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Dancer Dance Base, 5:00pm,
The last show made by the late Adrian Howells, Dancer asks who gets to dance and who doesn’t. Ian Johnston and Gary Gardiner, dressed in waistcoats and dickie bows, strut their stuff and then
Credit: Brian Roberts
17-28 August, not 22
invite us to strut ours in this open-hearted show. As Howells himself insisted: “It’s all allowed.”
The Duke Pleasance Courtyard, 15.30, 3-29 August not 8, 15 My mum so loves Shon Dale-Jones’
Ghost Quartet Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9:00pm, 5-28, not 9, 16, 23 Dave Malloy’s cult cabaret-musical Natasha, Pierre & the Great
Comet of 1812 hits Broadway
started an online correspondence with the ever-emerging Fringe favourite. Dale-Jones isn’t in character Credit: Sid Scott
Credit: Ryan Jensen
alter-ego, Hugh Hughes, that she’s
this year, but his new show The Duke, about a man obsessively seeking a sentimental trinket as the refugee crisis rumbles on, has built a buzz in pre-festival previews.
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again / Adler & Gibb Revolt – Traverse Theatre, times vary, 16-28 August, not 22 / Adler & Gibb – Summerhall, 17.15, 3-27 August, not 4, 8, 15, 22
in the autumn. Before then, we
Miss a short run and you’re left with only a script.
get his supernatural song cycle
Thank goodness, then, that two of the best new
Ghost Quartet – a genre-hopping,
plays of the past two years are getting revivals at
time-travelling look at why we
this year’s Fringe. Both Alice Birch’s feminist fuck
believe in ghosts. He’s got good
yeah (Revolt) and Tim Crouch’s shape-shifting
Fringe pedigree: a nutty Beowolf
art history lesson (Adler & Gibb) are dazzling uses
musical won him a Herald Angel
of theatrical form, as playful as they are radical.
in 2013.
Don’t miss them again.