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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Uk FestivalsTHAT's The Way To Do It: THAT Festival 2013
Now in its second year, THAT Festival is bringing the cream of Scottish theatre, performance, music and literature to Stirling's Macrobert arts centre. We asked curator Alice McGrath to tell us about the highlights of the programme Read more »| 04 Oct 2013 -
Uk FestivalsLiverpool International Festival of Psychedelia @ Camp and Furnace, 27-28 September
As one of the most anticipated dates in Liverpool’s gigging calendar, this year the onus on Psych Fest was to open the weekender to a bigger audience t... Read more »| 02 Oct 2013 -
Uk Festivals
Play Poland 2013: Poster Boys
Play Poland returns this year with a focus on the great Polish tradition of movie poster design and welcomes legendary graphic designer Andrzej Pągowski to the festival Read more »| 01 Oct 2013 -
Edinburgh FestivalsHorror at Sea: Lucien Castaing-Taylor on Leviathan
Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s eye-popping documentary Leviathan screens at Abandon Normal Devices before its UK-wide theatrical release in November. He describes a gruelling shoot Read more »| 01 Oct 2013 -
Uk FestivalsX and Y: The First Women in Comedy Festival
The premise of the first UK Women in Comedy Festival is the subject of much debate, but either way, it's happening, and in a big way, with gigs all over Manchester throughout the month. We choose some chuckles Read more »| 01 Oct 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
500 Smiles: Dexter Fletcher on Sunshine on Leith
Adapting a stage play built around The Proclaimers’ back catalogue, actor-turned-director Dexter Fletcher gets musical for his second feature behind the camera. We spoke to him while he was in Edinburgh for the film’s international premiere Read more »| 30 Sep 2013
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Uk Festivals
THAT festival @ Macrobert
THAT festival returns to the Macrobert, and brings three days of theatre, dance, art, and spoken word performances for young people to a venue appropriately&... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Mister John
This cinematic enigma opens with reflections dissolving into one another on the surface of a lake. And like those merging images the film shows a distorted ... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Identity in Flux: Aidan Gillen on Mister John
Aidan Gillen discusses his performance in Mister John, the enigmatic and bracingly original new film from Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy Read more »| 20 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Hidden @ Underbelly Cowgate
From the very second that Hidden begins, it has the audience laughing. It grabs hold of your attention from the start and refuses to let go, slowly stringing... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Year I Was Gifted @ Sweet
The Year I Was Gifted is the true tale of the year one otherwise unexceptional teenage girl lied her way into one of America's most preeminent boarding schoo... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Bridge That Tom Built @ C Nova
Bringing two shows to the fringe this year, Flanagan Collective could really give a masterclass in the kind of storytelling performance that breaks the ... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Man Who Thought The Moon Would Fall Out Of The Sky @ Northern Stage At St Stephens
In Edinburgh for one night only, the NORTH company of 2013 bring you the tale of The Man Who Thought The Moon Would Fall Out Of The Sky. Combining storytelli... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Bin Laden: The One Man Show @ C Nova
Bin Laden: The One Man Show presents an interactive history of perhaps the most influential public figure of the new millenium. The show, spiced with humour... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Beulah @ C Venues
Flanagan Collective's mesmerising musical storytelling show Beulah had its Fringe debut in 2012 and returns once more due to popular demand. It is easy to se... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013