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 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 -
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
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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 -
Edinburgh FringeRed Bastard @ Assembly (Bosco Theatre)
Putting this review in print seems to contravene the very spirit of Red Bastard's performance, since it became obvious very quickly it was going to be a once... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
Uk FestivalsFrightFest 2013: Round-up 2 – Dispatches From The Dark Heart of Cinema
A round-up of the second day at Film4 FrightFest, where there were ghosties, zombies, beasties, time travel, guys making prime manure out of other guys... well, most things, really Read more »| 25 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Maggie O’Farrell
As the rain beats down on the roof of the Baillie Gifford Theatre, Maggie O’Farrell discusses her new novel, Instructions for a Heatwave. The irony of ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeTrack 3 @ Bedlam Theatre
Theatre Movement Bazaar, who brought the sell-out hit Anton’s Uncles to the Fringe in 2011, return to the world of Chekov with this dramatic and exhila... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013