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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Comedy
The Free Fringe and Free Festival: A beginner's guide
There's this elitist view that if something is free, it's not worth paying for. But the Laughing Horse Free Festival and the PBH Free Fringe are every bit as... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineThe Kosh in The Storeroom
Fringe veterans The Kosh return with a one-woman theatre piece, which, after a slow start, has all the hallmarks of the quality one has come to expect from t... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineIcarus 2.0 Review
Icarus 2.0 is the latest offering from Fringe First winning pair Sebastian Lawson and Jamie Wood. It's a complex, curious tale:a hybrid story combining a Pro... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineAdam Riches: Rogue Males
A near master-class in interactive comedy, Rogue Males is Adam Riches' most accomplished Fringe performance to date Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
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Rob Rouse
Crude comedy can be a hazardous business. Comedians run the risk of taking things too far and reaching a point at which their audience, rather than seeing th... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
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Beachy Head Review
In the first few minutes of Beachy Head, two film-makers find something chilling among the hours of footage they've recorded on the eponymous Sussex suicide ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009
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East meets west
Chasing Dorris Dörrie across Europe, Evan Beswick discovers that the German film director comes well equipped with a keen sense of what makes opera tick Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineThe Space Man
Site-specific theatre is a term "too restrictive" for experimental playwright, David Leddy. Ed Ballard talks to one of theatre's most radical figures Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
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The Streets
It’s now seven years since Mike Skinner, aka The Streets released Original Pirate Material – perhaps the one album spawned from the UK garage exp... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
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The Moth
US poet and crime writer George Dawes Green founded The Moth twelve years ago to fill a gap in New York’s literary scene: he wanted to offer a space fo... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
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The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church
It's been seven years since Daniel Kitson won the Perrier Award for his comedy show, Something, but in recent years the comedian has become far better known ... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
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The Hotel
If any Fringe performer from the last decade is to go down in the annals of the Festival's history, it's Mark Watson. His electric stand-up shows might not v... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
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Stefan Golascewski is a Widower
Stefan Golascewski wasn't exactly an Edinburgh newcomer in 2008. The ex-Cambridge Footlights president enjoyed sell-out runs in 2005 and 2006 as part of Cowa... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
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Peter Duncan's Daft and Dangerous Preview
Peter Duncan, the 80s Blue Peter Presenter and former TV stunt show host, will take the stage for his first Fringe show – an hour of madcap entertainme... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
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Shappi Khorsandi: The Distracted Activist
Something of a comic chameleon, Shappi Khorsandi is as comfortable starring in major comedy events like BBC One’s Live at the Apollo as she is offering... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009