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Matilda maestro Tim Minchin brings his clever wit to Groundhog Day, but would you want to see it more than once?
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Plan your Edinburgh schedule with this digest of our tips and reviews. Shows are listed by start time
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Ronni Ancona’s Gertrude serves up a bloody homecoming dinner down the Prince of Denmark pub in the seventh of the British Council films for Shakespeare Lives 2016
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Brilliant comic actor and manager best known for his Whitehall farces who became a dedicated campaigner for people with learning disabilities
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Why the Bechdel test doesn’t (always) work
Samantha EllisIf this simple gauge of gender inequality in film has Twilight winning over Gravity, there’s obviously something wrong. As a feminist playwright, I’ve found another solution
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Bill Murray’s deadpan misanthrope is now a jock belting out showstoppers. So does this stage replay bring new shine to the quirky love story – or kill a classic?
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From the Brexit vote to the US presidential race, the tumult of the year’s news shows how nimble – or lucky – artists need to be to stay relevant
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Producers of West End box office hit condemn secondary ticketing websites as a ‘plague’ on desperate fans
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Where comedians once made the most of minority experiences, Fin Taylor, Brendon Burns and Peter White are three performers on this year’s fringe digging into white privilege
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Jaques’s speech about the seven ages of man from As You Like It is performed by Zawe Ashton
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David Threlfall speaks Prospero’s speech in which the sorcerer contemplates the end of life – and the playwright, perhaps, considers the end of his career
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Camille O’Sullivan plays Constance in King John, who laments the loss of her son, Arthur, but disputes the suggestion that she has gone mad
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Paterson Joseph speaks Shylock’s lines from The Merchant of Venice, in which the moneylender reminds Antonio of the times he has insulted him
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Joanna Vanderham performs Juliet’s speech from the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet
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Damian Lewis performs Antony’s funeral oration for Julius Caesar from act III, scene 2 of Shakespeare’s tragedy
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Scottish Ballet | Akram Khan Company | Dance at the fringe
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From Billy Connolly to Shaun Of The Dead, the comedian reveals the things that make him laugh the most
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He was bombing badly when a lone voice cried from the darkness - ‘don’t die!’ The stand-up recalls how – among a merciless crowd – he made one fan for life
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Ant and Dec? Perpetual laughter. Boris Johnson? Strangle the vowels. Andy Murray? Just growl. Alistair McGowan and Rory Bremner try and make a mimic of Stephen Moss
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Using folk singing, found footage and a revolutionary interactive staging, Marichka Kudriavtseva and Mark Marczyk’s ‘guerrilla folk opera’ throws Edinburgh audiences into the heart of the Ukrainian struggles
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Adura Onashile’s new play, Expensive Shit, takes place in two toilets – one in Glasgow and the other at Fela’s legendary Lagos club. She talks about her bathroom-sink drama
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'Life-affirming, mortifying…' My day as an Edinburgh performer
Alexis PetridisInvolving the audience is the big trend at this year’s fringe. How did Alexis Petridis cope when he got up on stage in five shows? -
Premiered after the Suez crisis, Osborne’s portrait of a clapped-out music hall star mirrored a Britain in decline. Sixty years on, it continues to reflect a country questioning its place in the world
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At 2.6m words it’s something of a mouthful, but John Chilcot’s Iraq war report is being tackled by comics at the 2016 fringe in a performance expected to take two weeks. Here, they explain why holding the powerful to account is ‘exactly what Edinburgh is for’
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How should you act when you come face-to-face with a potential partner? Make sure you’re brutally honest. Isy Suttie and Stephen Wight demonstrate six ways to check your compatibility
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Hugh Quarshie stars as Othello and Joanna Vanderham is Desdemona in Iqbal Khan’s gripping production at Stratford in 2015
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In a new play written for the Guardian, the award-winning writer of political smashes This House and The Vote, goes inside the Brexit bunker as its sweaty-palmed task force prepares to trigger Article 50
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