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A supreme being, the nearly naked show and politics with paws: Edinburgh fringe pick’n’mix

From Taiwanese steampunk dance to Australian climate comedy, here are 13 quick-fire fringe reviews All our Edinburgh festival reviews For new perspective on the strange ways we behave, we all know the thought experiment “if a visitor from space arrived on Earth, what would they think?” In Born Sexy Yesterday, Anna Leong Brophy plays a supreme being implanted into a grown woman’s body to experience life for the first

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23 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
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Brian Logan, Lyndsey Winship, Arifa Akbar, Kate Wyver, Tim Jonze and Chris Wiegand
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Edinburgh festival 2026
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From Taiwanese steampunk dance to Australian climate comedy, here are 13 quick-fire fringe reviews All our Edinburgh festival reviews For new perspective on the strange ways we behave, we all know the thought experiment “if a visitor from space arrived on Earth, what would they think?” In Born Sexy Yesterday, Anna Leong Brophy plays a supreme being implanted into a grown woman’s body to experience life for the first
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    A supreme being, the nearly naked show and politics with paws: Edinburgh fringe pick’n’mix

    From Taiwanese steampunk dance to Australian climate comedy, here are 13 quick-fire fringe reviews All our Edinburgh festival reviews For new perspective on the strange ways we behave, we all know the thought experiment “if a visitor from space arrived on Earth, what would they think?” In Born Sexy Yesterday, Anna Leong Brophy plays a supreme being implanted into a grown woman’s body to experience life for the first

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