GREAT Scott! Magicians Morgan & West will bring a magical extravaganza to a millennium near you on their return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe cabaret programme in York.

Not content with their lot as the 19th century’s greatest magic duo, the time-travelling pair will present a conjuring spectacular to the audiences of the modern day in The Tea Pot, on the Parliament Street village green, on July 21 and 22 at 7pm.

No future is left unseen and no timeline left unaltered as these temporal tricksters burst into the 21st century with a 60-minute show brimming over with baffling magic, unparalleled precognitive powers and a totally genuine ability to travel through time in Morgan & West: Return Of The Time-Travelling Magicians!.

In a second show, for children and childish grown-ups, Morgan & West present More Magic For Kids! (Bigger, Bolder, And More Brilliant Than Before!) in The White Rose Rotunda on July 22 at 1pm and 3pm. Expect the unexpected, or more precisely a magic show full of crazy capers for the young, the old and everyone in between.

Festival favourites The Thinking Drinkers have a new show for the 2017 festival, wherein your ticket price covers the chance to enjoy five free drinks as these award-winning professional drink experts definitively prove that alcohol has influenced everything that has ever happened. Ever. Performances will be in two places – not at once, you won't be seeing double – in a festival run from July 21 to 30.

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Morgan and West

Abi Roberts' Anglichanka show on July 21 in The Tea Pot at 8.30pm is a comic account of an English woman living in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s and returning after 18 years as the first British comic to perform comedy in English and Russian.

The audience will find out about gay rights and censorship in modern Russia, the consequences of drinking hardcore vodka, studying opera and using outdoor loos in minus 20 temperatures, as well as learning that Anglichanka means "English woman" in Russian.

"You can discover what we need to know about Putin, the meerkat with nuclear weapons, and the country described as ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma'," says Abi.

York magician and mind reader Craig Stephenson promises an hour of mind-blowing magic, mentalism and laughter in Deception at The Tea Pot on July 21 at 9.45pm; controversial Glaswegian stand-up and close-up magician Jerry Sadowitz will return to one of his favourite cities with his Comedian, Magician, Psychopath! show at The White Rose Rotunda on July 27 at 8.45pm.

Likewise, West End Magic will be back in York for three family-friendly shows of magic, illusion and comedy, in The Tea Pot from July 28 to 30 at 3pm, led by illusionist Oliver Tabor, while Caspar Thomas: More Magic & Mentalism, in the Gillygate Shed on August 1, will be an evening sleight-of-hand magic and mentalism – no suspicious looking boxes, no camera tricks, no stooges – at 8.45. "Phenomenal," says Jerry Sadowitz, and he should know.

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Jerry Sadowitz

Louis Pearl will explore the breath-taking dynamics of bubbles, combining comedy and artistry with audience participation and spellbinding bubble tricks in the Amazing Bubble Man show in The White Rose Rotunda from July 28 to 30 at 2.45pm. Multi-instrumentalist Jet Black Pearl's bubbly music will accompany Louis's feats with square bubbles, bubbles in bubbles, fog-filled bubbles, giant bubbles, bubble volcanoes, tornados and trampolines, and even people inside bubbles.

Variety for the 21st century is back in the form of The Slightly Fat Show's triple-decker sandwich of cabaret, comedy and chaos at The White Rose Rotunda from July 31 to August 4 at 4pm the first day and 7pm on the rest.

Bass-baritone John Nancarro and David Hammond will take a high-speed ride through the mean streets of post-war Kew Gardens, on to the deserts of Australia, via Salisbury Cathedral, dodging MI5 and a German parachute mine en route, before concluding with a non-recorded, non-electronic performance of Schumann’s immortal Liederkreis in Music, Mayhem and Me!! in The Tea Pot on August 4 and 5 at 5pm.

From the producers of Moulin Ouse comes The Great Yorkshire Tease, Coquette's brand new celebration of the art of burlesque, in a sparkly Gillygate Shed on August 4 at 8.30pm. "From showgirls to satire, the elegant to the exotic, experience the many faces of the art of tease," invite Coquette.

The GYF parade of cabaret will conclude with Andalou Dog's Pulled Down By The Sky in The Tea Pot on August 5 at 3pm. Inspired by the film The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari and the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense, the show depicts Andalou Dog's journey towards adulthood in a "live show project that tests the boundaries of an electro-rock live performance and contemporary theatre".

The audience will encounter a 360 degrees-immersive music show where the use of dancers and actors perfectly merges with the feel of being at a rock concert.

The full Great Yorkshire Fringe programme and ticket details can be found at greatyorkshirefringe.com/gyf-2017-brochure-/