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 Festivals
EIF: Trojan Women @ Festival Theatre
This Korean adaptation of Euripides' classic play is a sweeping epic that showcases pansori Read more »| 10 Aug 2023 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Kathy Maniura @ Gilded Balloon
Kathy Maniura's Edinburgh Fringe debut is a solid and goofy hour of character comedy that you'd happily recommend Read more »| 10 Aug 2023 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Robin Tran @ Assembly George Square
Robin Tran brings her show Don't Look At Me to the Edinburgh Fringe, striking a perfect balance between sincere discussions of meaningful topics and bawdy dick jokes Read more »| 10 Aug 2023 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Vanya is Alive @ theSpace, Symposium Hall
A one-person show presented by exiled anti-war Russian theatremakers, Vanya is Alive is unsettling, heart-breaking and remarkably compelling Read more »| 10 Aug 2023 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Stuntman @ Summerhall
Impressive physical work meets tenderness in this exploration of masculinity and the theatre of violence Read more »| 10 Aug 2023 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Elf and Duffy: Heist @ Monkey Barrel
Elf Lyons and Duffy steal audience hearts in an inventive and absurd comedy told through physical comedy, foley, and British Sign Language Read more »| 10 Aug 2023
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Edinburgh Fringe
Lie Low @ Traverse Theatre
The UK premiere of Lie Low captures shame, interrogates culpability, and holds a mirror up to the fraught dynamics of accountability Read more »| 10 Aug 2023 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Alexandra Haddow @ Pleasance Courtyard
Alexandra Haddow hilariously shares the defining moments of her life so far in her debut Edinburgh Fringe show Not My Finest Hour Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Did You Eat? @ Greenside Infirmary Street
Zoë Kim's solo show Did You Eat? is a bold, direct look at growing up in a Korean-American family, delivered with warmth and dedication Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Annabel Marlow @ Pleasance Courtyard
SIX star Annabel Marlow’s debut comedy hour is charming but lacks laughs Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Ikechukwu Ufomadu @ Pleasance Courtyard
Ikechukwu Ufomadu is a revelation in his brilliantly absurd debut hour Amusements Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
Art
Edinburgh Art Festival: Platform 2023
Edinburgh Art Festival's Platform exhibition returns with a fresh cohort of emerging talent. This year, each artist has been paired with a writer from the EAF x The Skinny writer programme to explore their practice Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
Art
Queering the City: Edinburgh Art Festival 2023
As Edinburgh Art Festival returns this month, The Skinny meet Sean Burns and Tarek Lakhrissi to discuss their artistic contributions to the festival Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Plague Stone Party on queer paganism & Farewell, Tor
Plague Stone Party (aka Ozzy Algar and Buoys Buoys Buoys) are bringing their ‘freak folk comedy’ Farewell, Tor to the Fringe. We talk to them about the show and the growing niche of queer paganism Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
Books
Devorah Baum, Alva Gotby and Sophie K Rosa on what radical love looks like
Ahead of their event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, we ask authors Devorah Baum, Alva Gotby and Sophie K Rosa about their most utopian imagination of what love can look like Read more »| 09 Aug 2023