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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TheatreToi Toi Toi @ Paradise in Augustine's
Toi Toi Toi (break a leg, if you're an opera singer,) is one for real classical music lovers. A low budget opera at the Edinburgh Fringe, about putting on a ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
TheatreExpiration Date @ Merchant's Hall
A hundred years in the future, your personality can be saved onto a computer when you reach your expiration date at the ripe old age of one hundred and fifty... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Alfie Brown – The Revolting Youth
“Subjectivity is a beautiful thing,” sighs Alfie Brown, responding as his latest hard-hitting punchline only prompts a few cackles from the back ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
ComedyJon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths
Australian Jon Bennett was here last year talking about travelling round the world taking pictures of things and pretending they were cocks. This heady and a... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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It's not what you know... @ theSpace, Surgeons Hall
It's Not What You Know... may be theatre for - but not only for - theatre-makers. At base, it is a well-told satirical look at the difficulties of getting a ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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His Majesty, The Devil - A Play With Music @ Quaker Meeting House
What will strike people straight away about Elsewhere Ensemble is the incredible musical talent showcased in the violin performances. More than anything else... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013
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Love In The Past Participle @ theSpace, Surgeons Hall
STaG's Love In The Past Participle is yet another piece of new writing penned by a University of Glasgow student, brought over to the fringe. Four chara... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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Solomon & Marion @ Assembly
Why has Solomon (Khaylethu Anthony) arrived at Marion's (Dame Janet Suzman) isolated house? If he has come to murder her, then Marion urges him to hurry... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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The Islanders @ Underbelly Big Belly
Part storytelling, part confessional and part music, The Islanders is an interesting mish-mash of styles put together by writer and performer Amy Mason and A... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
ComedyVladimir McTavish and Keir McAllister: Look at the State of Britain
Pleasingly wobbly camera work sets the scene for Look at the State of Britain, which plucks jokes from an apathetic nation on its sprint around the UK. Edin... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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Albion Forlorn @ C Venues Aquila
Albion Forlorn describes itself in its marketing as “a torch song for the state we’re in” but it was impossible to find anything in this sl... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
TheatreHarder Please @ theSpace, Surgeon's Hall
A masochistic melodrama, Harder Please tells the tale of learning to love; of being the exploited in a world governed through exploitation. After all, surely... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Abigoliah Schamaun: Subtle @ The Caves
Loveable sideshow nutjob Abigoliah Schamaun is back in Edinburgh with another in-your-face hour. Without a central theme, she has free reign to talk about he... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Last Land / Il Gioco del Gregge di Capre @ Dancebase
Last Land evokes the vastness and slow rhythms of two landscapes: Antartica and the Bir Tawil desert between Sudan and Egypt, the last remaining Terra ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer @ Assembly Rooms
Set in Glasgow, 1775, the fortunes to be made from tobacco, slavery, and the moral compromises by lawyer Enoch Dalmellington which affect his bookish, 'dr... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013