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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Uk FestivalsTake One Action 2012: Harold Crooks on Surviving Progress
Is civilisation doomed? The stakes don't get any higher than in Take One Action Film Festival's opener, Surviving Progress. The Skinny speaks to Harold Crooks, one of the film's directors, ahead of this UK premiere Read more »| 07 Sep 2012 -
Uk FestivalsIn Pictures: Music Language Festival 2012
Music Language Festival 2012 A glimpse of the action from the Music Language Festival 2012 in Glasgow, 1 & 2 September. Photography by Neil Jarvie Read more »| 07 Sep 2012 -
International FestivalsFestival Column: Trans Musicales
Les Rencontres Trans Musicales – 'meeting through music', nicely literal) is the winter festival which has garnered the useful reputation for being the... Read more »| 06 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Rubber Dinghy @ Zoo Southside
Two male business partners stuck in a life raft. They're engaged in a scam involving getting rescued at sea and adopting new identities. Apparently there's m... Read more »| 04 Sep 2012 -
Uk Festivals
Take One Action 2012: The Revolution's Here
Take One Action returns for a fifth year and is a powerful reminder of the part cinema can play in people's fight for freedom and equality across the globe Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Chipping Off Little Pieces of My Soul – A Fringe Diary
Comedian Xavier Toby gives an insider's view of the soul-crushing financial gamble involved in putting on a show at the Edinburgh Fringe Read more »| 03 Sep 2012
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Edinburgh FestivalsTabu
Tabu explores the interlaced nexuses between memory, cinema and fable Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It) @ King's Theatre
Love and Farce Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Nights At The Circus @ The Space
The circus is a world of illusion, where things are not as they seem. Angela Carter's bawdy novel on which this play is based, directed by Steven Green, expl... Read more »| 01 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeFood For Thought @ TheSpace Venue 45
Food For Thought is the absurdist comedy-dining experience served up by the delicious performance art collective, Figs in Wigs. Plenty of eye-rolling food pu... Read more »| 01 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The List @ Summerhall
Bold, brash and matter of fact, Maureen Beattie's solo performance is a total joy to witness and the heart and soul of The List. Stellar Quines Theatre Compa... Read more »| 01 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Boy With The Cuckoo Clock Heart @ Pleasance
A once-popular, now defunct freakshow stands in ruins but the proprietor assures us that he has one curiosity remaining for us. A story; the story of a boy b... Read more »| 01 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Aida @ The Merchants' Hall
This story of a Nubian princess captured by Egyptians originated from a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, and has been emblazoned upo... Read more »| 01 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Rape of Lucrece @ Royal Lyceum Theatre
Shakespeare given song Read more »| 01 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Slapdash Galaxy @ Underbelly
Up And Achtem! Read more »| 01 Sep 2012