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A (Gay Disabled Transexual) Love Story Told to a Ticket Inspector at Alton Towers
By Yasmin Sulaiman, published 15 August 2007 Edinburgh might be one of Europe's most beautiful cities but it's a wholehearted nightmare if you're disabled. Just ask Robert, a young ...A Beginner's Guide to German Humour!
By Dominic Hinde, published 06 August 2007Henning Wehn is the self appointed German comedy ambassador to the United Kingdom; Otto Kuhnle is a German TV comedian and expert yodeller who doesn&#...A Beginners Guide to Fringe Greatness
By Joe Vester, published 18 August 2007A play about writing a play isn't the most original idea. Still, the youthful cast of A Beginners Guide to Fringe Greatness manage to knock out a ...A Light in the North
By Michael Kynaston, published 08 August 2007Held in its workshop, gardens and other venues around Newhaven, the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s Magazine ’07 is a multi-media event sho...A Light in the North
By Michael Kynaston, published 14 August 2007Held in its workshop, gardens as well as other venues around Newhaven, The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s Magazine 07 exhibition showcases new ...A MidsummernightsTree
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, published 11 August 2007Even in the howling gales of an Edinburgh summer there is something magical about watching an outdoor performance. Set in Dean Gardens, a private par...A Mighty Heart
By Dave Kerr, published 16 August 2007“How do you find one man amongst all this?” Angelina Jolie asks us as she adopts the guise of Mariane Pearl, the widow of slain Wall Stree...A Porthole Into the Minds of the Vanquished
By Nat Dyer, published 13 August 2007A Porthole into the Minds of the Vanquished explodes like a singing and dancing firework from the opening to the closing scene. A small stage is home ...A Walk in the Park
By Michael Collins, published 13 August 2007A Walk in the Park is one of the recent highlights from Glasgow venue Oran Mor’s unsurprisingly successful 'A Play, a Pie and a Pint' se...Adam Bloom: Look at me, Anybody!
By Chris Williams, published 02 August 2007 If the soothing harmonies of Mozart's Ave Verum are not exactly what you'd expect to open a show whose title includes more than a suggesti...Adam Hills: Joymonger
By Amy Cook, published 06 August 2007In the week that has seen comedian Phil Kay sit naked amongst his audience and Christians boot Barry Fox out of his venue for lines about tits, it'...Adolf
By Sam Friedman, published 22 August 2007Pip Utton has been imitating Adolf Hitler for ten years now. Showered with awards and critical praise, his one-man show has toured the world, bringing...Al Pitcher
By Alison Lutton, published 10 August 2007Idiot Wind: a simple enough idea. Al Pitcher identifies the phenomenon as an inability to suppress daft or weird comments in any given social situatio...Alex Hartley @ Fruitmarket Gallery
By Bridget Steed, published 03 August 2007At The Fruitmarket Gallery's festival exhibition, Alex Hartley illuminates the interior and exterior space of the gallery and other built environm...Alex Horne: Birdwatching
By R.J. Thomson, published 22 August 2007“Birdwatching is like hide and seek, only you do the hiding and the seeking and the birds don’t know you’re playing.” This is ...Alice Munro live from Canada with Margaret Atwood
By Caroline Walters, published 17 August 2007 Utilising Atwood’s invention of the LongPen, a machine that incorporates a video-link to the author’s location and creates leg...Alistair Barrie - Obviously
By Adam Knight, published 14 August 2007“High concept” comedy irritates Alistair Barrie. While that particular genre tends to be weighed down by its own pretentiousness, he&rsquo...All Daily Mail Writers Must Die
By Sam Friedman, published 04 August 2007Among tonight’s handful of guests sits a sceptical-looking man in a beige linen jacket. He’s from the Mail. Looking slightly out of place ...All Fall; All Falling
By Joe Vester, published 03 August 2007Haven't you ever thought that waiting for a bus that doesn't come is a bit like Waiting for Godot? Liar, one of the series of eight plays whic...Alyssa Kyria
By Ben Judge, published 22 August 2007As far as Fringe comedy experiences go, this is the pits. In fact, the very word “comedy" is utterly misleading, implying at least a glimme...
