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 FringeCorporeality@ Dance Base
Three artists' response to dance Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringePuellae (The Truth About Chips and Other Things) @ Summerhall
Turning thirty isn't so bad Read more »| 19 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeEducating Ronnie @ Assembly George Square
A heartfelt one-man show questions the nature of charitable acts Read more »| 19 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Laurie Rowan, Nicholas Cooke and Keiron Nicholson: Gentlemen Bears
Bears don’t often get a platform on the PBH Free Fringe, so the barrage of bear jokes from Laurie Rowan was certainly a break from the norm. The combin... Read more »| 19 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Totally Tom
If your only exposure so far to Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton is from their rather lacklustre appearances on BBC3’s “Live At The Electric”, b... Read more »| 19 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeKumail Nanjiani
Pakistan-born Kumail Nanjiani lives and performs in the US, and this is his first visit to Edinburgh. His first acute observation about Fringe flyers might n... Read more »| 19 Aug 2012
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Edinburgh Fringe
Mark Nelson: Under The Radar
Glaswegian comic Mark Nelson begins with the almost-compulsory-by-now criticism of his venue, the Underbelly White Belly. These aggressive outbursts punctuat... Read more »| 19 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Taylor Glenn: Reverse Psycomedy
Stuck in an anti-social 11.30pm timeslot upstairs in the Gilded Balloon, American Taylor Glenn spends a lot of time telling us about her life before she beca... Read more »| 19 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Mark Cooper-Jones: Geography Teacher
Despite rather resembling a prime candidate to have his lunch money stolen by the playground bullies, Mark Cooper-Jones takes to the stage in the persona of ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Obsession: A Life with Magic @ Zoo
After twenty-one consecutive years Ian Kendall is performing his final Fringe. Obsession: A Life with Magic is a love letter to his craft and a collection of... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Alan Bissett: The Red Hourglass @ The National Library of Scotland
Long awaited, after the smash-hit success of The Moira Monologues, Alan Bissett's new drama, is an equally hilarious series of monologues all played by Bisse... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Robert Finn: Dear Dan Brown...
Having a pop at Dan Brown might seem like shooting fish in a barrel, but Finn manages to put an interesting spin on it with a episotolary show that's structu... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Tom Webb: MegaGames
The Olympics may have ended but, in a tiny room in the back of a pub in Edinburgh, Tom Webb is working hard to feed Britain's hunger for sporting glory. He's... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Luke Graves: A Degree Of Comedy
"There's a degree of comedy in everything," says Graves, to which you kind of think, "yeah, we'd heard". It's a lead in to a fairly straightforward observ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Fliss Russell: Life Is Fliss
Welcome to the weird world of Fliss Russell, failed actress, children's entertainer, time traveller and proud ginger. Today's show is heavy on audience parti... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012