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	Pleasance Courtyard (venue website) Comedy Until 29 Aug, 7:15pm (8:10pm)

"Nearly Rebellious" in his show last year, Jack Whitehall returns to the Fringe to follow up his Best-Newcomer-nominated hit.  This year, his theme is the age-old belief that you should always learn from your mistakes.

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	Gilded Balloon Teviot (venue website) Theatre 4-30 Aug, 12:15pm (1:15pm)

It reads like a puff from reality TV: a gentle-giant former bin-ban wins fame across the country, with a raw and emotional performance coming straight from his heart.  But this is no manufactured sing-along; this is challenging, disturbing, often gut-wrenching theatre.  And Richard Fry really has got talent.

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	C plaza (venue website) Music 5-30 Aug (not 20), 4:15pm (5:05pm)

If you spend any time at the Fringe, you're bound to run into Out Of The Blue: one of the most hard-working groups in the Festival, they're often found touring the city, belting out samples of their a cappella melodies to anyone who's passing by.  And the same enthusiasm for their music pervades their energetic on-stage act - back for a sixth year for in their customary afternoon slot at C.

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	C (venue website) Theatre 4-30 Aug, 10:00am (10:55am)

There'll be no holds Bard in this latest instalment of the annual Stratford-themed knockabout, served - as always - with coffee and croissants at the very start of the Festival day.  And if previous years are a guide, Shakespeare buffs and lay-people alike will find plenty to tickle their humour in a cheerful, great-value show.

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	Pleasance Dome (venue website) Theatre 4 - 29 Aug (not 23), 8:20pm (9:20pm)

Bane: Part Two picked up one of our Editor’s Choice Awards at the Brighton Fringe in May, so we’re thrilled to discover it’s making the trip north to Edinburgh.  A one-man film-noir parody about a hitman who “gets the job done”, it’s the sequel to the original Bane, which kept sell-out audiences rapt at its 2009 performance.

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	Gilded Balloon Teviot (venue website) Comedy 6-29 Aug (not 18), 10:50pm (12:00am)

A musical performed for one night only – because it’s composed on the spot.  That’s the ambitious promise of Showstopper, the cult sensation returning for its third year on the Fringe, which each night weaves together an hour-long song-filled show from the threads of suggestions shouted out by that night’s crowd.

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	Gilded Balloon Teviot (venue website) Comedy 4-29 Aug, 3:45pm (4:45pm)

Magic’s moved on since we all watched Paul Daniels on TV, and this year’s Fringe programme offers more than its fair share of show-boating illusionists.  But in the escalating race for more blinding flashes, more thumping music and more death-defying stunts, it’s easy to sense that something’s been lost... to feel nostalgic for the gentler pleasures of yesteryear.

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	C too (venue website) Theatre 5-30 Aug (not 17), 12:00pm (1:00pm)

For our first preview of Fringe 2010, we've picked something a bit different.  For starters, it's a classic American film-noir tale... transplanted to the less-than-mean streets of Edinburgh's Old Town.  But there's more: marrying the latest technology with a theatrical walking tour, Suspicious Package casts you, and the whole rest of the audience, in a starring role.

Daily choices throughout July
Announced here and on Twitter 

We'll be picking one preview a day from now until the start of the Fringe.  Check back here for more - or, if you use Twitter, why not follow our editor, Richard Stamp?  He'll be tweeting our daily choices together with other Festival news and thoughts.