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New flames: the Edinburgh festival shows that tell stories with torch songs by Lyn Gardner

Torch songs are lighting up the city this year, from Alan Cumming's take on Adele's Someone Like You to Lady Rizo's anthem of a sleep-deprived mum"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is," observes Amanda in Private Lives, Noël Coward's play about the lovers who can't live with " and can't live without " each other. Amanda and Elyot are as much in thrall to music and its ability to evoke deep feelings as anyone el…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AM on August 21, 2016

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