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 FringeCivil Rogues @ Pleasance Courtyard
The Pleasance’s Civil Rogues is an old-fashioned comedy with old-fashioned jokes and old-fashioned characters, set at the time of Cromwell’s old-... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Green Snake @ C Venues
Watching two exquisitely dressed women perform a dialogue in a language one cannot begin to imagine to dream to understand two words of, is an interesting ex... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The 56 @ Underbelly, Bristo Square
FYSA Theatre provide an untold look into the Bradford City Fire in The 56 through a verbatim performance using interviews from three survivors. The title si... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Uk FestivalsNorthwest Festival Watch – September 2014
The festival season's last hurrah Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Frank Sent Me @ Underbelly Bristo Square
Em-Lou Productions brings Edinburgh Fringe dark comedy in the form of Frank Sent Me, unravelling the tale of Howe, a mafia enforcer who knows his boss Frank... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Edinburgh FringeI’m not Pale, I’m Dead @ Assembly Hall
One-woman show I’m not Pale, I’m Dead is a simple piece that unfolds from a single premise: what would you tell an Edinburgh Fringe audience if, ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014
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Edinburgh Fringe
Wingman @ Pleasance Dome
Seeing Wingman is like witnessing a hilarious adult rendition of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine, and Richard Marsh adds to that the ch... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Zulu @ Assembly Hall
Mbongeni Ngema challenges his audience’s ears in The Zulu: an oral history of the Zulu kingdom and its political turmoils, culminating in the battle of... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Keeping Abreast @ Assembly George Square Studios
City Theatre Dublin would like you to fondle your breasts. Go on, put your hands on them. Not having breasts is no excuse. Now have a squeeze. Found somethin... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
This Is Ceilidh @ Assembly George Square Gardens
This Is Ceilidh is an enthusiastically tarted up ceilidh, that uses a bagpipe battle, well-deployed tartan leggings and a mild inter-clan feud to get you on ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Edinburgh FringeA Split Decision @ The Assembly Rooms
Keir McAllister beautifully imagines the debate of Scottish Independence between Scotland and England as a husband and wife on the brink of divorce Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Simon Callow in Juvenalia @ Assembly Hall
In his latest Fringe production, Simon Callow introduces his audience to classical truths such as ‘women like big cocks’ and ‘old age turns... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Uk Festivals
Scotland Film Event Highlights – September 2014
A new film festival launches, Nick Cave beams into cinemas via satellite and the incomparable Bill Murray shows up throughout the month with a quartet of his best films Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
#MyWay @ Pleasance Dome
Youth theatre group Young Pleasance drag the Edinburgh Fringe forcefully into 2014 with #MyWay, their play on heartbreak and social media. Because of it... Read more »| 29 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD @ Pleasance Dome
Despite the three years since he watched every sequel in Disney's straight-to-DVD collection, the idea behind Thom Tuck's 2011 debut show continues to appear... Read more »| 29 Aug 2014