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 FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Luke Harding
Luke Harding had been working as the Guardian’s Moscow correspondent for four years when Russia refused to renew his press credentials. Stopped at Mo... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeAaron Twitchen: Quarter Life Crisis
Can you be too talented? Aaron Twitchen seems to have this extremely rare condition and the main symptom is a show that consists of lots of great bits that c... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeRachel Stubbings: Stubbing out Problems
It's always a brave move to incorporate a period of total silence into your comedy act, but Stubbings carries this off beautifully; and the quiet in the... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Gearoid Farrelly: Turbulence
For his first Fringe show, rising Irish comedian Gearoid Farrelly tackles all the little things that cause turbulence in his life, from break-ups to the deat... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Hitch and Mitch: The Stinky Show
The props are puerile, the jokes terrible, the sketches simplistic and stretched, and in all it feels very amateurish. So it shouldn’t work. ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Billy the Mime
The film The Artist had such beautiful music, was so well performed, that it was easy to forget there was no spoken dialogue in it; and because it stuck in t... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012
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Edinburgh Fringe
Stuart Black: Sex, Money, Death
It's difficult to know what to expect when, moments before a show is due to start, the performer shakes your hand and asks if you are his audience. Luckily, ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeAnimalParts Theatre: Tenderpits
Canadian-born and New York City-based performer Anthony Johnston is a wizard. The kind of wizard who wears a dirty nappy, has a sparkling butt and masturbate... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Work Songs @ Zoo
No holds barred Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Natyam @ Dance Base
A sumptuous display of a traditional Indian form Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Meitheal/Worst Case Scenario @ Dance Base
Mathematical elegance from max.IMEALLdance plus survival-situation farce from Taciturn Dance Company Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Michael Redmond: Mannequins, Fishmongers, Guacamole and Me ... and Other Things
This show could so easily have been awful. A comic who hilariously phones back an audience member’s mobile caller, a bizarre mannequin (in a going-out ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Val McDermid
Val McDermid is one of the most successful crime writers in Scotland with 25 best selling novels and several literary rewards – she even has a stand at... Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Hilary Mantel
The chair of this event, James Runcie, remarked at the start that Hilary Mantel had long been a literary secret, admired by writers and journalists but somew... Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Hi-Kick @ Assembly Hall
Artistry 0 - 0 Excitement Read more »| 20 Aug 2012