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 FringeThe Fanny Hill Project @ Zoo
The Fanny Hill Project is a powerful discussion of society's perception of sex workers. Kyra is invited on stage to tell the story of how and why she came to... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeDon Quijote @ Summerhall
Don Quijote is a brave and funny performance that recontextualises and reclaims the importance of Cervantes' book. Although there is obviously a great deal o... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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What is the weight of your desire @ Zoo
“A woman is an object. A woman is a sexual object.” There are many pieces of performance trying to create a discourse around objectification of w... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringePunchline @ TheSpace at Surgeons' Hall
There are many kinds of comedy. Black comedy, shadenfreude (laughter at the expense of others), fish comedy – or should I say surrealism, and more to b... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Predator Guy @ Outside Starbucks
According to what I just copy-and-pasted from Wikipedia, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world's largest arts festival, with thousands of shows from all... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Doug Johnstone & Laura Lippman
Doug Johnstone is one of the rising stars of Scottish thriller writing, his novels characterised by their realistic, nuanced portrayals or ordinary people in... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013
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Edinburgh Fringe
Salome @ TheSpace at Surgeons Hall
Making Oscar Wilde's controversial tragedy, banned in France where he lived when he wrote it, into a contemporary Rock Opera is certainly a novel idea. This ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Luke Wright & Michael Pedersen
Two poets who have made the leap from stage to page, defying the bias against performance poetry which still undeniably exists in the minds of academics and ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Denise Mina
For Denise Mina, writing crime fiction has always been a political choice. Her novels are deeply suffused with a yearning for social justice; her characters ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Neil Forsyth
Although he gained national fame in a recent TV adaptation (starring the actor Brian Cox, who also voiced the radio incarnation of Neil Forsyth's character),... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Chris Stokes Tells It Like It Possibly Could Potentially Might Be @ Pleasance Courtyard
Comedy is tragedy plus time, apparently. Chris Stokes sure has some tragedy, and its timing was far from perfect, but that he has brought this show together,... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Ian Rankin
After the release last year of Standing in Another Man's Grave, Rebus fans were thrilled to see the curmudgeonly detective back on the trail of killers, gang... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Alasdair Gray
Predictably, the newspaper coverage of Alasdair Gray's talk at Edinburgh International Book Festival focuses on just a single word in a far-reaching and... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Airnadette @ Underbelly Cowbarn
I’m struggling with what just happened here, so, from the top - six very talented physical performers bound on to the stage and begin to mime & lip... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Rap Battles @ Bannermans
The Wee Man and Ro Campbell have invented one of the most exciting late-night formats since Set List with their Rap Battles, in which two comedians duke it o... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013