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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A Beginners Guide to Fringe Greatness
Steve and Jonah want to write the ""World's Greatest Fringe Play."" But their quest for originality quickly plums shameless plagiarism to previously unchartered depths Read more »| 18 Aug 2007 -
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Greedy
An innocent and endearing world of gentle humour, scarcely any of Greedy’s rapid fire skits fall flat Read more »| 18 Aug 2007 -
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The Interpreter
The characters in this Geneva-set thriller are sticklers when it comes to usage. The young heroine is hired as a translator for a Russian expatriate and his ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2007 -
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Stephen Fretwell
It’s Fretwell’s refreshingly old school approach to performance that really thrills Read more »| 18 Aug 2007 -
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I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK
Chan-wook Park's film has a great title, but that's all it has. It is a daft, digressional farce set in a sanitarium, exhaustingly winsome and imposs... Read more »| 18 Aug 2007 -
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Jo Caulfield Goes To Hell
Funny stuff, but if you've seen a lot of stand-up this year, you'll find nothing new here to reignite the fire of your first week at the Fringe Read more »| 18 Aug 2007
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The Rap Canterbury Tales
Chaucer's wit and playful rhymes come to life as a lyrical battle, featuring the Miller, the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath Read more »| 18 Aug 2007 -
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Nina Conti
Nina Conti's bubbly sweetness neatly contrasts with the often unbelievable filth that streams from the mouths of her cuddly friends Read more »| 18 Aug 2007 -
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Greg Fleet with Mick Moriarty
An ingenious song spreads its humour like a Chinese whisper, creating a room full of well whetted comic appetites Read more »| 18 Aug 2007 -
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Ian stone
To spend an hour listening to his jokes is a guilty pleasure: he’s like a higher brow version of Roy Chubby Brown, in the best possible sense Read more »| 17 Aug 2007 -
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Cherry Smoke
The visceral account of a fighter haunted by his past and heavy-handed temper Read more »| 17 Aug 2007 -
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The Waiting Room
British writer-director Roger Goldby’s first feature is an intriguing exploration of the promises, pleasures and pitfalls of long-term relationship... Read more »| 17 Aug 2007 -
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Knocked Up
Rather too often in film journalism, it is claimed that a single movie is an example of an entirely new genre. This tendency was comically embraced two y... Read more »| 17 Aug 2007 -
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Yella
In Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, the detective Arbogast is visited by split-second images of a sheep and a dour-looking woman as he falls to his death... Read more »| 17 Aug 2007 -
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Sarah Kendall - My Very First Kidnapping
The sharp comic performances of Kendall and her supporting cast of fellow Perrier nominees Joanna Neary and Justin Edwards are what really drive this well-paced and sharply written show Read more »| 17 Aug 2007