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Webster's Pictionary
By Ben Judge, published 02 August 2008Every year, during the first day of the Festival, something goes wrong. Though there are still a couple of days left before the Royal Mile becomes a n...Wendy Wason: Things I Didn't Know I Didn't Know
By Paris Gourtsoyannis, published 17 August 2008When a stand-up comic has uttered the words “I’m a single mother of two” within the first five minutes of her set, you have a fair n...
West Port Book Festival: a Fringe for Books?
By Natalia Baal, published 10 August 2008Better known as the ‘pubic triangle’ of Edinburgh for its smattering of strip clubs and lap-dancing dens, or for the 19th Century Burke an...What's Wrong With Angry?
By Hannah Thomas, published 10 August 2008When Patrick Wilde's tale of a love affair between two teenage schoolboys burst on to the stage back in 1992, it certainly created a stir. At a time w...Wheels of Life
By Lucy Jackson, published 17 August 2008There are no human performers in this performance. Instead, Eduard Bersudsky’s creations, or "kinetic sculptures," are the ticking, ringing, spi...
Who Writes This Crap?
By Evan Beswick, published 02 August 2008There’s a real danger in a show which amasses such an amusing assortment of publishing’s most egregious crimes: what starts as an amusing ...
Wilde Child
By Laura Battle, published 28 July 2008It’s fair to say that dance is not known for controversy. Despite a number of incredibly innovative productions from Matthew Bourne and his comp...Will and Greg
By Benjamin Edwards, published 17 August 2008“Right. We’re doing some dogging.”
As the order echoes around the bus, Will Andrews and Greg McHugh rise slowly from their lunch, e...Will Hodgson - Chippenham On My Shoulder
By Frank Lazarski, published 03 August 2008Will Hodgson is a squat, heavily tattooed man. If it weren’t for the hair—close cropped and pink—and his sort of meek schoolboy gaze...
Wilson Dixon Rides Again
By Jasper Jackson, published 13 August 2008Despite there only being one Stetson in the room, Wilson Dixon’s audience of mostly middle-aged couples and boisterous young men gives this fake...Womb Man
By Ciaran Healy, published 03 August 2008Postmodern. Adj.: A view of the world which maintains that truth is a fiction, and that burning it down is our liberation, our highest calling, and ou...
Worth Every Penny
By Yasmin Sulaiman, published 01 August 2008In a matter of minutes, Thom Tuck, David Reed and Humphrey Ker – otherwise known as the Penny Dreadfuls – seem to have transported Edinbur...
Yasser
By Charlotte Mitchell, published 13 August 2008The Palestine-Israel political conflict is regularly front-page news, but Yasser engages with this conflict on a personal level. This one-man play sho...You Don't Need to Know That
By Jo Bedford, published 09 August 2008In the spacious auditorium of the Pleasance Cavern, something is afoot. Two figures in trench coats linger ominously in the shadows as the foreboding ...Zimbani
By Yasmin Sulaiman, published 17 August 2008Zimbani’s limp, repetitive and over-the-top shenanigans are best thought of as a cross between Austin Powers and Starsky and Hutch, but with jus...
