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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ComedyHitch 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 -
ComedyBilly 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 -
ComedyStuart 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 -
TheatreWork 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 -
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Hi-Kick @ Assembly Hall
Artistry 0 - 0 Excitement Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
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Paul Ricketts: Announcing the truly free fringe
Free shows are never really free, you always have to stick some money in the bucket at the end. Until now. Paul Ricketts explained why he's opened the doors to his show and made it truly free Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
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Amy Lame: Unhappy Birthday @ Assembly
Last time I saw Ms Lame, it was the wonderfully sweet Mama Cass Family Sideshow based on her admiration for the 60s icon...this time around, it's a... Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
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Planet Lem @ Old College
Performed outdoors in the Old College Quad, featuring robots on stilts and roller-skates, spaceship launches, ray-gun battles, engineered humans, and pyrotec... Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
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Grit @ Bedlam Theatre
Making full use of illustrations, puppets and innovative stage props, Tortoise in a Nutshell have created an important and imaginative piece of visual theatr... Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
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Belt Up Theatre: A Little Princess @ C Nova
Belt Up Theatre's A Little Princess will really transport you back to your childhood Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
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Bitesize Chekhov @ Merchant's Hall
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible. – Anton Chekhov Read more »| 20 Aug 2012