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
Jump review - SkinnyFest
Announcing itself in a roar of raucous rock, six martial artists hurling themselves across the stage, Jump is a ferocious and dynamic comedy, balancing incre... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jeff Green review - SkinnyFest 1
Jeff Green is recognisable, as a heckler has kindly reminded him, as a bloke that used to be on the telly, as a comic veteran of panel shows and nostalgic li... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jamie Douglas review - SkinnyFest
If you take out Caligula and the death of Nelson, the rest of history – war, diplomacy, empire – mightn't seem all that funny. But Jamie Douglas di... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Fat Tongue review - SkinnyFest
A wrenchingly funny hour of sketch comedy whose three performers offer the perfect mix of giving and not giving a shit. Using tossed-on togas and poorly fitt... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Brendon Burns review - SkinnyFest
More Bambi than Rambo, Brendon Burns's dark savagery is tempered by his marshmallow heart - in his own words, "a painfully intelligent man trapped inside a s... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jason Byrne interview - SkinnyFest 1
I have to keep topping my finale each year. Last year we had planted dancers with a big hoo-ha of smoke and glitter Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Edinburgh Fringe
Simon Amstell - SkinnyFest
Simon Amstell is ****. That's four stars - literally speaking, rather than any expletive of choice - mirroring Amstell's polite tone and diction, really rath... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Festival I-Spy - SkinnyFest
Good clean fun for all the family!Edinburgh Evening News article about how much the bill for festival security/clean-up/road closures is costing Edinburgh ta... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Chanbara: SKINNYFEST
Tetsuro Shimaguchi's choreography is arresting stuff - intrusive, destructive and yet elegantly masculine Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jim Henson's Puppet Improv SKINNYFEST
Think 'Whose Line is it anyway?' but with puppets Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Anthony Neilson Interview SKINNYFEST
With the world premiere of his new play, Realism, looming, playwright Anthony Neilson talks to us about filmmaking, the joys of childishness and being bored by the theatre today. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
ILIAD: FALL OF TROY SKINNYFEST
Tate's decision to adapt the Iliad for a youth theatre using 'contemporary' language is a brave one. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Finer Noble Gasses SKINNYFEST
Finer Noble Gasses is the latest outing and Edinburgh Festival debut for young, New York based writer Adam Rapp. Rapp has enjoyed growing praise from US crit... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Bussman's Holiday Preview (skinnyfest)
Blunkett claimed to be offended by it and he definitely didn't see it. Whoops. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Blackwatch: SKINNYFEST
Burke's politically charged theatrical production gives an insight into the psyche of young men caught up in violent times. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006