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 FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Achmat Dangor
Edinburgh International Book Festival has a distinctly South African flavour this year. As well as this appearance from Achmat Dangor, there's a reading from... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield is the author of On the Map, which charts the impact of maps on world history and on our daily lives. He takes his Edinburgh audience on a jou... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Solomon & Marion @ Assembly
Why has Solomon (Khaylethu Anthony) arrived at Marion's (Dame Janet Suzman) isolated house? If he has come to murder her, then Marion urges him to hurry... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Richard Holloway
Appearing before a full house at the Book Festival, Richard Holloway displays his customary common touch, common sense and uncommonly good way with words.&nb... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
Art
Ed Atkins @ The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale
The Trick Brain takes as its starting point a section of archival footage filmed in Andre Breton's Parisian home following his death in 1966. Cluttered with ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Islanders @ Underbelly Big Belly
Part storytelling, part confessional and part music, The Islanders is an interesting mish-mash of styles put together by writer and performer Amy Mason and A... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013
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Edinburgh Fringe
Vladimir McTavish and Keir McAllister: Look at the State of Britain
Pleasingly wobbly camera work sets the scene for Look at the State of Britain, which plucks jokes from an apathetic nation on its sprint around the UK. Edin... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Albion Forlorn @ C Venues Aquila
Albion Forlorn describes itself in its marketing as “a torch song for the state we’re in” but it was impossible to find anything in this sl... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Harder Please @ theSpace, Surgeon's Hall
A masochistic melodrama, Harder Please tells the tale of learning to love; of being the exploited in a world governed through exploitation. After all, surely... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeAbigoliah Schamaun: Subtle @ The Caves
Loveable sideshow nutjob Abigoliah Schamaun is back in Edinburgh with another in-your-face hour. Without a central theme, she has free reign to talk about he... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Last Land / Il Gioco del Gregge di Capre @ Dancebase
Last Land evokes the vastness and slow rhythms of two landscapes: Antartica and the Bir Tawil desert between Sudan and Egypt, the last remaining Terra ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer @ Assembly Rooms
Set in Glasgow, 1775, the fortunes to be made from tobacco, slavery, and the moral compromises by lawyer Enoch Dalmellington which affect his bookish, 'dr... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Gareth Morinan is Playing the Numbers Game @ Banshee Labyrinth
It’s a brave move, to rely so heavily on technology, but Gareth Morinan is slick enough to make it work. His laptop feeds two screens as he regales fro... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Doug Segal: I Can Make You a Mentalist @ Gilded Balloon Teviot
Through his past shows and television appearances, Doug Segal has proven his skills as a mind reader. This year, he wants to show you how to do it with a new... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Nirbhaya @ Assembly Hall
'Nirbhaya' means 'Fearless,' the name the girl gang-raped on a Delhi bus in December 2012 was given by the press since her horrific ordeal and subsequent dea... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013