FESTIVAL ’94
show circuit.
s you take a deep breath and prepare to plunge into the Festival’s final week, look between The Lisi’s culture-packed pages for the ultimate pick—me-up. In our final Festival issue, we give you at least ten good reasons to consider doing one last quality lap of that hot, sweaty,
For those whose tolerance levels are dwindling, our Top Ten offers an easy-to-swallow guide to the best of the Fest. Forget wading through hours of dross to stumble on those hidden gems, do it the easy way. Discover our Time Zones — neat little time sections with bite-sized reviews to chew on. Each time band has its own Hitlist to point you in the direction of the best shows, enabling you to pursue sheer, stress-free enjoyment. Full details of times, prices and venues are given at the end ol‘each review. As usual, everything is pulled together in our Index — see below.
Again, we offer you a tasty selection of freeloaders, allowing your purse strings a break. And for those who have taken in one show too many. there are sections for Festival Art, Clubs, Music and
Film. See The List. see culture.
Seance National Student Theatre Company 40 Some or My Best Friends are Ginger l Shattered Peace Mandy Knight 49 ' r New Forest Festival Fringe Theatre Compariy28 Steady Eddy ‘Duantum limp Tour’ ' l Sitaville Bedlam Theatre Gilded Balloon Theatre 42 l Something Wicked This Way Comes Techno Prisoners Smiley 41 l Festival Theatre t,‘S(‘-l 'SA 40 ‘This Moming' with Richard not Judy ; i Sury Wrong - Roman Cannon .\iu-1.an Arts 33 Richard Herring 21 . The index lists every show alphabetically by j The Terminal Zone Tokyo Shock Boys Tokyo Shock Boys 39 title-which appears in this week's list and i 't‘llil-teen ()‘(‘loelt Productions 42 20,000 leagues Under the Sea (In a Fishtanlt) gives the page number on which the show is : That Falls at Eve Rish'l‘ltealre 36 reviewed or previewed, Comedy encompasses ! Altalnirage Theatre Company Umbilical Brothers Gilded Balloon Theatre 32 stand-up. revue and cabaret. ' This Clum Adventure Repeats ltseli Every Uri Geller Ate My Dimer l Evening Deiiiarco [iuropean Art Foundation 35 Gilded Balloon Theatre 39 Three More Sleepless Nights Wallace & Barber‘s Soapy Frogs A t r La u; d ‘ M Absolute Banana Theatre Company 28 Thirteen ()‘Clock Productions 49 ‘ “I”? _s .00 . ' l 35 ' Tongues/Not I The 'l‘ransltlcent Theater 24 Will Durst - Only in America ' {alluring} gt:;nam:nl:;‘ lfiSi'mTr ‘ _ 32 ' Virtues Gilded Balloon Theatre 24 Assembly Rooms 41 ac one" 8 8' C l L "my 'Lam Waterhole Gylkor Theatre Productions 27 Women in Comedy Gilded Balloon Theatre 44 The Brother Assembly Rooms 32 Wha‘ the sun" said Bounties “u” Imck WT“? company ' Demarco [European Art Foundation 22 m , Boyfriend from lICII‘Mania i roduetlons 28 we" have,“ Them 3] , 3"" WW! 'l‘fii‘f , , 22 5 American Music Club Acropolis 51 ; unflcup ( ass.) ' "“'g°'.‘“’) T Dheki Mseleltu Quartet The Queen's [tall 51 The Cenci Mania Productions 4D ; Boulez “Mme” Boulez The Clouded Eye Glitteris 32 . . . , l . . , . lzdinburgh International Festival 51 Cocky Russell Hunter and L na McLean 39 , B-Road Movte! Lip Service 27 _ . . . , Boys of the laugh Boys of the Lough 53 . Crumble RCJCL‘IS Revenge 33 Bad Habit Cabaret T he Mad Abbot 47 ca . ' . ‘ ' , I ‘ . , percaillie Regular Muste at the I la) house 52 Death by Halt Inches ; Bare Knuckle Selling Bare Knuckle Selling 33 Emmwe' Chanda . New World Theatre Company 48 t Best of the Fest 2 Edinburgh International Fatwa] 53 Denial of the Fittest Judith Sloan 45 3 Jack Dee. Mark Lamarr. Rhona Cameron. ‘ . ‘ , . . Emma Christian Acoustte Music Centre 53 The Donahue Sisters Richard Morton. Mark Thomas 35 The mama“ 0mm l Mantis Theatre Company 35 l The Bradshaws The Bradshaws 39 I . . _.‘ . v . . . [.dinburgh International lestiyal 52 Enough is Enough Mania Productions 39 I A Comedy Cavalcade Ga m B . _ . . . . . . ‘ ry and T he Queen s Hall 52 The Evolution of Jazz Dorian (rook wtth Sir Bernard ( htimley 38 . . . l ‘ Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames , lhe Ktliltu Repertory Theatre 27 5 Comedy Siren Rachel Berger 49 The Queer“ “a” 51 7 Fallen Angels fecund Theatre 42 Coriry and The Juice Pigs L I ; ‘ I ‘ . . I l . . y e lovett The Playhouse 51 Falling in Mine Cross Bleed 39 Gilded Balloon 1 heatre 48 l Joanna Macoregor . Hamlet l An Evening at Unprotected Sex . . . : . ' . . .. . .. . . -. [:dtnbtlrgh International lestiyal 52 ; [:dlnburgh [-ootllghts Theatre C ompany 45 I Bri Nylon I‘lVC 49 A mm momrs Dream Hard as Rock Hard as Rock 32 g The Fabulous lypsinlta Show Lypsinka 40 r . . : _ . O , . . . ‘ [.dtnburgh International ILStnal 8 1 The Hostage Arches Theatre ( ompany 38 I Fat 8 Sexy But legal (Just) Leelo Ross 49 . . ‘ . Th H w I u m. 