FestivalIndex FestivalIndex
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George in the Dragon’s Den Geraldine Quinn Gerry Howell Ginger & Black Giraffes Can’t Dance The Girls of Slender Means Glenn Wool Grandees Grandmother Waits For You The Gravediggers The Grind Show Harbingers Hardeep Singh Kohli Helen Arney Helen Fitzgerald History Is For Pissing On At Home With Holly The Hotel I Don’t Live Here Anymore Icarus 2.0 Ice Cream Man & the Jelly Incident I’ll Always Think of You That Way Il Ritorno D’Ulisse The Incompatible Otway & Barrett The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church Internal Isma Almas Jack Mink Jack Whitehall James Kelman James Lasdun James Lovelock Jamie Kilstein Jane and Louise Wilson Jane Austen’s Guide to Pornography Janey Godley Jason Cook Jen Hadfield John Aberdein John Bishop Jollie Jonny Sweet Kenny Young and the Eggplants Kevin Bridges Killing Me Softly Kim Noble Will Die Kiosk of Champions Kristen Schaal & Kurt Braunohler Kursk Lady Garden The Last Witch The Legend of Magnificent Moon Lighter Than Air The List Operators Living Room Lloyd Langford Lucky 7 Luke Wright The Magnets - Gobsmacked Man Made: 1, 2, 3 Manolibera Marcel Lucont Mark Walker Max & Ivan Michael Fabbri Michael Symmons Roberts Mike Bubbins Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen Mike Wozniak Milestone The Moonfish Rhumba The Moth Mould & Arrowsmith Movin’ Melvin: Me, Ray Charles & Sammy Davis Junior The Muffia The Mulgray Twins Nightfall Nii Ayikwei Parkes No Parole: Family is a Life Sentence Nun the Wiser Oh, My Green Soap Box Oh! What a Shitty War One Eye Gone
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Ousia Orchestra in the Age of Enlightenment Orphans Palace of the End Pappy’s Fun Club Parents’ Evening Patch Hyde & Adam Tempest Paul Zerdin: Sponge Fest Penny Dreadfuls Peter Duncan’s Daft and Dangerous Patrick Monahan’s Stories And Fables For Kids Who Like To Sit At Tables Phil & Phil Philberto Phil Nichol Pippa Evans Plagiarismo Poorboy Playrooms Porn: The Musical Potted Potter and Potted Pirates Power Plant Precious Little Talent Private Peaceful Puppet Grinder Cabaret Pythonesque Randy’s Postcards From Purgatory The Rap Guide to Evolution Rapunzel and the Tower of Doom Raw Reality Chokes Rebecca Gowers Rewind: Artists’ Videos in the 70s & 80s Reveal/Reset Rhod Gilbert Richard Herring Rich Hall’s Campfire Stories Ritter, Dene and Voss Room on the Broom Rosie Wilby Royal Ballet of Flanders Rudi Lickwood Russell Kane Sam Simmons The School for Scandal Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Company Goes to Hollywood Sean Hughes Self-Made Cavalcade Serate Bastarde Sharon Olds Simon Munnery Spaceman Stefan Golaszewski is a Widower Stephen Carlin Suhayl Saadi & Rana Dasgupta Super Situation Susan Harrison Susan Norrie Susurrus Tap Kids TeakShow Tom Craine The Travelling Gallery Trembling Bells The Trial Trilogy Twine Two Episodes of MASH The Umbrella Birds Unsupervised Detention Valery Ponomarev The Visible Men Visualise Reloaded Wind in the Willows Wolfboy Women in Harmony Words of Honour The World’s WIfe Xiaolu Guo Yasmin Alibhai Brown The Year of the Horse Zeitgeist Zoe Lyons
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FESTIVAL BOOKING INFORMATION
ART FESTIVAL Dates: 5–27 Aug Telephone booking: Call individual venues Online booking: www.edinburghartfestival.com
BOOK FESTIVAL Dates:15–31 Aug Telephone booking: 0845 373 5888 (9.30am–8.30pm) Online booking: www.edbookfest.co.uk FESTIVAL FRINGE Dates: 7–31 Aug Telephone booking: 0131 226 0000 (10am–6pm) Online booking: www.edfringe.com
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Dates: 14 Aug–6 Sep Telephone booking: 0131 473 2000 Online booking: www.eif.co.uk
You won’t find the Book and International festivals in this issue. They don’t start until later in August, but their box offices are already open.
