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 FringeHelen Bauer @ Monkey Barrel
Helen Bauer returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with an abrasive and triumphant hour Read more »| 04 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeRift @ Traverse Theatre
Gabriel Jason Dean's Rift is an unforgettable gut punch about brotherhood, abuse, and the space between reality and fiction Read more »| 04 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeRed Like Fruit @ Traverse Theatre
Set against a post #MeToo backdrop, Hannah Moscovitch's minimal play – in which a woman hands over the telling of her story to a male counterpart – is quietly radical Read more »| 04 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeChat Sh*t, Get Hit @ Summerhall
Martha Pailing's solo show is an earnest, funny and engaging look at female rage, but one which feels underdeveloped at times Read more »| 04 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeMushroomification (Legs, Legs, Legs) @ The Mash House
Up-and-coming Edinburgh theatre collective Heads on Crooked grows a whip-smart fungal show that's much more than the sum of its DIY parts Read more »| 04 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringePathways to Possibility: Welcome to the Fringe, Palestine
Welcome to the Fringe, Palestine arrives at Portobello Town Hall, promising a four-day mini-festival of theatre, dance, comedy, food, storytelling, music and poetry created by Palestinians Read more »| 02 Aug 2025
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FilmKVIFF 2025: Nathan Ambrosioni on Out of Love
We meet the talented young French filmmaker Nathan Ambrosioni, who sold his game consoles at 14 to buy his first camera. Now 25, he's just won the Crystal Globe for Best Director at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Read more »| 01 Aug 2025 -
Uk FestivalsPuppet Masters: resistance in stop-motion animation
New stop-motion films from directors Alain Ughetto and Claude Barras, which screen at French Film Festival UK, tell intensely personal stories and harness the revolutionary potential of this old-school animation technique Read more »| 01 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeI'm Ready to Talk Now @ Traverse Theatre
Oliver Ayres' one-on-one show I'm Ready to Talk Now foregrounds access and ambience in a minimal, precise, boundary-blurring 45 minutes Read more »| 31 Jul 2025 -
FilmTen films to see at Edinburgh Film Festival 2025
Here are ten titles to add to your Edinburgh Film Festival watchlist, from sparky dramas to documentaries about competitive porridge-making Read more »| 30 Jul 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeTheatre Maketh Man: Masculinity and the Fringe
Perhaps it has become necessary to tell stories about a better masculinity, because the classics are no longer good enough – we look at a string of shows offering new views of masculinity at this year's Fringe Read more »| 30 Jul 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Body Is Disappearing: AI at the Edinburgh Fringe
Our theatre editor asks what the use of generative AI means for creativity in performance Read more »| 28 Jul 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeA Shedload of Good: Shedinburgh returns to the Fringe
From Texas to Tokyo to Edinburgh College of Art, Shedinburgh brings a new approach to the Fringe's presentation to Edinburgh this August Read more »| 28 Jul 2025 -
Edinburgh FestivalsPortrait of an Erased Estate: Aqsa Arif's Raindrops of Rani
At Edinburgh Printmakers, Aqsa Arif subverts the famous Sony Bravia 'Paint' advert that was filmed in her childhood council flat. Our Art Editor considers the necessity for creative expression in the face of growing threats to social housing Read more »| 28 Jul 2025 -
Edinburgh FestivalsThe Spectacle of History: Wael Shawky @ Talbot Rice Gallery
Holly Allan, an Edinburgh Art Festival X The Skinny Emerging Writer, considers what it means to observe Wael Shawky’s solo exhibition in a city with a colonial past Read more »| 28 Jul 2025