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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Books
The Dangerous Words of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o [SKINNYFest 4]
A dictator fears people who think for themselves. So when you get the ordinary, working people no longer singing about the leader but singing about themselves - what they have done in history, what they can do; what they have done before, what they can do again àthat kind of awareness can make a dictator nervous. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Pure Dead Brilliant, By The Way [SKINNYFEST 3] [PRINT VERSION]
I was this zonked-out hippie trying to write poetry and figure out what was going on in the universe. This guy's out there starting the revolution and making a million pounds and losing it and making another million pounds. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Sam Leith and Hufo Rifkind [SKINNYFest 4]
They appear far more comfortable as journalists than novelists: their awkward readings do not suggest that their prose is suited to extended descriptions. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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John Mortimer SKINNYFEST4
It is a measure of the extraordinary affection that John Mortimer evokes that not only was this event sold out, the queue to get in stretched all around the ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Doris Lessing [SKINNYFest 4]
It was the questions from audience members about her rich back catalogue that were really engrossing. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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My Father's Notebook - Kader Abdolah [SKINNYFest 3]
Kader Abdolah weaves Sufi myths, political intrigue and biography into a charming meditation on the relationship between father and son Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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District and Circle - Seamus Heaney [SKINNYFest 4]
Seamus Heaney exposes the immense fragility of our daily existence Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Film
Q&A Laura Poitras SKINNYFEST3
Absolutely it's worse now than when I was filming. As long as the US is there the violence will continue. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Theatre
Wasted
Even as the audience take their seats Myra Hindley, aged and bitter, sits towards the front of the stage as if she were about to narrate. In fact she remains... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Theatre
Tirade For Three/Vagrant
an adeptly stylised exploration of the nature of love, lust, deception and fear Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Theatre
Think no evil of us: My life with Kenneth Williams
This is a quite unique production. For the first half an hour you are confronted by a slightly mad, occasionally funny and generally uncomfortable impression... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Theatre
Parasites
Stock characters, bad pacing and a weak plot make this little more than an excuse to deliver obscene insults and snappy one-liners Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Comedy
BOWLING WITH THE HAMILTONS
Where do you take two people that have been embroiled in sleazy political scandals, declared bankrupt and even forced themselves to endure the company of Ant and Dec in I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here? SkinnyFest goes bowling with the Hamiltons. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Film
Oublier Cheyenne SKINNYFest
Oublier Cheyenne' is a gentle and touching exploration of what can drive two people apart, and what can keep them together. The film is lifted into the super... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Film
Gretchen - SkinnyFest 2
Gretchen, written and directed by Steve Collins. Set in a typical nowheresville town in the US, Gretchen tells the coming-of-age story of a somewhat creepy a... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006