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 FringeTapestry of Fear
A chilling, philosophical play set outside of reality Read more »| 09 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
I Kissed A Frog And It Gave Me Herpes
Dark humour is mixed with rhyme in this entertaining show Read more »| 09 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dance without Movement
Zuleikha, the solo character in Dance without Movement, bounds onto the tiny stage in tears, a shining, elastic band of snot gently dripping from her nose. I... Read more »| 09 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Married to the Sea
In spite of the production’s remarkable polish, underlying it is a lacklustre plot with insufferably slow tempo Read more »| 09 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeGeorge Orwell's Coming Up For Air
A sophisticated little number, but it would probably be best just to read the book, which isn’t too long itself Read more »| 09 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dance Base Presents...Parallel/Parallels
Initially baffling and more than a little silly, Parallel/Parallels ceases to be an opaque, confusing spectacle once the underlying concept is grasped. That ... Read more »| 09 Aug 2008
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Edinburgh FringeShoppers Without Borders
A comedian dealing with the topic of co-habitation does a brilliant job of demonstrating why living in the same room as her might well be a strain. Read more »| 09 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Company
A charming and thoroughly enjoyable production which does justice to Sondheim’s amusing award-winning musical Read more »| 09 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeSurviving Spike
Jill Halfpenny outshines Michael Barrymore in this sensitive look at Spike Milligan's mental problems Read more »| 09 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Florida's most exclusive “mobile home community” is a long way from the glamour of the Festival City. While The Great American Trailer Park Music... Read more »| 09 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
One Day I'll go to Compostela
First devised and performed at the Avignon Fringe Festival in 2005, Marie Celine Lachaud’s One Day I’ll go to Compostela is a charming tale, told... Read more »| 09 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Hal Cruttenden: Climb Every Molehill
“I really want to be a hard-hitting comic,” admits Hal Cruttendon, early in tonight’s set. “But I really can’t be bothered to d... Read more »| 09 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Full Circle
The monologues drift off too readily into abstract concepts Read more »| 09 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Stewart Lee: Scrambled Egg
“You’ve worked me out… I’m just looking at an object and being sarcastic about it,” says Stewart Lee, breaking down his set to... Read more »| 09 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
War of The Worlds
Utton treads a fine line between Ken Dodd and Kate Bush and the results are captivating Read more »| 09 Aug 2008