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Vaulting the language barrier to bring the glory of Python to the Francophone world is a noble cause for which Le Cirque Volant des Monty Python will doubtless be richly rewarded in the hereafter. What‘s hard tO understand is why they should be getting an uproarious reception and numerous curtain calls in the largest hall in the Pleasance. Even at the height of the festival. are there that many native French speakers in Edinburgh? Given the dismal record of the British for learning other languages, it‘s unlikely that, without the subtitles. most of the audience would be able to understand what they were hearing if the Python sketches hadn‘t been branded onto our collective memories.

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sketches stand or fall on their own merits. They haven‘t tried to cram in too much either, Cherry-picking from the I Aug 9.55pm, mammoth repertoire of sketches available to them and condensing them into a show that could easily have been 2 Aug 9.55pm 8. 11.05pm three times as long. Even so, a skit about something called a ‘perroquet mort' is inevitable. Subtitles are 013] 226 2] 5] translations back from the French, which means. among other things. fruitier lyrics than usual to the catchy (0,," no, “Gnome mm mug, I," om“)

barbershop number ‘Sit on my Face‘. If you‘re French and completely unschOOled in all things Python. this show might well blow you away, and help 1'25, you understand us strange British types a little bit better. (Alastair Mabbott)

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