By MICHAEL COVENEY THEATRE THE WALWORTH FARCE National Theatre: Cottesloe, London **** What was going on, exactly, in those cramped rooms where Josef Fritzl imprisoned his own daughter for 24 years? How can such things happen without anyone knowing? The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh might help to explain why so many of us create alternative, secret narratives to run in tandem with the real world.

By Kate Bassett Theatre By creating so many characters in a dysfunctional rut, writer EndaWalsh has landed in one of his own The Walworth Farce NT Cottesloe LONDON Riflemind Trafalgar Studios LONDON The Girlfriend Experience Royal Court Upstairs LONDON Just last month, I saw the Edinburgh Fringe premiere of a chamber play by Ireland's acclaimed playwright Enda Walsh.

VISUAL artist Steve McQueen last night won another prize for his film Hunger. The British artist, who won the Camera d'Or Prize at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year for the movie about the Maze Prison, was handed the Gucci Group Award at the Venice Film Festival.

By Keith Bruce THE first week of the fourteenth year of The Herald Angel awards - given for excellence in any field demonstrated during Edinburgh's festival season - again illustrates the diversity of culture experience to be found in Scotland's capital during the month of August.

By Keith Bruce THIS year's Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Awards made a lively, vibrant start at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre on Saturday with one of the most exciting mornings in an event that has been distinguished by its impromptu performances over the years.