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August 17 - 261not20l 15.15117.30l Tickets £9/£6

Box Office 0131 662 8740

Fringe Box Office 0131 226 0000

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: Midden Traverse Theatre. until 25 Aug. times vary. Moma Regan‘s play for Rough

Magic is about family. home. going away and wanting to come back. A successful businesswoman returns from the USA believing she can pick up where she left off.

only to find everything has changed.

Middle Flight Cover/y Set. Greyfriars Kirk House. until 26 Aug. 1.55pm. The making of Paradise Lost and John Milton‘s own lost paradise. Three stars in The Scotsman.

A Midsummer Night's Dream I'ettes'

College. 20—25 Aug. 8pm. Shakespeare's ever popular romance relocated to Edinburgh by local school students.

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K irk ()‘Field. until 28 Aug. 5.30pm. Jealousy. it‘s maintained. can eat you up and spit you out. destroying all reason and leaving a shrivelled bitter wretch in the place of a once normal and balanced human being. As painful as the emotion is to experience. watching it happen can be a fairly traumatic affair in itself and it‘s this helpless position of being confronted by jealousy that we‘re placed in here by Loki Productions. A gathering of old friends - close enough that they can show complete and utter disregard for each other‘s feelings - is disrupted by the arrival of a figure from the past. the bewitching Mina. Giving strong performances in a production that stops just short of melodrama. the ensemble cast face the most unpleasant of human emotions with unnerving honesty. (Catherine Bromley) Missing Reel 0000 Traverse Theatre. until 25 Aug. times vary. From a single anecdote springs a contender for the funniest show of the Fringe. it's about Toby Jones‘ bit part in Notting Hill in a scene that was eventually cut. Foley artist Ayse Tashkiran impressively improvises the sound effects to accompany his hilarious tale.

Mom, l’m not a Lawyer Rte/t FttIt-Iiet: Assembly Rooms. until 27 Aug. 6.45pm. Rich Fulcher from the excellent Modern Problems in Science has something he wants

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to get off his chest: he's been a comedian for eight years. but his parents still think he‘s a lawyer. Three stars in The .S'eotstnan. Moscow 0... The Scotsman Assembly. Komedia Southside. until 26 Aug. 7.10pm. Three gay men are locked in a theatre. forced to rehearse The Three Sisters- over and over again. Pretentious. sometimes inelodious. certainly difficult. three great American musical performers transcend the limited material.

Movin’ Melvin Brown I... ('rowne Plaza Hotel. until l9xlug. 7pm. More than simply an entertaining variety performance. this show works well as an interesting (and highly comical) expose of a black man's infiltration into the world of music at a time when racial prejudice was firmly set against him. Brown's impressive spattering of tap and renditions of everything from (‘hubby (‘heckcr's 'I'utstt'n to the Temptations‘ My Girl combine well with a witty repartee to make this a dynamic and memorable show. (Anna Millar)

Moving Objects lirunton Theatre. until 25x1ug. titties vary. David Mark Thomson looks to repeat the success he had with his brilliant Mat/titan Sings 'lit The Moon on the Fringe of 1999 with this dark comedy about a young woman getting old fast.

Mr Pinocchio ee l.u:.-t'. Hill Street Theatre. until 27xlug. 5.30pm. Written by David “CW. Johnstone. this piece portrays Pinocchio as a spoilt child. Only the Use of slapstick brings light reliero this slow- paced play.

Mrs Ka's Adventures Randolph .S'tutlio (0 The French Institute. 2925 Aug. l..i’()ptn. Two actors and 3t) puppets in a French show (performed in linglishi about life's absurdities from adults and older children. The Mystery of Irma Vep Hell‘t 'leeth.’. (' (Tittle/ground. 19—26 slug. 10.45pm. (iothic melodramatic farce. Naked Lies 8. Violent Messages Bristol lit‘pet'itttental Theatre. The (iarage. 20—27/1ug. 11.50pm. After rejecting men.

LAM BTON KENT

by Andre Alexis

directed by Ross Manson stage managed & lit by JP Robichaud & starring Yanna McIntosh

“The Actress of Her Generation” - Toronto Star

A European

Premiere

by the Award-

Winning

Canadian “that” Company,

Volcano

@ the Traverse Theatre Venue 15, Cambridge St., Edinburgh Fringe August 14 to 25

tickets £9 (£4, £6 conc.) Box Office: 0131 228 1404

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