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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ComedyRap 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 -
ComedyYianni: 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 -
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 -
Theatre
The 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
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TheatreChalk 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 -
TheatreHamlet: 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 -
Theatre
Bad Boy Eddie @ C Aquilla
Bad Boy Eddie invites its audience to look in on the after affects of what happens when personal demons become too much for a family to contain. With a mode... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
Comedy
Catherine Semark: Shadow Ape
When Catherine Semark takes to the stage, all crazy-haired, and explains that she’s wearing a loose, funky shirt, because she’s gained weight by ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
Comedy
Tony Law: Nonsense Overdrive @ The Stand - Edinburgh Fringe
Nonsense Overdrive, shown at Edinburgh Fringe, is a perfect title for the latest hour of ramshackle daftness from Tony Law, as he pushes his whimsical i... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
Comedy
A A and A
This show lacks substance and fails to deliver on the promises offered as we walked in; chiefly that they never picked on their audience, and that we would e... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013