Edinburgh Fringe
The Skinny guide to Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We bring you everything you need to get the most out of the Fringe, including previews, interviews, reviews and features.
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TheatreTrue 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 -
TheatreBurton @ 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 -
VideosCome Fringe Yourself with Tom Stade – Episode 9
Episode 9 of Come Fringe Yourself with Tom Stade is a special dedicated to cherub-faced comic Daniel Sloss. As well as Daniel, co-host Damo Clark and be... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
ComedyJames Acaster: Acaster Spell on You
Foster’s Comedy Award nominee James Acaster shares his thoughts on the competition and the dangers of misquotation Read more »| 03 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 -
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 -
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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 -
Videos
Come Fringe Yourself with Tom Stade – Episode 8
Episode 8 of Come Fringe Yourself with Tom Stade (aka The Documentary episode) is a behind the scenes special looking at the off-camera lives of To... Read more »| 01 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 -
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Civil 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