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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Des Bishop: Tongues
Des Bishop emerges from backstage, beaming, looking like your next door neighbour’s slightly hip-hop older brother. His voice is soft but clearly trans... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Wanderlust
With the right atmosphere this could be a really enchanting evening event to set you up for a spirited late night of Fringe festivities. But relying heavily ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Once And For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen
The reason why all adults despise teenagers is announced: we just can’t stand to look at them and remember that we’re old; that we’re never... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Harbingers
Directed by Cambridge Footlights' notable Ed Gamble, this revue is an ever so friendly affair that never jokes at the expense of anyone. Here are three affab... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective Presents Hans Teeuwen
There is a strong buzz of excitement about Hans Teeuwen in the packed-out crowd at the Pleasance Dome, even before the man arrives on stage. Thirteen months ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Laurence Clark: Spastic Fantastic!
Laurence Clark isn't being offensive by calling his show Spastic Fantastic!, he has cerebral palsy. It's possibly inappropriate to use that as the opening li... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008
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David O'Doherty: Let's Comedy
There’s always a worry with so-called ‘DIY’ comedians, defined by the seemingly shambolic, accidental nature of their comedy and their low-... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Kunst ist Scheisse
Kunst ist Scheisse is a cabaret presented by three girls from "The Caravan of Love." Initially asked to locate and poke your spleen, the gland of desire, thi... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineGiselle
Adolphe Adams’s nineteenth century ballet explores the alienation and destruction caused social hierarchy. The aristocratic Albrecht falls for the love... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Creation & All That Jazz
Jesus and his entrepreneurial rat pack (Buddha, Ghandi, Jehovah, Lucifer) have royally cocked up Creation. It all began when our unruly messiah spat in a pet... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Hostage
There’s a recurring moral dilemma that haunts the practice of review writing for the Fringe. It concerns the lunacy of being forced to compare fully pr... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Closing Time
Billed as “a play about pubs, set in a pub,” My Own Private Submarine’s site-specific monologue, Closing Time, is exactly that – exce... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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The Magic Tree
Can a group of boys really be driven to rape a girl out of sheer boredom? In The Magic Tree, the latest play by award-winning Irish playwright Ursula Rani Sa... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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66A Church Road: A Lament, Made of Memories and Kept In Suitcases, by Daniel Kitson
It’s increasingly difficult to describe Daniel Kitson simply as a comedian. His stand-up work has beco more philosophical and emotional in recent years... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Cousins Rivals Queens
The imprisonment and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, was one of the defining moments in Tudor history, and has fascinated... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008