80 THE LIST FESTIVAL MAGAZINE 20–27 Aug 2009
VENUE ADDRESSES Apex Hotel Grassmarket, 0870 241 0136 Art’s Complex 151 London Road, 0785 140 5417 Assembly Hall Mound Hall, 623 3030 Assembly Rooms 54 George Street, 623 3030 The Barony Broughton Street, 228 1404 Bedlam Theatre 11b Bristo Place, 225 9893 Bongo Club 37 Holyrood Road, 558 7604 C Central Carlton Hotel, North Bridge, 0845 260 1234 C Chambers St, 0845 260 1234 C Cubed Lawnmarket, 0845 260 1234 C Soco Chambers Street & Cowgate, 260 1234 Cabaret Voltaire 36 Blair Street, 220 6176 The Caves 8-12 Niddry Street South, 208 0882 Caledonian Hilton Hotel 4 Princes Street, 226 0000 City: Edinburgh 1a Market Street, 226 0000 Corn Exchange 11 New Market Road, 08444 999 990 Out of the Blue Drill Hall 30-36 Dalmeny Street, 225 5525 Dean Gallery 73 Belford Road, 624 6200 Diverse Attractions Lawnmarket, 225 8962 Dovecot Studios 10 Infirmary Street, 550 3660 Edinburgh College of Art Lauriston Place, 241 0136 Playhouse 18-22 Greenside Place, 473 2000 Electric Circus Market Street, 226 4224 Embasssy Gallery St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, 0795 087 2479 Faith 227 Cowgate, 225 9764 The Forest Café 3 Bristo Place, 220 4538 The Fudge Kitchen 30 High Street, 0784 119 4222 The Fruitmarket Gallery 45 Market Street, 225 2383 George Square Theatre George Square, 6651 1292 Gilded Balloon Teviot 13 Bristo Square, 622 6552 The GRV 37 Guthrie Street, 226 0000 HMV Picture House 31 Lothian Road, 08444 999 990 The Hub Castlehill, 473 2000 Ingleby Gallery 15 Calton Road, 556 4441 Inspace New Media Scotland, Crichton Street, 651 5661 The Jazz Bar 1a Chambers Street, 226 0000 King’s Theatre 2 Leven Street, 473 2000 Laughing Horse@Espionage 4 India Buildings, Victoria Street, 477 7007 Mercure Point Hotel 34 Bread Street, 228 1404 Musical Theatre@George Square George Square, 651 1292 National Galleries The Mound, 226 0000 New Town Theatre Freemason’s Hall, 96 George Street, 0844 477 1000 Pleasance Courtyard 60 Pleasance, 556 6550 Pleasance Dome 1 Bristo Square, 556 6550 Queen’s Hall 89 Clerk Street, 668 2019 The Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976 Royal Botanic Gardens Arboretum Place, 552 7171 Scottish Storytelling Centre 43–45 High Street, 556 9579 The Spaces@The Royal College of Surgeons Nicolson Street, 0845 508 8515 The Spaces on the Mile@The Radisson Hotel 80 High Street, 0845 508 8316 St George’s West 58 Shandwick Place, 0844 477 1000 St Stephens St Stephen St, 565 1000 The Stand 5 York Place, 558 7272 Stills Gallery 23 Cockburn Street, 622 6200 Sweet ECA Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 241 0136 Sweet Grassmarket Apex City Hotel, 61 Grassmarket, 241 0136 Talbot Rice Gallery Old College, South Bridge, 650 2210 Traverse Theatre Cambridge Street, 228 1404 Udderbelly’s Pasture Bristo Square, 08445 458 252 Underbelly’s Hullabaloo George Square, 08445 458 252 The University of Edinburgh Drill Hall Forrest Road, 556 6550 Usher Hall Lothian Road, 228 1155 The Vault 11 Merchant Street, 510 0022 Venue 13 Lochend Close, Canongate, 07074 201313 Wee Red Bar Lauriston Place, 229 1442 The Zoo 140 The Pleasance, 662 6892 Zoo Southside 117 Nicolson Street, 662 6892