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 FringeTest Tube Comedy
Test Tube Comedy throws three performers to a hungry crowd with satisfying results. Compere Dec Munro is energetic and warm, ordering the crowd to clap.... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeBenjamin Partridge: An Evening with Jeff Goldblum
The seats bank down to the cinema screen and Jeff Goldblum stands before us. A skinny, white, Welsh Jeff Goldlum. He tells us he’s not often recognised... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeMax Dickins: Dear Ray
The love tribulations of an older gent, a sprinkling of self-deprecation, a touch of characterisation – all these intertwine to make up the show. It&rs... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeJacob Edwards: Faux Latino Show Pony
Fans of The Sunday Defensive will be pleased to hear that despite devouring an entire block of Red Leicester daily in Fringe 2010, Jacob Edwards isn’t ... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeBridget Christie: A Bic for Her
Bridget Christie bounces on stage with the enthusiasm of a puppy let loose in a box of bubble wrap. Explicitly billed as a feminist comedy gig starting at 11... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeJohn Robertson: The Dark Room
John Robertson may look like a police composite of a serial killer, but he is so God-damn adorable you'll easily forget he probably knows how to fit one hitc... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013
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Edinburgh FringeAdrienne Truscott's Asking for It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else!
2013 is already being celebrated as the year of feminist comedy. And that's not a surprise, given how our cultural dialogue has changed and your average Whit... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeFestival Of The Spoken Nerd
The geeks have inherited the earth and never before has there been a better time to do a show about physics and Excel. Festival of the Spoken Nerd, starring ... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeThrice
Nathan Dean Williams was last seen in Edinburgh in 2011 with his ferocious, malevolent series of sketches, The Banquet. This time he's roped in regular colla... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
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 FringeEdward 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 FestivalsSummercamp 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