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Recently, the man in this dustbin played seven consecutive nights at the Montreal Comedy Festival. He received seven consecutive standing ovations. That’s probably not unique for a comedian at the top of his game, but when you consider that Tiernan won the Perrier Award as long ago as 1998, and he’s still painfully funny, you’ll understand why we’ve put him on the cover of this, our second weekly Edinburgh Festival supplement. Now, the whole circus is fully up and running and we’ve reviewed hundreds of performances, selecting the very best and most talked about events in comedy, theatre, dance, music or visual art. No need to read endless luke warm reviews: we’ll help you cut through the hype and the tripe to find what’s really worth seeing this year.
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13 Boris Akunin Never heard of this Russian crime novelist? You will. James Smart finds out why he ventured out of academia.
22 Demetri Martin v Tommy Tiernan This is the story of two great storytelling comedians. Only thing is. both of them claim they've turned away from narrative this year. Brian Donaldson asks them what they're planning to do instead.
44 Paul McGann Forget Withnail and /. Forget those mediocre TV dramas. This is the movie in which Paul McGann finds his form once again. This is Britain's first Dogme film. This is Gypo.
64 Nuts CocoNuts Jordi Milan's Barcelona-based troupe descend on Edinburgh with this. one of the International Festival‘s flagship shows. It's got crazy frocks — but will it be any good? Steve Cramer flew to Spain to try to make sense of the rehearsals.
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2 Agenda
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12 BORIS AKUNIN 13 JASPER FFORDE
22 DEMETRI MARTIN V TOMMY TIERNAN
39 Dance
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46 PETER MULLAN
51 THE SNOW DRAGON
54 WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ORCHESTRA
63 Theatre
64 NUTS COCONUTS
82 MARTIN PARR
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For complete eight-day information about non- Festival events in Glasgow and Edinburgh, see regular edition of The List.