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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ComedySean Hughes: Life Becomes Noises
Blue illuminates him as he holds aloft a loaf of bread, and Snow Patrol plays overhead. In a moment he’s sitting at a bedside, ruminating on his father... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
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Chris Martin: Spot The Difference
There is comedy for all types at this festival and many will definitely love Chris Martin - he’s young, confident, charming and quite good-looking... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
ComedyRichard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart
Richard Tyrone Jones – gym-goer, man about town, sperm donor, performance poet – got heart failure for his 30th birthday. This hour-long show cha... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
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Damien Crow: The World According to Damien Crow
This is not Damien Crow’s audience. Mid-afternoon, shiny happy people – their mistake at having arrived here is openly noted in some moments of a... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
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Return of The Lumberjacks (Back By Poplar Demand)
An hour and a half of three incredible comedians each at the top of their game, and a surprise special guest who turns out to be Mick Foley; what more could ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
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Appointment With The Wicker Man
Still Game fans may have noticed Greg Hemphill, or Victor McDade, on posters around town. Well, if you like that, you’ll love this – that same de... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012
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Phil Nichol: RANTS!
For a man who is apparently furious about pretty much everything, Phil Nichol sure is a lovely bloke. This is his first sell-out night and he’s thrille... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
TheatreOne Hour Only @ Underbelly
Marly is studying forensic biology and to pay her way she has started a new job at an ‘upmarket’ brothel. Her first client is AJ who is twenty-on... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
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Caesarean Section. Essays on Suicide @ Summerhall
Cheerful Stuff Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
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The Pain of Desire @ Summerhall
The show does not begin in the performance space but in the foyer as the audience waits to enter. We are greeted by Wendy Bevan's (the vocalist in Temper Tem... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
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Folken Britain
When Susan Harrison takes on a new persona she does so with her whole body – she seems to shrink and stretch before our eyes – transforming and t... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
ComedyGenevieve Swallow is Sharing
Swallow’s entire routine is based on her flatmate and house sharing tales – like a less funny version of the Australian autobiographical novel He... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
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Benny Boot: Def-Con 4
Tall and gangly, Benny Boot wraps himself around the mic stand like an awkward teenager, nervously laughs after many of his silly and weird one-liners and le... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
TheatreAnd No More Shall We Part @ Traverse
It is difficult to say what is most remarkable about Tom Holloway's new play. There is the writing, which manages to articulately address a topical soci... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
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The Letter of Last Resort/Good With People @ Traverse
This double-bill is thematically linked by the prospect of nuclear war Read more »| 15 Aug 2012