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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ComedyDaniel Sloss - Teenage Kicks Comedy Review
When Daniel Sloss wanders onstage all smooth-faced and lank-haired, it’s hard to envisage the elfin lad having anything of the comic clout needed to im... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineThe Bodega Brothers: Afternoon Delight
One of the Bodega Brothers' songs, 'I Don't Want No Cubs', is about how they've got no time for guys who wear badges on their shirt and neckerchiefs fastened... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineAshley Hames: Confessions of a Sex Reporter
When a certain Robert Birkett led Ofcom into an anti-obscenity witch-hunt, he could not have envisioned where it would leave his enemy, Sin Cities documentar... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineThe Aspidistras
It’s really difficult to pinpoint what it is about The Aspidistras that makes you grieve for the comedy gold that has somehow got lost along the way. L... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Sammy J: 1999
After storming last year's Fringe 2008 with smutty puppet show Forest of Dreams, Sammy J returns with another musical comedy of a more autobiographical natur... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Russell Kane: Human Dressage
A self-styled “pseudo-intellectual”, Russell Kane uses his comedy primarily to explore and share his specialist subject of human interaction. Hav... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009
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Ross Lee: Not A Lot Of Sex, Lies And Videotape
For 15 years, Ross Lee has been trying to make it big in television. As a child, he filmed himself in his garden, dressed in a wig, squirting fake blood on h... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineGavin Webster's Faldarel
Upon completing his hour-long set, Gavin Webster, for no other reason than that he's a nice chap, stands at the exit of the venue and hands out free bread to... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Philberto: Philberto's Animal
This show charts one man's rise from a dull Portuguese fishing village to the heights of TV stardom after reaching the final of reality show Live On The Floo... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Penny Dreadfuls Present... The Never Man
The Penny Dreadfuls stormed last year's Fringe. A tightly wrought, Victorian-themed murder mystery cum comedy caper, their daft, jokes-a-minute script was a ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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My Darling Clemmie
“Behind every great man stands a great woman.” There are few greater men in British history than Winston Churchill – yet for many Britons ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Michael Fabbri
A nervous, fidgety comic at the best of times, Michael Fabbri looks a bit disarmed by the scattered audience of 15 he sees before him tonight. It’s a F... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Stalag Happy
To the piercing cries of air raid sirens and the thundering sound of marching troops, we are welcomed to the Stalag 383, the German prisoner of war camp. Th... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Chronicles of Irania
This one-woman show is harrowing from the outset, as a bloodcurdling intake of breath introduces a monologue from an Iranian mother attacked with acid by a j... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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By Grace
There is little in a standard diet of fringe shows that can prepare you for American high school students performing musical theatre. After watching By Grace... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009