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 FringeChris Coltrane: Compassion is Subversive
Chris Coltrane is back in Edinburgh with his second hour-long poke at our perfunctory political leanings. Unlike your average jobbing comic, his sights are s... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeThor of the Common Man @ TheSpace on North Bridge
Blessed by Tao, the creator of the universe, Thor is charged with the duty of being man's protector. A war rages between humans and demons, but Thor interven... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeI'm With the Band @ Traverse
Penned by the Olivier-nominated Tim Price, I’m With the Band is an exploration of dissipation of the UK with England, Ireland, Scotland and Whales repr... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Who Wants to Kill Yulia Tymoshenko? @ Assembly Roxy
The imprisoned former Ukranian Prime Minister fights her case behind bars. Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Titus Andronicus @ theSpace, Surgeon's Hall
Sometimes a dramatic setting change of a well-known work can go disastrously wrong but when it’s pulled off, it can be difficult to imagine the piece b... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeCollected Stories @ New Town Theatre
Collected Stories tells the story of two women, two writers, who take on a mentor/student relationship that lasts over the years. This acts as the basis that... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013
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Edinburgh Fringe
Six Characters In Search Of An Author @ C
Six Characters In Search Of An Author was penned by Luigi Pirandello in 1921, and the performance starts with exactly what the title tells you: six name... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Humans Inc @ C
The futuristic Humans Inc clearly borrows more than just a couple of ideas from Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, although it reverses the positions a little.&nbs... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Titus Andronicus @ C Nova
When your company’s Fringe production has to compete with two other adaptations of the same play, there will inevitably be comparisons made between the... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Rough Theatre @ Paradise In The Vault
If ever there was a venue that was made to house a Samuel Beckett production, it's Paradise At The Vault. Dark, bleak and basically underground it is the per... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Autumn of Han @ TheSpace at Surgeons' Hall
The Autumn of Han is a lovely new adaptation of a traditional Chinese play, by Ross Ericson. It traces the story of ZhaoJun, tipped to be presented to The E... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Shakespeare's Cymbeline @ Just The Tonic at The Caves
Free Range Productions interpretation of Shakespeare's Cymbeline has everything that makes for a good Shakespearian production. As soon as you walk in, ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Stuart: A Life Backwards @ Underbelly
Stuart is a homeless man suffering from motor neurone disease, a larger-than-life motormouth, enchanting but unpredictable, and at risk, criminal and ment... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Toi Toi Toi @ Paradise in Augustine's
Toi Toi Toi (break a leg, if you're an opera singer,) is one for real classical music lovers. A low budget opera at the Edinburgh Fringe, about putting on a ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeExpiration Date @ Merchant's Hall
A hundred years in the future, your personality can be saved onto a computer when you reach your expiration date at the ripe old age of one hundred and fifty... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013