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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ComedyStephen Carlin Blows The Lid Off The Whole Filthy Business
Stephen Carlin's Big Thing is that he is apparently one of Stewart Lee's all-time top ten stand-up comedians, a fact that brings with it the surprising impli... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineUmbrella Birds: Sketches In A Shop Changing Room
All-female comedy foursome The Umbrella Birds are keen to confront and riff on women's various insecurities about their appearance and self-image. In p... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
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The Dark Party
This latest offering from The Dirty Brothers is a genre-defying mix of physical comedy, daring exploits and macabre theatre. Costumed as tramps and armed wit... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineAdam Hills: Inflatable at Edinburgh Fringe Review
Tonight, Adam Hills is accompanied by a British Sign Language interpreter. The first half hour consists of a riotous back-and-forth exchange with and through... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
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German Humour Goes Global
It should surprise no-one that a show based around German humour will refer frequently to sausages. But if you take away this gimmick from German Humou... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
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Stephen Hill and Jessica Fostekew
As many Fringe stand-up gigs generally range between ill-informed wannabes and undiscovered gems, when Stephen Hill and Jessica Fostekew bound in to deliver ... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009
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Simon Munnery's AGM 09
An early joke in Simon Munnery's set ends with the single word punchline, 'hypnosis' – curiously fitting for a comedian who loves to lead his audience ... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
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Lewis Schaffer - Bigger and Blacker
Perhaps opening by listing one’s shortfalls in comparison to more established comedians could have been drily amusing, but then I’m sure Lewis Sc... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
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"And Then He Said..."
Small-time theatre company In A Pickle are asking audiences not to judge a book by its cover. “And Then He Said…”, their series of vignett... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
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E for Apple/Something Blue
Cancer is no picnic. In fact, it is very, very hard. It hurts and it makes you die, and dying is lonely – and hard. This is about as much as you could... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
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Bob's Date
It is the internal workings of the male mind which Bob’s Date takes as its subject. Anxious about a rendezvous with a woman—his first for over tw... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
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The Girls of Slender Means
This stage adaption of Muriel Spark's novel brings the Edinburgh writer's focus away from the capital's cobbled streets and sandstone facades. Set in West Lo... Read more »| 10 Aug 2009 -
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A British Subject Review
In 1988, a young British man named Mirza Tahir Hussein was sentenced to death by the Pakistani courts. For 18 years, Tahir languished on death row for a crim... Read more »| 10 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineKilling Me Softly
Last year, Richard Fry came to Edinburgh on a tentative mission to try out a new career. Now aged thirty-something, Fry’s life consisted of a rough chi... Read more »| 10 Aug 2009 -
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Chris Cox: Mind Over Patter
We love Cox. Or so the opportunely named ‘mind reader’ guffaws, along with a sprinkling of double entendres perhaps provided to justify the 18+ r... Read more »| 10 Aug 2009