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 FringeMike Wozniak: Take the Hit
With his fantastic moustache, floppy bow tie and natty 70s sequined backdrop, Mike Wozniak appears to be a showbiz throwback. His material relies primar... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeNadia Kamil – Wide Open Beavers
Nadia Kamil gets straight to the point at the top of the show – elaborating on its title and shutting down preconceptions with a short history lesson a... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Mary Bourke – Muffragette
Mary Bourke has an uncanny ability to switch from being compellingly serious, to downright filthy in the same sentence. It’s a skill she uses well in t... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Kate Smurthwaite: The News at Kate 2013 My Professional Opinion
You have to give the girl some credit; she is slick. She’s clearly at home on the stage, and it shines in her delivery; hardly surprising for someone w... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Babysitter @ Pleasance Courtyard
If any of my interviews, trials or first nights as a babysitter had gone anything like it does for the unsuspecting Aaron in InDepth's The Babysitter then fr... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeBreaking The Silence @ C Nova
Should we dwell on our past, let it take over our lives in an attempt to commemorate and understand our history, or should we ignore it completely and live o... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013
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Edinburgh FringeRites: A Children's Tragedy @ Pleasance Courtyard
The Pleasance’s own young ensemble return to the Courtyard with an adaptation of Wedekind’s Spring Awakening. Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Boy Who Kicked Pigs @ Pleasance Courtyard
One nasty little boy gets what’s coming to him in an adaptation of Tom Baker’s twisted morality tale. Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Slapdash Galaxy @ Underbelly (Bristo Square)
Children’s entertainment typically consists of garish colours and raucous noises. While Scamp Theatre’s Slapdash Galaxy is indeed fille... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jimmy Savile: The Punch and Judy Show
It's normally a bad sign when the performers beg the reviewer not to name them. You can understand why though: the subject matter is still an open wound, and... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Titus Andronicus @ Bedlam Theatre
Typical. You wait years for someone to bring Titus Andronicus to the Fringe then all of a sudden there are three of them, each offering a different spin on S... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Cherry Orchard @ C aquila
Kronos Productions' new adaptation of Chekhov's classic The Cherry Orchard re-imagines the play and places it in 1980s Britain, a time when social mobility w... Read more »| 06 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
I Want To Tell You Something @ Sweet
I Want To Tell You Something. I need to talk to you. Those kinds of phrases usually instil us with a sense of fear, implying something is wrong, that we've b... Read more »| 06 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Pendulum's Bargain Emporium @ Pleasance Dome, until 24 Aug
Maison Foo re-tell The Elves and the Shoemaker fable in this inventive and surreal show, which satirises our materialistic age – consumerism, the ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Unholy Trinity: Salome, Dolly and Softer Swells @ Dance Base
An interesting triple bill of solos by three talented choreographer/dancers – Spanish-trained Avatâra Ayuso, Venetian Giorgia Nardin and Irish ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2013