Emma Jackson and Peter Phelps are faced with their inner demons at areunion

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Callow, in period costume, is performing "Dr. Marigold," which wasfirst published in 1865 in Dickens's periodical "All The YearRound," and "Mr. Chops, The Dwarf," originally devised for readingduring a tour Dickens made in 1861.
Mr. Chops is primarily light entertainment as a circus dwarf triesto move up in society after winning a lottery.
Dr. Marigold, however, is emotionally pure Dickens, with thenovelist playing on the heart-strings with humor love, death,pathos, a good measure of bathos and, of course, a happy ending.
Callow provides vintage entertainment in his portrayal of thetravels of the "cheap jack" hawker Marigold selling sundries aroundthe country from a cart shared with wife and daughter.
The Assembly Room venue is providing other meaty fare during themonth-long Fringe, which with the Edinburgh International Festivaland the Book Festival make up the world's largest annual showplacefor the arts.
The ambiguities of justice and retribution are explored in a Fringeworld premier, "Reasonable Doubt," an edgy Australian drama bycivil rights lawyer Suzie Miller.
Emma Jackson and Peter Phelps, both now working from Sydney, playtwo former jurors who are faced with their inner demons at areunion.
In "Scaramouche Jones," written and performed by Justin Butcher, anaged clown born in the last seconds of the 19th century reminiscesover the past 100 years on his death bed as the 20th century ticksaway.
On a grittier note, Egyptian-born William el-Gardi portrays a youngidealistic and fervent Palestinian performer in "Yasser" as heagonizes over playing the role of the Jew Shylock in WilliamShakespeare's "Merchant of Venice."
Palestinians, he concludes, perhaps understand Shylock better thananyone else in a land where simply being born a Palestinian is apolitical statement.