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 FringeTaylor 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 FringeMark 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 -
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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 FringeAlan 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 -
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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 -
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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
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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 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Patrick Monahan: Shooting From The Lip
Patrick Monahan is a seasoned comedian - a comedy festival regular and the winner of ITV’s Show Me The Funny last year. It’s no surprise that thi... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
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The Trap: Bad Musical
The Trap, an established London-based sketch comedy trio composed of Dan Mersh, Paul Litchfield and Jeremy Limb, return to the Fringe with their latest ode t... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
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Vikki Stone: Hot Mess
Any show which presents Phillip Schofield in a new, slightly more intriguing/disturbing light deserves considerable comedy kudos. Vikki Stone, troubadour,imp... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
I am Son – Sanpapié @ Dance Base
Are we westerners? Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
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Mick Foley: How a wrestler fell in love with the Fringe
Concluding our Foley In Edinburgh trilogy, the man himself writes about how Edinburgh helped him to find his own voice and how a small, teatime comedy show helped him understand the true spirit of the Fringe Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Ned Beauman & Nick Harkaway
Free coffee was included in the price of seeing Ned Beauman and Nick Harkaway discuss their recently released sophomore novels and this was a welcome additio... Read more »| 17 Aug 2012 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Alice Oswald
The poet Alice Oswald’s event was a real set piece, as she read out her book length poem Memorial in its entirety. This took around an hour and a ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2012