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 MagazineJim Rose Circus
Less shocking than one might expect, this is, at times, underwhelming Read more »| 06 Aug 2008 -
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Ahir Shah and Alex Maple: One Boy. One Man. Two Comedians
Ahir Shah and Alex Maple’s opening show descends early on into mayhem. It seems that multimedia tools are the bane of good order on stage this year and each ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2008 -
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Secret agents
Secret Agents opens with a feverish discussion of a number of rumours – talk of spiders nesting in people’s ears, lobsters found curled in human flesh and ta... Read more »| 06 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineStephen K. Amos: Find the Funny
Stephen K. Amos is mellowing into middle age. In years gone by he’d developed an unfortunate reputation as a Saturday night crowd-pleaser, relying on limp-wr... Read more »| 06 Aug 2008 -
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Alun Cochrane. Owner of a shed. And a son. Thinks the world is wonky
According to Alun Cochrane, the absolute pinnacle of inappropriate social behaviour is attempting to eat a peach in public. While it may seem like a fairly i... Read more »| 06 Aug 2008 -
Comedy
Stand Up For Freedom
Who says do-gooders don’t know how to have fun? Read more »| 06 Aug 2008
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Fall
Graphic, affecting, but flawed, Zinnie Harris's Fall trips over the political ground it tries to tread Read more »| 06 Aug 2008 -
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The Tailor of Inverness
The art of the one-man play is seldom perfected, but Matthew Zajac’s The Tailor of Inverness comes close. The title may have a Beatrix Potter-like ring to it... Read more »| 06 Aug 2008 -
Theatre
Scottish Dance Theatre: Be Challenged and Thrilled!
Under Janet Smith, the SDT have come from Dundee to thrill Edinburgh. Susanah Radford talks to dancer James MacGillivray Read more »| 06 Aug 2008 -
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The rise of the underdog
They are bullied victims, telling tales of humiliation and woe. But we love British comedians for their self-deprecation, writes Benjamin Edwards. Read more »| 05 Aug 2008 -
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The Lone Rambler
Tom Hackett catches up with Mark Olver as he prepares to trek the 400 miles from Bristol to Edinburgh Read more »| 05 Aug 2008 -
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Rick Shapiro's Edinburgh Day Out
I never really wanna get up before two or three, so any activities are kinda limited to the afternoon. The truth is I'd spend all day taking heroin or gettin... Read more »| 05 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineDiet of Worms: Friends of the Puffincat
“Wailing banshees” doesn’t go far enough to describe just how basely disgusting this troupe’s rendition of ‘The Puffincat Natio... Read more »| 05 Aug 2008 -
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Read Outside the Box
Discouraged by the long list of sold-out events at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival? Fest asked for an insider’s view on what wa... Read more »| 05 Aug 2008 -
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Rich Hall: Fifty Cent Words
“Comedy writing is bullshit!” proclaims Rich Hall ten minutes in to Fifty Cent Words, one of a pair of shows he's performing at this year’s... Read more »| 05 Aug 2008