Festival Front
1 Irreversible
Film Lives are shattered by horrible violence in Gaspar Noe’s latest shocker. See page 36. Filmhouse.
2 Peter Kay Comedy The bard of Bolton takes
time off from Phoenix Nights to muse
and amuse. See page 18. Assembly Rooms.
3 Hiroshi Sugimoto
Art Evocative shots of architecture, trees and oceans from the Japanese maestro. See page 68. Fruitmarket.
4 Spider
Film David Cronenberg’s finest movie
for a long while is a bridging of Beckett and Freud. See page 34. UGC.
5 Julia Morris
Comedy The 02 Queen of delightful filth gives us two nights of mayhem. See page 16. Assembly Rooms.
6 Omid Djalili
Comedy Middle-East politics and belly dancing come together in one fabulous show. See page 20. Pleasance.
7 Kenny ‘Dope’ Gonzalez
Clubs Disco. Latin and house from the undisputed Master at Work. See page 78. Honeycomb.
8 Janice Galloway Books Her fact-based novel, Clara,
has set hearts a-pounding and tills a-
chinging. See page 11. Charlotte Square Gardens.
9 Howard Hodgkin
Art Twenty works from the painter who drifts between representation and abstraction. See page 67. Dean Gallery.
10 Lia Rodrigues
Dance The top Brazilian
choreographer gives us Such Stuff as
we are Made Of. See page 29. St Stephens.
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1 1 Noel Fielding
Comedy Could it be the Boosh boy's year for fizzy success or is Voodoo Hedgehog just too strange? Pleasance.
1 2 Ride
Theatre An edgy and provocative tale of a couple waking up with each other, unaware of what occurred the night before. See page 55. Assembly Rooms.
1 3 Parsifal
Music Five—and-a—quarter hours of Wagnerian magnificence in Stein’s visionary production. Festival Theatre.
14 Boris Charmatz Dance The French wizard provides a piece of televisual theatre for one person on the hour. See page 32. The Hub.
15 Daniel Kitson Comedy The Yorkshire miserabilst will have you supping from his flagon of fun then crying into your beer. See page 24. Pleasance.
1 6 Emio Greco
Dance Two shows from Greco this year, translated as The Conjunction of Black and Abandoned Orphan. See page 32. Playhouse & Festival Theatre.
1 7 Badly Drawn Boy Music The man who clocked in with The Hour of Bewi/derbeast shuffles on stage for one of T on the Fringe‘s most anticipated shows. See page 50. Corn Exchange.
1 8 Macbeth
Theatre Rotterdam’s Ro Theatre bring us two-and-a—half hours of daggers, spots and witches. See page 60. Royal Lyceum.
19 Stephen Poliakoff Books The acclaimed telly play- wright behind Shooting the Past and Perfect Strangers makes his debut at the Book Festival. See page 15. Charlotte Square Gardens.
20 Doves
Music Soon-to-be stadium-fillers, Doves switch The Last Broadcast to the live arena. See page 54. Corn Exchange.