Thursday 31 July - Thursday 7 August 2008 —
4 Noticeboard
4 TV Festival update
4 Elton John to get arty in Edinburgh?
6 Lucy Porter, Fringe veteran
16 Tim Minchin
18 The Meeting
24 Andrew Lawrence
26 Sarah Millican
26 Amnesty International
31 Dance Base Presents
45 Drive-ByTruckers 48 Scottish Opera: Cinderella
51 Theatre . . ' i i 54 Office Party ‘ cover Story° c'rcus oz 58 lnvAsian Festival As far from the lame clowns, miserable animals and clichéd tricks as you ‘2 Ecstasy
64 Steven Berkoff 68 The Bird and The Bee
69 Visual Art
10 Festival overview
could possibly imagine, this troupe from down under (as if you hadn't guessed already) celebrate 30 years of rumbling, tumbling flying and falling with an adrenalin-fuelled show of comedy and acrobatics.
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' Highlights
. . ‘ 15 Sick Note 14 Rich Hall For a long time he was the baddest redneck on the block 75 Trouble
as Otis Lee Crenshaw, but now there's another wily comic cowpoke rid- ing into town in the shape of Wilson Dixon. Hear what both these coun- ' ' ' try critters have to say for themselves. Around Town
78 Fringe Cavalcade
45 Drive-By Truckers On paper this American quintet have all the hallmarks of southern redneck rock, but in reality, as Doug Johnstone
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70 Edinburgh Art Festival Now in its fifth year, the visual art division
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