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 MagazineJohn Robins: Skinny Love
John Robins belongs to a comedy age in which it’s okay not to do drugs, and to profess not to be that great at sex. That is, he belongs to the post-roc... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazinePete Firman: The Pete Firman Magic Show
"Jokes and tricks!" is Pete Firman's catchphrase, and also an accurate description of his show. The quality of both elements varies wildly, and that's really... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineLloyd Langford: Every Day I Have the Blues
Set in the intimate space of the Pleasance Below, Lloyd Langford’s comedy routine is all about reasons to be blue. Reasons like having big ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Peter Duncan's Daft and Dangerous
Former Blue Peter host and actor Peter Duncan visits the Fringe this year with his (almost) one man show, inviting people of all ages into his world of... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineTopping and Butch: Twisted
Music-based comedies can either concoct new sonic worlds or rely on the familiarity of old ones. Topping and Butch spin their decadent yarns around instantly... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Destination GB
Someone once called the Adriatic ‘the largest unmarked mass grave in Europe’. It’s a hard-hitting, controversial statement that speaks to h... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009
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An Evening with Ben Dover: Innocent Until Proven Filthy
Britain's foremost pornographer arrives for his show armed and ready. Bounding up the centre aisle wielding a video camera, the crowd visibly recoils at the ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Aidan Bishop: No Sissy Stuff Review
Aidan Bishop introduces his late night show as an exploration of his masculinity without any “sissy stuff.” What follows is a show with a lot of ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Niall Browne & Elaine Malcolmson: All Kinds of Everything
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> This charming comedy duo from “Nireland” (North... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Tom Basden: Now That's What I Call Music-Based Comedy
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Musical comedy runs a double risk – of a performer be... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Bridget Christie: My Daily Mail Hell
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> You'd think that working in the Daily Mail’s gossip c... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
ComedyAlexis Dubus: A R*ddy Brief History of Swearing
Gleefully encouraging his 5 o’clock crowd to cry out their favourite swearwords, Alexis Dubus opens A R*ddy Brief History of Swearing to his sniggering... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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The week in Charlotte Square
Fest's roundup of the literary goings on of the past few days Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Stripped bare
Its title looked to many like a cynical publicity stunt – but Fucked has proved to be one of the theatrical finds of the 2009 Fringe. Fern Brady talks to the women responsible for a sensitive, intensely moving treatment of female sexuality Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
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Accidental Nostalgia
There’s something slightly amiss about Cameron Seymour’s lecture on her forthcoming psychology book, How to Change Your Mind: A Self-Help Manual ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009