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 FringeViggo Venn @ Underbelly Cowgate
The Life of Pepito is a fun and silly hour of clowning and cucumbers Read more »| 16 Aug 2017 -
Edinburgh FringeJames Adomian @ Gilded Balloon
A wasted hour from a talented comedian Read more »| 16 Aug 2017 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Woke @ Gilded Balloon
Woke brings a timely, sensitive and incisive narrative to Edinburgh Fringe Read more »| 16 Aug 2017 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Lost Voice Guy @ The Stand
A good idea doesn't quite flourish in Lost Voice Guy's latest hour Lee Ridley, aka Lost Voice Guy, hates the Paralympics, which he sees as inspiration porn,... Read more »| 16 Aug 2017 -
Edinburgh FestivalsSebastian Barry @ EIBF 2017
The three-time Booker nominee covers a wealth of topics – from life in wartime to RuPaul's Drag Race – at Edinburgh International Book Festival Read more »| 16 Aug 2017 -
Edinburgh FringeDeclaration: Rematriation @ King's Hall
Indigenous theatre-makers Article Eleven bring a vital, urgent perspective on the Canadian story to the Fringe, as Canada Hub at the King’s Hall celebrates 150 years since the founding of the country Read more »| 16 Aug 2017
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Edinburgh Fringe
The Duke @ Pleasance Upstairs
Shon Dale-Jones, the actor behind regular Fringe favourite Hugh Hughes, has shown up with an autobiographical story this year – or, almost Read more »| 16 Aug 2017 -
Edinburgh Fringe
BlackCatfishMusketeer @ Summerhall
BlackCatfishMusketeer is a clever, funny, and poignant look at online dating Read more »| 16 Aug 2017 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Wild Bore @ Traverse Theatre
Zoë Coombs Marr, Ursula Martinez and Adrienne Truscott's genre-defying show suggests that bad art may be the highest art form of all. Read more »| 16 Aug 2017 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Foreign Radical @ King's Hall
Foreign Radical sees 30 participants take part in an immersive performance exploring privacy and freedom of expression in the age of cybersurveillance Read more »| 15 Aug 2017 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Not So Late Show @ Pleasance Dome
Potential brilliance from double act Ross Brierley and Joshua Sadler Read more »| 15 Aug 2017 -
Edinburgh FringeHelen Duff @ Assembly Roxy
An outlandish mix of confessional and therapeutic comedy from Helen Duff Read more »| 15 Aug 2017 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Carl Donnelly @ Heroes, BlundaBus
Carl Donnelly is anything but a blunderbuss as he subtly recounts his failed hallucinogenic 'cleanses' Read more »| 15 Aug 2017 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Thünderbards @ Gilded Balloon
Slick but strangely uninspiring sketches from the talented Thünderbards Read more »| 15 Aug 2017 -
Edinburgh Fringe
John Robins @ Pleasance Courtyard
John Robins is lovelorn but on form Read more »| 15 Aug 2017