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 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 Fringe
Festival 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 Fringe
Tommy 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 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dan 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
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Edinburgh Fringe
Edward 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 Festivals
Summercamp 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 Fringe
Solstice @ 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 Fringe
Red 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 Festivals
FrightFest 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 Festivals
Edinburgh 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 Fringe
Track 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 -
Uk Festivals
FrightFest 2013: Round-up 1 – Dispatches From The Dark Heart of Cinema
We lock ourselves in Empire Leicester Square for five days of death and dismemberment with some of the most fervent genre fans around. We escaped the baying throng long enough to deliver this, the first of our roundups... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013