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Ifyou have one foot firmly lodged in Festival heaven and the other poised over the abyss, there is no better way to sift the best from the rest than by delving into The List. We review theatre, dance and comedy shows in neat little time slots and guide you to the best in Festival clubs, film and art.

UP FRONT

Lee Evans: in town lor'the premiere of his new film Funny Bones

Richard O’Brien

The cross-dresser gets horny in a devilish role. Page 10

O NTENTS

YOUR GUIDE TO THE WORLD’S BIGGEST ARTS FESTIVAL STARTS HERE

Ticket Information

Index at shows in this issue Festival Frontlines

Front at House

FREELOADERS

SHOWS Qam-l pm 24 Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. catch The Complete History nf/lmert't'u by the Reduced Shakespeare Company. SHOWS 1-3pm 31 Nae trapping during this section. Head out and see What's The Matter With Mary June?. a powerful play about one woman's struggle against anorexia.

SHOWS 3-6pm 35 I’ssst.’ Escape Festival frenzy and make this integrated dance show a must.

SHOWS (Him 40 Food is for wimps. so forsake your nosh and devour the comedy of

25&27

Bill T Jones

Young, gifted and black: a radical US choreographer faces

UP

to death. Page 12

Fringe perennial Simon Fanshawe. SHOWS 8-10pm 50 Few things should be allowed to get in the way ofquality. prime-time drinking. but one exception should be the outrageous dance-comedy

Ray Davies

The former Kinks frontman puts the cool in comeback. Page 14

crossover act Dims.

SHOWS 10pm—late 53 Sup up and feast your bleary eyes on Alan Davies. the world‘s only purveyor of funny shaggy dog

Lee Evans

The rubber-faced comedian reaches the end of the pier in his first feature film, a tale of Blackpool entertainers. Page 17

stories.

FESTIVAL Film 68 Slip into a black polo neck. order a cappuccino and goggle at the cream

Gillies MaeKinnon

After the heady heights of Hollywood, the Scots film director

comes home in a tale of 60s Glasgow. Page 20

of the screen.

FESTIVAL Music 72 If music be the food of love. we have enough to dent the most insatiable of appetites. Delve in.

FESTIVAL Art 75

Hotter than a baker’s oven, the Czech composer, most renowned for his New World Symphony. is celebrated in a

Dvorak

Festival season. Page 22

STREETS OF GLASGOW

A festival with a difference 19

FILM

Die Hard With A Vengeance 88

Butterfly K isses 89 Index 89 Listings 91 Pure 94

Peter Lcitch

LP Reviews

Listings Rock Jazz & Folk Classical & Opera

THEATRE

Glasgow Listings

ART Listings David Levinthal

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We canvas the finest Festival an and give you a full guide to Edinburgh gallery exhibitions.

FESTIVAL Clubs 85 Fight for your right to party with a night by night guide to Edinburgh‘s nightclubs.

CLUBS

Glasgow Listings 101 Listings 103

CLASSIFIED/ I SAW YOU

Recruitment 104 Personals I07 I Saw You 108

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