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
Kidnapped!
I could suggest any number of things that might persuade tough-minded, PC-gaming children to look into the work of Robert Louis Stevenson, but a q... Read more »| 17 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Graham Swift
In a captivating talk, Booker Prize winner, Graham Swift offers a window into himself Read more »| 17 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Old Garden
So many films exhaust the viewer with gimmickry and over-elaboration that one which avoids both is ordinarily welcome; but Sang-soo Im's The Old Garden i... Read more »| 17 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Alex Holdrige's film is the site of internal conflict. It covers a lonely New Year's Eve in the life of Wilson, a self-described misanthrope who plac... Read more »| 17 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Death Proof
All the Tarantino clichés, now with wilder whimsy than ever before, return in this feature on Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell), who prefers to lend his dr... Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Kate McLennan - The Debutante Diaries
Warm, funny, and surprisingly moving, McLennan's show is a definite winner Read more »| 16 Aug 2007
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Edinburgh Fringe
Poof Loose
It's probably best to avoid a man belting out slightly altered show classics to an audience of twelve Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Witnesses
It's 1984 and Paris is on the cusp of war- a biological war waged against a new, unknown virus that is spreading beyond control. Manu, a young homosexual... Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jude Simpson - Growing Up Games
This is one of the few fringe shows that will leave you feeling warm inside and content with the world Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
A Mighty Heart
“How do you find one man amongst all this?” Angelina Jolie asks us as she adopts the guise of Mariane Pearl, the widow of slain Wall Street journ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Meow Meow
Perfect slapstick with a virtuosic broken cabaret routine and an utterly magnificent voice Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
I Am You Are Me
If you are prepared to undergo a half hour of intense cringing at deeply unfunny clowns, you can trump all your friends' claims to have seen the worst thing at the Fringe this year Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Yesterday, When I Was Young
This new comedy follows one woman's journey into the world of whips, basques and bondage - to find her true calling as a dominatrix Madame Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Nick Pynn @ Inlingua
So much talent and so little time, his lack of restraint is his only weakness Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
In The Cities (Dans Les Villes)
Trees; dark, sombre and alone, stand like silent outcasts within the urban landscape. In Catherine Martin’s film, people are likewise outcast, wanderin... Read more »| 16 Aug 2007