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 FestivalsTake a Long Hard Look at your Shelf: Rachel McCrum
Rachel McCrum of Rally & Broad, the Edinburgh cabaret of words, music and lyrical delights, will toast the finale of Jura Unbound on 25 Aug Read more »| 08 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh FringeChef @ Underbelly, Cowgate
Brought to the Fringe by POP, Chef unravels the tale of a woman who goes from being a head chef in a fancy restaurant to an inmate running a prison kitc... Read more »| 08 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh FringeBloom @ Underbelly
Young Scottish-based company Vocal Point present Bloom, an intense, storytelling piece about poverty and homelessness. Performed by Abraham Parker and Robert... Read more »| 07 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Polska and Athletes @ Dance Base
With the Commonwealth Games generating a buzz around sports in Glasgow, it doesn’t seem out of place for the Fringe to include dance or physical theatr... Read more »| 07 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh FringeMush and Me @ Underbelly
Nancy Collective enrich this year’s Edinburgh Fringe with a religioromantic comedy, adding a liberal sprinkling of friendly faith bashing. Mush and Me ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Natasia Demetriou: You'll Never Have All Of Me @ Underbelly
Natasia Demetriou is a plonker. A word she throws around at the top of the show, and after an hour-long sejourn into her wonky brain, it's the inevitable con... Read more »| 07 Aug 2014
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Edinburgh Fringe
Sheeps: Wembley Previews @ Bedlam Theatre
How many times can you reinvent the wheel? Is it even possible to do something completely fresh with such a road-worn format? Well, comedy trio, Sheeps (Dara... Read more »| 07 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Game of Loners @ The Beehive
Don't be put off by the title; stare long enough and it's still just bodged wordplay. Save time by going to the show and accept it has nothing to do with Gam... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh FringePierre Novellie is Mighty Peter @ Pleasance Courtyard
Imagine the Jolly Green Giant being so delighted with his maize harvest that he can't help chuckling to himself. Now set that image in a bunker, and say hell... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Kitten Killers @ Underbelly
There are times when you won't want to laugh during this show but, unless you have the requisite willpower, you probably will. Be warned: if you have so... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Double bills @ Dance Base
Dance Base tends to pride itself on having something for everybody, and this appears to hold true in its 2014 Fringe programme. Morag Deyes’ programmin... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Videos
Come Fringe Yourself with Tom Stade – Episode 2
Tom Stade hosts Episode 2 of Come Fringe Yourself, a chat show filmed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014. With his co-host Damien Clark he welcomes g... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Festivals
The Lives in Letters: An Interview with Shaun Usher and Simon Garfield
The lost art of letter writing will brought to life at Edinburgh International Book Festival by Simon Garfield, Shaun Usher and a host of performing friends at their event, Letters Live Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Curing Room @ Pleasance Dome
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival presents Stripped Down Productions' The Curing Room at Pleasance Dome. Based on real events that happened in Poland in 1944, t... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Celia Pacquola: Let Me Know How It All Works Out @ Gilded Balloon
Like eating a kabob in bed after a night out, or starting a sing-along on the night bus, Celia Pacquola’s Let Me Know How It All Works Out&nb... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014