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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Like a Virgin
Gordon Steel’s heart-warming romp through teenage-hood provides a blissfully nostalgic theatrical experience. Angela and Maxine, donning leggings and h... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Tea and Cake II: In The Gateau
Talk about kicking someone when they're down. If there were any more cheap shots directed at mime artists in this show it'd be almost worth the ticket price ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Strange Bedfellows
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if George Washington had been a sexual plaything of George III? Or if Marilyn Monroe had furtively courted Lee H... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Apes Like Me
Half way through Kate Smurthwaite’s Apes Like Me we reach what ought to be an absolutely earth-shaking moment. It speaks volumes about the show that, i... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Clarkson & Crouch: Away with the Fairies
Clarkson & Crouch, despite their show titles, are certainly not away with the fairies. They might have vivid imaginations, and appear to be a couple of s... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Mort
Death—with a shining scythe, blue lights for eyes and a disembodied voice—is a likeable character, living as he is through a mid-life crisis: he ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008
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Plague! The Musical
Musical theatre is not something which commands universal appreciation. Its formats are well documented, its cliches much parodied. The Musical Comedy genre ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Britt Eckland: Britt on Britt
It’s very annoying when a fellow audience member keeps talking throughout a performance. It’s bad Fringe etiquette and, frankly, it's just rude. ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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The Return of the Scottish Falcetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Watching a man's hand inside a sock pretend to play a guitar which he calls "Vicky the technician" is quite surreal. That he is singing a song called 'I'm a ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineSteve Hall: Vice-Captain Loser
Poor Steve Hall. For a start, this show takes its title from a nickname given to him as a child by his own father, “because I wasn’t even the big... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Louis CK
Louis CK is a wanker. That’s not an insult: he’ll tell you the same thing himself. In fact, over the course of this unpleasant, offensive and exc... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineTim MInchin: Ready For This?
Tim Minchin is, by now, somewhat of a rock star. And what goes better with rock stars than nostalgia? Well, here’s a big dose of it: Minchin’s sh... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Mr Methane – Fart Attack
Putting the art into fart, professional flatulist, Mr Methane tells Chris Williams of adventures with Keith and Orville and the Grand Emperor of Tokyo Broadcasting Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineFour Chords and the Truth
Doug Johnstone and Toby Litt have trained boyhood yearnings for rock-stardom into exposés of backstage truth and onstage myth Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineSlammed, but not Dunked
Bookslam was a noble effort that failed to convince Read more »| 17 Aug 2008