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 FringeNick Doody: Tour of Doody
Scenes of global horror flash before the eyes of the audience, while correspondingly dramatic music blares from the speakers. Suddenly a manically grinning K... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringePot Noodle: The Musical
It is a truth not always universally acknowledged that it is possible for a musical to be drivel even if it is based on a work of Shakespeare. Pot Noodle&mda... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Paul Tonkinson
Unlike a lot of bitter-and-twisted comics stomping and sulking their way through the Fringe, Paul Tonkinson is one of a rare breed that appears to like what ... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeBadly Ranted Thoughts via the Magic of Song
So, you want your own show at the Edinburgh Fringe? But you haven’t got any actual skills? Not a problem. Dr. CocacolaMcDonalds is here to help. First... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Emigrants
It’s not often that you see a performer embrace a critic like a member of the family, but this is exactly what happens at the beginning of Emigrants, d... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Life at the Molecular Level
As you wander from the Gilded Balloon Teviot, past the Grolsch Green and down to the Smirnoff Underbelly, it’s easy to forget that the Edinburgh Fringe... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008
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Edinburgh FringeInvAsian Festival: It Ain't All Bollywood
Bollywood films frequently make it into the UK top-ten, and Hollywood studios have started moving into the commercial Indian film industry. It Ain’t al... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeClockheart Boy
The most memorable fairy tales are often the ones that don’t succumb to a happy ending. Dumbshow, the theatre group behind the hugely imaginative Clock... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Yasser
Those with an interest in politics, Shakespeare and metatheatre will greatly enjoy el Gardi’s passionate performance of this thought-provoking play Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Karl Spain: Life Is Sweet
It is a truth universally acknowledged that other people's health problems make for diabolically boring conversation. Whether granny's arthritis has been giv... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Adventures of Buttboy and Tigger
Sat among a well-dressed, predominantly male audience while watching the apparent re-enactment of the racier scenes from a particularly explicit gay porn fil... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jason John Whitehead: The Joker
Sweat and rainwater dripped ominously to the floor in disturbingly large quantities. Something was not quite right that evening in the dark, echoing tunnels ... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Rhod Gilbert & The Award Winning Mince Pie
Rhod Gilbert runs onstage, unshaven and apologising. "I’m sick," he mumbles as he swills his lager and darts his eyes. His voice is loud but oddly deli... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jim Jeffries: Hammered
"A lot of female reviewers have been giving me two stars," Jim Jeffries exclaims, after an hour that has chiefly consisted of misogynistic musings on miserab... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Wilson Dixon Rides Again
Despite there only being one Stetson in the room, Wilson Dixon’s audience of mostly middle-aged couples and boisterous young men gives this fake Countr... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008