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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Uk FestivalsVenice Film Festival 2012: Movie Love on the Lido
James Franco singing a Britney ballad, Olivier Assayas reliving his blissed-out rabble rousing youth and Joaquin Phoenix's return to acting – just some of the highlights of the 69th Venice International Film Festival Read more »| 20 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh FestivalsWonderland @ The Royal Lyceum Theatre
Wonderland does not take its main influence from Lewis Carroll but from tales of sexual exploitation and mistreatment. This approach sets precedence for the ... Read more »| 17 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Shit (La Merda) @ Summerhall
Silvia Gallerano is perched on a pedestal in the centre of the stage. She is completely naked and so is the stage itself. Gallerano spends the entire perform... Read more »| 17 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Cinderella @ Festival Theatre
OK, let's get the obvious stuff out of the way. It's the Mariinsky Ballet, without you having to travel to St. Petersburg to see them. It's conducted by Vale... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh FestivalsJuilliard Dance Triple Bill @ Edinburgh Playhouse
The prestigious Julliard Dance School in New York has been nurturing young talent since merging its music and dance departments in 1951. Opener The Waldstein... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Uk FestivalsTake One Action 2012: Harold Crooks on Surviving Progress
Is civilisation doomed? The stakes don't get any higher than in Take One Action Film Festival's opener, Surviving Progress. The Skinny speaks to Harold Crooks, one of the film's directors, ahead of this UK premiere Read more »| 07 Sep 2012
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Uk Festivals
In Pictures: Music Language Festival 2012
Music Language Festival 2012 A glimpse of the action from the Music Language Festival 2012 in Glasgow, 1 & 2 September. Photography by Neil Jarvie Read more »| 07 Sep 2012 -
International Festivals
Festival Column: Trans Musicales
Les Rencontres Trans Musicales – 'meeting through music', nicely literal) is the winter festival which has garnered the useful reputation for being the... Read more »| 06 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Rubber Dinghy @ Zoo Southside
Two male business partners stuck in a life raft. They're engaged in a scam involving getting rescued at sea and adopting new identities. Apparently there's m... Read more »| 04 Sep 2012 -
Uk Festivals
Take One Action 2012: The Revolution's Here
Take One Action returns for a fifth year and is a powerful reminder of the part cinema can play in people's fight for freedom and equality across the globe Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Chipping Off Little Pieces of My Soul – A Fringe Diary
Comedian Xavier Toby gives an insider's view of the soul-crushing financial gamble involved in putting on a show at the Edinburgh Fringe Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Tabu
Tabu explores the interlaced nexuses between memory, cinema and fable Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It) @ King's Theatre
Love and Farce Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Nights At The Circus @ The Space
The circus is a world of illusion, where things are not as they seem. Angela Carter's bawdy novel on which this play is based, directed by Steven Green, expl... Read more »| 01 Sep 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Food For Thought @ TheSpace Venue 45
Food For Thought is the absurdist comedy-dining experience served up by the delicious performance art collective, Figs in Wigs. Plenty of eye-rolling food pu... Read more »| 01 Sep 2012