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 MagazinePreviews: Award-winners
Will these stars of previous years shine once more during the 2010 festivals? Or have they run out of steam? Read more »| 15 Jul 2010 -
Fest MagazinePreviews: Real theatre
While life may imitate art, some of this year's must-see festival shows take on the issues that lesser artists won't touch with a barge pole Read more »| 15 Jul 2010 -
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Previews: Site Specific Theatre
Site-specific shows have been multiplying each year in our Festival brochures. If you're an out-of-box thinker, consider hopping on a camper-van, popping into a bridal showroom, or chilling on a playground with some of the most impressive site-specific theatre. Read more »| 15 Jul 2010 -
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Preview: Old favourites at the fringe
Plays that have been popular right down the decades are given a new lease of life in Edinburgh this August Read more »| 15 Jul 2010 -
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Top 10... Cafés
Anteaques17 Clerk Street The man who owns the shop next to Anteaques has never heard of it: it's that much of a secret. Open only on Fridays and weekends, t... Read more »| 14 Jul 2010 -
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Top 10... Pubs
Bennets Bar 8 Leven Street Bennets attracts a rather strange mish-mash of theatregoers and sports fans, situated as it is a stone’s throw away from Ki... Read more »| 14 Jul 2010
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Top 10... Fast Bites
Kebab Mahal 7 Nicolson Square The daddy of them all, the Mahal has been open for thirty years and won best Scottish Takeaway 2009. Aside from the ... Read more »| 14 Jul 2010 -
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Top 10... Breakfasts
Botanic Gardens (Entrances on Inverleith Row and Arboretum Place) A morning stroll around the Botanic Gardens is the best way to squeeze some peace and... Read more »| 14 Jul 2010 -
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Top 10... Drinking and Dancing
The Bongo Club37 Holyrood Road Respected Fringe venue by day, Bongo is best known to Edinburgh residents as the city’s foremost alternative nightclub,... Read more »| 14 Jul 2010 -
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Top 10... Asian Eateries
Karen Wong’s Chinese Restaurant 107-109 St Leonards Street 0131 662 0777 The Karen Wong's Chinese Restaurant experience often ends up being more ... Read more »| 14 Jul 2010 -
ComedyFringe Benefits
Radical Theatre that pushes the format without frightening the audience? The Microfestival is something new under the arches Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
Microfestival
The Forest Fringe begins to plant the seeds of new theatre, as they move from Edinburgh towards fertile ground on the West Coast Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
TheatreScala: Why Are You Looking?
A descent into madness, via European theatre company Ponies Read more »| 15 Sep 2009 -
Comedy
1984, a comedy
It takes a lot of talent to pull off a comedy adaptation of George Orwell’s ‘1984’. To somehow turn an ominous narrative which explores tot... Read more »| 09 Sep 2009 -
Theatre
Up Yours!
A Scottish company get serious about the modern supermarket of identity. Read more »| 05 Sep 2009