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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Fest MagazineFood & Drink: Sammy J's Quick Bite
Edinburgh in August means one thing: Aberdeen Angus Beef Burgers from the van in Teviot Place. Sure, I tell everyone back in Melbourne that I'm heading over... Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
Fest MagazineFood & Drink: Loretta Maine IS drunk
Am I only allowed one? Well then it has to be that pub opposite the jacket potato shop on the curving road down from the Mile. I don't know what it's called.... Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
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Food & Drink: Laura Solon's Coffee Break
I am going to pick 2 places: Urban Angel uses words like "philosophy" and "locally sourced" – plus the menu is all in lower-case font, so it has to be ... Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
Fest MagazineFood & Drink: Maeve Higgins veggies out
Vegetarians, myself included, are often tense weirdos. This is because we think about everything all of the time. If one figures out that eating animals is a... Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
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Food & Drink: Hardeep's Hot Choice
Hot Stuff Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
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Food & Drink: Crêpe Monsieur
Crêpe Monsieur Read more »| 30 Jul 2010
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Clarke Peters: Man on the Wire
It's been 20 years since Clarke Peters last performed in his musical Five Guys Named Moe. The Wire star tells Edd McCracken why he and his show have some unfinished business Read more »| 24 Jul 2010 -
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Previews: Comedians doing theatre
Gutted: A Revenger’s Musical A show can get away with murder if it can be described as ‘cult’, so why not set that murder to music? The cr... Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
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Return of the Samurai
Visual master Tomohiro Sasaki tells Nick Lewis how video games and manga inspired their radical reworking of Shakespeare Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Fest MagazineOut of the box
Could puppetry be theatre's great new frontier? Legendary puppet-master David Strassman speaks to Honour Bayes about the ventriloquism renaissance Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
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Feminism's new direction
Ishbel McFarlane gets her claws into feminism at the Fringe, and finds that, for some playwrights, the political is still personal Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
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Talkin' 'bout a revolution
Creative director of Horizon Arts Philip Stokes returns to Edinburgh with his own brand of punk rock artistry Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Fest MagazineFlamenco without frontiers
Honour Bayes talks to flamenco master Paco Peña about his new show Quimeras, and finds out how experiences of diverse cultures and eclectic artforms have bolstered his Spanish musical heritage. Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
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Over the river, through the woods
Mixing macabre puppetry and live action, Ed Wren and Claire Harvey are the king and queen of Fringe whimsy. River People's artistic directors tell Arianna Reiche how they got started, and where they come by their inspiration. Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
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On the road
For all their TV appearances, sell out shows and international tours, the life of a comedian on the road is, as Lyle Brennan discovers, a lonely and unglamorous one indeed Read more »| 16 Jul 2010