TOP TEN
Over the last with a lurlong left to run, these are the leading chaser: as picked out by our trained ohservers’ binoculars.
I The Frigidaire: promise us lost In Space . . . not in those coetunes they don’t. lost In Space (Fringe) The Frigidairee, Gilded Balloon (Venue 38) 226 2151, until 4 Sept
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I John Cooper Clarke Forget Margi. this is the Clarke who’ll set you chuckling and thinking. The Northern amphetamine rhymester returns with an unpredictable show at Fools Paradise.
I The Woman In A Tree (in The Hill Theatreworks Singapore at The Mad Abbot explore the age-old battle of the sexes using traditional Chinese theatre and a sense of humour.
I Bitch! liylte! Faghag! Whore! Radical theatre encompassing comedy,
characterisation, music and video to address t0pics like sex, intolerance, AlDS, feminism and freedom at the
I Lite’s lost a howl oi . . . Assembly Rooms.
for the bride in The Plaza
Suite, Aaartiiadtts .
mum" of m I.“ I Revolver Emily Woof, fractured Simon film-pan", Plan ankle and all. ventures into a 60s world Suite (Fringe) of celebrity killing, Valerie Solanas and Aaatiiaakts, lllll St The Beatles at the Assembly Rooms. Theatre (Venue 41) 226
6522, until 4 Sept,
7.55pm, £6 (£4). I Bill T. Jones The American dancer and choreographer showcases disparate and innovative new work at the King’s Theatre.
I ilaked Mike Leigh moves on from the lighter tone of Life Is Sweet to direct a hard-hitting depiction of the young homeless in London. The Film Festival‘s closing gala.
I That treshly-out-ot- the-shower [an routine
courtesy oi Storm In a I Accion Mutante A late-night Cameo Teacup (Fringe), The Film Festival screening for a Spanish Pleasaunxl 93:: $555 schlocker about a gang of handicapped “555056 (£3.50). v v revolutionanes taking on a futunstic :
designer world.
I iiancl Sritlith Nanci rocks. swings and gently serenades the Castle in what should be a warm exercise in audience bonding to a country beat. John Martyn
supports.
I Phil Key The stmgeg-haired loon wraps up a sublime spell on the Fringe with his Gilded Balloon show, a riveting display of inventive manic ad- libbing. 3
I The Amazing Johnathan Joining fellow sick Yanks the Jim Rose Circus I up on Calton Hill is grungy illusionist
and comic Johnathan (Amazing to his i mates). Like Paul Daniels never lived. '
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