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 MagazineMatt Kirshen: Shorter than Napoleon
Here’s a fresh-faced comedian who certainly doesn't beat around the bush. Matt Kirshen might look young, but at age 29 and eight years into... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineGarrison Keillor: Fishing on Lake Wobegon
Garrison Keillor's plane was delayed, so the first day of the Book Festival culminated with the author walking on stage, late, carrying his suitcase. He told a story of Lake Wobegon - his mythical "boyhood home", and the setting of his fiction. Here he describes his uncle Jack... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Two Episodes of MASH
Joe Wilkinson and Diane Morgan have fully justified the decision to bring their polished double act back to the Fringe, with some strong new material sharing... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Noir
Noir is an ambitious re-imagining of a 1930s detective thriller told through circus performance and acrobatics. But don’t go expecting a backdrop of gr... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineStuck in a Rut
This production would be more satisfying if it didn’t set out to make a point. A Guardian quotation lamenting the bleak prospects of the “New Lab... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Little Gem
In the writing debut of Dublin actress Elaine Murphy, the audience is presented with the shared lives of three generations of women from a working class Dubl... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009
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Fest MagazineSomething About Others
With the average ticket price at the Festival soaring to a whopping £12, it’s not surprising that Fringe-goers are reluctant to stray outside the... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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God: A Comedy by Woody Allen
Woody Allen's 1975 philosophical comedy is masterfully interpreted in this deliciously absurd production. Neurotic playwright Hepatitis and reluctant leading... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Boy in Darkness
Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy has been described as a fantasy of manners. It depicts a world governed by an absurd yet ironically familiar interna... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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RE___
Two historical figures become inexplicably intertwined in Freddy Syborn’s impenetrable RE___. Part biography, part fantastical reconstruction, the play... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Nick Doody: Schizo
Last year, Nick Doody had a revelation. Thrown into a slump by his mother’s death, he found himself contemplating exactly how and why he does what he d... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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The Chair
As 1940s music fills the air and flashes of light drench the dancers frozen in tableau on stage, a harrowing tale of murder, love and forgiveness begins to u... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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The World's Wife
Thanks to the GCSE English syllabus, I bear a grudge against Carol Ann Duffy. My enjoyment of poetry was set back a good few years by the experience of being... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Still Breathing
In 2004, a troupe of teenage boys thrilled the Fringe with an explosive hour of contemporary breakdance. Albeit carefully choreographed, the show was an obvi... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Comedy
Jason Byrne: The Byrne Supremacy
There is a row of seven children, all under ten, sitting in the third row. Byrne clocks them straight away. ‘Too late now!’ he cries. ‘We&r... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009