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 FringePants on Fire's Pinocchio @ Pleasance Dome
Pants on Fire Theatre have built a reputation over the last few years at the Fringe for highly imaginative re-inventions of classic texts. This year’s ... Read more »| 05 Sep 2013 -
ArtWhen Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013 @ Prada Foundation, Venice
When Attitudes Become Form is a re-enactment of Harald Szeeman's landmark exhibition that took place in the Bern Kunsthalle in 1969, translated as accurate... Read more »| 05 Sep 2013 -
Uk FestivalsFirst Thought, Best Thought: A Look at Write Now Festival
Combining six brand new one-act plays, workshops and script-in-hand readings, Liverpool's Write Now Festival lays bare the writing and rehearsal process, as Ian Moore explains Read more »| 05 Sep 2013 -
Uk FestivalsVenice Film Festival 2013: Never Trust a Beautiful Woman in a Transit Van
Our second report from the 70th Venice Film Festival: Under the Skin and Tom at the Farm Read more »| 05 Sep 2013 -
Uk Festivals
Venice Film Festival 2013: Planes, Boats and Mobiles
Our first report from the 70th Venice Film Festival: The Wind Rises, Night Move, Philomena and The Canyons Read more »| 04 Sep 2013 -
Uk Festivals
Day Tripping: Liverpool Psych Fest returns for a second year
Plug in, wig out and feel the love for Liverpool Psych Fest's sophomore outing Read more »| 03 Sep 2013
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Edinburgh FringeEllis and Rose: The 'Punch' and Judy show
Ellis and Rose look back on causing controversy at the Fringe Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Threeway @ Pleasance Courtyard
Threeway is exactly what you would imagine on first hearing the title. A young Scottish couple from the Highlands who moved to Glasgow for new experiences de... Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Conversations Not Fit For The American Dinner Table @ Bedlam Theatre
Call me a sucker for political satire (and, let's face it, satire that ties into my own views) but upon reading that playwright Sol Max of Conversations Not ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Brand New Ancients @ The Traverse
Everyday Epics Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Road to Qatar @ C too
The Road to Qatar, a musical about a couple of New York Jews who write musical comedy being whisked away to the Middle East to write a show for some overbear... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dance Derby @ Paterson's Land
This dance/jazz/theatre show is both an enjoyable and uncomfortable experience, as it explores how far we are willing to go. Based on the American dance ma... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Cape Wrath @ Northern Stage at St Stephen's
This charming, totally involving show, performed to an audience of sixteen, in a cosy mini-bus, takes you on an imaginary journey to Cape Wrath, the top lef... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Garden @ Paterson's Land
The intimate space of Paterson's Land is perfect for this exquisite mini-opera, first performed at Aberdeen's Sound Festival, by the husband and wife team, ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Metamorphosis @ The Merchant’s Hall
Gregor is a lithium addict. Her life is a little routine to her, to put it mildly, in fact is seems unbearably so as she moves increasingly mechanically, lik... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013