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At the Gilded Balloon you can snap up a pair of tickets to see some of the best shows on this years Fringe. The Gilded Balloon are giving away a generous number of tickets on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS. Tickets may be picked up ONLY on the day of the performance and vouchers should be presented to the Gilded Balloon box office.
Tickets subject to availability and limited to
ONE PAIR PER PERSON.
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A pair of tickets to see BEST OF THE FEST on Fri 27 Aug (7.30pm) at the Gilded Balloon Backstage.
Five pairs of tickets available.
BORDERLINE THEATRE
COMPANY A pair of tickets to see THE AUDITION on Fri 27 Aug (9.00pm) at ‘ I the Stepping Stones Theatre. " Five airs of tickets available. p
RICHARD CARPENTER
PRESENTS . . . I ,. A pair of tickets to see CALLING OCCUPANTS OF INTERPLANETARY CRAFT on Sat 28 Aug (1.45pm) at ’ the Stepping Stones Studio. ‘ Five pairs of tickets available.
VERBATIM
A pair of tickets to see VERBATIM on Sat 28 Aug (4.15pm) at the Stepping Stones Studio.
Five pairs of tickets available.
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THE COMEDY FACTORY
.‘ ' O f ->. A pair of tickets to see STRICTLY E ' k: I Theatre.
BATHROOM on Sat 28 Aug g Five pairs of tickets available.
Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing bursts into life on the hillsides of Tuscany underthe watchful eye of Kenneth Branagh. Alan Morrison met Oscar winner EMMA THOMPSON and the rest of the cast.
’m in the kitchen, darling,’ chirps Kenneth E Branagh to his wife, Emma Thompson. ‘Oh. good,’ she replies. ‘Can I be in it too?’ V Daily life in the household of Britain’s ? stage and screen couple, as portrayed by i Spitting Image sketches, snide arts columns and trendy mags. The real Ken and Emma, however, can have the last laugh: decent box office business from each of his four films, I a theatre company that has kept true to its artistic ' vision ofbringing the classics to the masses, and now a little golden statuelte to place on top of the mantelpiece. Branagh may have been first to i get the Oscar nominations — as actor and director I for Henry V — but it was Thompson who grabbed the prize itself earlier this year for her performance in Howards End. Not that a little piece of trans-Atlantic adulation is going to make any difference in the life of this particular actress . . .
‘You have to understand. now that I’ve got the Oscar, I don’t have to work with riff-raff,’ she jokes. ‘1 sleep with the Oscar. And now [just lie at home, I have a slave with one of those fan- things, I get people to read scripts to me and, about page three, I say, “Chuck it out!”. Actually, I’ve rewritten my own version of all of Shakespeare’s plays: I’ll put them on, maybe
‘ r (11.45pm) at the .Stepping Stones 12 The List 27 August—9 September 1993