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 FringeDead Souls @ Scotland-Russia Institute
A LAZZI production at the Scotland-Russia Institute Read more »| 08 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringePuppet. The Book Of Splendour @ Summerhall
Puppet. The Book Of Splendour is a performance that is difficult to forget. The narrator informs us that the presentation we are viewing is not a story, but ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Stranger @ Summerhall
The Stranger is a one man performance of Albert Camus' existential novel, with the intensity of the source material being the heart of Guilherme Leme's perfo... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Rime @ Summerhall
Ahoy for the circus Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Remember Me @ Summerhall
Remember Me is a surreal performance as confusing as it is proactive. Using imagery that evokes a Man Ray photograph, light and darkness juxtapose to give an... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Banger @ Dance Base
Once upon a studded leather wristband, it was all too easy. Lads formed in a circle at the school disco, shaking their greasy hair and headbanging to Whole L... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012
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Edinburgh Fringe
A Corpo Libero / The Woman Who Wants To Be Funny @ Dance Base
Italian ''lady of a certain age'' Sylvia Gribaudi must be one of the most unlikely sex goddesses you will see at the Fringe this year. A single spotligh... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeSameena Zehra: Tea With Terrorists @ Captain Taylor's Coffee House
The premise of Sameena Zehra’s second Edinburgh show comes loaded with the promise of unique insight, as she recounts how her family came to share afte... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Adam Larter: Happy New Year
Forget sitting in front of the telly with a cuppa watching Jools Holland. Boring! It’s the chaotic, wild and adventurous New Year celebrations which yo... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh FringeRed, Like Our Room Used To Feel @ Summerhall
Red, Like Our Room Used To Feel is an intimate performance by poet Ryan Van Winkle. Part installation, part one to one poetry reading, the audience is t... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Tam O'Shanter @ Assembly Hall
The acclaimed company Communicado is back at full throttle: reminiscent of the legendary 7:84 company, many of the cast can sing, dance and play a tune on tr... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jem Brookes: Thumbs Up
The affable, and often a bit awkward, Jem Brookes invites you to join him for a pint or two, while he chats up the audience and dishes out one-liners. Having... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Camille Claudel @ The Pleasance Courtyard
This is a play about love, genius, abandonment and madness, the bittersweet but ultimately tragic story of Rodin's model and mistress, a sculptor in her own ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Colour Ham: The Colour Ham
On paper, a show promising a mix of magic, mind reading and “silliness” sounds like a really bad day at a really lame circus, but the trio of Kev... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Prize @ Underbelly
I can't lie, I did expect The Prize to be full of the now perfectly over familiar London 2012 babble in the newspapers and across the TV. Fortunately The Pri... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012