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
Four World Cups and One World Pope review - SkinnyFest 2
At times, it's like being in the room with a borderline misogynist. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Simon Munnery column - SkinnyFest 2
An impudent sprite with piercing insight in the middle of the night informed me I was a ghost. It cut me to the quick; I knew I was sick but I hadn't realise... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Will Smith review - SkinnyFest 2
Comfortable middle-class humour for comfortable middle-class people. The largely sweater-wearing crowd were in tittering hysterics over Smith's many foibles,... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Sean Collins review - SkinnyFest 2
A Canadian, Sean Collins is possessed of a classic North American stand-up style: smart black sweater, stool, microphone, and an unwillingness to get carried... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
My Brother And I Are Porn Stars review - SkinnyFest 2
The play's major successes crop up when combining gruesome surrealist imagery with off-beat humour... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Maria Bamford review - SkinnyFest 2
Award-winning comedians can lull you into a false sense of security when parting with your pennies at this festival, and although Maria Bamford is the proud ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Edinburgh Fringe
Lucy Porter review - SkinnyFest 2
Lucy Porter is, by anyone's standards, adorable. With a gorgeous smile, delightfully frazzled hair and a stage covered in daisies and ladybirds, the teeny ti... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Josie Long review - SkinnyFest 2
A five star rating is a rare one indeedilydoo, and by the definition of this magazine is meant to represent perfection for "all and sundry". Now, allow me to... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
DJ Danny review - SkinnyFest 2
Takes the audience through a musical journey to cure the world of its three major problems àwar, poverty, and James Blunt. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Mickey Dwyer's Festival Fumble - SKINNYFEST 1
put in the extra 10% and you can send that unsuspecting dance troupe back to Wisconsin with a lifetime of nightmares Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Marijke van Warmerdam: First drop skinnyfest1
Somewhat radically in the world of contemporary art, Marijke van Warmerdam's First drop exhibition does not have an agenda. It appears to make no political s... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Interview - SKINNYFEST 1
It's the future (or is it?) and the work-life balance has gone seriously wonky. Loving relationships are giving way to contracts drawn up by the state at a v... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Talk Radio SKINNYFest 1
Nestled snugly in the steamy intestinal tract of the festival's newly inflated purple bovine, talk show host Barry Champlain (Phil Nichols) has a sweaty, ove... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
SKINNYFEST 1 Pumpgirl
A great production of Abbie Spallen's new play, replete with country music, thick Northern Irish accents, car grease and fucking, this story is set in Armagh... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Radio - skinnyfest 1
Radio is a story of the birth, life and death of one young man's American dream, all told in a perfectly manageable 45 minutes. As anti-Americanism is second... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006