Edinburgh Festival Guide

Life in Three Acts (4 stars)

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With honesty, humour and occasional anger, Bette Bourne reminisces with friend and playwright Mark Ravenhill. Bette's life is told in three stand-alone acts on consecutive days. With special guests. Visit www.traverse.co.uk for details.

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A Life in Three Acts

21 Aug 20094 stars

A fascinating story, engagingly told

This three-part biography, based on edited transcripts of conversations between playwright Mark Ravenhill and the performer Bette Bourne, sounds on paper like the kind of theatrical experiment that could easily go awry. Yet the raw material of Bourne’s…

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