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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TheatreAblutions @ Assembly Roxy
“You’re an experienced silent vomiter,” FellSwoop Theatre’s lead tells us in Ablutions, a beautifully sleazy tale of personal decay a... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
TheatreLe Flop @ Underbelly Cowgate
The Edinburgh Fringe wouldn’t be the Edinburgh Fringe without productions like Le Flop: an eponymous feat containing intense flatulence, a dance s... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
ComedyThe Skinny Awards: Shortlist Announced
We’re thrilled to announce that this Thursday 21 August, we will be hosting a Skinny-style knees-up in celebration of the brightest talent on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival – this year we launch the first ever Skinny Awards Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Theatre
The Pure, the Dead and the Brilliant @ The Assembly Rooms
Ancient creatures of Scottish folklore discuss the future of an Independent Scotland. What will the outcome be? You decide. Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Frozen @ theSpace on North Bridge
Out Of Town Productions bring to Edinburgh Fringe a moving portrayal of three lives interlinked by the abduction and murder of ten-year-old Rhona ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Theatrewhat do you mean @ Spotlites (The Merchant's Hall)
The title of the play is appropriately put as a question – what do you mean. The show will have the audience continually questioning the title as ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014
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Theatre
The Fair Intellectual Club @ The Assembly Rooms
Scotland is most notably known intellectually for its scientific and educational advances that occurred in the early 1§8th century: the Scottish Enlight... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Sleeping Beauty @ Institut Français d'Ecosse
This is not the typical fairly-tale of the Princess Aurora that slumbers in the tallest room of the tallest tower, waiting to be awakened by true love’... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show @ Pleasance Dome
With a coffee in one hand and a paper plate of strawberries and croissants in the other the audience are prepared for The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show to br... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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How to Achieve Redemption as a Scot through the Medium of Braveheart @ Underbelly
Rachael Clerke recounts the history of her Scottishness in How to Achieve Redemption as a Scot through the Medium of Braveheart, while assiduously avoiding t... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Happy @ Pleasance Dome
When seeing Happy by No Prophet Theatre at this year's Fringe, it is difficult not to wonder which meta level the piece operates on. Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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A Male Soprano @ Paradise in the Vault
Fireden Productions bring A Male Soprano to Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The journey from bullied young boy to male soprano with an agent falls slightly ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Theatre
Antiquithon @ Institut Français d'Ecosse
Weirdly bizarre but hardly wonderful, the makeshift play, Antiquithon, will leave one more in a state of confusion than laughter as you exit, or rather run from the Institut Français d'Ecosse Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Factor 9 @ Summerhall
Less than 30 years ago, Britain was privy to modern man’s largest medical scandal. Thousands of haemophiliacs (a medical condition in which the ability... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Videos
Come Fringe Yourself with Tom Stade – Episode 5
Tom Stade hosts Episode 5 (the Film Noir episode) of Come Fringe Yourself, a chat show filmed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014. With his co-host Da... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014