Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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ArtThe Skinny Showcase: It's Our Playground
Based in Glasgow, It’s Our Playground is the curatorial project of French artists Camille le Houezec & Joey Villemont (b.1986). It’s Our Pla... Read more »| 16 May 2012 -
TheatreKatiana Was Here @ Sunrise Theatre
A touching, powerful play that explores reactions to disease and death, and to what might come after. Read more »| 16 May 2012 -
FilmMark Millar: Here Comes Kapow! 19-20 May
Comic book writer, film-maker, magazine publisher and festival curator Mark Millar is to the comic book world what Rupert Murdoch is to the media (only less evil). We speak to the Glaswegian ahead of Kapow!, the annual comic convention he helped create Read more »| 14 May 2012 -
MusicPerfume Genius / Cate Le Bon @ Captain's Rest, 8 May
Cate Le Bon has a clarification to make: contrary to received Twitter wisdom, she is neither German, nor a Viking. We don’t know the context to these m... Read more »| 14 May 2012 -
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Rolls In Their Pockets @ Oran Mor
Rolls In Their Pockets is theatre for the Arab Strap generation: raw, bruised and bleakly funny. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
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Alegría @ SECC
Cirque du Soleil’s Alegría showcases what must be some of the world’s most talented circus performers. Read more »| 11 May 2012
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Music
Grimes @ The Berkeley Suite, 7 May
Grimes combines experimental electronica with staggeringly infectious pop in a way which is completely unique Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Theatre
Seven Day Drunk @ Arches
Seven Day Drunk poses the question - does the devil’s juice aid or hamper creativity? Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Theatre
Beats @ The Arches
Beats is about the battle of youth versus adults, and underground versus mainstream culture. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Theatre
Marriage of Figaro @ Lyceum
The Lyceum’s new adaptation of The Marriage of Figaro relocates Pierre Beaumarchais’ 1778 French original to the heated atmosphere of the boardroom. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Theatre
Could You Please Look Into The Camera @ Oran Mor
Mohammed Al Attar has seen more than most, having previously documented the testimonies of detainees.He returns to this theme for the first play in the five week season from the Arab nation, Could You Please Look Into The Camera. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
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Eight @ The 13th Note
A set of monologues in which eight strange and wonderful individuals lay bare their inner environments to express their feelings. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Theatre
The Silence Of Bees @ Lush
Spanning three generations of one family, The Silence Of Bees is a site-specific production held in the soapy confines of the Lush store in Sauchiehall Street. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Theatre
Nederlands Dans Theater 2 @ EFT
Popular dance company NDT2 perform to enraptured audiences at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Theatre
Long Day’s Journey Into Night @ Theatre Royal
Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer winning autobiographical play charts the slow, slow destruction of a family as they tear each apart from the inside. Read more »| 11 May 2012