Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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Edinburgh Fringe
Manolibera
Gareth K Vile gets down with the kids. Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
You Bastards
Margaret Kirk asks how many feminists it takes to change a light bulb. Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Desmorphia
Gareth K Vile shares some shite wine with Des O'Connor Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Austen's Women
Gareth K Vile unwillingly enjoys an old fashioned solo show. Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Memento Mori
Leicester University Theatre invites us to contemplate our mortality with a production of David Campton’s punchy black comedy Memento Mori, a very Brit... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Daniel Sloss - Teenage Kicks Comedy Review
When Daniel Sloss wanders onstage all smooth-faced and lank-haired, it’s hard to envisage the elfin lad having anything of the comic clout needed to im... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh Fringe
The Bodega Brothers: Afternoon Delight
One of the Bodega Brothers' songs, 'I Don't Want No Cubs', is about how they've got no time for guys who wear badges on their shirt and neckerchiefs fastened... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Ashley Hames: Confessions of a Sex Reporter
When a certain Robert Birkett led Ofcom into an anti-obscenity witch-hunt, he could not have envisioned where it would leave his enemy, Sin Cities documentar... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Aspidistras
It’s really difficult to pinpoint what it is about The Aspidistras that makes you grieve for the comedy gold that has somehow got lost along the way. L... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Sammy J: 1999
After storming last year's Fringe 2008 with smutty puppet show Forest of Dreams, Sammy J returns with another musical comedy of a more autobiographical natur... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Russell Kane: Human Dressage
A self-styled “pseudo-intellectual”, Russell Kane uses his comedy primarily to explore and share his specialist subject of human interaction. Hav... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Ross Lee: Not A Lot Of Sex, Lies And Videotape
For 15 years, Ross Lee has been trying to make it big in television. As a child, he filmed himself in his garden, dressed in a wig, squirting fake blood on h... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Gavin Webster's Faldarel
Upon completing his hour-long set, Gavin Webster, for no other reason than that he's a nice chap, stands at the exit of the venue and hands out free bread to... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Philberto: Philberto's Animal
This show charts one man's rise from a dull Portuguese fishing village to the heights of TV stardom after reaching the final of reality show Live On The Floo... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Penny Dreadfuls Present... The Never Man
The Penny Dreadfuls stormed last year's Fringe. A tightly wrought, Victorian-themed murder mystery cum comedy caper, their daft, jokes-a-minute script was a ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009