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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Danny Bhoy: By the Way
Homecomings are desperately important to artists on the make, and for a boy from Moffat it doesn’t get much bigger than coming home to headline at the ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2008 -
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Andrew Maxwell: This Is Ten Years From Now
As anyone who has seen Andrew Maxwell in his 14 years at the Fringe can testify, the laidback Irishman can definitely do ‘funny’. Indeed, catch h... Read more »| 16 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineJoan Rivers: Work in Progress by a Life in Progress
Hollywood's merciless obsession with youth is at the heart of Joan Rivers' autobiographical show, Work in Progress by a Life in Progress, in which she recoun... Read more »| 15 Aug 2008 -
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Bite the Dust
This bleak and forceful study of warfare interrupts the jollity of the Fringe Read more »| 15 Aug 2008 -
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Lichentongue
There are only so many things that can be reasonably done in an hour. Unfortunately no-one seems to have informed Pericles Snowdon, the playwright behind Li... Read more »| 15 Aug 2008 -
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Christie in Love
Fans, if that really is the correct term, of Ludovic Kennedy’s 10 Rillington Place, or the subsequent film, will be familiar with the story of John Reg... Read more »| 15 Aug 2008
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Chunky Move
Most dancers expect to develop the odd blister during rehearsals, but few anticipate being knocked out cold by a violent blow to the head. Fewer still would ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2008 -
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Jim Rose – Shock and Bore
With his first Edinburgh appearance in 10 years, Jim Rose claims to preside over the "most risque show ever brought to the Fringe." But with yawning critics and small crowds, Chris Williams wonders if the world has just passed Rose by Read more »| 14 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineUrsula Martinez Q&A
The famous stripping magician from La Clique bares all Read more »| 14 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineLouis CK Preview
Described as the “greatest comic mind of the last quarter century” by Chris Rock and “the funniest stand up working in America” by Ri... Read more »| 14 Aug 2008 -
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Preview: SR Gents
Good people of Edinburgh! Are you tired of hearing about young whippernsappers playing in bands who couldn't spot a tune if it slapped them in the face? Does... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
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Top 5 Scottish Talents
Keen to prove that Edinburgh’s UNESCO World City of Literature status is deserved by its present crop of literary talent as well as its rich heritage, ... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
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Steven Berkoff
One gets the impression that Stephen Berkoff is unused to the interview format. Either that, or entirely indifferent to it. His host began along fairly stand... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
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Sir Menzies Campbell
It is a fitting reflection of the billing that the audience of Sir Menzies Campbell should be almost exclusively of a certain vintage. However, an hour in th... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineRichard Dawkins
Paula Kirby introduces Richard Dawkins with a word of warning. This talk, she says, is going to be something of a "walk on the wild side," as Dawkins –... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008