eeling fit and zappy? Time for some fun on the Fringe. Fortunately for you, The List posse have been partying overtime this week — checking out first nights, infiltrating luvvie gatherings and getting paydirt on stand-up comics — all so you can find the sharpest news and swingingest views of what’s happening in Festival City.
if one of our critics spots something unmissable, the show, act, film (or whatever) goes straight into our Top Ten, which you’ll find below. This is
the Festival elite and, since we’ve got such great taste, if you stick to these you’ll have a supreme Festival experience.
But life throws curve-balls sometimes, and these are called sold-out shows. A wider selection of quality product can be found in the llltlist which appears on the opening page of each Time Zone. Even to be a candidate for the Hitlist, a show has to be top quality, and so is definitely worth checking out.
After the Hitlist, each Time Zone offers a comprehensive review service (more than 100 in this issue
alone), where we’ll tell you (shooting from the hip) what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s plain revolting. If a show cuts across a Time Zone, it will be reviewed where it appears most often — but, never fear, we’ll tell you the other times it’s on. As usual, everything is drawn together in the Index on the facing page.
And that’s not all, posse. There’s separate sections for Festival Art, Clubs and Music, and definitive coverage of the Film Festival. Party on.
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The Academy of Poole FEAST Accidental [loath of an Anarchist Arches Theatre Acktord'e Monster Cambridge Beds The Actor ltd the Aeaaaain The Actor and the Assassin Abiral Jones Dumfries and Galloway Arts Aenigua FEAST Angel and the Cancer Pleasance Altill'o Patents Virtual Theatre A: la Frantic The Ballad of the Unehouee Bat Louder than Words Bangladesh Festival oi Food ltd Calm Bangladesh Festival of Food and Culture Before I Be Dreamhaus Bol All Antic Hay Productions Bloodstre. Traverse Bloody Poetry Double Edge Borderline Absolute Banana A Brief Mill Blue Harlequin Brother Truckers Traverse
Suite Theatre du Pif Calling Occuparta oi Richard Carpenter Call Me Susan Grassmarket Project Circe Bedlam Tho Conzflraion Gallery Productions Crossfire Paines Plough Death in Venice Red Shift BM 01 a m Graham Duff Dirt Enters the Heart Cat A Theatre Workshop 0! PM U” the Ufllt! Hebbei Theater 39 Eroetratue Nearly New Theatre Company 41
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An Evening nith Cary linelter incidental Theatre 33 Exhibit A Zoom Theatre 53 ilancoclt'a Last ilalf lloll Hill Street Theatre 57 The Iiand Unlikely Theatre Company 31 Tho Hanging Tree Spotlites Theatre 57 Horne of Lien Leaping Salmon 42 Hovering BAB Productions 37 it Search o1 Other Horde FEAST 19 ii. Ilene Circee Sideshon Jim Rose Circus Sideshow 43 Kiddies Il' hoot Screaming Blue Murder 42 Killing Ill. Cambridge Nights 37 aim Acropolis 58 [on Level Panic Cambridge Bats 57 The Lurch Pack o1 let M or lb Freud Egg 43 Lost Whitehill Group 33 The Mayfliee - Sex, Blood. Death and Clonal Destruction Working Theatre 43 Pete IcCathy Being British Assembly Rooms 42 A mo flirt Dre. Assembly 41 Hensley American Wolf Productions 37 Ml Traverse 43 he flatter lhat Commouon 20
toolThellleetrionellieeudTrngicFallei T“! m Sheffield University Theatre 40
One IO Steven Berkoff 19 h the m oi Enlelng The John Wright Company 34
0n Tidy Endings Northern Theatre Company 33 The Drama Penguin Risk Theatre 49 The Cold Fella Fifth Estate 49 Oil Brutus Hill Street Theatre 21 Felting Opera FEAST 24 The Persian: The Saltzburg Festival 42 The Pleasine Dene Fecund Theatre 51 Prospect Latino Chicago
Blair Grassmarket Project
Bell-a-Pea Wierszalin Theatre
The Same Old Story Downtrodden Theatre Sana Teeth Accidental Productions
A Scots Dealt TAG
Scottish Stories Glasite Meeting House Tho Sex Conedlee Barmont Productions Sleeping with You Traverse
50‘ Arthur Smith
Still Lite National Student Theatre Company A Strange Bit of Theatre ln-Theatre Stripped Altas Theatre Company Tennorary Girl Lisa Kotin
The Tender Marcie: Mania Productions 1080 Original Gravity Exstatic
Till! 0th.! Eden Gilded Balloon
Thane Absolute Banana
“I. MIT The Vaults
Tlo Fool: One Strip”! Punch Productions The W! “I Traverse
The Voyages of the Pqer Boat
Ge e Wyllie and Crew hogan Mania Productions Welcouel To a Thoam Illusion Welcome! Theatre
W, W and Fiderevitch The Calton Centrex
You’re Thinking About Donglnnrta Nottinghamshire Education Theatre
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Cave Changelle Assembly Rooms The Candy lone The Comedy Zone 51 Calm Witt Jack McDonald 43
Pieter M llye Assembly at the Meadows 49 The Edi” flock Shen Arthur Smith 33 MI Em. heme llioha fl Sit W” Stand Up Black America 14 The Emotional Collection
Emotional Collection
Fever The London Medics
The Full Monty Assembly at the Meadows
The Gary Glitter Show
The Gary Glitter Story
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Sea m Sean Hughes
Who Bedlam
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I Was a T” int Kevin Day
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John Meres 51 hen leek, hen Record, Iig Drawing Show John Hegle 51 M of ii! do: Hattie Hayridge 57 Politics in the M Whitehill Group 42 Ba. Ba W Richard Herring 34 lichael w Michael Redmond 45 hick lleveil Assembly Rooms 51 Revenge of W Sponge Ian Marc Blake 40 llohert'e loan of Salty Auld Reekie 33 llude lite M m Gilded Balloon 41 Schneider and lannch
Schneider and lannucci 54 Sick an a Parrot Parrot 52 “It Steel Fools Paradise 52 Still Crazy After All These Tm
Helen Lederer 4B le, M, W Id ht Nick Mayhew 41 M Thence Mark Thomas 51 TlnrasoteKenudArdKenandArd 52 Verity M (We) Festival Club 57 The M Shoe Gilded Balloon 42
lel llehelel The Story of a le-en in a W Show Ellen Hulkower 57
Chllten'a Circe: Mellon FEAST 20 mo to the St! The Shoestring Players 20 he Are We? FEAST 20
Big Feattne The Featheretenehanile St Brides
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Gandini Juggling Project honinlecence et a Southern alrIIeed Danceteller
The Demarco European Arts Foundation Tooting Ricochet Dance Company
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