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 MagazineBeyond Charlotte Square
The International Book Festival isn't Edinburgh's only literary offering this month. Ed Ballard checks out the bookish events taking place before the main event gets under way Read more »| 09 Aug 2009 -
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Leatherface
It’s every girlfriend’s nightmare: to come home, having been fired from your job, to find your man dressed up as the chief cannibal from The Texa... Read more »| 09 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineSea Wall
Sea Wall is about as simple as theatre gets: one man on stage, talking unassumingly under minimal lighting. But thanks to Simon Stephens's measured, subtle s... Read more »| 09 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineFear and Misery of the Third Reich
When originally performed, Brecht's play would no doubt have caused a stir – a series of vignettes outlining the fears and suspicions of everyday life ... Read more »| 09 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineHis Ghostly Heart
Ben Schiffer, staff-writer on the inexplicably popular E4 teen drama Skins turns his hand to something rather more philosophical here, teaming up with The Gi... Read more »| 09 Aug 2009 -
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Don Carlos
A classic mélange of dysfunctional family drama and political debate, this Friedrich Schiller work presents a naive prince who alone can mitigate his ... Read more »| 09 Aug 2009
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Gingers! The Musical
In a festival programme that this year includes musicals about online messaging and the porn industry, Gingers! The Musical ran the risk of appearing almost ... Read more »| 09 Aug 2009 -
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Rent
The Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent has an admirable history. Based on Puccini’s opera, La Boheme, the off-Broadway production subverted the essent... Read more »| 09 Aug 2009 -
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Precious Little Talent
Last year’s Fringe success Eight pushed Ella Hickson into the front rank of young British playwrights, winning numerous awards including a Fringe First... Read more »| 09 Aug 2009 -
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A Cry From Underground
Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novella Notes From Underground (1860), Thorston Manderlay’s intelligent and very well-performed play presents us with a... Read more »| 09 Aug 2009 -
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One Man Lord of the Rings
It is, perhaps, a question reviewers ought to ask themselves more often. Namely, why does this show exist? Is it unreasonable to think the the whole of The L... Read more »| 09 Aug 2009 -
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Zoe Lyons: Miss Machismo
Zoe Lyons is understandably a little annoyed with Germaine Greer. Wading into the ‘are women funny?’ debate earlier this year with a typical nose... Read more »| 09 Aug 2009 -
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Kevin Bridges: Class act
In the increasingly genteel world of Fringe comedy, Glaswegian newcomer Kevin Bridges is breaking the mould. Tom Hackett meets him in his hometown Read more »| 09 Aug 2009 -
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Janeane Garofalo
Zealous is too weak an adjective to describe Janeane Garofalo’s left-leaning liberalism, and it would be logical to think that—in the era of our ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
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Bourgeois & Maurice: Social Work
“One thing we’ve learned about sex,” the magnificently dressed Bourgeois purrs silkily, “is that it often leads to offspring.” ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009