Contents The essential guide to Edinburgh’s Festivals

Thursday 27 August Sunday 6 September 2009

61 Noticeboard 61 Malcolm Hardee Awards 62 Alan Rickman in town

64 Books 65 Susie Orbach 66 Mark Millar 66 Frank Gardner

69 Comedy 70 Simon Amstell 76 Shappi Khorsandi 77 Laura Solon 78 Sean Hughes

81 Dance 81 Everything Must Go

041ame here 85 Kids 85 The Man Who Planted Trees

0054ame here 86 Music 90 Admeto re di Tessaglia 91 Camille O’Sullivan

93 Theatre 94 Controlled Falling Project 96 The Overcoat 101 Forest Fringe

103 Visual Art 104 The Enlightenment

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82 Cover story: Michael Clark As the closest thing the dance world has to a household name returns to the Edinburgh International Festival after an absence of 20 years, Kelly Apter spoke to his mentor, his dancers, his collaborators and his admirers, in order to get a complete picture of what it’s like to work with the man himself.

Highlights

65 Douglas Coupland Eighteen years after Generation X, the US author talks to Rodge Glass about follow-up, Generation A 87 Magazine 28 years after their last show, the post-punk fabulists are back. Neil Cooper reigns in his excitement to talk to them

88 Actus Tragicus With a title like that, Stuttgart Opera’s contribution to the EIF was never going to be a bundle of laughs. However, says Carol Main, it promises to be one of the most intense, deeply affecting productions this year

94 Peter & Wendy 2009 really has been the year of the puppet. Now, even the EIF feels the lure of the marionette, with this utterly magical adaptation of JM Barrie’s Peter Pan

Reader Offers 63 Win Fringe tickets for Hullabaloo 2009 with Bulmers 63 2 For 1 tickets for Handel's Admeto King of Thessaly 63 2 For 1 tickets for Assembly - New Art Club 71 Win tickets to Underbelly's Birthday Blowout

with Grolsch

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