Prodigy
GUIDE TO THE WORLD'S BIGGEST ARTS FESTIVAL Friday 22 — Thursday 28 August 1997
FESTIVAL FEATURES
18 Billy Connolly The Big Yin speaks about Mrs Brown and the Scottish press pack.
20 Howard Marks meets Kevin Williamson Head to head on the drugs debate.
22 Duncan McLean From Orkney to the Lone Star State, the writer in search of Western swing.
24 Derevo & Acrobat
The secrets of two explosive Fringe troupes — urine, brown rice and dedication.
27 Suspect Culture The Glasgow theatre company clocks up another success with Timeless.
95 Prodigy On censorship, illicit substances and living off The Fat Of The Land.
PLUS:
Index of shows covered this issue (4); Tickets & Information (6);
Festival Frontlines (8);
Festival Top Twenty (11);
Front Of House (12);
Venue map (60);
Venuelndex(62)
FREELOADERS
See the Festival for FREEII pages5& 7
FESTIVAL ROUND THE CLOCK
theatre 0 dance 0 comedy 0 kids
9a m-1 pm
29 Life And Death In Milton Keynes
30 David Benson does Kenneth Williams
1 pm—3 pm 32 KCS in Inside The Island 34 Film/theatre mayhem with Forkbeard Fantasy
3pm—6pm 37 Yvette Boszik on nudity 37 fecund theatre reaches 27 38 Diriamba! reviewed
6pm—8pm 41 Two surprise hits from Limb 41/43 TS. Eliot revived 45 Knives In Hens reviewed
8pm—10pm 49 70 Hill Lane’s Improbable arrival 49 3-D madness with La Cubana 50 Jack Dee speaks out 52 Preacherman reviewed
10pm—Late
66 The Gogmagogs are gigging again
71 Rich HaII gets five stars
71 And so does Paul Zenon
FESTIVAL FILM 72 Ang Lee's The Ice Storm 72 Stephen Fry in Wilde 74 Ireland’s I Went Down
FESTIVAL BOOKS 75 Naomi Mitchison at 100 79 Janette Turner Hospital on cuIt gurus
FESTIVAL MUSIC 81 Acid Brass 82 East Coast Project 83 Ruby Fruit Jungle
FESTIVAL ART 84 Pissarro at City Art Centre 85 John Singer Sargent 85 Elvis at Crowne Plaza Hotel
FESTIVAL CLUBS
91 Summer Of Love 91 Pure’s seventh birthday
AND THE REST... what’s happening outside the Festival Classified
Recruitment 1 17 Flatshare 120 I Saw You
98 98 100 102
106
Film: Glasgow & Edinburgh
Kevin Spacey's directing debut Reviews
Index
Listings
MUSIC: Glasgow Listings
Theatre: Glasgow 108 Drama, Dance & Comedy listings 114
Art: Glasgow 109 LBflngs
Clubs: Glasgow 111 Lbflngs