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Festivals

Is Frank Skinner the new Alan Bennett? Edinburgh Fringe round-up

25 August 2018

9:00 AM

25 August 2018

9:00 AM

For recovering teetotallers, like me, Thinking Drinkers is the perfect Edinburgh show. On stage, two sprucely dressed actors perform sketches about booze while a team of well-trained ushers race around plying the audience with strong liquor from plastic beakers. In under an hour, I swallowed a can of ale chased by vodka, gin, rum and Irish whiskey.

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