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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FilmEIFF 2022: Black Mambas
Lena Karbe’s documentary explores issues of race, gender and class in South Africa’s all-female anti-poaching unit Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringeRob Madge: My Son's A Queer (But What Can You Do?) @ Udderbelly
Part monologue, part cabaret, Rob Madge shows off their palpable star power in My Son's A Queer (But What Can You Do?) Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringePeaceophobia @ Q Park
Alongside its fast cars, dizzying theatrical devices and pounding beats, Common Wealth's Peaceophobia counters prejudice with stories of humour, passion, and belief Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FestivalsWalking with Ghosts @ King's Theatre
Gabriel Byrne's adaptation of his own best-selling memoir is a tribute to the small moments that never leave us, and to the Irish diaspora experience of displacement and exile Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringeCrizards @ Assembly George Square
Will Rowland and Eddy Hare’s cowboy show is full of character play and rootin-tootin' fun Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringeFills Monkey: We Will Drum You @ Pleasance Courtyard
The new show from Yann Coste and Sébastien Rambaud is a genuinely inventive hour of musical clowning – and a whole lot of drumming Read more »| 29 Aug 2022
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Edinburgh FringeJoshua Bethania wins So You Think You’re Funny?
London stand-up Joshua Bethania wins the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny? award, with Scottish comic Mark Black taking second place Read more »| 26 Aug 2022 -
ArtCéline Condorelli: Thinking through Skin
Isla Valentine Wade unpacks Céline Condorelli's first survey exhibition at Talbot Rice, in a piece commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 26 Aug 2022 -
ArtAshanti Harris on the importance of Carnival
Hazel Peters speaks to Ashanti Harris about her exhibition Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille. This article was commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 26 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringeCrybabies @ Pleasance Dome
Crybabies' new show Bagbeard is a lo-fi mashup of Hollywood tropes, delivered with a distinctively British sketch sensibility Read more »| 26 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringeJordan Gray @ Assembly George Square
Jordan Gray pairs near-manic delivery with excellent musical comedy in her Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated show, Is It A Bird? Read more »| 26 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringeSkank @ Pleasance Courtyard
Clementine Bogg-Hargroves' one-woman show following 20-something Kate has a lot to like, but some of its elements feel undercooked Read more »| 25 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringeNutcrusher @ Dance Base
Unsettling yet brutally honest, Sung Im Her's Nutcrusher invites us to contemplate the sexual objectification of women, and question how we view our own bodies Read more »| 25 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringeLook At Me Don't Look At Me @ Pleasance Dome
Look at Me Don’t Look At Me tells the story of a fierce, courageous woman, and asks questions about how we tell the stories of women from history Read more »| 25 Aug 2022 -
Edinburgh FringeDykegeist @ Summerhall
Eve Stainton's collaboration with Mica Levi, Dykegeist is a surreal experience that flows effortlessly between creepy, funny, erotic, and playful Read more »| 25 Aug 2022