<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=177" rel="attachment wp-att-177"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-177" title="elizabeth_blackadder" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/elizabeth_blackadder-200x166.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="166" /></a>A gentle start to the day. We met up with Tony &amp; Jude at the Elizabeth Blackadder exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery. It was in celebration of her 80th birthday and she's still painting in various styles and media. A truly amazing woman.

After a coffee at the Dovecot centre on the next table to Paul Daniels and Debbie Magee (not sure I should mention that) we headed off to our first show of the day which was a dance/movement piece called Triplet. The first piece was very good with different sounds and movements being used to describe Bedlam but the last two items were more obscure and less well danced, lacking precision and finesse.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=175" rel="attachment wp-att-175"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-175" title="cul-de-sac" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/cul-de-sac.jpg" alt="" width="179" height="155" /></a>After lunch back at the flat we headed off to see Cul de Sac at the Pleasance. Three professional actors delivered a great piece of comic theatre along the lines of Stepford Wives and based in a Cul de Sac where everybody followed a set of unwritten, middle class rules which involved a local fixer having access to all the inhabitants' wives.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=176" rel="attachment wp-att-176"><img class="size-full wp-image-176 alignright" title="sarah_millican" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/sarah_millican.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="180" /></a>We did consider fitting in a late afternoon show but decided to give it a miss and finally met up with Tony &amp; Jude again to see Sarah Millican. She delivered a brilliantly observed, self deprecating show with great humour and panache. It was a great way to finish our week of nineteen shows with the debate as to our top three continuing. We completed the evening with a veggie meal at Hendersons.