Simon Callow gets in touch with his feminine side at Fringe

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Simon Callow gets in touch with his feminine side at Fringe

Published Date: 31 May 2011
By Brian Ferguson

http://www.scotsman.com/news/Simon-Callow-gets-in-touch.6777058.jp

ONE of Britain's top stage and screen actors is to get top billing at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe - appearing in drag.

Simon Callow, star of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love and Howard's End, will have the lead role in a new adaptation of the hit French play Le Mardi à Monoprix.

Callow, who won rave reviews playing William Shakespeare at last year's Fringe, will play a "loving daughter, carer and transvestite" in Tuesday at Tesco's, which is being staged as part of the Assembly programme this August.