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
A Blog for All Seasons: exploring the joys and challenges of ""blog plays"". (SKINNYFEST)
The thing that drives a lot of people to reach out to each other by blogging is theatrical and if you can find a way to keep the 'blog on stage' active and immediate, the blog play really works. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Uk Festivals
Edinburgh International Entertainment Festival
The two-day festival will showcase the latest games, the annual Edge award ceremony and conferences Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Festivals
The Man With the Silver Tongue
People did not take machetes and start cutting other people into pieces overnight. There's a kind of hatred between Hutus and Tutsis that has been developed through our history. The international community does not want to see it that way, even now. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Tony Benn
At a sprightly 81 years of age, still bouncing around healthily and wagging his lefty political tail with some force, Tony Benn is probably the best advert f... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Sam Leith and Hufo Rifkind SKINNYFEST4
They appear far more comfortable as journalists than novelists: their awkward readings do not suggest that their prose is suited to extended descriptions. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
SkinnyFest 3 -Terry Alderton
God knows, life is full of awkward silences. The one after you've just mistaken a large woman for a pregnant one remains a personal favourite. But Terry Alde... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Edinburgh Fringe
SkinnyFest 3 - Jim Jeffries - The Second Coming
he has a gift for being extremely offensive and getting away with it Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
SkinnyFest 3 - Simon Says
One critic described my show as the closest comedy gets to a modern art form, which made me despair a little. The barrier between comedy and art is huge. No-... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Janey Godley's 'Point of Yes' SKINNYFEST 3
After receiving widespread plaudits for "The Point of Yes", Glaswegian comic Janey Godley has now brought her one woman, two-character play to the fringe. Ch... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
IMMORTAL (dance section) skinnyfest 2
If you've grown out of jumping on your bed, swining from tree brances and hurtling yourself around the lampost of every streetlight in sheer abandonment, ImM... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Bert Jansch Interview (SKINNYFEST2)
I don't really think about a legacy. It just never really occurs in my head. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Richard Thompson, the Queens Hall, Aug 9 (skinnyfest2)
burned with the ache and fury of a man for whom the weight of the world still weighs heavy Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Nomad: DNA Strings (SkinnyFest 2)
The gentle charisma of their leader Adriaan and Dani's fiendish violin captivates the mature audience Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh Art Festival
One of the most extensive and spectacular attractions during the festival promises to be Beyond the Palace Walls at the Royal Museum of Scotland on Chambers St. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Uk Festivals
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
There's only one way to enter the summer... Read more »| 15 Jul 2006