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 FringeSleeping Beauty @ Institut Français d'Ecosse
This is not the typical fairly-tale of the Princess Aurora that slumbers in the tallest room of the tallest tower, waiting to be awakened by true love’... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show @ Pleasance Dome
With a coffee in one hand and a paper plate of strawberries and croissants in the other the audience are prepared for The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show to br... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh FringeHow to Achieve Redemption as a Scot through the Medium of Braveheart @ Underbelly
Rachael Clerke recounts the history of her Scottishness in How to Achieve Redemption as a Scot through the Medium of Braveheart, while assiduously avoiding t... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh FringeHappy @ Pleasance Dome
When seeing Happy by No Prophet Theatre at this year's Fringe, it is difficult not to wonder which meta level the piece operates on. Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
A Male Soprano @ Paradise in the Vault
Fireden Productions bring A Male Soprano to Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The journey from bullied young boy to male soprano with an agent falls slightly ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh FringeAntiquithon @ Institut Français d'Ecosse
Weirdly bizarre but hardly wonderful, the makeshift play, Antiquithon, will leave one more in a state of confusion than laughter as you exit, or rather run from the Institut Français d'Ecosse Read more »| 18 Aug 2014
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Edinburgh Fringe
Factor 9 @ Summerhall
Less than 30 years ago, Britain was privy to modern man’s largest medical scandal. Thousands of haemophiliacs (a medical condition in which the ability... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Videos
Come Fringe Yourself with Tom Stade – Episode 5
Tom Stade hosts Episode 5 (the Film Noir episode) of Come Fringe Yourself, a chat show filmed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014. With his co-host Da... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Conflict in Court / Silence in Court @ New Town Theatre
Liam Rudden’s plays Conflict in Court and Silence in Court are theatre-experiences unlike any other that are currently on show in the Edinburgh Fringe ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh FringeBelfast Boy @ Spotlites (The Merchant's Hall)
The audience takes their seats. The room darkens. A chair stands out in the spotlight. Then, from the edge of the room, Martin Hall, played by Declan Perring... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Spoiling @ Traverse Theatre
Even though Traverse Theatre Company's Spoiling looks forward to Scottish politics after September’s independence referendum, the political comedy has ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
riverrun @ Traverse Theatre
Finally nature is able to speak for itself. In riverrun at the Traverse Theatre, Olwen Fouéré takes the voice of the river Life from Finnegan's Wake, words spilling softly from her mouth as she embraces the river in all its glory. Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Chrysalis @ Paradise in the Vault
Edinburgh Fringe Festival presents Chrysalis by Big Squirrel Productions, a sweet play that explores the lives of three people who have endured tough times ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Carousel @ Traverse Theatre
Carousels are defined visually by their glamorous lights, highly polished surfaces and lavishly decorated assorted animals for children (or occasional adults... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Century Poe: Moyamensing @ Pleasance Dome
Marty Ross brings his retelling of an episode of Edgar Allan Poe’s life to the stage in 21st Century Poe: Moyamensing, which turns out to be a ve... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014