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Penny Spubb's It’s about time someone brought these bedfellows comedy and seafood together. Wix and Crilly

do it with style, in Prawn Free. See Comedy, page 27.

Robert Mapplethorpe Creator of some truly iconic photographs of everything from lilies to penises. New York’s rebel with a lens enjoys a major retrospective.

The Goodies

Taken out and dusted down from the comedy closet at the BBC and reminding us why gloriously silly, surreal humour ages very well.

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ZooNation: Into The Hoods Who’d have thought injecting the work of Stephen Sondheim's /nto the Woods with a supply of hip hop stylings would be such a good idea? See Dance, page 34.

See Visua/Art, page 68. See Comedy, page 77.

Particularly in the Heartland The TEAM raise the ghost of Robert Kennedy in a Kansas farmyard. Wild political satire

follows. See Theatre, page 48.

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Doug Stanhope

All the filth and the fury you could possibly need at the Festival. all wrapped up in one politically astute, cunning, arrogant. angry Yank. See Comedy, page 7 7.

Finer Noble Gases Adam Wrapp’s dark existential farce about the last days of drug addled rock musicians. See Theatre, page 66.

Black Watch

Greg Burke‘s reflections on the experience of Black Watch soldiers at Camp Dogwood in Iraq. See Theatre. page 56.

Andrew Weatherall Celebrating We are . . . Electric's first birthday in style with the legendary techno turntablist. See C/ubs, page 74.

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Tapeire

Dublin's James Devine is putting

tap dancing back on the map not

just as an art form but as a sport

with his record breaking footwork. See Dance, page 37 .