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
Wil Anderson review - SkinnyFest
It's quite possible Wil Anderson is the most famous comedian at the Fringe that you've never heard of. A TV star and newspaper columnist in his native Austra... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Pulp Boy review - (SkinnyFest 2)
Terry Saunders hates Jenson Button – but then again, don't we all? Despite his recent success on the track, Button's annoyingly smug demeanour and his p... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Wil Hodgson review - SkinnyFest 2
One Best Newcomer nomination and a bundle of five-star reviews later, Wil Hodgson is still, inexplicably, playing to half-empty crowds. Tucked away in an odd... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dance Base Show 1...Iskander, Curve Foundation, Karl Jay-Lewin & Michael Popper (skinnyfest 2) dance
In this diverse program of four, it is the charged atmosphere, the delicate use of pace and pause found in 'It's About Time', that captures your attention. ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Aeneas Faversham review - SkinnyFest 2
The absurd logic of the Victorian psyche is superbly sourced in this bright sketch show by the players of The Penny Dreadfuls. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Rich Hall review - SkinnyFest 2
Nobody with a soul can claim to dislike re-heated pizza, but on the other hand only a paltry few will claim that it tastes better than one that's straight fr... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Edinburgh Fringe
Reginald D. Hunter review - SkinnyFest 2
Reginald D. Hunter may now be a contented resident of London, but he, and his show, continue to be well and truly American. Neither 'well' nor 'truly' is ina... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Tim Minchin review - SkinnyFest 2
I'll never read Prufrock without fondly thinking of my nether regions again! Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dutch Elm Conservatoire review - SkinnyFest 2
Prison has never really appealed to me. Bad food, soap, S&M, yeech. Yet, being in prison with last year's Perrier-nominated quintet, the Dutch Elm Conservato... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Adam Hills review - SkinnyFest 2
Anyone who can sit through an hour of Adam Hills and not come out with renewed sense of optimism and joy is not worth knowing. This is because Adam is a fund... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Russell Kane review - SkinnyFest 2
Like a sugar-coated soft-chew bar called Tourette's, Russell Kane bounds and slithers and twitches around the stage, reminding us that it's important to star... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Paul Sinha review - SkinnyFest 2
Paul Sinha is a man blessed with so much natural material that his comedy contempories could carve him up among themselves and dine out on the laughs for yea... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Gamarjobat review - SkinnyFest)
Highly acclaimed 'silent-comedy' practitioners Gamarjobat return to Edinburgh this year with a show that delights and frustrates in equal measure. The openin... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Frankie Boyle review - SkinnyFest
There's all this talk about gay marriage, announces Frankie Boyle in a tone of affected informality. "I don't know what all the fuss is about. I'd have loved... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Justin Edwards review - SKINNYFest 2
That was the shipping forecast. And now there's just time to tell you about another programme coming up on Radio 4. Former Perrier Best Newcomer Justin Edwar... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006