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 FringeClarke Peters: Man on the Wire
It's been 20 years since Clarke Peters last performed in his musical Five Guys Named Moe. The Wire star tells Edd McCracken why he and his show have some unfinished business Read more »| 24 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh FestivalsConfraternity of Neoflagallants: City of Dead
As the festival gets into full swing the living dead take to the streets in a prefiguration of our dark future Read more »| 20 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Previews: Comedians doing theatre
Gutted: A Revenger’s Musical A show can get away with murder if it can be described as ‘cult’, so why not set that murder to music? The cr... Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Return of the Samurai
Visual master Tomohiro Sasaki tells Nick Lewis how video games and manga inspired their radical reworking of Shakespeare Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh FringeOut of the box
Could puppetry be theatre's great new frontier? Legendary puppet-master David Strassman speaks to Honour Bayes about the ventriloquism renaissance Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Feminism's new direction
Ishbel McFarlane gets her claws into feminism at the Fringe, and finds that, for some playwrights, the political is still personal Read more »| 16 Jul 2010
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Edinburgh FringeTalkin' 'bout a revolution
Creative director of Horizon Arts Philip Stokes returns to Edinburgh with his own brand of punk rock artistry Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Flamenco without frontiers
Honour Bayes talks to flamenco master Paco Peña about his new show Quimeras, and finds out how experiences of diverse cultures and eclectic artforms have bolstered his Spanish musical heritage. Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Over the river, through the woods
Mixing macabre puppetry and live action, Ed Wren and Claire Harvey are the king and queen of Fringe whimsy. River People's artistic directors tell Arianna Reiche how they got started, and where they come by their inspiration. Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
On the road
For all their TV appearances, sell out shows and international tours, the life of a comedian on the road is, as Lyle Brennan discovers, a lonely and unglamorous one indeed Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Line 'em up
“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Dorothy Parker
“’Brevity is the soul of wit” said Shakespeare. I say ‘Wank!’ Thus I win.”
Simon Munnery
Jay Richardson finds out whether the masters of the one-liners really are the kings of comedy Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jennifer Coolidge: a Star Turn
The Fringe has been known to eat American comics alive. But Jennifer Coolidge has survived Hollywood, so how hard can it be. The film-star and former "MILF" chats to Lyle Brennan Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Ode to Joy
As the worlds of standup and poetry converge, new and innovative forms have begun to emerge. Tom Hackett talks to the performers leading the way. Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh FringeArjy Barjy
It's ten years since Arj Barker last performed at the Fringe. Jay Richardson touches base to talk primetime success, mammoth arena tours and an on-off affair with soft drugs. Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Scouse rules
After a year that has seen his career catapult, John Bishop returns to Edinburgh as TV hot property. But he tries to keep it all in perspective, he tells Nick Eardley Read more »| 16 Jul 2010