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 MagazineGary 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 -
Fest MagazineHans 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 -
Fest MagazineFelicity 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 -
Fest MagazineChris 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
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Andrew 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 -
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The Unthinkable
The Unthinkable's bleak style and basic premise bring to mind dystopian visions of the future rooted in popular culture, from Orwell's genre-defining 1984 to... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineInua Ellams: Voice of progress
Now one of Britain's leading performance poets, Inua Ellams has had an eventful journey from his beginnings as a mischievous schoolboy in Nigeria, he tells Simon Mundy Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Kevin Bridges: An Hour to Sing for Your Soul
“I've played big venues, but fuck me!” says Bridges as he steps into a tiny performance space in front of a mere 60 giggling and expectant punter... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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The Lamplighter's Lament
There’s an Italian expression that often features in long descriptions of certain Renaissance paintings: chiaroscuro, or literally, light-dark. The the... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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F**ked
Things aren’t going well for F. It’s New Year’s Day, she’s penniless and “coated in the greasy film of regret” following ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2009 -
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Shappi Khorsandi: The Distracted Activist
Shappi Khorsandi comes out bright and cheery, beaming with joy and immediately begins chatting up the front row. She has an easy, charming stage presence whi... Read more »| 14 Aug 2009