The first of two personal reports on the 1987 Edinburgh Festival. It's ten days since Edinburgh's 41st
International Festival of the Arts got underway, with all the attendant attractions of fringe, book, film and jazz events. Novelist Angela Carter , on her first visit to the Festival, has been sampling some of the highlights. This year they have a strong Russian flavour - from exhibitions and poetry to folk-dancing and Georgian puppets, with Leningrad's Gorky Theatre presenting works by Chekhov and Tolstoy. The World Theatre Season also includes the Raun Raun Theatre of New
Guinea, Dublin's Gateway Theatre and the Berliner
Ensemble. On the music front there's a visually stunning production of Mozart's Magic Flute from the Folkopera of Stockholm. Directors
ELEANOR AITKEN , JOHN SMITH Producer KEITH ALEXANDER BBC Scotland
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