Edinburgh Festivals
The Skinny guide to art, book and film festivals in Edinburgh. The latest previews, reviews and features.
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InternationalCosi Fan Tutte
No wigs and ruffles but Mozart noir. Set in the late 1930s in Eritrea, this production of Cosi Fan Tutte exposes the violence and racism of a colonial o... Read more »| 30 Aug 2016 -
InternationalScottish Ballet: MC 14/22 & Emergence
A well-matched double-bill, both about crowd mentality, but contrasting in mood, one dark, one bright: the first exploring masculinity, the other the ‘swarm intelligence’ of bees. Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
International
HOPELESSNESS @ The Playhouse, 17 Aug
There's a deep rumbling shaking the Playhouse's listed foundations. The house lights fade, and a forest of dry ice clears to reveal a cinema-sized screen dom... Read more »| 22 Aug 2016 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Young Fathers @ The Hub, 14 August
Call it nepotism, call it bias, call it a home-town advantage... call it what you will, but let's be honest. For the 400-strong, sold-out crowd packed into T... Read more »| 19 Aug 2016 -
BooksAgnes Török & Chimwemwe Undi: Speaking with Feeling
The best and worst problem for a reviewer to have is this: the best kind of event will not let itself be neatly described in 300 words. Some things you canno... Read more »| 18 Aug 2016 -
BooksLaura Bates: A Manifesto for Empowered Women
Did you know that more men are sitting in Westminster right now than there have been female MPs in the entirety of British history? And that in our country, ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2016
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International
Natalia Osipova & Guests @ Festival Theatre
An exciting triple bill of dramatic contrasts shows off ballet star Natalia Osipova to stunning effect as her classical training skills meld with contemporary dance Read more »| 16 Aug 2016 -
Internationalmonumental @ Edinburgh Playhouse
monumental will blow you away. A visceral, immersive experience where repetitive moves mesmerize, and the tsunami-like post-rock soundscape is so loud ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2016 -
International
The Glass Menagerie @ King's Theatre
A new version of a Tennessee Williams classic comes to the Edinburgh International Festival Read more »| 15 Aug 2016 -
Music
Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ Playhouse, 10 Aug
The drone has been playing quietly in the background long before anyone realises it’s part of the show. Indeed, two of Godspeed’s eight-strong co... Read more »| 12 Aug 2016 -
Festivals
Edinburgh Festivals 2016: Our Top 5s
Our section editors narrow down their Edinburgh Festival picks to an tick-'em-off-as-you-go top five; here are their music, books, comedy, art and theatre selections Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Film
Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival preview
Edinburgh has a new festival in town in the form of the Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival, and it's taking us into the brave new world of virtual reality Read more »| 02 Aug 2016 -
Art
Hearing Voices: Siân Robinson Davies Interview
We talk to Siân Robinson Davies about combining art and comedy and Conversations, her upcoming show of scripted conversations between inanimate objects... Read more »| 29 Jul 2016 -
Art
Sally Hackett on The Fountain of Youth
Sally Hackett discusses her latest ceramic sculptural commission Fountain of Youth for Edinburgh Art Festival, and collaborating with pupils from Tollcross P... Read more »| 29 Jul 2016 -
Art
Platform 2016 at Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival sets up Platform, its emerging artist set of exhibitions at the very centre of its map in the Kiosk. This year marks another diverse g... Read more »| 29 Jul 2016