'E h om" . F Black Women on we Ed 8 Mulgrew Miller Trio The Queen s itali 52 ' . 9 m" e "9". ° "ng 3° 9"", , . 9 The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra [:dlnbtlrgh international Festival 41 [-unny Black \‘l omen on the [:dge 33 .. ' . ‘ g , P . _ y . . The Nuclear \N hales Saxophone ()rehcstra 44 I Once Knew a Man Boothby Crafloe Boothhy (irafloe 45 . . ‘ u . . . Omar/Tony Remy Band lhe Queen s Hall 53 AAA: Actors Alliance of America 45 Jeff Creen Jeff Green 42 . . ‘ . . . ... .. Drltestar Shqiponia de Tirana ( are (traffill 52 Ilsa. Dueen or the Nazi love Camp The Heat - Rot Peaches ltaverse llleaite 47 ’ PM “new” new The Quccnk “a” 51 'l‘rayerse Theatre 47 I'm 5"" “"9! . Ryuichi Sakamoto In One Talte Aids Positive l.'lldergr0tlnd 35 Russell Hunter and [Ina McLean 48 ‘ . y ‘ , I I m . .. Regular Music at the [ Iriyhouse Irish? l.e\ era re 45 lmproverts Bedlam I heatre 48 __ P , . . . . Sangsters In Concert Jam Ample I)"‘X1”C“0"‘ 2‘ It s a 3“ “he This .Owcn .0 xiii” ‘8 Acoustic Music Centre 52 the [in of "of some, Vcnuc [33 22 Ivor Dembina Stand l'p Jewish C omedy 49 Tnmlvan quartet Linnaeus — Prince or Flowers Jenny Eclair’s Bad Behaviour Show : , y . . I“ . , 52 . , . . [.dttiburgh international lestiyal ’l‘heatrultt Botanlcuni 41 Jenny [:clalr s Bad Behaviour Show 42 ' rile MaidsGilded Balloon Theatre 22 Jimeolniimeoin 42 W Marathon llour Glass Theatre Company 28 Just a Minute BBC Radio 4 21 The Marvellous Boy Cafe Royal 33 Phil Kay Gilded Balloon Theatre 18 "a" "any! Soweto paradise Mist, 3 Merlin Wierszalin (Poland) 35 Kit and The Widow - A Splendidlr Hunt: lunch With lehrer A Midsummer Night's Dream Retrospective Cafe Royal ' ‘ 4D Mmhcm Theatre Company 28 liitlmate [ixcllariges Theatre Company 21 Late 'n' live Gilded Balloon [heatre 47 pendmgon ymmnal Youth Music Theatre 39 ‘ Miriam [)emarco [European Art Foundation 33 Stewart lee Stewart Lee 44 ' Monk II Bud ()liiriilicelit lnk Productions inc 24 I left Luggage lan Saville. Socialist Conjurer 22 M More Cuddles llow Jack Klai‘i‘ 21 llorman lovett (‘afe Royal 48 . Morte Do Capoeira I’asso A Passo 31 ; loyd Grossman - Cut to lunch! Ancient mm” Continental Shim 35 Moscow Stations Traverse Theatre 35 i Loyd Grossman — Out to Lunch! 42 “smack, Comincmal Shifts 35 l DT “18 Assasstn i FTDd Fred Macaulay 45 Gamma and "n f Demarco [itlropean An Foundation 49 l Mime's a ladysham Lulu Johnston 22 Nightshirt Sarah Brignall 24 ! lnsinuendos Cabaret Club 49 mount. om. colmd 31m 1943 Classic 8 and W Bare Necessities 40 r Richard Morton Richard Morton 49 Union Dance Company 40 [lo Man's land Peepolyktls 27 New Kids on the Block Hill Street Theatre 49 IIDW Society for Better Quality of Life 45 Dld Farts II Barry Cryer & Willie Rtishton 48 M 0" Out lltlll Truck Theatre Company 27 Dnly Moloney John Moloney 44 Paradise - The Second Drart l Perrier Pick of the Prior: Comedy Award Show: A xitisilnlnler Night’s urea-l The [Electric Company 24 i Perrier Pick of the Fringe 47 intimate [Exchanges Theatre Company 21 A Piece ot My Heart ' P-llamess Gilded Balloon Theatre 48 The Reluctant Dragon Festival Theatre lSSC-LTSA 28 Planet 1' Gilded Balloon Theatre 33 Jonathan Rickard Children's Theatre 28 The Playboy or the Western World The Purple Pineapple Show The Tragical Comedy or Macptmch Comrnunicado 21 Purple Pineapple Show 48 Parable Puppet Theatre 32 The Pool Theater YBY 31 Richard Honing is Fat Richard lICITing is Fat 38 The Wizard of castle Magic Pulling the legs on Ants/Bit Sean lock and Bill Bailey - Roclt Magic (‘arpet Theatre 22 Me Me Me Theatre Company 44 Sean Lock and Bill Bailey — Rock 45 Puppet Relationships 22:1 1 Productions 45 Six Foot Silly and Sexy Duelques Fleurs Gilded Balloon ll 24 Gilded Balloon Theatre 39 The Quick Brown Fox So You Think You're Funny The Guardian International Student Drama 1 A Tint Clark Production 39 Gilded Balloon Theatre 47 Award Assembly Rooms 21
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