aug. 9pm. £3 (2).
0 NEW HAMPSTEAO ENSEMBLE present in two separate shows, the lives at Oowland and Donne (24, 26, 28 Aug) and Chistine Rossetti (And Haply May Forget. . . 25, 27, 29 Aug) in music and words otthe time. Riddles Court (venue 11), 225 8961. Both start noon and cost £2.50).
0 ON EDGE THEATRE come up with PeterWeiss's (ot Marat/Sade tame) The
: Investigation, which
exploresthe sadism and collusion ol the Holocaust.
5 Bedlam Theatre (venue 49), I 2259893.24-29Aug.
‘ 12.15pm.£2(£1.50).
OCASTIRONTOURING
COMPANY present a double bill at The Gamblers by
! Gogol and Electrician, a
new play by Matthew Wooton. Theatre West End, StJohn‘s Church (venue 126). 24-29 Aug. 8.30pm. £2 (£1.50).
0 CATWALK THEATRE PRODUCTIONStry their hand atShakespeare's Comedy OI Errors. They've sold out three years in a row, so book early. Theatre West End, StJohn's Church (venue 126). 24-29 Aug. 7.35pm. £3 (£2).
0 CHARTER THEATRE COMPANY. Four redecoratorsturn up Iragments ot a torgotten past in Up For Demolition, which aimsto explode myths aboutviolence against women. Heriot-Watt Theatre (venue 7), 24-29 Aug. 229 3574. 4.15pm. £3 (£2).
0 SURPRISE PINKTHEATRE COMPANY present Thralinia, a one-woman play based on the witty, headstrong and over-educated friend at Samuel Johnson‘s. Greytriars Kirk House
(venue 28), 225 3626.
Until 29 Aug (not Sun 23).
3pm. £3 (£2).
0 THEATRE ACT present the British premiere at Canadian Gothic, a small-town prairie drama by Joanna M Glass . Theatre ACT(venue101), 5571785. 25-30 Aug. 5.15pm. £3
(£2).
0 ANNIE GRIFFIN, highly acclaimed actress, also directing Tattycoram's Mary Shelley atthe Mandela Theatre), arrives atthe Traverse with her one-woman show Almost Pesuaded. 23—29 Aug. Times vary. 226 2633.
o WOOSTER GROUP ASSOCIATES arrive atthe Richard Demarco Gallery. II anything like their associates’ Road To Immortality last year. they should be unmissable. Demarco Gallery (venue 22) 23—29 Aug. 11pm. £2.50 (£2)
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