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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ComedyGuilt and Shame
This shows starts as a disaster and gets worse. Within five minutes, Gabriel Bisset-Smith and Robert Cawsey are apologising and advising how to claim a refun... Read more »| 24 Aug 2011 -
ComedyDan Willis: Radiohead Redux
For some it’s cranking up the record player and whisking out the vinyl. For others it’s getting drunk in the company of Spotify, or taking turns ... Read more »| 24 Aug 2011 -
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Peeling PVA in Happier Mache
What makes a sketch group really great is the sense that they’re all on the same page, each of them holding up their end, and that they’re comple... Read more »| 24 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Squirrel Party
Squirrel Party is nuts. If ever a show could go from tame to wild, nay, mad in 50 minutes, this one certainly does. Structured as a parody of an 80s kids' TV... Read more »| 24 Aug 2011 -
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Armageddapocalypse: The Explosioning
Anyone who has seen their share of action films or TV series will have some inkling about the standard formula – the clichéd characters, stock s... Read more »| 24 Aug 2011 -
ComedyMovin’ On Up! With Politically Erect
Written by and starring Ben Anderson, Alex Kempton and Sam Jacobsen, sketch group Politically Erect have themselves a very clever, astute and funny group of ... Read more »| 24 Aug 2011
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Comedy
Matthew Highton: Shadowed Vagary
As the room darkens, the lights begin flashing and the War of the World’s soundtrack plays. This is weird. It goes on for what seems like ages, an... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Joe Bor: In Search Of The Six Pack
The mysteries of sexual attraction are notoriously difficult to pin down and define. In Search of the Six-Pack is set in motion by a video montage, casting J... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
ComedyWhich One's Fergal?
On stage, there is a man wearing an ostentatious hoodie and a baseball cap with ‘Skillz’ sharpied on, talking in a Brummie accent and claiming to... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Ester and Son: Happiness
Ester And Son. Esther Rantzen. That slightly lame joke is part of a cunning disguise, intended to make you think you're watching a shambles when you're actua... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
Theatre
Trog & Clay: An Imagined History Of The Electric Chair
While working on inventing electricity Thomas Edison said ‘I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work’: words which s... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
ComedyCaroline Mabey: One Minute Silence
Right from the off, Caroline Mabey wants you to feel part of the show. She greets each of us individually as we enter and welcomes us to her training course,... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Phill Jupitus: Stand Down
It's a Fringe tradition, seeing a big TV name attempt to 'return to their standup roots' only to die on their hole night after night, leaving their audience ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Abie Philbin Bowman: Pope Benedict, Bond Villain
Abie Philbin Bowman nods humbly to two inspirations: the Marxist peasant in Monty Python & The Holy Grail; and his own sister, an 'emotional ninja' and s... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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The Bitch Doctors
The premise for The Bitch Doctors is a pretty slack one. As the audience enters they’re given a slip of paper on which to write their ‘problem.&... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011