Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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Edinburgh Fringe
Beachy Head Review
In the first few minutes of Beachy Head, two film-makers find something chilling among the hours of footage they've recorded on the eponymous Sussex suicide ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
East meets west
Chasing Dorris Dörrie across Europe, Evan Beswick discovers that the German film director comes well equipped with a keen sense of what makes opera tick Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Space Man
Site-specific theatre is a term "too restrictive" for experimental playwright, David Leddy. Ed Ballard talks to one of theatre's most radical figures Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Streets
It’s now seven years since Mike Skinner, aka The Streets released Original Pirate Material – perhaps the one album spawned from the UK garage exp... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Moth
US poet and crime writer George Dawes Green founded The Moth twelve years ago to fill a gap in New York’s literary scene: he wanted to offer a space fo... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church
It's been seven years since Daniel Kitson won the Perrier Award for his comedy show, Something, but in recent years the comedian has become far better known ... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh Fringe
The Hotel
If any Fringe performer from the last decade is to go down in the annals of the Festival's history, it's Mark Watson. His electric stand-up shows might not v... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Stefan Golascewski is a Widower
Stefan Golascewski wasn't exactly an Edinburgh newcomer in 2008. The ex-Cambridge Footlights president enjoyed sell-out runs in 2005 and 2006 as part of Cowa... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Peter Duncan's Daft and Dangerous Preview
Peter Duncan, the 80s Blue Peter Presenter and former TV stunt show host, will take the stage for his first Fringe show – an hour of madcap entertainme... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Shappi Khorsandi: The Distracted Activist
Something of a comic chameleon, Shappi Khorsandi is as comfortable starring in major comedy events like BBC One’s Live at the Apollo as she is offering... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Tom Deacon
At first glance, Tom Deacon’s range of subjects for his debut solo show Indecisive stick rather stubbornly to the everyday concerns of today’s y... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Party
Having been crowned best newcomer at the if.comedy awards in 2007, Tom Basden is back this year with his first play at the Fringe, Party. Just don't turn up ... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Under Glass
One of the most unusual shows at this year’s Fringe is Under Glass – a 20-minute piece of physical theatre where the characters are on display in... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Waiting for Godot
Subversion? Experimentation? A simple lack of performance spaces? Whatever it was that inspired Dublin-based group Nod Nod, to bring Beckett’s classic ... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
When the going gets tough
With funding streams drying up amid economic meltdown, this has been predicted to be one of the Fringe's toughest years. But are the prospects really as bleak as some have forecast? And does the new woman in charge have what it takes to weather the storm? Simon Mundy investigates Read more »| 05 Aug 2009