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 MagazineControlled Falling Project at Fringe Review
Much like porn films, acrobatic shows are famed for their rudimentary-at-best plots. Too often the narrative seems an afterthought, poorly employed to connec... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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The School For Scandal
Let’s be clear from the start: The School For Scandal is deliciously infectious. This reviewer left the theatre with an almost overwhelming desire to r... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Your Number's Up
An ambitious play for its allotted 55 minutes, Your Number's Up throws the full complement of 'yoof culture' stereotypes at its ensemble cast. Beginning wit... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineInside Alan Francis and Barnaby Power
This is a dark and filthy sketch show, where the comic classics of sex and swearing are given sharp and bitter twists through a host of foul-mouthed and foul... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Crave
Sarah Kane is a compass point in the world of edgy student theatre, and this year students from London’s Royal Holloway boldly go where many have gone ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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The Oxford Imps
Wandering around Edinburgh you may catch sight of a group of buoyant young performers sporting black t-shirts, singing and dancing their way through the str... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009
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Fest MagazineThe Burning Question: Adrian Howells
#3 What's it like washing feet every day? Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Jon Richardson: this guy's the limit
Jon Richardson is a perfectionist. Or, rather, as he tells Lyle Brennan on a trip to the Edinburgh's Farmers' Market, a grumpy bastard. Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineDoing it for the kids
Brendon Burns loves it, Adam Hills is doing it and there's a dedicated show at the Fringe. Stand-up comedy for children is now serious stuff. It might even be more exciting than its grown-up counterpart, finds Tom Hackett Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Last Night Things Happened...
This year as any other, Edinburgh is abuzz with new writers hoping that 2009 will see them break into the big time. Moreover, punters are willing to take the... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Matinee
An entertaining piece of dramatic performance presented exactly at midday, Matinee more than lives up to its name. For just over an hour five performers brin... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Lotte's Gift
Gareth K Vile talks to a concert guitarist who has turned to acting with a very personal story. Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Manolibera
Gareth K Vile gets down with the kids. Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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You Bastards
Margaret Kirk asks how many feminists it takes to change a light bulb. Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Desmorphia
Gareth K Vile shares some shite wine with Des O'Connor Read more »| 16 Aug 2009