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 MagazineCarey Marx: The Doom Gloom Boom at Fringe Fest Review
Carey Marx is the dark heart of the ‘Stand Pack’, that band of Fringe comedians whose names have become synonymous with Edinburgh’s only pe... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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Cardinal Burns at Fringe Fest: Review
If Cardinal Burns as a show doesn't really work, it cannot be put down to lack of effort on the part of Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns. They arrive on s... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineBrian Gittins: Roadside Cafe Owner
“Knock knock! Who’s there? Linford Christie. Ooh, that’s a nice surprise!” As jokes go, it’s not the punchiest, but then David... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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Axis of Awesome
The Axis of Awesome is an Australian troupe of musical comedians. Self-aware and post-modern, their songs are as ironic as their T-shirts. Rather typically, ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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Adams and Rea: Blissfully Unaware
One undeniable asset of musical comedy acts is that their tunes can usefully fill any nasty gaps left by the absence of laughter. It’s an uneasy minute... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineAnna & Katy at Edinburgh Fringe: Review
The duo's gorgeous daftness has only lost a little of its shine Read more »| 08 Aug 2009
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The Origin of Species...
In trying to appeal to too broad a church, this appraisal of Charles Darwin's life and times falls a little short of its potential Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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East 10th Street: Self Portrait With Empty House
Brought to the UK by the multi award-winning Richard Jordan Productions, East 10th Street is the autobiographical piece from the former poster-boy of New Yor... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazinePlagiarismo
Richard DeDomenici is a performance artist whose artwork is cerebral, accessible and subversive; traits conspicuously absent in this one-man lecture. Addres... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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The Wayside/Riff
Cutting edge and complimenting each other perfectly, Sperling and Diallo have succeeded in creating a fresh and exciting showcase of contemporary dance Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineThe Rap Guide to Evolution
Following up on his critically acclaimed reworking of Geoffrey Chaucer's masterpiece in The Rap Canterbury Tales, Canadian actor and rap artist Baba Brinkman... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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Chronicles of Long Kesh
For the most part, this story of hardship in HMP Maze (aka Long Kesh) is fairly orthodox in its prison saga methods. Opened in 1971 for the internment of Nor... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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David Leddy's White Tea
White Tea begins with the audience donning kimonos, and the two-woman cast distributing cups of tea. This would seem stranger still if we weren't already dis... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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Lochhead and Laula: Love, Love, Love
Theirs is a pairing, Liz Lochhead tells us, which has been bubbling under the surface for decades. A collection of piece from poet Lochhead and songs from tr... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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Alistair McGowan: The One and Many
The impressionist stays mostly within his comfort zone in his first Fringe show this decade Read more »| 08 Aug 2009