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To celebrate Harp Premier's sponsorship of the Assembly Rooms, we are otlering a limited number oi tickets Iorthe top Assembly Rooms Shows. You may claim only one otter per magazine, so please take the whole magazine with you each time. All otters are subject to availability and individual managements’ decisions are Iinal.
Only one ticket oller lor each voucher. Harp Premier are also offering TWO LIMITED EDITION T-SllIRTS with the FIRST pair oi tickets claimed ior each show. LOOK OUT FOR MORE ASSEMBLY FREELOADERS III THE LIST’S SECOND REVIEW ISSUEl/\\ Remember, FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.
EMO PHILIPS
A pair oi tree tickets to see this hilarious American comedian’s Fringe show on Fri 11 , Sat 12 Aug (9.30pm). Exchange this voucher at the Assembly Rooms lnlormation Desk. Up to 3 pairs tor each pertormance.
/ BLOOMSBURY THEATRE
A pair ol tree tickets to see TWIGLET ANYONE? on Sat 12, Mon14, Wed 16 Aug (7.45pm). Exchange this voucher at the Assembly Rooms lnlormation Desk. Up to 4 pairs tor each performance.
5/ 091/25 ‘7’?
— A pair oi Iree tickets to see STOP LAUGHING THIS IS SERIOUS on Sun 13, Tue 15, Wed 16 Aug (6.30pm). Exchange this voucher at the Assembly Rooms lnlormation Desk. Up to 4 pairs available tor each perlormance.
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NATIONAL
A pair oi tree tickets to see the award-winning play DARKLE on Sat 12, Tue 15 Aug (noon). Exchange this voucher at the Assembly Rooms lnlormation Desk. Up to
5 pairs available or each performance.
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SIMON FANSHAWE
A pair of tree tickets to see SIMON FANSIIAWE’S SPECIAL EDITION on Fri 11 , Sun 13, Mon 14 Aug. Exchange this voucher at the Assembly Rooms lnlormation Desk. Up to 4 pairs available Ior eac I periormance.
NICK REVELL
A pair oI lree tickets to see this COMIC GENIUS on
L Fri 11 , Sat 12 Aug (8pm). Exchange this voucher at the Assembly Rooms lnlormation Desk. Up to 3 pairs
available ior each performance.
£55 Harp Premier Lager is introduced to the Assembly
rm Rooms alter twenty years oi box-otiice success in
P R E M I E R America. lts stylish bottle design and smooth taste ’{l/Q;” 0, have already made it a cult classic in the UK.
GLASSIGS
Square Theatre (Venue 37). 667 3704. 12—26 Aug (not 20 Aug) 7pm.£4 (£2.50).
_ THEDOG
BENEATH THE SKIN
One of the more unusual plays at the Fringe is a new production ofW.H. Auden‘s rarely-performed The Dog Beneath the Skin.
written in 1936 and performed by the Oxford 3 Theatre Group.
According to director Kate Hayncsworth ‘the issues it deals with are still contemporary: pollution.
prostitution. vacant lives. 3 political conflict.immense . wealth and abject
poverty. We‘re just making it modern.‘ The play delineates Auden‘s disgust with the
E undermining of rural & England - the ‘cult of
nature. the vegetarian‘. and contains some of Auden‘s most spectacular poetry. ‘Auden‘s approach is very sentimental. very romantic- he takes an apparently ordinary village and showsthc emptiness and waste at its heart as urban culture developed.‘
Auden wrote the play for the avant-garde Group Theatre. with music scored by Benjamin Britten. ‘It would be easy to just copy the original. but we‘ve decided to use Picasso as our main design theme: cardboard cutouts of the Desmoiselles D‘A vignon. flattened animal masks and soon. But I‘m also interested in Meyerhold — we‘ll be introducing a lot ofdance and gesture into the acting.‘ And Auden‘s connections with Brecht? ‘Auden‘s vision is fundamentally very sinister. and very broad. pan-European — not the dilettantc poet most people think he is. It seemsto me that he is practically the only writer in English whose plays respond to that kind of imagination.‘ (Andrew Pulvcr) I Dog Beneath The Skin I
(Fringe) Oxford Theatre Group. Overseas House (Venue 19). 225 Sl05. ll Aug—2 Sept (not Tue). noon.£3 (£2.50).
IIIIIIIIIIIII MARAT/SADE
‘lt‘s very bizarre.‘ says director Lisa Baraitser. ‘that there‘s nothing else on the Fringe about the Revolution.‘ July's frantic francophilia may have rendered the bicentennial a bit chapeau vieux, but some rc-cnactment ofthe events of 1789 would seem appropriate in an international festival.
Peter Weiss‘ famously
outrageous and difficult first play The Persecution And Assassination ()f Jean Paul Marat/ts Performed By The Inmates ()f The Asylum 0f C harenton Under The Direction Of The MarquLs De Sade is almost overshadowed. Baraitser complains. by Peter Brook's 1964 production. but Edinburgh University Theatre Company‘s base at the Bedlam is an appropriate enough setting. standing as its name suggests on the site ofa former asylum.
‘People shy away from the play.‘ says Baraitser.
‘because all it really does is call for a reinstatement of the dialogue on certain things we‘ve stopped talking about. like the relationship between the individual and the state. pain and sexuality. madness and sanity. The only thing that happens is that Marat gets stabbed— which you know about from the start.‘
With stage directions demanding spectacles such as ‘a copulation mime‘ a free interpretation is essential. and certain details, such as giant hands. specially commissioned music and design suggesting ‘a playpen which is alsoa torture chamber‘ are hints to Baraitser‘s approach. but as she says. ‘you could spend a whole year on it.‘ (Andrew Burnet)
I Marat/Sade (Fringe) Bedlam Theatre (Venue 49). 225 9893. Aug 1 1—26 (not Suns). 7.05pm. £3 (£2).
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