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 FringeTommy Rowson: One Piece At a Time
Tommy Rowson mixes autobiographical material with observational comedy and fictional embellishments, all delivered with wry Welsh charm. A BBC New Comedy fin... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeDan Cook: Community Service
Easily the most exuberant member of one-time sketch group, Delete the Banjax, Dan Cook is here on Community Service. Feeling the punitive downside of lobbing... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Edward Aczel: Edward Aczel Lives in a Meaningless Shed
Edward Aczel Lives in a Meaningless Shed is a resounding failure. Sadly, he falls short of bombastic claims his show contains nothing worthy of even a titter... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Uk Festivals
Summercamp festival, Liverpool, 24-25 Aug
It's a bank holiday weekend, and Liverpool International Music Festival and everything else that's going on seem perfectly aligned as the sun beams down on t... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeSolstice @ Assembly Roxy
Solstice is an interesting play that unnerves you from the very beginning – or at least makes clear the direction it is going in with its staging, visi... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeThe List @ Summerhall
Stellar Quines theatre company presents The List, a piece about a woman who makes, of course, lists of tasks to avoid feeling out of control of her new life ... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013
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Edinburgh FringeRed Bastard @ Assembly (Bosco Theatre)
Putting this review in print seems to contravene the very spirit of Red Bastard's performance, since it became obvious very quickly it was going to be a once... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
Uk Festivals
FrightFest 2013: Round-up 2 – Dispatches From The Dark Heart of Cinema
A round-up of the second day at Film4 FrightFest, where there were ghosties, zombies, beasties, time travel, guys making prime manure out of other guys... well, most things, really Read more »| 25 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Maggie O’Farrell
As the rain beats down on the roof of the Baillie Gifford Theatre, Maggie O’Farrell discusses her new novel, Instructions for a Heatwave. The irony of ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Track 3 @ Bedlam Theatre
Theatre Movement Bazaar, who brought the sell-out hit Anton’s Uncles to the Fringe in 2011, return to the world of Chekov with this dramatic and exhila... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
Uk Festivals
FrightFest 2013: Round-up 1 – Dispatches From The Dark Heart of Cinema
We lock ourselves in Empire Leicester Square for five days of death and dismemberment with some of the most fervent genre fans around. We escaped the baying throng long enough to deliver this, the first of our roundups... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Rain That Washes @ Pleasance Dome
As Zimbabwe’s political opposition challenges Robert Mugabe’s recent victory in the presidential elections, it feels timely and necessary to take... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Pete Cain: Everybody Out!
Pete offers a bold solution to problems currently blighting the UK due to, as he puts it, there simply being too many of us. He wants all of us out and for p... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Cadre @ Traverse
Written by Omphile Molusi and performed by Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Cadre explores a young man's journey through the apartheid in South Africa &ndas... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Bruce Fummey - My Afro Celtic Angst @ Laughing Horse Comedy
For about an hour, Bruce Fummey lets the audience in on an experience not many have lived through—growing up as pretty much the only mixed-race ki... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013