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 Fringe
The Patriot Act
In one of the darkest moments of the 1950s red scare, lauded playwright Arthur Miller was famously dragged before the Senate’s Un-American Activities C... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Absolution
A tightly woven, well performed plot sometimes verges on "angsty" Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Sound and Fury's 'Cyranose!'
This is the first year comic trio Sound and Fury have bought one of their shows to Edinburgh, and it’s well worth the wait. This musical parody of Cyra... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Torn Out Pages
Torn Out Pages is an ambitious play – sexual abuse, suicide, love and mental illness are just some of the issues we are forced to confront in this dark... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Battle of Pots ‘n’ Pans
The Battle of Prestonpans Heritage Trust has teamed up with the Prestonpans community to commemorate the historical battle which took place there in Septembe... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Domestic Godley
Janey Godley certainly seems to have led a colourful life: she grew up in Glasgow’s deprived East End, married into a gangster family at the age of 18 ... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008
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Edinburgh Fringe
Pete Firman: FlimFlam
The problem with stage magic is that once you've seen one trick you've seen them all. Raised on a diet of large-scale showmen like David Copperfield, Criss ... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
I Think, You Stink and Other Sad Tales...
The cast of I Think, You Stink begin by hypnotizing the audience to mentally prepare us for the morbid goings-on we are about to witness. “Welcome to t... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Scratch: The Reduced Edinburgh Fringe Impro Show
Five comedians and a pianist hear the words “Hitler Alone” and immediately leap onto the stage to improvise a fabulously hilarious all singing, a... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
I Love You Bro
Based on real events in Greater Manchester in 2003, I Love You Bro is a dark, disquieting tale of sexual fixation and the enormous power of the internet as a... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Umbrella Birds
One of the curses of the festival is that a town one twentieth the size of London struggles to accommodate the hundreds of venues required. As a result you e... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dark Grumblings
The glimmers of comic interest do little to rescue this overly-noisy and generally aggravating show Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Pegabovine: Polite Club
Davis Wateracre is one of the few comedians who will greet you at the door with a shake of the hand and an enquiry as to how you have been keeping. It is to ... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Idiots of Ants 2008
Why Idiots of Ants have been put on in the ghastly Pleasance Beside (read: portakabin) is anyone's guess. For a start, there's the logistical problem. A four... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Tell-Tale Heart
Latecomers are strictly not admitted in this almost word-for-word adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s much-studied short story, and moments in we see why. ... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008