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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Strange Bedfellows
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if George Washington had been a sexual plaything of George III? Or if Marilyn Monroe had furtively courted Lee H... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Apes Like Me
Half way through Kate Smurthwaite’s Apes Like Me we reach what ought to be an absolutely earth-shaking moment. It speaks volumes about the show that, i... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Clarkson & Crouch: Away with the Fairies
Clarkson & Crouch, despite their show titles, are certainly not away with the fairies. They might have vivid imaginations, and appear to be a couple of s... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Mort
Death—with a shining scythe, blue lights for eyes and a disembodied voice—is a likeable character, living as he is through a mid-life crisis: he ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Plague! The Musical
Musical theatre is not something which commands universal appreciation. Its formats are well documented, its cliches much parodied. The Musical Comedy genre ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Britt Eckland: Britt on Britt
It’s very annoying when a fellow audience member keeps talking throughout a performance. It’s bad Fringe etiquette and, frankly, it's just rude. ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008
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The Return of the Scottish Falcetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Watching a man's hand inside a sock pretend to play a guitar which he calls "Vicky the technician" is quite surreal. That he is singing a song called 'I'm a ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineSteve Hall: Vice-Captain Loser
Poor Steve Hall. For a start, this show takes its title from a nickname given to him as a child by his own father, “because I wasn’t even the big... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineLouis CK
Louis CK is a wanker. That’s not an insult: he’ll tell you the same thing himself. In fact, over the course of this unpleasant, offensive and exc... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineTim MInchin: Ready For This?
Tim Minchin is, by now, somewhat of a rock star. And what goes better with rock stars than nostalgia? Well, here’s a big dose of it: Minchin’s sh... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Mr Methane – Fart Attack
Putting the art into fart, professional flatulist, Mr Methane tells Chris Williams of adventures with Keith and Orville and the Grand Emperor of Tokyo Broadcasting Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineFour Chords and the Truth
Doug Johnstone and Toby Litt have trained boyhood yearnings for rock-stardom into exposés of backstage truth and onstage myth Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Slammed, but not Dunked
Bookslam was a noble effort that failed to convince Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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No Country for Old Benn
A sermon in morality from Britain's national conscience is nothing new - but Tony Benn is getting ready to leave the pulpit Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Jidariyya
The Palestinian National Theatre has been described by its director as having “a very big name for a very small company”. And as the curtain fall... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008