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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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TheatreDance 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 -
TheatreLe 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 -
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 -
FestivalsEdinburgh 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 -
TheatreFringe 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 -
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Expensive Shit @ Traverse Theatre
“I want what you have,” a nightclub toilet attendant and ex-dancer laments through an empty mirror frame into the eyes of a captive audience. &ld... Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
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Fringe Theatre: Northern Stage @ Summerhall
We look at the Northern Stage theatre programme at Summerhall at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
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Desiree Burch on returning to the Fringe
After the success of her critically acclaimed one-woman show on race in America, Desiree Burch talks about evolution, expectation and Edinburgh Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
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Edinburgh Festivals 2016: Our Top 5s
Our section editors narrow down their Edinburgh Festival picks to an tick-'em-off-as-you-go top five; here are their music, books, comedy, art and theatre selections Read more »| 03 Aug 2016