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The Festival is here!  FringeGuru's reviewers are hard at work across the city, looking for the golden needles in the vast haystack which is the Edinburgh Fringe.  On this page, you'll find their latest thoughts in date order.

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Expectations
Published on Sunday, 05 September 2010
4

4 stars

Pleasance Dome (venue website)
Theatre
Until 25 Aug (not 23, 24), 12:40pm (1:50pm)
Reviewed by Catherine Meek

With an authentic, thought-provoking and moving script, this play addresses a controversial subject – bearing a disabled child – with sensitivity.  Not only do the couples face the immediate shock of undelivered expectation; they are flung, unprepared, into a world filled with misunderstandings and the need to cope on the hop.

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Hamlet for Girls
Published on Sunday, 05 September 2010
2

2 stars

theSpaces on the Mile @ The Radisson (venue website)
Theatre
6 - 28 Aug (not 15,22), 2.05pm (2.55pm)
Reviewed by Catherine Meek

Hamlet for Girls is a misleading title: it’s not a tragedy, there is neither incest nor murder, no revenge, no grief, no madness...  As far as quotes from Hamlet go, “To be or not to be...”, is used more glibly than imaginatively in relation to the admittedly questionable future of the two couples in the play.

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King Arthur
Published on Friday, 03 September 2010
4 stars

Craigcrook Castle (view map)
Until 4 September, 6:00pm (8:30pm)
Reviewed by Richard Stamp

The secluded gardens of Craigcrook Castle, Blackhall’s best-kept secret, prove a fine setting for this promenade depiction of the final months of Arthur’s reign.  It takes a brave writer to tackle this most well-known of tales; the narrative is written into our island’s very heritage, and we all know exactly how the story ends.  So I’m pleased to report that Siege Perilous’ classically-inspired re-telling, while true to the ancient legends, still finds many fresh insights to share.

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Jim Jefferies: Alcoholocaust
Published on Monday, 30 August 2010
3.5

3.5 stars

Udderbelly's Pasture (venue website)
Comedy
Until 30 Aug, 10:30pm (11:30pm)
Reviewed by Trystan Davies

Drink up; it's last orders at the end of the Edinburgh Fringe, and the rude stranger at the bar is none other than the infamous Jim Jeffries.

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Mysterious Skin
Published on Monday, 30 August 2010
5

5 stars

Gilded Balloon Teviot (venue website)
Theatre
4-30 Aug, 1:00pm (2:15pm)
Reviewed by Catherine Meek

This impressive performance intrigued me immediately and gripped me very quickly.  Controversial and brave, the play gives voice to the terrible secrets of victims of child abuse: in this case two men who, as 8-year-old boys, were abused by their baseball coach and live to relive the experience again and again.  This treatment, cleverly interpreting abuse through its medical euphemism of alien abduction (‘the memory of being taken secretly against one’s will, apparently by non-humans, and subjected to physical and psychological procedures’) illuminates the potential and regular impact on ‘abductees’ as they make their way in adult society, unable to leave the past behind them.  A valuable contribution to our often understandably limited comprehension of this subject, it brings into question again the nature vs. nurture debate.

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Arj Barker - Let Me Do the Talking
Published on Sunday, 29 August 2010
3

3 stars

Assembly @ George Street (venue website)
Comedy
Until 29 Aug, 9:20pm (10:15pm)
Reviewed by Craig Thomson

Assembly every year do a line in American imports which might be uncharitably described as 'flavour of the month', or rather comedians who have gained some level of fame in the UK through a single piece of work which is unrepresentative of them as a whole.  Arj Barker remarks early in his set 'I don't know why you're all here' – but the answer, of course, is Flight of the Conchords.

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Amusements
Published on Sunday, 29 August 2010
4.5

4.5 stars

Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar (venue website)
Comedy
6 - 29 Aug (not 17, 24), 7:45pm (8:45pm)
Reviewed by Craig Thomson

I've no idea what Amusements, starring Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster, is all about.  At the start of the show, Acaster took to the stage (actually two pallets nailed together and painted black) to call the seven people in the audience to a vote: “either we don't do the gig, or we do it and it'll be brilliant.”  Naturally, we chose the second option, and he was true to his word.

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Kate Fox News
Published on Sunday, 29 August 2010
4

4 stars

Gilded Balloon Teviot (venue website)
Comedy
4-30 Aug (not 16), 12:15pm (1:15pm)
Reviewed by Trystan Davies

This just in - Kate Fox News will be your guide through the Grim North.

Kate Fox is a poet, comedian, author, journalist and regular on the BBC, and her show takes a fair and balanced look at everyday life through poetry. 

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Lockerbie: Unfinished Business
Published on Sunday, 29 August 2010

Gilded Balloon Teviot
4-30 Aug (not 18), 2:30pm (3:40pm)
Reviewed by Richard Stamp

I don’t have the heart to put a star rating on this review.  How can you take a father’s grief, and rate it out of five?  Lockerbie: Unfinished Business isn’t really theatre, in the conventional sense; it’s an hour-long pitch, the impassioned words of a still-bereft dad who feels that justice has not been done.

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Rich Fulcher - An Evening With Eleanor, The Tour Whore
Published on Saturday, 28 August 2010
3

3 stars

Udderbelly's Pasture (venue website)
Comedy
21 - 30 Aug, 11:30pm (12:30am)
Reviewed by Craig Thomson

Rich Fulcher is probably best known still for his role in The Mighty Boosh, and in this solo show he demonstrates a lot of the same comic inventiveness that made him a success in that context.  There's a lot of rough with the smooth, however.

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