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 FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: David Lammy
Right from the start, David Lammy’s event at the Edinburgh Book Festival was a very personal affair. The MP for Tottenham, tipped by some as a future p... Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Frank Cottrell Boyce & Andrew Motion
This event saw two ‘giants of the literary world’ discussing their latest works and their origins in two classic pieces of literature. Their &lsq... Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeBooking Dance Festival / Split Bill @ EICC
Founded and produced by effervescent American dance expert Jodi Kaplan, this is the fourth year of the mini-festival, showcasing the myriad styles and ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Festivals
The Imposter
Deception and denial go hand-in-hand in this haunting documentary Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Corporeality@ Dance Base
Three artists' response to dance Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Puellae (The Truth About Chips and Other Things) @ Summerhall
Turning thirty isn't so bad Read more »| 19 Aug 2012
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Edinburgh Fringe
Educating 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 FringeTotally 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 Fringe
Kumail 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 -
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