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.
-
Edinburgh Fringe
Dogs Barking
Love, revenge, violence and an awful lot of alcohol: all the ingredients necessary for an exhilarating drama. Written by Richard Zajdlic, creator of the BBC ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Golden
This show markets itself as a “political satire based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth.” You wouldn’t guess that from watching it. The idea o... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Moliere's Tartuffe
Immediately censored after its first performance in 1664, Tartuffe is a contentious play which relentlessly targets figures of religious authority. But with ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Happy Savages
Happy Savages is an interesting and well-acted play which successfully portrays the emotional intricacies of modern relationships Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
PoeJazzi: Spokenworld
Performance poetry, when done well, is so different from reading verse on a page. It should be vibrant, eclectic and powerful – a vivacious mix between... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Simon Callow - A Festival Dickens
From the second Simon Callow parts the curtains his presence fills the room. He's packed out The Assembly's Music Hall, a 400-capacity venue on George Stree... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008
-
Edinburgh Fringe
I Wanna Be Loved By You
Who really was Marilyn Monroe? I Wanna Be Loved By You tries to answer this question. Charting her life journey, from Norma Jean’s rise to fame up to h... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dance Base Presents ... Alan Lucien Øyen & X Factor Dance Company
Dance Base provides a glass-clad and stainless-steel-lined sanctuary from the Fringe crowds. What the building promises in terms of "trendy," the shows provi... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Boy from Centreville
“The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say” Lifted from Edgar’s final speech in King Lear, th... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Riot Showgrrrls Club
After leaving The Riot Showgrrrls Club, I present one of the “labia cakes” I have acquired—that is, a fairy cake decorated with a gumdrop c... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dinner
The Dinner, written by Writers' Guild award winner Moira Buffini, plots an evening in which bitter socialite Paige crafts her guests' downfall with a... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jim Bowen: Look At What You Could Have Won
“In my day we just stole other people’s jokes.” This line neatly summates Jim Bowen's entire show. Fundamentally, this is a nostalgia trip... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Des Bishop: Tongues
Des Bishop emerges from backstage, beaming, looking like your next door neighbour’s slightly hip-hop older brother. His voice is soft but clearly trans... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Wanderlust
With the right atmosphere this could be a really enchanting evening event to set you up for a spirited late night of Fringe festivities. But relying heavily ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Once And For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen
The reason why all adults despise teenagers is announced: we just can’t stand to look at them and remember that we’re old; that we’re never... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008