STAR STUDDED'
4 STAR SHOWS
Over the past four weeks, The List’s team of reviewers have been scouring the Festival and Fringe to track down the talent, vision and genius for which 1998 will be remembered. We've seen and reviewed hundreds of shows and given them a star rating for quick reference. Top twenty recommendations, Hit Lists and the latest reviews are all to be found in the main magazine. But for those who may have missed our earlier issues, here is a summary of the top rated shows.
5 STAR SHOWS
ART
Carl Andre Royal Botanic Garden
Al Murray Pub Landlord - Keeper Of The Pint Cosmic Pleasance
Ballistic Purple Pineapple Show
Bill Bailey The Palladium
Ennio Marchetto Pleasance
The Flat The Three Canadians
John Shuttleworth - If Music Be The Love Of Food...Tuck In! Pleasance
Lynn Ferguson: Frank Calder's Gilded Balloon
Peter Kay Pleasance
Phil Cool Pleasance
Scared Weird Little Guys Spiegeltent
Huun Huur Tu Graffiti
It's Jackie Jackie Clune
Mr McFall's Chamber Orchestra Observer Assembly
Adolf Company Theatre
After Dinner Dirty Bird Productions After Dinner Holyrood Tavern
Beautiful Thing Absolute Banana Theatre Company
Disco Pigs Corcadorca
Fascinations From The Crowd feCUnd Theatre
Guargantua Grid Iron
Hollywood Screams Too
Guy Masterson Productions
Labels Company Theatre
The Lady Boys Of Bangkok The Big Top On The Meadows
Lakeboat Pierman Productions Moscow Frantic Redhead Productions Mrs Nosey Parker Jenny Eclair
Once Derevo
Perfect Days Traverse Theatre
Russian Anguish New Parliament House My Short Straw Pleasance
Shylock Guy Masterson Productions The Tell-Tale Heart erQUlm
The Water Juggler Mouthpiece
The Wild Party - Mouse People Pleasance
Cool Heat Urban Beat The Palladium
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ART
Glass Royal Botanic Garden
Hooded, Bared Fruitmarket
Nature Morte The Bongo Club
Mona Hatoum Gallery of Modern Art Small Miracles S St Stephen St Stanislav Kolibal Edinburgh College Of Art
The Winter Queen National Portrait Gallery
COMEDY
Adam Bloom Pleasance
Alan Davies Urban Trauma Observer Assembly
Andrew Pipe And Carey Marx In Dupe Screaming Blue Murder
Big Value Comedy Show... Early Cafe Royal
Bill Bailey The Palladium
Boom Chicago Calder's Gu:|ded Balloon II Chris Addison Pleasance
Circus of Horrors Big Top
Danny Brown - Banjaxed The Honeycomb
Dave Johns Pleasance
Dave Williams - Caffeine Calder's Gilded Balloon
Ed Byrne - A Night At The Opera Calder's Gilded Balloon
Ennio Marchetto Pleasance
Fred MacAuley Calder's Gilded Ballon Full Irish Breakfast John Henderson And Dara O'Brian
Gawk-A-G-Go! Pleasance
Greetings From Hollywood Calder's Gilded Balloon II
Hello Again, We're The Nualas Calder's Gilded Balloon
Holmes Alone Observer Assembly Hovis Presley: Mutiny On The Bontempi The Stand
Jason Byrne: Camping On The Moon Pleasance
Johnny Vegas Calder's Gilded Balloon Keep Young And Beautiful Six Pack Productions
Late Comedy Cellar Christies Comedy Cellar
Late Laffs Calder's Gilded Balloon II Lazlo & Parkin Calder's Gilded Balloon Lynn Ferguson: Frank Calder's Gilded BaHoon
Manic Opera: Peppered With Smut Spiegeltent
Matt King: Beastly Calder's Gilded Balloon
The Mighty Boosh
Julian Barratt & Noel Fielding
Mike Gunn - Good Grief
Pleasance
