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Fawn

Fawn

A muddled monologue

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

While perhaps the simplest form of theatre to stage, the monologue is not the easiest to pull off successfully. Fawn, a fantastical narrative about a girl transported from a forest into a netherworld of alternative realities, never quite rises to the…

Felix Dexter

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

Affable as Dexter seems, his is another show of thwarted ambition, over-reliance on funny voices and an hour show that clocks in at almost 50 minutes, a somewhat irritating trend that has been all-too prevalent this year. There's nothing lightweight…

Tam White

Five reasons to go and see: Tam White & The Dexters

21 Aug 2008

They’re an Edinburgh Institution - the mere mention of the name brings a warm glow to the hearts of Edinburgh music fans of a certain vintage. The band’s legendary residencies at the Preservation Hall and Platform 1 (both now gone as music venues) back…

Fool Koller

Fool Koller

Wet feral fun from Dutch pratfaller

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

The ambit of what has not yet been done shrinks ever smaller. Pity the poor alternative comedians, clutching at auxiliary originalities as the pool of unprecedented material ebbs to nothing: slicker, quicker jokes, more postmodernism, cynicism…

Five festival nudes - Foreskins Lament

Foreskins Lament

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

This dodgy production of New Zealand playwright Greg McGee's landmark 1980 play is played out in the locker room of a local rugby club changing room. A couple of really appalling performances and some less than inspired direction derail things. Still at…

Fringe revellers

Fringe box office crisis to be investigated

21 Aug 2008

As the world's largest arts festival enters its final week, speculation is rife about the outcome of an inquiry into the failure of the Fringe Office's ticketing system. The Festival Fringe Society has ordered an independent inquiry into its own box…

Funny. Twice.

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

An inoffensive show in a boiling shoebox of a venue, Damion Larkin verbally fondles loneliness and boobies, Jimmy McGhie waxes Londonishly about computer games and holidays. Most refreshing when dissecting their own delivery, Larkin's faux misery and…

FxP2 in Trouble!

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

The thing with last-gasp chances are that you have got to take them. And thankfully this set of young sketch artists pulls out a ludicrously playful finale (a boy band mime) that saves the day. It's when they are left to their own writing devices that…

Gamarjobat

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

The playful Japanese pair deftly animate all the trappings of a silent Western, complete with a revenge killing and a big-hearted prostitute. A clever use of shiny happy plastic props and stylishly twee sound effects successfully endow the sex and guns…

Generation Divide

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

The tensions of the generation gap - lingo, music, gadgets - get a going over in this sporadically funny double-act show. Richard Rycroft is 48 and looks like a Tory minister; Cal Saville is half his age but equally posh, as he's first to admit. They're…

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