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 Fringe
Maeve Higgins: Kitten Brides
Since her appearance on Irish hit reality show Naked Camera—a sort of Trigger Happy TV affair—Maeve Higgins has become something of a celebrity i... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jonathan Mills Q&A
What is your earliest childhood memory?Playing in the garden of a friend’s farm in South West of Sydney and encountering a tiger snake. What is the wo... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeFor the TEAM
From our overseas vantage point, there's an image of America many of us share. It's one of polarisation; a nation fundamentally divided in terms of political... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeMatt Kirshen - Keep Smiling, Matt. Just Keep Smiling.
Fast-paced short-arse comes back from America without losing his touch Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeFaking it with the Ladyboys
On the way to my first ever Lady Boys show I’m looking forward to witnessing something wayward and grotesque. Rumour has it they're disconcertingly bea... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Another Side of The Mirror
75-year old Fringe veteran Lynn Ruth Miller relates stories of her life and the lessons she has learned over the years in this heartwarming monologue. She t... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008
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Edinburgh Fringe
The British Ambassador's Belly Dancer
The scandalous love affair between Craig Murray, the disgraced British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and Nadira Alieva, an Uzbek belly dancer who returned with h... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dance Base Presents - Enclosure 44
A human enclosure makes a fun addition to Edinburgh Zoo, and an excuse for a fine day out Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Heckle Off - Isy Suttie and Danielle Ward
Two top female comics at the Fringe get their claws out and prepare for battle Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Clarke's Column at Edinburgh Fringe: Review
Scottish comedian Des Clarke brings his unique perspective to all things Fringe in this first of three columns Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Simon Munnery's AGM 2008
Simon Munnery has established himself over the past few years as one of the most delightfully esoteric acts on the Fringe. He’s a real comic’s co... Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Braw or Naw: Diet of Worms
Irish sketch group Diet of Worms cast their critical eye over what's braw and what's naw at this year's Fringe. Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
A wonderfully breezy, champagne cocktail of an old-fashioned comedy, that fizzes away with all the madcap, feel-good fun of a 1930s screwball classic, Miss P... Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Out and about with... Enda Walsh
Enda Walsh, the writer and director of the Fringe-first winning play, New Electric Ballroom, tells us which shows he's looking forward to seeing this August Read more »| 10 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Wilders
Country music, guys ‘n’ gals, is alive and well and living in Kansas City, Missouri. While such a revelation might not come as an complete surpri... Read more »| 10 Aug 2008