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With hundreds of venues and thousands of shows from around the world, The Skinny's Edinburgh Fringe theatre previews and reviews provide the insight you need to make the most of your Fringe experience.
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Festivals
Bryony Kimmings: Fake It 'til You Make It
Bryony Kimmings talks about her Fringe show Fake It 'til You Make It, mental health stigmatisation and making theatre about real people's real stories Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
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Elspeth Turner's SpectreTown
Elspeth Turner talks identity, Scottish ancestry and homespun Scottish theatre. Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
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Pleasance Futures: After the first 30 years
The Pleasance's future is all about youth – Tim Norton, Anna Simpson and Andrew Whyment talk about what they're bringing to the venue this August Read more »| 01 Aug 2015 -
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Programmes Within the Programme
Curated multi-venue programmes are changing the landscape of the Edinburgh Fringe. Here we explore the reasons why, taking in Aurora Nova and the Made in Scotland Showcase Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
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Walking the Tightrope: politics at Edinburgh Fringe
Playwrights Neil LaBute and Omar El-Khairy talk about Walking the Tightrope, censorship and the arts, and The Arches closure ahead of their short plays coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Read more »| 02 Jul 2015 -
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Traversing the Fringe
With Traverse Theatre's Fringe programme launching this week, we ask artistic director Orla O'Loughlin for an overview of what's in store Read more »| 03 Jun 2015
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Jamaica Farewell @ Pleasance Courtyard
If Debra Ehrhardt’s Jamaica Farewell were an entry at a story-telling competition, she’d win hands down. Her attempt to leave the eponymous ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2014 -
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Bond! @ Zoo
Gavin Robertson’s Bond! is dad humour at its finest. “No hydrogen peroxide? I guess I’ll dye another day!” Apart from fantastically ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2014 -
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True Brits @ Assembly Hall
True Brits is Vinay Patel’s engaging one-man show about a first love and post 7/7 racial alienation in London. Sid Sagar is exquisitely affable as Rahu... Read more »| 09 Sep 2014 -
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Burton @ Assembly Hall
Rhodri Miles is mesmerising as the actor Richard Burton, who celebrates his 46th birthday by unapologetically looking back on a life of drama, drink and dall... Read more »| 09 Sep 2014 -
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Sweet Mambo @ Edinburgh International Festival
"Don’t forget," say each of the female dancers introducing themselves in turn. Sweet Mambo, first performed in 2008, is Pina Bausch's penultimate piec... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
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Boosters @ Zoo
At the end of Boosters, solo performer Hannah Smith explains to her Fringe audience what Echoes Theatre’s play is. It’s a collection of true stor... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
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Merry Christmas, Ms Meadows @ Pleasance Dome
Merry Christmas, Ms Meadows is activist theatre gone right. Belarus Free Theatre combine urgency and innovative production design in a play that is both a th... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
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MenSWEAR Collection: Spunk @ C Nova
Lights Up Entertainment bring the topics of sex and disability to Edinburgh Fringe with MenSWEAR collection: Spunk, set around the life of James who fe... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
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Ubu and the Truth Commission @ Edinburgh International Festival
Based on the revelations at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the harrowing atrocities committed by the South African apartheid regime, ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014