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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TheatreLike Flying @ Craigmount High School, Edinburgh
National Theatre of Scotland's Like Flying is a stunning and immersive production which highlights the importance of arts for young people's mental health Read more »| 26 Jun 2019 -
ArtLocal Heroes: Designs on Parliament
This month we unveil an evolving curation of Scottish design housed in the personal office of the First Minister Read more »| 26 Jun 2019 -
TheatreHair The Musical @ Edinburgh Playhouse
This 50th anniversary revival of Hair suffers from a lack of direction and structure Read more »| 26 Jun 2019 -
BooksSweet Home by Wendy Erskine
Wendy Erskine's new short story collection is a collection of tense, insightful snapshots of life Read more »| 26 Jun 2019 -
ArtScottish Art Events and Opportunities: July 2019
Come outside, it’s nearly July! No bad weather, only bad clothes, and loads of great art to see through July which brings the Edinburgh Art Festival and new exhibitions across Scotland Read more »| 26 Jun 2019 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: July 2019
Test your stamina with back to back Edinburgh and Glasgow parties at the start and end of the month, and pick from one of two in either city halfway through Read more »| 25 Jun 2019
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MusicVanishing Twin @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 14 Jun
Vanishing Twin are experts in balancing elements and shifting textures, creating a sensual haven on one of the fringes of pop Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
BooksMy Past is a Foreign Country by Zeba Talkhani
Zeba Talkhani's memoir is a hopeful story of casting off cultural and personal expectations, and fighting for the right to individuality Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
ArtEmilia Beatriz @ CCA, Glasgow
Emilia Beatriz presents two 'video clusters' that galvanise international resistance to corporate and state land grabs, bringing them together through a sensual and pleasurable engagement with nature and the landscape Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
FilmIn Fabric
Peter Strickland continues to push at narrative conventions with this witty costume horror that's another extraordinarily rich and strange work from a unique filmmaker Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
FilmRobert the Bruce
Angus Macfadyen returns to the role he played 24 years ago in Mel Gibson's Braveheart with this stoic take on the Scottish freedom fighter that plays like a Celtic western Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
MusicStereolab @ SWG3, Glasgow, 22 Jun
Following a ten year hiatus, Stereolab's victory lap has more than enough innovative goodies to entice and entertain Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
FilmSupport the Girls
The Hooters-style bar setting of Andrew Bujalski's Support the Girls and its double entendre title prove a misdirect; this is an empathetic, refreshingly incisive portrait of women at work that's as funny as it is generous Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
TheatreCaptain Corelli’s Mandolin @ King’s Theatre, Edinburgh
This stage adaption of Louis de Bernier's beloved novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is enjoyable, if a little underdeveloped Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
FilmMemory: The Origins of Alien
78/52 director Alexandre O Philippe delves into the world of Ridley Scott's Alien – fanatics will find little new here, but this is an entertaining, informative companion to the 1979 sci-fi Read more »| 24 Jun 2019