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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ComedyPredator Guy @ Outside Starbucks
According to what I just copy-and-pasted from Wikipedia, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world's largest arts festival, with thousands of shows from all... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
TheatreSalome @ TheSpace at Surgeons Hall
Making Oscar Wilde's controversial tragedy, banned in France where he lived when he wrote it, into a contemporary Rock Opera is certainly a novel idea. This ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Comedy
Chris Stokes Tells It Like It Possibly Could Potentially Might Be @ Pleasance Courtyard
Comedy is tragedy plus time, apparently. Chris Stokes sure has some tragedy, and its timing was far from perfect, but that he has brought this show together,... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
ComedyAirnadette @ Underbelly Cowbarn
I’m struggling with what just happened here, so, from the top - six very talented physical performers bound on to the stage and begin to mime & lip... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Comedy
Rap Battles @ Bannermans
The Wee Man and Ro Campbell have invented one of the most exciting late-night formats since Set List with their Rap Battles, in which two comedians duke it o... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Comedy
Yianni: Think Big @ The Dram House
One of the most outrageous stunts of this Fringe is the relatively-unknown Yianni booking himself in for a night at the cavernous EICC. Most acts struggle to... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013
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TheatreFor Their Own Good @ Summerhall
As the audience take their seats in the crescent shaped spectator area of the former vet school’s dissection room at Summerhall, gazing down at the per... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Theatre
Jekyll & Hyde @ Assembly Roxy
Fringe First Award-winning playwright Jonathan Holloway has not given himself an easy task. On top of adapting one of the most well-known and influential sto... Read more »| 17 Aug 2013 -
TheatreThe Three Little Pigs @ Assembly One
The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf is a staple of many a bedtime story, but this production, brought to the festival as part of the Assembly’s ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2013 -
Theatre
The Secret Agent @ Traverse
"Something must be done" is the overall message The Secret Agent by theatreO urges the audience to remember. While the acting is strong, the songs in betwee... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
Theatre
Chalk Farm @ Underbelly Cowgate
Set to the backdrop of the 2011 London riots, Chalk Farm is a two-hander piece by Kieran Hurley and AJ Taudevin, in collaboration with Thick Skin. It focuses... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
Comedy
Pick Me Up
I’ve been thinking about this show rather a lot. In fact, since I first pocketed an austere flyer emblazoned with ‘PICK ME UP’ in unmistaka... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
Theatre
Hamlet: The Wooster Group @ Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival
The Wooster Group's Hamlet is an experimental, challenging work with an avant garde genesis but a more general appeal through its sense of humour and use of&... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
Comedy
Brendon Burns and Colt Cabana Sit in a Fifty-Seater Around Midnight and Provide the Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches @ Stand 2
Yep. That’s pretty much it. Not one to mislead an audience, Brendan Burns and Colt Cabana want you to know what to expect from the very start - a late ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
Theatre
Ulysses @ Paterson's Land
James Joyce: the master of modernist literature, the hero of Dublin, the man whose work is respected, feared and reviled in equal measure by every English li... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013