White Rabbit Red Rabbit @ Summerhall
By . Published 23 August 2012
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Comedy > Fringe 2012
Ro Campbell: Midnight Meltdown
By . Published 23 August 2012An undeservedly small audience files into Ro Campbell’s midnight show in Stand II, and half of it seems Fringe-weary, and wary of this stubby-holding Aussie who, though sadly lacking the...
Mark Restuccia: How to Succeed at Internet Dating
By . Published 22 August 2012Mark Restuccia’s at his best when he chats to the crowd, hinting that he’ll win us over in this little basement venue. Few initially admit to having used internet dating,...
Uninvited @ Bedlam Theatre
By . Published 22 August 2012Fat Git Theatre specialise in adaptations of contemporary stories and with Uninvited they hit the mark...
Miriam Margolyes: Dickens' Women @ Pleasance Courtyard
By . Published 22 August 2012How to rescue Dickens from dry academia
Cleansed @ theSpace on North Bridge
By . Published 22 August 2012Rummage Theatre – a LEAP theatre project – make a Fringe debut with Cleansed.
Flash Mob @ Assembly Hall
By . Published 22 August 2012Flash Mob's reality dance show formula makes for easy entertainment
Fresh Fringe's 24-Hour Challenge!
By . Published 21 August 2012Starting at 10am on Wednesday 22 August, an intrepid broadcasting duo of Christian Illingworth and Finlay Niven will be hosting a 24 hour radio marathon live from the Pleasance Courtyard,...
AnimalParts Theatre: Tenderpits
By . Published 21 August 2012Canadian-born and New York City-based performer Anthony Johnston is a wizard. The kind of wizard who wears a dirty nappy, has a sparkling butt and masturbates to a game of...
Stuart Black: Sex, Money, Death
By . Published 21 August 2012It's difficult to know what to expect when, moments before a show is due to start, the performer shakes your hand and asks if you are his audience. Luckily, by...
Billy the Mime
By . Published 21 August 2012The film The Artist had such beautiful music, was so well performed, that it was easy to forget there was no spoken dialogue in it; and because it stuck in...
Hitch and Mitch: The Stinky Show
By . Published 21 August 2012The props are puerile, the jokes terrible, the sketches simplistic and stretched, and in all it feels very amateurish. So it shouldn’t work. But strangely it does. The whole set-up...
Gearoid Farrelly: Turbulence
By . Published 21 August 2012For his first Fringe show, rising Irish comedian Gearoid Farrelly tackles all the little things that cause turbulence in his life, from break-ups to the death of a family bunny....
Rachel Stubbings: Stubbing out Problems
By . Published 21 August 2012It's always a brave move to incorporate a period of total silence into your comedy act, but Stubbings carries this off beautifully; and the quiet in the room is only broken...
Aaron Twitchen: Quarter Life Crisis
By . Published 21 August 2012Can you be too talented? Aaron Twitchen seems to have this extremely rare condition and the main symptom is a show that consists of lots of great bits that constantly...
Meitheal/Worst Case Scenario @ Dance Base
By . Published 21 August 2012Mathematical elegance from max.IMEALLdance plus survival-situation farce from Taciturn Dance Company
Natyam @ Dance Base
By . Published 21 August 2012A sumptuous display of a traditional Indian form
Work Songs @ Zoo
By . Published 21 August 2012No holds barred
Michael Redmond: Mannequins, Fishmongers, Guacamole and Me ... and Other Things
By . Published 21 August 2012This show could so easily have been awful. A comic who hilariously phones back an audience member’s mobile caller, a bizarre mannequin (in a going-out dress) that nearly takes someone’s...
The Skinny Fringe Radio Hour #2
By . Published 20 August 2012In the second of our special Fringe radio shows, kindly accommodated by Edinburgh's Fresh Air station, we welcome guests from the worlds of comedy, literature, theatre and music into the...