Mr Ed And Fulcher Eddie Bannon and Rich Fulcher
Newsrevue 98 C too
Now Comedy Calder's Gilded Balloon Otis Lee Crenshaw - Model Citizen Calder's Gilded Balloon oz.dot.comedy Observer Assembly Paul Merton Pleasance
Peter Buckley Hill And Some Other Comedians Footlights & Firkin
Peter Kay Pleasance
Phil Nichol Pleasance
Rich Hall - The Shame Spiral Observer Assembly
Rob Newman Observer Assembly
Ross Noble Calder's Gilded Balloon Savages/Love Savages About Town Stay Alive Pepi Observer Assembly Steve Frost's lmpro Allstars Calder's Gilded Balloon
Tommy Tiernan - Undivine Comedy Pleasance
Tripod Are Handsome
Calder's Gilded Balloon
98.4% DNA Being Human Desoxy Cape Youth Dance Co St Oswald's The Water Carriers Theatre Talipot
Ando Drom Famous Grouse House Hazel O'Connor 8: Cormac De Barra Graffiti
Liz Hazelton & Desert Child Spiegeltent Robert Stolz C too
A Play On Two Chairs Corn Exchange The African Julius Caesar Theatrum Botanicum
All Strange Away Asylum Theatre Amy Johnson Bad Apple Theatre
A Phoenix Too Frequent Veritas Ensemble
Arago The Laboratory
Apples And Snakes Pleasance Autocrat 'ie POOKa
Beggar's Belief Trestle Theatre
Being Sellers C too
The Bleeders Echoes Theatre Bluebeard's Castle Merlin International Bondage Pleasance
Born To Be Wilde Quadrant Productions Confessions Of A Justified Sinner Brunton Theatre
Contracts Outhouse Productions Crave Paines Plough
Deco Diva Leith Gallery Productions The Dumb Waiter Arches Theatre Easy Access Claire DOWie
Female Parts New End Theatre
Five By Ives Red Chair Players
From Hell She Came
Deadly Serious Theatre Company Gimpel Mist Theatre
The Glace Bay Miners Museum Quaker Meeting House
The Good Fight Gilded Balloon
Hair Nena Productions
Hamlet (The Dithering Dame) Master Rosencrantz's Little Eyases Hitchcock's Bollocks
w -‘ “5‘3”\ gs me ~;-‘ ;\ s. Derevo: once upon sublime
P0unds, Dollars & Cents
I Licked A Slag's Deodorant
Arches Theatre Company
An Immaculate Misconception Dianus Theatre
lnsignificance
Wishfactory Productions
The Kaos Master And Margarita Theatre Workshop
Kill The Old Torture Their Young Traverse Theatre
Kissing Angels
Chaplaincy Centre
Krapp's Last Tape RSC
The Last Man In Europe
Diverse Attractions
The Last Obit Pleasance
LIT. 305 All New York
Life Is A Dream Royal Lyceum Lorenzaccio eX nihilo Theatre Love! Valour! Compassion! Theatre 28
Macbeth Frantic Redhead Productions Mr Puntila And His Man Matti
The Almeida Theatre
Night Town Cambridge UniverSity Not A Game For Boys Observer Assembly
Nothing But Pleasure David Benson Play Wisty For Me: The Life Of Peter Cook Perret & Limb
Rat In The Skull Artcore
The Robbers Citizens' Theatre Rodney Bewes: Three Men In A Boat Observer Assembly
Scapin Shoestring Players
My Short Straw Pleasance
Sexual Perversity In Chicago Artcore
The Sightless Carlton Centre
A Soldier's Song
Guy Masterson
Something Blue CraZy Horse
The Storyteller
National Student Theatre Company Tales From The Women's Locker Room Senga Women's Theatre
Target Practice
Screaming Blue Murder
Teleluvvies The Flying Pig
Three Left Hours Daska
Under The Influence
Legs On The Wall
Wallace's Women Theatre Alba Why I Want To Shoot The President The Riot Group
The Pied Piper of Hamlyn Old St Paul's Church & Hall