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 FringeMarcus Birdman - Happily Ever After @ Stand 2
Last year, Marcus Birdman came to the Fringe with a show about his recent stroke. This year, worried about putting together a show with a similarly meaty sub... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeGabe Day @ theSpace, Surgeon's Hall
A demented American televangelist minister has declared to his many followers that the world is about to end, so club owners Charlie and Kate do the sensible... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Sock Puppet @ Pleasance Courtyard
Haunted sock meets desperate man. Murders ensue. With a hilarious B-movie style, Sock Puppet consists of two ghost stories that eventually fuse into one, and... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeAn Actor's Lament @ Assembly
As a critic, one suspects it would be very easy to be offended by Berkoff’s latest comedy, seeing as he drops in many scathing and vitriolic remarks ab... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience @ B'est Restaurant
Hilarious, delicious, Faulty Towers: the Dining Experience is a Fringe Legend. Now in its sixth consecutive year at Edinburgh, the show plus ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Dark Matter @ Summerhall
If you were strolling through Leith later in the evening, winding down from a hectic day of Fringe activities in the city centre, you may have spotted an exc... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013
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Edinburgh Fringe
The Fanny Hill Project @ Zoo
The Fanny Hill Project is a powerful discussion of society's perception of sex workers. Kyra is invited on stage to tell the story of how and why she came to... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Don Quijote @ Summerhall
Don Quijote is a brave and funny performance that recontextualises and reclaims the importance of Cervantes' book. Although there is obviously a great deal o... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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What is the weight of your desire @ Zoo
“A woman is an object. A woman is a sexual object.” There are many pieces of performance trying to create a discourse around objectification of w... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Punchline @ TheSpace at Surgeons' Hall
There are many kinds of comedy. Black comedy, shadenfreude (laughter at the expense of others), fish comedy – or should I say surrealism, and more to b... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Predator Guy @ Outside Starbucks
According to what I just copy-and-pasted from Wikipedia, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world's largest arts festival, with thousands of shows from all... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Doug Johnstone & Laura Lippman
Doug Johnstone is one of the rising stars of Scottish thriller writing, his novels characterised by their realistic, nuanced portrayals or ordinary people in... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Salome @ TheSpace at Surgeons Hall
Making Oscar Wilde's controversial tragedy, banned in France where he lived when he wrote it, into a contemporary Rock Opera is certainly a novel idea. This ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Luke Wright & Michael Pedersen
Two poets who have made the leap from stage to page, defying the bias against performance poetry which still undeniably exists in the minds of academics and ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Denise Mina
For Denise Mina, writing crime fiction has always been a political choice. Her novels are deeply suffused with a yearning for social justice; her characters ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013