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FROM August 2-26, the Edinburgh Festival carnival again takes over the Scottish capital with its unique mix of cultural entertainment from the most original and thought-provoking to the comically inane.
Among the wealth of foreign productions featured in the main festival programme, Sydney Theatre Company’s adaptation of Kate Grenville’s prize- winning novel The Secret River catches the eye.
It deals with the life of William Thornhill who, deported to Australia in 1806, carves out a new life and helps to create a new world for the European settlers.
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