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 FringeFaith Healer
With the Fringe bulging obesely with single-performer shows, surely the Edinburgh International Festival could treat us to something a little less dour than ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Yellow Wallpaper
A single sheet of hideously unattractive yellow wallpaper and a sterile-looking single bed of the type that should only ever be seen in a hospital ward set t... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Summer I Did the Leaving
A boy from a backward Irish village hits the road, and has all kinds of crazy drug experiences along the way – the basic plot of Aindrias De Staic&rsqu... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Simon Munnery's AGM09
A regular performer at the Fringe since 1994, Simon Munnery is legendary for his particular brand of comedy, taking the audience on an unpredictable and ofte... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeSimon Brodkin: Still Not Himself
Since his last Edinburgh run, Simon Brodkin has written for and appeared in Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder. If working alongside one of the UK's m... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Rosa Waxes Lyrical
With accents somewhere between Borat and a Bond villain, Rosa Wax and her fantastically-named pianist partner Boris Longshlongadongski offer a riotous hour o... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh FringeReginald D Hunter: The Only Apple in the Garden of Eden and Niggas
Guess what? Reginald D Hunter likes the word 'nigga'. Despite past controversy over his use of the word, it is back in the title of his latest show and he i... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringePhilip Escoffey: Six More Impossible Things Before Dinner
Early in the show, Philip Escoffey asks for a show of hands to see who present believes in the paranormal. A thin spattering of enthusiasts respond. Were he ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Patrick Monahan's Stories and Fables for Kids that Like to Sit at Tables
Children's shows, however conceptually regressive they may seem, are far from the last refuge of the complacent comedian. Those who attempt them often find i... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Vladimir McTavish: The Top 50 Greatest Scots Of All Time Ever Part Two
The clue as to the quality of this show is in its title: it's pretty funny, but goes on a bit too long and starts to run out of steam towards the... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Celia Pacquola: Am I Strange?
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Celia Pacquola emerges onto the stage in a ramshackle fashi... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Matt Price: My Girlfriend Was Attacked By A Small-Time Wannabe Gangster and This Is What I Did About It
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> “It was more stand-up, slash sauna,” was the li... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Max and Ivan: Televisionaries
Television has long been a source for parody. From Saturday Night Live's send-ups of blatant, sleazy advertising in the seventies to the writings of George ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeTom Craine: Comfort Blanket
Gawky and self-effacing stand-up Tom Craine throws out warnings from the offset that this will be a reasonably tame hour of comedy: “We’ll probab... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Is the Daily Mail Dead Yet?
“Why run a campaign when you can launch a crusade?” reads the text on William Hammer-Lloyd’s t-shirt, emblazoned below an image of the Dail... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009