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 Worst of Scottee @ Assembly Box
Narrated through a camera placed in a photo booth, The Worst of Scottee is oddly reminiscent of a confessional Skype conversation with a very good friend. Th... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
No Place Like @ Zoo (Monkey House)
No Place Like is an intelligent piece exploring memory and the sense of alienation from the self and home. After all, what is home but an expression of our e... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Paul Vickers: Twonkeys Blue Cadabra
How deep does the rabbit hole go? Several flights of stairs into the belly of Edinburgh – and that’s just the venue. Pay a visit to Twonkeys Blue... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Sam Byers & Angela Jackson
Sam Byers and Angela Jackson's debut novels are nominated for the Book Festival's First Book Award, alongside 42 other hopefuls. Byers' book Idiopathy tells ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeRik Carranza: Rik 'n' Mix @ Laughing Horse, Espionage
You can’t get a cozier / more awkward space than Espionage’s Lizard Lounge, mainly because you’re crammed on sofas right in front of the pe... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Uk FestivalsBeacons Day Three @ Heslaker Farm, Skipton, 18 Aug
We round off our three days of coverage from Beacons festival with waves of psychedelia courtesy of Moon Duo and Hookworms, star turns from Fatima, Theo Parrish and Andres, and a transcendental set from James Holden. We got the post-festival blues Read more »| 20 Aug 2013
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Edinburgh Fringe
Simon Evans: Leashed @ The Stand
Tonight Simon dons a pair of glasses. His wife recommended he do it to show people that he does actually have eyes, not just small slits in his head. His con... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeOne Step Before the Fall @ Zoo (Aviary)
One Step Before the Fall is a powerful piece exploring Muhammad Ali’s rise and fall – or something along those lines. Personally, the only link t... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Out of His Skin @ Zoo Southside
Out of His Skin is best described as the dance version of Fight Club. It is adrenaline-full yet ridiculously in control – to the point that the high-en... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Marcus Birdman - Happily Ever After @ Stand 2
Last year, Marcus Birdman came to the Fringe with a show about his recent stroke. This year, worried about putting together a show with a similarly meaty sub... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Gabe Day @ theSpace, Surgeon's Hall
A demented American televangelist minister has declared to his many followers that the world is about to end, so club owners Charlie and Kate do the sensible... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Sock Puppet @ Pleasance Courtyard
Haunted sock meets desperate man. Murders ensue. With a hilarious B-movie style, Sock Puppet consists of two ghost stories that eventually fuse into one, and... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
An Actor's Lament @ Assembly
As a critic, one suspects it would be very easy to be offended by Berkoff’s latest comedy, seeing as he drops in many scathing and vitriolic remarks ab... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience @ B'est Restaurant
Hilarious, delicious, Faulty Towers: the Dining Experience is a Fringe Legend. Now in its sixth consecutive year at Edinburgh, the show plus ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dark Matter @ Summerhall
If you were strolling through Leith later in the evening, winding down from a hectic day of Fringe activities in the city centre, you may have spotted an exc... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013