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 Fringe
Catwalk Confidential
Robyn Peterson is one of those rare individuals who has lead an interesting life, is a gifted storyteller and manages to combine the two without being an imp... Read more »| 12 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Max and Beth
A modern take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Max and Beth eclectically fuses dance, rap and contemporary rhyme in a powerful portrayal of violent street cul... Read more »| 12 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Rex Roman Pink Floyd Show
Upon viewing a performance of The Rex Roman Pink Floyd Show, it becomes apparent that maverick writer Simon Ash inhabits a world entirely of his own. It is a... Read more »| 12 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Been So Long
“I want a fella…inside me, all around me let my body be your home” declares Yvonne (Naana Agyei-Ampadu) – a domineering and sexually... Read more »| 12 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Barflies Review: Charles Bukowski as Theatre
An Edinburgh bar might seem like a strange place to stage a play adapted from the stories of American writer and notorious alcoholic Charles Bukowski. Using ... Read more »| 12 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Don Quixote – Theatre of the Blind
There is something unsettling about being led into an auditorium blindfolded – about entrusting yourself, minus a faculty, into the hands of a group of... Read more »| 12 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh Fringe
Hans Teeuwen: Dutch Courage
The absurd and surreal talent of Hans Teeuwen has been misunderstood by many British audiences. But as the Dutch comic tells Sam Friedman, he thrives on the challenge Read more »| 12 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Year of the Horse
Scotland celebrates one of the UK’s finest political cartoonists in a multimedia exhibition of the work of Harry Horse. Horse contributed 52 cartoons ... Read more »| 12 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Burning Question: Peter Duncan
#2 What's the stupidest thing you've ever done? Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
I Don't Live Here Anymore
Emma is slowly being drowned by dreams, apparently. The poor girl is clearly in a rather unenviable spot of bother: being crushed under the sheer weight of t... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Tommy and the Weeks: Wonderbang!
'If I Were In Charge of Reality', the title of the closing song for this surreal sketch show, sums up its whimsical but anarchic intent. It’s Tom Bell ... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Phil Kay - Oh Edinburgh Review by Nick Eardley
“Don’t end a gig, be a gig.” As he offers his advice on how to achieve success in the comedy world, it’s hard to imagine Phil Kay doi... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Mick Sergeant - Lifeboat
Mick Sergeant’s hair bears a striking resemblance to that sported by David Beckham in his most recent Armani ads, but there the resemblance ends. Beckh... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Eleanor Tiernan- Trouble
Eleanor Tiernan tells her audience early in her set that the term 'comedian' should only be attached to people who make you laugh. If we accept her advice, t... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Ballad of the Skull Fairy
It is to the deafening roar of poetry—in a West Country accent by a figure in a Stig-of-the-Dump costume—that this show opens ... and it only get... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009