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 FringeThe Three Little Pigs @ Assembly One
The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf is a staple of many a bedtime story, but this production, brought to the festival as part of the Assembly’s ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Secret Agent @ Traverse
"Something must be done" is the overall message The Secret Agent by theatreO urges the audience to remember. While the acting is strong, the songs in betwee... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Muriel Spark, 50 years on
A mostly silver-haired audience was in attendance at the Baillie Gifford Main Theatre on Tuesday evening for a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Muriel ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: AL Kennedy, Toby Litt & Rachel Cusk
Hosted by Ian Jack, the chair of the Granta Best of Young British Novelists panel in 2003, the year AL Kennedy, Toby Litt and Rachel Cusk were all featured, ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Adam Marek & Rodge Glass
Adam Marek's second volume of short stories, Stone Thrower, has recently been published by Comma Press. Rodge Glass has recently written LoveSexTravelMusik, ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Chalk Farm @ Underbelly Cowgate
Set to the backdrop of the 2011 London riots, Chalk Farm is a two-hander piece by Kieran Hurley and AJ Taudevin, in collaboration with Thick Skin. It focuses... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013
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Edinburgh Fringe
Pick Me Up
I’ve been thinking about this show rather a lot. In fact, since I first pocketed an austere flyer emblazoned with ‘PICK ME UP’ in unmistaka... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Hamlet: The Wooster Group @ Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival
The Wooster Group's Hamlet is an experimental, challenging work with an avant garde genesis but a more general appeal through its sense of humour and use of&... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeBrendon Burns and Colt Cabana Sit in a Fifty-Seater Around Midnight and Provide the Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches @ Stand 2
Yep. That’s pretty much it. Not one to mislead an audience, Brendan Burns and Colt Cabana want you to know what to expect from the very start - a late ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Ulysses @ Paterson's Land
James Joyce: the master of modernist literature, the hero of Dublin, the man whose work is respected, feared and reviled in equal measure by every English li... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Bad Boy Eddie @ C Aquilla
Bad Boy Eddie invites its audience to look in on the after affects of what happens when personal demons become too much for a family to contain. With a mode... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Catherine Semark: Shadow Ape
When Catherine Semark takes to the stage, all crazy-haired, and explains that she’s wearing a loose, funky shirt, because she’s gained weight by ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Tony Law: Nonsense Overdrive @ The Stand - Edinburgh Fringe
Nonsense Overdrive, shown at Edinburgh Fringe, is a perfect title for the latest hour of ramshackle daftness from Tony Law, as he pushes his whimsical i... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
A A and A
This show lacks substance and fails to deliver on the promises offered as we walked in; chiefly that they never picked on their audience, and that we would e... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Kate Fox: Good Breeding
Women who decide to not have children have two choices: join a convent or become a witch and go off and live in a gingerbread house. Right? Donning a nun&rs... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013