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FINDER’S FEE Thriller with a political edge
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MUMMENSCHANZ 3XII
Very alternative cabaret
This unorthodox SWiss based eoiiipant have been entertaining auaieiii‘es Wliil their offbeat imagen. and pli\sit‘al st\ie since l972. but there seems to be nothing tired about their latest fringe show.
in it. there seems to "be a usual in\enti\eness that lll\ ohes taking e\ei\da\ oblettts and turning them into something bemnd recognition. The use of masque b\ the actors t‘reates a SIMISOU world of the imagination that liberates the child in all of us ‘\\'e find that Children respe id well to it. as well as adults. think this is about the may that there's something that is quite close to being children in what we're dang. There are a lot of emotions and a lot of humour that brings us into contact Willi childhood] says east member Floriana Frassette. Go on. be a child: yOu knov.
C-90 BY DANIEL KITSON The oddball strikes back
F'em his breakthroudn l iiiiae rlebut love. /.’ifi(‘(fl”l(,‘l‘ arrgl .‘I‘e 122m: Cer to his Perrier in XML? whereupon he flfllflilllilll‘, riut off his trarleiiiark bush, beard. iilakini; his liublieits, material IllTSTElllll‘,’ defule 7 Daniel Kitson has paved his career as the definitive oddball.
lr'r‘oiii his pillllilt“. gluise as ar'iodaiitl‘, (:onfiilent rib tirtklei to h:s nee/er. softer alteriego as unassuming; storyteller of the iiiainstage. Kitson (:ontinues to command his audieiirte with (3‘.(:.'".(I£i‘, tales of loneliness, love and ecceiitiicity.
Last year's storytelling show. Stories for the '.V()bl)/\,* l-lear'tet.’ won him the hearts and minds of both (:ritir: and punter. His new weik. C—flf) about memory. hope and a man's last day in a lob that has never existed. promises to warm Just as many coekles. ‘I want there to be bleakness to the stories. but I also want there to be optimismf says Kitson. ‘lt's about the work. giving people that goose-pimply feeling. Melancholy is lovely; it stays wrth yell longer: it’s a more substantial meal than lust laughs.‘ lVictoria Haiiiiiietti I Traverse. 228 7404. Fl—Bl'Al/g mo! 74, 27/. 10.30pm, £‘75 (5.‘-l.:3()—5‘i'()i. Preview 8 Aug. ill) r£‘-l.:3()i.
THE RECEIPT
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The endearing skills of Will Adamsdale Will require little introduction for those that saw the playful and satirical Jackson's l’l’ai/ a ceiiple of years back at the Traverse. Here he reappears wrth a rather splendid piece of conteiiiporarv social commentary with a sweet and fey spirit that might belie its Kafkaesuue undertones. Combining with mus‘iCian Chris Branch, a Moog and a filing cabinet With some pretty astonishing qualities. he'll be telling the story of a man who becomes obsessed ‘.'.’lii‘. tracking down the histor, of a receipt found adhering to his shoe. A slight kind of narratixe then. but ‘.-.re're promised enough \X’llllTlS‘y to more than earn, us tnr<>ugh an hotir or so's entertainment. tore Cr‘amerl I Assenrbvr Rooms. :3—28 Aug (not
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KILLING TIME
Sci fi TV star goes theatre
‘lt’s certainly a departure from Babylon 5,‘ says Claudia Christian, who is better known, particularly to fans of science fiction television, as Commander Susan lvanova. ‘There’s no outer space and no military elements,‘ Christian says of Killing Time, her Fringe debut and, indeed, the California-born actress’ UK stage debut.
Christian’s been living in London for the past two years, where she‘s been filming the television comedy series Broken News, a TV news satire, and Starhyke, a sci-fi parody that she‘s directed a few episodes of herself and in which she plays the tittersomely monickered Captain Belinda Blowhard. Christian says she thought it would be fun to do Edinburgh this summer. If she’d only known what she was letting herself in for.
Killing Time is a two-handed psychological thriller in which Christian plays a wealthy but otherwise seemingly unremarkable wife named Jane, who is charmed into revealing the details of her unhappy marriage by a stranger named Rick (George Calil, recently seen on the big screen in Rollin’ with the Nines). ‘It’s a challenging piece,’ says Christian, who as we speak is a week away from the full dress rehearsal and a little anxious. ‘There’s lots of dialogue and a complicated plot and plenty of action. The last play I did (in America) I played a bi-polar manic-depressive, but this
was tougher,’ she laughs.
‘At the moment we’re in rehearsals, going through the process of finding the beats and the blocking. I am quite nervous about it. But I do utilise that energy in a positive way. I find television and film a breeze — I did 88 episodes of Babylon 5 and a couple of movies — but then you don’t get the energy from the crowd. The stage is a very visceral experience.‘
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MISS HIGH LEG KICK’S FASHION BUS
Meet the catwalk's new high priestess
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