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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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TheatreSweet 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 -
TheatreBoosters @ 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 -
TheatreMenSWEAR 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 -
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Mock Tudor @ Pleasance Courtyard
If Mock Tudor were a school play and your child were in it, it would be a charming thing to see on a Tuesday evening. As a play about present-day Tudor imper... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014
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The Greatest Liar in All the World @ Pleasance Courtyard
Every now and then, you come across a play that seems to ignore the lines between children’s and adults’ theatre, comedy and tragedy, circus act ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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The Hemline Index @ Pleasance Courtyard
Fringe virgins Portmanteau present a neat little comedy about being 24 years old, female, and doing a bit of shopping on your lunch break. Set in two dressin... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
TheatreCivil Rogues @ Pleasance Courtyard
The Pleasance’s Civil Rogues is an old-fashioned comedy with old-fashioned jokes and old-fashioned characters, set at the time of Cromwell’s old-... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Green Snake @ C Venues
Watching two exquisitely dressed women perform a dialogue in a language one cannot begin to imagine to dream to understand two words of, is an interesting ex... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
TheatreThe 56 @ Underbelly, Bristo Square
FYSA Theatre provide an untold look into the Bradford City Fire in The 56 through a verbatim performance using interviews from three survivors. The title si... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Frank Sent Me @ Underbelly Bristo Square
Em-Lou Productions brings Edinburgh Fringe dark comedy in the form of Frank Sent Me, unravelling the tale of Howe, a mafia enforcer who knows his boss Frank... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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I’m not Pale, I’m Dead @ Assembly Hall
One-woman show I’m not Pale, I’m Dead is a simple piece that unfolds from a single premise: what would you tell an Edinburgh Fringe audience if, ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Wingman @ Pleasance Dome
Seeing Wingman is like witnessing a hilarious adult rendition of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine, and Richard Marsh adds to that the ch... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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The Zulu @ Assembly Hall
Mbongeni Ngema challenges his audience’s ears in The Zulu: an oral history of the Zulu kingdom and its political turmoils, culminating in the battle of... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014