GUIDE TO THE WORLD’S BIGGEST ARTS FESTIVAL

Thursday 12—Thursday 19 August 1999

Festival Features Festival round O the clock 4 Festival Top 20 31 gam_1pm The Shows yOU can't afford to miSS. 31 The Reduced Shakespeare Company A . 34 Shy/ock 11 & 33 Festival Freeloaders 35 1pm-3pm £1000 of free tickets for the hottest shows in town. 35 Riddance

36 Berkoff’s Women

20 Comedy Special

. 41 3pm-6pm The List puts comedy on the couch and asks who’s 41 Boilerhouse’s B/each laughing now: 41 Nixon’s Nixon

0 Al Murray pours forth as the Pub Landlord; j: ghgnqujgeégjmrs - Richard Herring avoids the end of the world; 45 The Wake 0 We pick the best stand-ups at the Fringe. 45 Gumboots - ' 46 Dutch National Ballet 27 Harvey Fierstein . 51 8pm_1opm The man behind Torch Song Trilogy brings 51 Turbozonels Cindereiia Broadway to LOthlan Road. 51 The League Against Tedium ' SS Dominic Holland 28 orbltal _ ' S6 Andromache The Hartnoll brothers give live 59 10pm—Late

music an electronic edge in Princes Street Gardens.

31 Festival reviews

Page after page of recommendations as our experts sort the best from the rest.

61 Festival art guide

A one-off colour guide to every gallery in Edinburgh.

131 Will Smith

The Men /n B/ack star saddles up for Wi/d Wild West.

PLUS

Festival Listings The complete guide to what’s on in a single supplement.

S9 Do-Theatre/fabrik 59 Boris Charmatz 60 Phil Kay 61 Festival Art 63 Gary Hume 64 Agnes Martin 72 Edinburgh gallery listings 82 Film Festival 82 Rushmore 86 Ratcatcher 84 Robert Bresson retrospective 89 Festival Music 89 Snow Patrol 89 Turandot 91 Ivor Cutler 92 Book Festival 92 Gordon Burn 92 Marina Warner 96 Ken Russell 97 Festivals Clubs 98 Derrick Carter 98 Edinburgh club listings

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