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Fringe 2024 -Twonkey’s Basket Weaving in Peru ⭐⭐⭐

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The Fringe is often associated with weird and wonderful shows with small audiences, in small back rooms. Twonkey's Basket Weaving in Peru was such...

Fringe 2024 – Josh Glanc: Family Man ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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The Fringe can take its toll. Performers start to drop out of shows with so called "Fringe Flu", while Fringe goers are drained by...

Fringe 2024 – Piano Smashers

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One of the great joys of the Fringe is stumbling across interesting and unexpected shows. Such hidden gems add greatly to the Fringe experience...

Fringe 2024 – Markus Birdman: We Are All in the Gutter, but Some of...

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Birdman: We Are All in the Gutter, but Some of Us Are Looking at the Gutter In comedy shows, it's soon clear whether the performer...

Still Battling to Free the Fringe

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The success of the Netflix series Baby Reindeer and the furore that followed it brought Richard Gadd's name to the attention of many. It was...

Fringe 2024 – Mark Simmons: More Jokes ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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The PBH Free Fringe is a significant part of the Fringe; both in size and in the quality and variety of shows.  Mark Simmons' More...

Escape the Fringe – Burdiehouse Burn Valley Park

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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe can be divisive, with many locals resenting the way it impedes their journeys. Particular pinch points in the Old Town, especially...

New Fringe Hub puts adult learning classes ‘at risk’

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Edinburgh to lose its only dedicated adult learning centre as Fringe move approved The future of Edinburgh’s adult learning and education services is 'at risk',...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Patrick Spicer: Yes…haha. what? ★★★

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After initial microphone issues, Spicer quickly built a nice rapport with the audience and made it clear to them that they were in safe...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – A Fringe Affair ★★★

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The show is something of a love letter to the Fringe and Edinburgh as a place of cultural adventure. Edward W. Feery has greatly...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – A Show for Gareth Richards ★★★★★

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This show, prompted by tragedy, is one of the 'underground' highlights of this year's Fringe. Arriving 45 mins before kick-off, it was clear that...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Sam’s Scriptz! ★★★

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Arriving 15 minutes early, I was faced with a slightly concerning prospect that I might be the only person turning up for this show....

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – A Political Breakfast ★★★

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This engaging show manifested many aspects of the PBH Free Fringe.Taking place every morning (at 9.30am), this show features a panel of Fringe performers...

Attila the Stockbroker urges everyone to “Reclaim the Fringe!”

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The veteran Fringe performer Attila the Stockbroker (John Baine)  has launched a broadside against the contemporary Fringe. The punk poet and multi-instrumentalist musician...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale ★★★★

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The Fringe is often criticised for the dominance of stand-up comedy and a sense that much of it is trivial. In contrast, Marlon Solomon's...

Babbling since a baby, Gyles just won’t stop talking ★★★★

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Gyles Brandreth is that annoying geezer on in the background of my mother’s telly when I go visit her. And queuing for his Gyles Brandreth...

Assembly Festival surviving on short term loan – outstanding debt puts 2024 shows at...

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The boss of the Edinburgh Fringe’s longest running and largest venue operator has suggested that Assembly Festival may not be around for the 2024...

18 new Scottish shows to be showcased in the Fringe through the ‘Made in...

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The world class shows will take place across nine venues, with funding from the Scottish Government's Festivals Expo Fund The 'Made in Scotland' programme was...

New Fringe app announced for this year’s festival

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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has published details of a new app, which will be available just before this year's festival. Last year there was a great...

Formal talks begin about new Fringe Festival hub

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Plans for a new Edinburgh Fringe ‘hub’ have taken a step forward as the council enters formal discussions with festival bosses about leasing out...

Fringe action at The Brunton in Musselburgh

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Brunton Theatre Trust has programmed the Fringe experience with live performances to choose from, audiences can enjoy family friendly theatre, Scottish and Irish trad,...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – When Judas Met John ★★★

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This is an enjoyable 45 minutes absorbing the musical relationship between John Lennon and Bob Dylan. Hugh and Tom Adams are competent musicians performing harmonies...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Basil Brush Family Show ★★★★★

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If I were a Culture Tsar, I’d lobby for it to be mandatory to take your children to see live shows. Children have the...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Jeremy Sassoon’s Mojo ★★★

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Playing music of Jewish origin, this is a wonderful concept for a show and a good fit for the Edinburgh Fringe’s return in 2021. ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Dean Owens and Joey Burns

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At short notice Dean Owens Celtic Connections show with Joey Burns - with Calexico trumpeter Martin Wenk and Kevin McGuire, is being squeezed into...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Sweet FA ★★★★

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A War of Two Halves was one of the most talked-about shows at the Fringe in 2018 and 2019 and rightly so. The producers have...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Run ★★

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Stephen Laughton's semi-autobiographical monologue play about growing up as a gay Jewish teenager is given an energetic but strangely uncomfortable rendition by Jonathan...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Leo Kearse – Cancel Culture ★★★★

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"Enough snowflakes can create an avalanche!" comes the rallying cry of the disparate "Communities" drawn together under the Sun-averse parasol of Identity Politics/Social Justice...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – A Weekend Away at the Hotel Decevoir ★★★★

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It's hard not to think of Fawlty Towers, Torquay's most famous hotel, when entering the farcical world of Hotel Decevoir,  lovingly created by Kimberley...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Old Jewish Jokes ★★★

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"Sanitiser on the left as you go in; make sure you've got your masks on." Comedy on the Fringe in the time of Covid-19 has...

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