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 FringeRachel Stubbings: Stubbing out Problems
It's always a brave move to incorporate a period of total silence into your comedy act, but Stubbings carries this off beautifully; and the quiet in the... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeGearoid Farrelly: Turbulence
For his first Fringe show, rising Irish comedian Gearoid Farrelly tackles all the little things that cause turbulence in his life, from break-ups to the deat... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeHitch and Mitch: The Stinky Show
The props are puerile, the jokes terrible, the sketches simplistic and stretched, and in all it feels very amateurish. So it shouldn’t work. ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Billy the Mime
The film The Artist had such beautiful music, was so well performed, that it was easy to forget there was no spoken dialogue in it; and because it stuck in t... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Stuart Black: Sex, Money, Death
It's difficult to know what to expect when, moments before a show is due to start, the performer shakes your hand and asks if you are his audience. Luckily, ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
AnimalParts Theatre: Tenderpits
Canadian-born and New York City-based performer Anthony Johnston is a wizard. The kind of wizard who wears a dirty nappy, has a sparkling butt and masturbate... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012
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Edinburgh Fringe
Work Songs @ Zoo
No holds barred Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeNatyam @ Dance Base
A sumptuous display of a traditional Indian form Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Meitheal/Worst Case Scenario @ Dance Base
Mathematical elegance from max.IMEALLdance plus survival-situation farce from Taciturn Dance Company Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Michael Redmond: Mannequins, Fishmongers, Guacamole and Me ... and Other Things
This show could so easily have been awful. A comic who hilariously phones back an audience member’s mobile caller, a bizarre mannequin (in a going-out ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Val McDermid
Val McDermid is one of the most successful crime writers in Scotland with 25 best selling novels and several literary rewards – she even has a stand at... Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Hilary Mantel
The chair of this event, James Runcie, remarked at the start that Hilary Mantel had long been a literary secret, admired by writers and journalists but somew... Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Hi-Kick @ Assembly Hall
Artistry 0 - 0 Excitement Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Paul Ricketts: Announcing the truly free fringe
Free shows are never really free, you always have to stick some money in the bucket at the end. Until now. Paul Ricketts explained why he's opened the doors to his show and made it truly free Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Amy Lame: Unhappy Birthday @ Assembly
Last time I saw Ms Lame, it was the wonderfully sweet Mama Cass Family Sideshow based on her admiration for the 60s icon...this time around, it's a... Read more »| 20 Aug 2012