Your fast guide to the picks of the week ...
Your fast guide to the picks of the week...

Friday
SLEEPING BEAUTY: Scottish Ballet present artistic director Ashley Page's third full-length work for the company based on Charles Perrault's fairytale, La Belle au Bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood).
Re-imagined, it is presented with what are described as 'delicious twists, devilish wit and stunning visuals.'


Saturday
FAME: Reach for the stars and live forever. Join the students of the New York's School of the Performing Arts at the Edinburgh Playhouse where leg-warmers and leotards are once more de rigueur. As is dancing on the roof of one of the Big Apple's yellow cabs.


Sunday
SUNDAY NIGHT LAUGH-IN: Keep the weekend going at Edinburgh's longest running comedy club, you'll be in good company, line-up includes Kevin Bridges, Kim MacAskill, Phil Differ and Garry Dobson. Hosted by Billy Kirkwood.


Monday
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE: Danny Boyle utterly irresistible rites of passage drama set in India is first five-star movie of 2009. Employing a simple flashback structure, Danny Boyle's modern day fairy-tale charts the extraordinary journey of an orphan from the slums of Mumbai to the contestant's chair on his country's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Don't miss it.


Tuesday
JASON MANFORD: 8 Out of 10 Cats regular, Manford's current tour finds him stopping off at The Stand having made his Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2005 with Urban Legend, a show that was nominated for the Perrier award.

Wednesday
FRANZ FERDINAND: The Picture House is the place to catch the return of the Glasgow indie band named after an Austrian Archduke. Alex Kapranos, Bob Hardy, Nick McCarthy and Paul Thomson are back playing tunes from their new third album,


Thursday
DUTY FREE: Cabaret Voltaire is the place to be for the first free gig of the 2009 festival that celebrates all that's new and cutting-edge in live music. Opening acts include Thieves In Suits and Blank Canvas.

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