Contents The essential guide to Edinburgh’s Festivals
Thursday 27 August – Sunday 6 September 2009
61 Noticeboard 61 Malcolm Hardee Awards 62 Alan Rickman in town
64 Books 65 Susie Orbach 66 Mark Millar 66 Frank Gardner
69 Comedy 70 Simon Amstell 76 Shappi Khorsandi 77 Laura Solon 78 Sean Hughes
81 Dance 81 Everything Must Go
041ame here 85 Kids 85 The Man Who Planted Trees
0054ame here 86 Music 90 Admeto re di Tessaglia 91 Camille O’Sullivan
93 Theatre 94 Controlled Falling Project 96 The Overcoat 101 Forest Fringe
103 Visual Art 104 The Enlightenment
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82 Cover story: Michael Clark As the closest thing the dance world has to a household name returns to the Edinburgh International Festival after an absence of 20 years, Kelly Apter spoke to his mentor, his dancers, his collaborators and his admirers, in order to get a complete picture of what it’s like to work with the man himself.
Highlights
65 Douglas Coupland Eighteen years after Generation X, the US author talks to Rodge Glass about follow-up, Generation A 87 Magazine 28 years after their last show, the post-punk fabulists are back. Neil Cooper reigns in his excitement to talk to them
88 Actus Tragicus With a title like that, Stuttgart Opera’s contribution to the EIF was never going to be a bundle of laughs. However, says Carol Main, it promises to be one of the most intense, deeply affecting productions this year
94 Peter & Wendy 2009 really has been the year of the puppet. Now, even the EIF feels the lure of the marionette, with this utterly magical adaptation of JM Barrie’s Peter Pan
Reader Offers ■ 63 Win Fringe tickets for Hullabaloo 2009 with Bulmers ■ 63 2 For 1 tickets for Handel's Admeto King of Thessaly ■ 63 2 For 1 tickets for Assembly - New Art Club ■ 71 Win tickets to Underbelly's Birthday Blowout
with Grolsch
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