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- Guide to the world's biggest arts festival Thursday 3—Thursday 10 August 2000

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2 Eight Perfect Festival Days clock- - The Li'st's round-the—clock gurde to the world’s biggest arts . ' ' ~ ' I ' festival kicks off wrth all the hits in diary format. Stick wrth our * 29. recommendations and you won’t go wrong. .29 RIdlCUIUanUS 86 Festival Freeloaders 31 Picasso’s Woman Free tickets and two-for-the-prrce-of-one offers for top Fringe .35 shows including Jeff Green, Davrd Gray, Ladyboys of Bangkok .35. M be" and many more. 3.8 Day Dante ream a e 12 Johnny Vegas He’s putting his career in ceramics on hold to star in a Joe Orton 41 play and host his own game show. Can Johnny cut it as a straight 41 Theatre Babel actor or Will his dreams go to pot? 41 Nicholas parsons 14 Lady Salsa '

47 6pm—8prn 47 Abandonment 47 Ardal O'Hanlon

55 8pm—10pm 555 Ross Noble

Festival 2000 rs gorng Cuba-mad and The List takes to the streets of Havana to catch up wrth Toby Gough’s latest outlandrsh venture as well as the passionate yOung dancers of Dan/Abrerta.

20 Ed Byme 58 Lee Hurst He's loathed \ a 67 10pm-Late by some but 67 Bill Bailey

l . d l ‘l oved by more an as t re Strathc yde Uni 69 Cuban Brothers alumnr takes to the Playhouse, he lets us in on

hrs feelings for sea monkeys. 71 Festival Art

22 Yllana's 666 71 Shirin Neshit It’s rude, it’s crude and it’s one hell of a laugh. The List flew to 72 Edinburgh gallery listings Madrid for the first word on this blackest of death row comedies. .

77 Festivals Clubs

26 New SCOttISh playwnghts 77 International Clubs Festival

Two of Scotland's hottest dramatrsts are set to blaze a trarl on the . . . Fringe. We meet Douglas Maxwell and Zrnnre Harris and ask what 78 Ed'nburgh C'Ub l'St'ngs makes them tick.

88 John Fardell

The festival rs a bug's life for our cartoonrst.

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