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 MagazineChronicles of Irania
This one-woman show is harrowing from the outset, as a bloodcurdling intake of breath introduces a monologue from an Iranian mother attacked with acid by a j... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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By Grace
There is little in a standard diet of fringe shows that can prepare you for American high school students performing musical theatre. After watching By Grace... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineMatt Harvey: Wondermentalist
Entertaining and refreshing, Matt Harvey has something that more performers should bring to the stage: pure, unaffected humility, undiminished by a conspicuo... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineMatt Green: Truth & Pleasure
By his own admission, Matt Green is not the coolest of cats. His baby face sets alarm bells ringing for barmen everywhere (he’s 30), he enjoys blind da... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Luke Toulson: Too Many Last Cigarettes
Towards the climax of Too Many Last Cigarettes, a set based on an occasion in which the comic's irresponsible behaviour caused him to arrive late for his son... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Gerry Howell's Incubation Hour
Gerry Howell likes facts. He says he has seven. For example, did you know that Egypt's pyramids aren't triangles because you've got to be 3D to be a king or ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009
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Gary Little: He Was Only Jail Gay
As the television programme Porridge surely attests, prison life can provide a pleasingly peculiar setting from which observational comedy can arise. Enforce... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Hans Teeuwen Event Review
He may be the critics' darling, but looking around at tonight’s beer-soaked audience, it's clear Hans Teeuwen is still a largely unknown quantity in th... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Felicity Ward's Ugly As A Child Variety Show
Felicity Ward's latest show is all about herself. Far from egotistical, however, it is a self-deprecating look at her upbringing and all the things that make... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Dinosaur Planet
One-man science fiction rock opera Dinosaur Planet is, like its fearsome protagonists, a strange animal. With obvious musical talent and inspired by a genuin... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Patrick Monahan: Cowboys and Iranians
Patrick Monahan's set contains none of the Stetson-waving, sand-based warfare that its title might lead you to expect. If you're looking for George Bush joke... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Chris Cox: Mind Over Patter
It seems something of an injustice to see Chris Cox wedged in the 'comedy' category, but wedge him we must. Mind Over Patter is poles apart from the countles... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineAndrew Maxwell - The Lamp
Striding out in front of a packed, sweltering house, Andrew Maxwell cuts an endearing figure. Dressed in a white, sleeveless vest and the very shortest of sh... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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The Gravediggers
There is something very English about mixing the humour of day-to-day rural life with the morbidity of burying the dead, and it provides pretty solid materia... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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School for comedians
With two plays and and a compere slot at this year's Fringe, Phil Nichol still enjoys being as busy as ever Read more »| 15 Aug 2009