Travel Reference
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Entertainment
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Cameo
The three-screen, independently owned Cameo is a good, old-fashioned cinema showing an
imaginative mix of mainstream and art-house movies. There is a good program of midnight
movies and Sunday matinees, and the seats in screen 1 are big enough to get lost in.
(
www.picturehouses.co.uk
; 38 Home St;
CINEMA
all Tollcross buses)
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Edinburgh Festival Theatre
DANCE, OPERA
A beautifully restored art deco theatre, the Festival is the city's main venue for opera,
dance and ballet, but also stages musicals, concerts, drama and children's shows.
(
www.edtheatres.com/festival
; 13-29 Nicolson St;
box office 10am-6pm Mon-Sat, to 8pm show
nights, 4pm-showtime Sun;
all South Bridge buses)
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King's Theatre
King's is a traditional theatre with a program of musicals, drama, comedy and its famous
Christmas pantomimes.
(
www.edtheatres.com/kings
;
2 Leven St;
THEATRE
box office open 1hr before
show;
all Tollcross buses)
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Wee Red Bar
The Wee Red Bar has been around so long there's a danger the authorities will slap a blue
plaque on it and declare it a national monument. Wee, red and frequented by lots of art stu-
dents, it's famous for the Egg, a weekly smorgasbord of classic punk, ska, northern soul,
indie etc that is still one of the best club nights in the city.
( 651 5859;
www.weeredbar.co.uk
; Edinburgh College of Art, 74 Lauriston Pl;
CLUB
23, 27, 35, 45)
