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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Fest MagazineThe Rap Guide to Evolution
Following up on his critically acclaimed reworking of Geoffrey Chaucer's masterpiece in The Rap Canterbury Tales, Canadian actor and rap artist Baba Brinkman... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineChronicles of Long Kesh
For the most part, this story of hardship in HMP Maze (aka Long Kesh) is fairly orthodox in its prison saga methods. Opened in 1971 for the internment of Nor... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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David Leddy's White Tea
White Tea begins with the audience donning kimonos, and the two-woman cast distributing cups of tea. This would seem stranger still if we weren't already dis... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineLochhead and Laula: Love, Love, Love
Theirs is a pairing, Liz Lochhead tells us, which has been bubbling under the surface for decades. A collection of piece from poet Lochhead and songs from tr... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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Alistair McGowan: The One and Many
The impressionist stays mostly within his comfort zone in his first Fringe show this decade Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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The Free Fringe and Free Festival: A beginner's guide
There's this elitist view that if something is free, it's not worth paying for. But the Laughing Horse Free Festival and the PBH Free Fringe are every bit as... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009
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The Kosh in The Storeroom
Fringe veterans The Kosh return with a one-woman theatre piece, which, after a slow start, has all the hallmarks of the quality one has come to expect from t... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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Icarus 2.0 Review
Icarus 2.0 is the latest offering from Fringe First winning pair Sebastian Lawson and Jamie Wood. It's a complex, curious tale:a hybrid story combining a Pro... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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Adam Riches: Rogue Males
A near master-class in interactive comedy, Rogue Males is Adam Riches' most accomplished Fringe performance to date Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineRob Rouse
Crude comedy can be a hazardous business. Comedians run the risk of taking things too far and reaching a point at which their audience, rather than seeing th... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
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Beachy Head Review
In the first few minutes of Beachy Head, two film-makers find something chilling among the hours of footage they've recorded on the eponymous Sussex suicide ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
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East meets west
Chasing Dorris Dörrie across Europe, Evan Beswick discovers that the German film director comes well equipped with a keen sense of what makes opera tick Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
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The Space Man
Site-specific theatre is a term "too restrictive" for experimental playwright, David Leddy. Ed Ballard talks to one of theatre's most radical figures Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
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The Streets
It’s now seven years since Mike Skinner, aka The Streets released Original Pirate Material – perhaps the one album spawned from the UK garage exp... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
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The Moth
US poet and crime writer George Dawes Green founded The Moth twelve years ago to fill a gap in New York’s literary scene: he wanted to offer a space fo... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009