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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TheatreMiriam Margolyes: Dickens' Women @ Pleasance Courtyard
How to rescue Dickens from dry academia Read more »| 22 Aug 2012 -
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Cleansed @ theSpace on North Bridge
Rummage Theatre – a LEAP theatre project – make a Fringe debut with Cleansed. Read more »| 22 Aug 2012 -
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Flash Mob @ Assembly Hall
Flash Mob's reality dance show formula makes for easy entertainment Read more »| 22 Aug 2012 -
ComedyFresh Fringe's 24-Hour Challenge!
Starting at 10am on Wednesday 22 August, an intrepid broadcasting duo of Christian Illingworth and Finlay Niven will be hosting a 24 hour radio marathon live... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
ComedyAaron Twitchen: Quarter Life Crisis
Can you be too talented? Aaron Twitchen seems to have this extremely rare condition and the main symptom is a show that consists of lots of great bits that c... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
ComedyRachel Stubbings: Stubbing out Problems
It's always a brave move to incorporate a period of total silence into your comedy act, but Stubbings carries this off beautifully; and the quiet in the... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012
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Gearoid Farrelly: Turbulence
For his first Fringe show, rising Irish comedian Gearoid Farrelly tackles all the little things that cause turbulence in his life, from break-ups to the deat... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
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Hitch and Mitch: The Stinky Show
The props are puerile, the jokes terrible, the sketches simplistic and stretched, and in all it feels very amateurish. So it shouldn’t work. ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
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Billy the Mime
The film The Artist had such beautiful music, was so well performed, that it was easy to forget there was no spoken dialogue in it; and because it stuck in t... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
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Stuart Black: Sex, Money, Death
It's difficult to know what to expect when, moments before a show is due to start, the performer shakes your hand and asks if you are his audience. Luckily, ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
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AnimalParts Theatre: Tenderpits
Canadian-born and New York City-based performer Anthony Johnston is a wizard. The kind of wizard who wears a dirty nappy, has a sparkling butt and masturbate... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
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Work Songs @ Zoo
No holds barred Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
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Natyam @ Dance Base
A sumptuous display of a traditional Indian form Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
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Meitheal/Worst Case Scenario @ Dance Base
Mathematical elegance from max.IMEALLdance plus survival-situation farce from Taciturn Dance Company Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
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Michael Redmond: Mannequins, Fishmongers, Guacamole and Me ... and Other Things
This show could so easily have been awful. A comic who hilariously phones back an audience member’s mobile caller, a bizarre mannequin (in a going-out ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012