Bare cheek: Festival highlights

Some of the best shows at this year’s Fringe:

1_2 – Buckle My Shoe
Told By An Idiot, Forced Entertainment and Punchdrunk join forces for the first time for this devised piece of physical, site-specific, immersion theatre for kids. A party of children meet at midnight at an undisclosed location and is taken by minibus to a number of other undiclosed locations, where they pick up sticks, dig and delve, and witness maids a-courting in a non-sequential series of unrelated activites. Venue: Undisclosed Running time: 5 hours. Tickets: £275 (concs.)

Let’s Parler Miles!
Penetrating monologue, giving a fascinating insight into the troubled mind of ‘Franglais’ creator Miles Kington, a man torn between his conflicting roles both as humorous columnist for a revered national daily and as hedonistic bass-player for the controversial rock band ‘Instant Sunshine’. Venue: Courtyard
Cubby-hole
Tickets: £13.50

Wilkers, Beefie and Brahms
Night of rib-tickling cricketing anecdotes, memories and reflections from Sky Sports 9’s commentators Dennis ‘Wilkers’ Wilkinson, Darren ‘Beefie’ Richards and Adam Brahms. Venue: Courtyard Guest-Room
Tickets: £15.50

Performance
New stage adaptation of Donald Cammel and Nicholas Roeg’s powerful 1970 Borges-and-Artaud-influenced cinematic study of identity, violence, sex, drugs, performance and madness. Starring Phil Nichols, Bill Bailey, Josie Long and Lucy Porter. Venue: Courtyard Granny-Flat
Tickets: £18.50

Great Mysteries Of The World

An occassional series in which we examine some of the unsolved riddles that have befuddled the minds of men through the ages.

Mystery No. 349

Why was it called ‘Juliet Bravo’?

There was no-one called Juliet Bravo in the show; the main character’s name was Jean Darblay, who was replaced by Kate Longton. What was going on? They’re not even the
same intials.

Next week: What happened to Blake in ‘Blake’s 7’?

In & Out

In
• Getting a bit parky
• Mustard baths
• Referring to ‘Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday’ as ‘Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot’ when you’re not actually French
• Walter Savage Landor
• Vosene

Out
• Yootha Joyce
• Humorously pretending to inject someone with a bicycle pump like it’s an oversized hypodermic syringe
• Geological samples
• Pronouncing the ‘K’ in ‘Knorr’
• Trendy vicars