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 MagazinePatrick Monahan's Stories and Fables for Kids that Like to Sit at Tables
Children's shows, however conceptually regressive they may seem, are far from the last refuge of the complacent comedian. Those who attempt them often find i... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineVladimir McTavish: The Top 50 Greatest Scots Of All Time Ever Part Two
The clue as to the quality of this show is in its title: it's pretty funny, but goes on a bit too long and starts to run out of steam towards the... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
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Celia Pacquola: Am I Strange?
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Celia Pacquola emerges onto the stage in a ramshackle fashi... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
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Matt Price: My Girlfriend Was Attacked By A Small-Time Wannabe Gangster and This Is What I Did About It
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> “It was more stand-up, slash sauna,” was the li... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineMax and Ivan: Televisionaries
Television has long been a source for parody. From Saturday Night Live's send-ups of blatant, sleazy advertising in the seventies to the writings of George ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
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Tom Craine: Comfort Blanket
Gawky and self-effacing stand-up Tom Craine throws out warnings from the offset that this will be a reasonably tame hour of comedy: “We’ll probab... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009
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Is the Daily Mail Dead Yet?
“Why run a campaign when you can launch a crusade?” reads the text on William Hammer-Lloyd’s t-shirt, emblazoned below an image of the Dail... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
ComedyWilliam Andrews: Nitwit
William Andrews is like a one-man comedy band. With a box. Taping the microphone to his head and launching into an impromptu mini-rave, strobe lights and all... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineDan Atkinson: Death By A Thouands Pricks
Atkinson tells his audience early into this year's show that he wants to reverse his previous tendency not to say what he feels. He certainly achieves this.... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
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Dylan Moran
He is, of course, wearing black. He is, needless to say, drinking. He is... both better and worse than he used to be. I'll explain. During the first half of ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
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Colm O'Regan in Hindsight
Colm O'Regan is a likeable chap. His Fringe debut is ostensibly a retrospective on the softly-spoken Irishman's life, interspersed with some kooky observatio... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
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Bethany Black: Love and a Colt 45
“It just got a bit awkward”, announces Bethany Black, having inflicted on us yet another agonisingly earnest glimpse into her unhappy life. She i... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
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Bone House
There's a new serial killer on the block, says Eugene Crowley, a creepy "mind-hunter" from the "Southern United States". We should all watch out, he says. Re... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
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Why Do All Catherines Call Themselves Kate?
The obscurity of its title sets the tone for the rest of this new play. It is a hard piece of writing to work out, and the audience’s curiosity builds ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
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Unsupervised Detention
Leave four pupils in detention for an hour and what do you think they’re going to get up to? They’re going to mess about, pull faces, throw thing... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009