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 FringeJeff Kreisler's Get Rich Cheating
Current events can be a boon to comics on the Fringe, yet the tiresome assonance of the ‘credit crunch’ has been oddly absent from comedy routine... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeGeorge Dawes Green: The Moth on the move
With his legendary storytelling night The Moth relocating temporarily to Edinburgh, George Dawes Green also brings some of the idiosyncratic habits which, perhaps, have helped turn The Moth into New York's most exciting literary forum Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeCarol Ann Duffy: Business as usual
Since becoming the first female poet laureate in May, Carol Ann Duffy's profile has never been higher. But her life has hardly changed, she tells Simon Mundy Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeFaust In The Box
Who hasn’t uttered the phrase “Oh, that was bad. But it was nowhere near as awful as…” at least once in their life? Everyone, I lik... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Tim Key: The Slutcracker
Tim Key describes himself on his website as a poet and performer. And although he questions the description of his poetry as “deliberately bad”, ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Palace of The End
Canadian playwright Judith Thompson has a real gem on her hands here. This play showcases three monologues all dealing with the Iraq war; bringing us the hor... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh Fringe
The Accidental Dog Detective
What on earth is going on? A crowd of people are gathered around a make shift puppet theatre to see a dog seduced by a poodle and a man who thinks he’... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Moscow State Circus
As one of the ancient pillars of entertainment, one has certain expectations of a circus. Luckily, Moscow State Circus ticks all the boxes. Acrobats: check. ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeJamie Kilstein: Revenge of the serfs
The show’s almost over when Jamie Kilstein tells us why liberals spend less time proselytising than their conservative counterparts – “it&r... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Plane Food Cafe
Downstairs, in the Freemason's Hall on George Street, lies a reconstructed segment of Boeing 747. There are, one suspects, odder artefacts in the basements o... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Greg Behrendt
For years, Greg Behrendt was the only non-female, straight member of the writing team behind Sex and The City. Hired to bring a veneer of testosterone to a s... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Stand By Your Van
A sugar rush of excitement sweeps the room; there’s a gleaming pick-up truck centre-stage, and the last of 12 desperate contestants left touching it wi... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Helix Dance
Rebecca King sees new work from the near East Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Marcel Lucont: Sexual Metro
“I am a nihilist”, proclaims Marcel Lucont, when the can-can girls have disappeared and the accordion music has died down. Wearing a lounge suit ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Faking it
With so many comedians around in August, surely one more could sneak in unnoticed? Fest writer Fern Brady finds out if stand-up really is as tough as it looks Read more »| 19 Aug 2009