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 FestivalsHeads Up @ Dance Base
Heads Up is a smorgsbord of delights over 3 days, each day a new, last-minute programme of extracts of what's on at Dance Base, but also a cornucopia of... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh FestivalsFidelio @ Festival Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival
Re-settings in historical eras seem to be de rigueur for opera productions nowadays, so why not set Fidelio in futuristic outer space, with 21st centur... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeMadame Freedom @ King's Theatre
Tradition and modernity meet head-on in this stunningly beautiful interactive performance of dance, film and innovative computer-generated visuals by a husb... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Seven Deadly Sins @ Paterson's Land
Set in the depression-era America of the 30s, The Seven Deadly Sins tells the story of two sisters who leave Louisiana to make their family's fortune. ... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
In-be-tween @ Dance Base
Beauty and pain: ever paired? In-be-tween is not a dance piece; it's more like a 60s 'happening', and it comes out of performance art such as that by Marina... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
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Ours was the Fen Country @ Dance Base
Poetic, intensely moving and beautifully melding oral history, film stills and physical theatre/dance, this is both a celebratory and elegiac piece about the... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013
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Edinburgh Fringe
Grounded @ Traverse
Barack Obama’s recent defence of drones, despite the possibility of civilian deaths, suggests the controversial tactic will be creating more headlines ... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeRepertory Theatre @ C
With over 2,800 shows, the Edinburgh Fringe certainly has a lot to offer, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t many more who were turned away. In ... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Oh my Irma @ Hill Street Theatre
Solo performances are doing rather well at this year’s Fringe, with Grounded and Captain Amazing both pulling in large audiences. C... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeMissing @ Pleasance Courtyard
The cases of Baby P, and more recently Daniel Pelka, have brought the subject of parenting under the scrutiny of the national press. While the issues depicte... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Opinion: It’s an Unfair Copstick, Guv
“I genuinely believe – this won’t go down well, but – if you walk into Battersea Dogs Home with your legs covered in prime rump steak, you cannot complain if you get bitten.” Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Boris and Sergey II Perilous Escapade @ Pleasance Courtyard
Appearing at this year’s Fringe with their new show Boris and Sergey II Perilous Escapade, this is a chance to revisit the production which starte... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Canary Gold @ C
Since the 2008 recession there have been many dramatic narratives surrounding it, be they theatrical, comedic or other. Few however will have linked the curr... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Beijing Cake @ TheSpace on the Mile
Edinburgh Zoo recently announced they hope to oversee the first ever panda to be born in the UK. While not involving brink-of-extinction animals, Year of the... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Squidboy @ Assembly Roxy
The recent release of Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa tops off what has been a very successful progression for Steve Coogan’s blundering but lovea... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013