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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TheatreTomorrow's Parties @ Contact, Manchester
The future always looms ahead of us and is always uncertain. Predicting and analysing the future has been a preoccupation for, amongst others, writers, polit... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
TheatreCasual Violence's The House of Nostril @ The Lowry, Salford
Casual Violence storm onto The Lowry stage with a bizarre and delightful Halloween spectacular Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
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Firearms and Fingertips @ Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester, 27-30 Nov
Spencer has been shot. He’s lying in a hospital bed, in an operating room. Doctors are swarming all around him, and his mother is waiting desperately a... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
MusicUlrich Schnauss & Mark Peters – Tomorrow Is Another Day
Following 2012's swooning Underrated Silence, Ulrich Schauss and his occasional Engineers bandmate, guitarist and producer Mark Peters, have produced another... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
TheatreThe Lion King @ The Edinburgh Playhouse
Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble. Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Play Pie and a Pint: Doras Dùinte (Closed Door) @ Òran Mór
The ever changing power balance between the leads makes for interesting viewing in Catrìona Lexy Chaimbeul’s new play Doras Dùinte, ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013
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Play Pie and a Pint: Grave Undertaking @ Òran Mór
Fire and pyre make a good rhyming pair but Paddy Cunneen’s Grave Undertaking also includes a singing corpse who rhymes pride with formaldehyd... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Play Pie and a Pint: Saint One @ Oran Mor
It’s an unbeatable premise. One of Scotland’s favourite actresses takes on the Big Yin himself. Oh and it’s set in a ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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The Gates @ Classic Grand
Described – quite rightly – as a mixture of West Side Story and Cabaret, The Gates is Rachel Jury’s musical based on the controversial bar ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Cured @ The Arches
Stef Smith’s latest play tackles the idea of conversion therapy. While very prominent in the US at one point in time, the 'ex-gay' movement has never s... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
TheatrePlay, Pie and a Pint: The Deficit Show @ Oran Mor
If OTT were running for parliament, they would win my vote. Perfectly pitched in tone and note, their new production The Deficit Show is both enter... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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True West @ Citizens Theatre
Domestic in content it may be but Sam Shepard’s emotionally charged tale about an American family is the stuff of epics. A modern Greek trag... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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The Tailor of Inverness @ Tron
The Tailor of Inverness is the true story of writer and performer Matthew Zajac's father – firstly, with Matthew playing his father telling his own tal... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Atom Tree – Tide of Thorns EP
The debut EP from Atom Tree, aka producer Shaun Canning, percussionist Michael Robertson, and sometime vocalist and songwriter Fergus Cook, of the band Disco... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Ubre Blanca – Polygon Mountain EP
Every track on Ubre Blanca's debut EP is a thrill in its own way, but it's the 12-minute epic title track which provides the biggest. The influences –&... Read more »| 11 Nov 2013