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 FringeFear and Loathing in Las Vegas @ Pleasance Courtyard
Hunter S. Thompson’s semi-autobiographical novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is brought to life under Lou Stein’s direction. When jo... Read more »| 14 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Fragile @ Zoo
Birmingham-based Old Joint Stock Theatre company present Fragile at the Fringe. Written by BAFTA-winner Geoff Thompson, this dark, powerful monologue br... Read more »| 14 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Running into Me @ Underbelly, Cowgate
Running is only one way in which Vickie Tanner fills the stage in her solo performance Running Into Me. She dances, argues, gets high and laughs hysterically... Read more »| 14 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh FringeTravesti @ Pleasance Dome
Unbound Productions present Travesti, a powerful and entertaining look at the lives of women through the mouths of men. With the words taken directly f... Read more »| 14 Aug 2014 -
Videos
Come Fringe Yourself with Tom Stade – Episode 4
Tom Stade hosts Episode 4 of Come Fringe Yourself, a chat show filmed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014. With his co-host Damian Clark, Tom welcomes... Read more »| 14 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Capone Trilogy @ C nova
Last year, Jethro Compton brought The Bunker Trilogy to the Fringe. Loki (***), Lucifer (***) and Vindici (****) are the three plays that for... Read more »| 14 Aug 2014
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Edinburgh Fringe
Shakespeare, His Wife and the Dog @ Summerhall
Although arguably the singular most identifiable icon of English culture, very little is actually know about the life of William Shakespeare. There is, of co... Read more »| 14 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Little Jokes @ Underbelly, Cowgate
Directed by Eilise McNicholas, Belfast-based theatre company Chatterbox bring Seamus Collins’ Little Jokes to the Fringe. The production follows a... Read more »| 14 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Pitiless Storm @ The Assembly Rooms
Edinburgh Festivals 2014 has a recurring theme in the theatre this year, and no doubt it appears among comedy and spoken word as well: Scottish Independence.... Read more »| 14 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: William McIlvanney
It's preposterous to imagine the works of William McIlvanney being out of print, yet just two years ago this was the case – before the good people at C... Read more »| 14 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Play With Myself: The Trials and Tribulations of Drama Practitioner Gregory Bike @ Dragonfly
Pretentious drama practitioner, Gregory ‘Brecht’ Bike, delivers a lecture on his life alongside his equally, nauseatingly ostentatious son, Trev ... Read more »| 13 Aug 2014 -
International FestivalsDekmantel @ Amsterdamse Bos, 1-3 Aug
Our Clubs team report from the second Dekmantel festival, which saw the likes of Nico Jaar, DJ Harvey, Joy Orbison and Three Chairs take to a park in Amsterdam Read more »| 12 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Young Pleasance: The Next Generation of Theatre
At the heart of the Pleasance's birthday celebrations sit Young Pleasance, infiltrating this year's Fringe with a triumvirate of performances Read more »| 12 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Phil Wang: Mellow Yellow @ Pleasance Courtyard
Phil Wang, bespectacled in a striped cardigan, takes to the small, circular rug that is his stage in Pleasance Courtyard’s Bunker 1, and is soon casual... Read more »| 12 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Lazy Susan: Extreme Humans @ Pleasance THAT
Sketch shows at the Fringe can be a bit like Scottish football supporters’ adaptations of 80s synth pop songs; they’re enjoyable enough but not u... Read more »| 12 Aug 2014