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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I Wanna Be Loved By You
Who really was Marilyn Monroe? I Wanna Be Loved By You tries to answer this question. Charting her life journey, from Norma Jean’s rise to fame up to h... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Dance Base Presents ... Alan Lucien Øyen & X Factor Dance Company
Dance Base provides a glass-clad and stainless-steel-lined sanctuary from the Fringe crowds. What the building promises in terms of "trendy," the shows provi... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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The Boy from Centreville
“The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say” Lifted from Edgar’s final speech in King Lear, th... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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The Riot Showgrrrls Club
After leaving The Riot Showgrrrls Club, I present one of the “labia cakes” I have acquired—that is, a fairy cake decorated with a gumdrop c... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Dinner
The Dinner, written by Writers' Guild award winner Moira Buffini, plots an evening in which bitter socialite Paige crafts her guests' downfall with a... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Jim Bowen: Look At What You Could Have Won
“In my day we just stole other people’s jokes.” This line neatly summates Jim Bowen's entire show. Fundamentally, this is a nostalgia trip... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008
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Des Bishop: Tongues
Des Bishop emerges from backstage, beaming, looking like your next door neighbour’s slightly hip-hop older brother. His voice is soft but clearly trans... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Wanderlust
With the right atmosphere this could be a really enchanting evening event to set you up for a spirited late night of Fringe festivities. But relying heavily ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Once And For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen
The reason why all adults despise teenagers is announced: we just can’t stand to look at them and remember that we’re old; that we’re never... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Harbingers
Directed by Cambridge Footlights' notable Ed Gamble, this revue is an ever so friendly affair that never jokes at the expense of anyone. Here are three affab... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective Presents Hans Teeuwen
There is a strong buzz of excitement about Hans Teeuwen in the packed-out crowd at the Pleasance Dome, even before the man arrives on stage. Thirteen months ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Laurence Clark: Spastic Fantastic!
Laurence Clark isn't being offensive by calling his show Spastic Fantastic!, he has cerebral palsy. It's possibly inappropriate to use that as the opening li... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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David O'Doherty: Let's Comedy
There’s always a worry with so-called ‘DIY’ comedians, defined by the seemingly shambolic, accidental nature of their comedy and their low-... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Kunst ist Scheisse
Kunst ist Scheisse is a cabaret presented by three girls from "The Caravan of Love." Initially asked to locate and poke your spleen, the gland of desire, thi... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Fest MagazineGiselle
Adolphe Adams’s nineteenth century ballet explores the alienation and destruction caused social hierarchy. The aristocratic Albrecht falls for the love... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008