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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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TheatreEdinburgh International Festival: Shakespeare
To mark the fourth centenary since Shakespeare's death, we review the best and the worst of Edinburgh International Festival's Shakespeare adaptations of 2016 Read more »| 29 Aug 2016 -
TheatreDance Base Week 3 Reviews
A round-up of new shows at Dance Base in Week 3. Read more »| 26 Aug 2016 -
TheatreMushroom: In-the-Making Collective
Tucked away down a cobbled street away from the Festival bustle, Spaces with its bare white walls and studio space may usually be home to art exhibitions, bu... Read more »| 26 Aug 2016 -
TheatreEdinburgh Fringe Reviews: Post Brexit Feels
Brexit and the anti-European hysteria sweeping the UK are huge thematic concerns at this year’s Fringe, unsurprising for a Scottish festival that cause... Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
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Dance Base Week 2 reviews
M.I.S. – All Night Long Don Gnu [★★★★☆]This show is a sort of turbocharged Chuckle Brothers, mixed with Eric Sykes’ The Plank, circus, film deco... Read more »| 19 Aug 2016 -
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Le Bossu @ Bedlam
Theatre company withWings are building a reputation for making delightful twists on classics. In 2014, they brought a convivial retelling of Tchaik... Read more »| 19 Aug 2016
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TheatreNo Horizon @ Underbelly
New musical, No Horizon, tells the story of Nicholas Saunderson, a young Yorkshire man born in the late 1600s. Contracting smallpox, Saunderson lost his sigh... Read more »| 19 Aug 2016 -
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Edinburgh Fringe Reviews: Strange Love
The Fringe offers strange and quientessentially 21st century takes on romance Read more »| 18 Aug 2016 -
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Interiors @ The Lyceum
We’re fascinated by our fellow humans, says Interiors. We know this already, from Gogglebox, the Olympics, even, and our punishing obsession with a mor... Read more »| 17 Aug 2016 -
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SNAP @ Assembly Theatre
It's a brave magic show that actually puts a rabbit – albeit a plush one – in the same pair of hands as a hat. But 'contemporary mystery performa... Read more »| 17 Aug 2016 -
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Edinburgh Fringe Reviews: Diary of A Madman x 2
Nikolai Gogol’s literary classic is adapted in two very different shows for the Fringe but did either convince? Read more »| 16 Aug 2016 -
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Edinburgh Fringe Reviews: Dance at Zoo Venues
We look through the Dance at Zoo Venues and find a pair of intriguing performances Read more »| 16 Aug 2016 -
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Travesty @ Assembly, George Square
Stand-up Liam Williams' debut play is a role-swapping romance Read more »| 12 Aug 2016 -
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Edinburgh Fringe Reviews: Science Fiction
The future of comedy as explored through the twin beasts of Comedy Theatre and Theatrical Comedy. Read more »| 10 Aug 2016 -
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Fringe Theatre Reviews: Dance Base
Woodland creatures, power dynamics, secret languages... in this round-up, we take a look at what's on offer at Dance Base in the first week of the Fringe Read more »| 09 Aug 2016