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Mike McShane of Americana Absurdum’s Screwmachine/ Eyecandy recommends his five favourite Festival drinks.

I’m really enjoying the Bitter and Nisted. It's a bitter. local. Even a lot of the Americans here with me. who don't normally like bitter. like this

one. I keep handing my pint around for them to try and it comes back empty.

You can get it at the Star Bar.

I like Caledonian 80, and I generally like heavy. It's a nice in between beer that goes good with Scotch.

I like Highland Park for Scotch. I'm not heavy on the peat. I like Irish whiskey. so I like my whisky a bit sweet. My uncle Maurice. who's Irish. says: ‘Ah. yOU like your whiskey a little fruity. Mike.‘ It's in between. it's not like Laphroaig. I once had a girlfriend whose dad was a university professor. He used to make me slam down all these really peaty whiskies. I‘d be like. what the fuck is that? It's like somebody put a creosote-loaded plank in water. Budvar is great. I like the hoppy Czech lager. When we make ales in the States we use too many hops. so it‘s too carbonated. But Budvar is naturally carbonated. so it cleans the palate it's good hot weather beer.

I like champagne cocktails. There's this one called the French 7.). It's champagne. Cointreau. gin and lemon juice. lt‘s fucking great. man. It's named after a musket the musketeers in Napoleon's time used it before they went into battle. I don't like fruit juice in my champagne. (Steve Cramerl Assembly Rooms. 226 2428, until 29 Aug (not 76). 3. 7 5pm. Bio-£72.

Hit FESTIVAL THEATRE

‘The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means’ - Tom Stoppard

* East Coast Chicken Supper A clever and sweetly engaging farce by Martin J Taylor, this piece, directed by Richard Wilson, sees three young drug dealers menaced by the local hard man in a Fife village. However it sounds. it's charming. Traverse Theatre, 228 1404, until 28 Aug (not 75, 22), times vary, 59-215 (£4.50).

at: The Riot Group: Switch 'l'ryptic The mighty Rioteers are back with this tale of Switchboard operators at a New York exchange in 1919. The impact of war, prohibition and the new corporate state are all satirised. Assembly Rooms, 226 2428, until 29 Aug, 72. 75pm, £13—E14(El2—£73).

>l¢ Screwmachine/Eyecandy This satire from Americana Absurdum which takes the game show as its starting point amounts to a dark but funny assault on the consumer values of contemporary society. A must see. Assembly Rooms, 226 2428, until 29 Aug (not 16), 3.75pm, 870—272.

* Come Again The story of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. this time told from Moore's point of view. High quality biographical theatre. Assembly Rooms, 226 2428, until 29 Aug (not 77), 71.15am, 29—70 (£8—9).

38 An Oak Tree Tim Crouch's marvellous one-man show examines loss and grief through a stage hypnotist and a father who has lost his daughter. Engaging and unorthodox. Traverse Theatre, 228 7404, until 28 Aug, times vary, 28—217 (£4.50)

For venue addresses, please see the Fringe programme, log on to www.edfringe.com or call the venue number.

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