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 FringeAn Evening With Psychosis
Part Star Trek spoof, part verbatim theatre—using extracts from interviews with real people affected in some way by mental illness—and quite unsu... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIBF: David Sedaris
The first of The Skinny’s events, and a good one at that. Chairman Al Senter started things off by saying his role would be mostly redundant, and so it... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeWil Hodgson: Punk Folk Tales
Will Hodgson introduces himself as a man of contradictions: a straight bloke who wears nail polish, a former skinhead with Care Bear tattoos. He’s also... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeSusan Calman, The Last Woman on Earth
"It’s not that I don’t like men," bellows Susan Calman in the opening five minutes of this show, "it’s just that I find them all utterly re... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Goes to Hollywood
Only at the Fringe could you go and watch a show where two sock puppets sing and swear at each other and love every second of the experience. Superbly silly,... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Idiots of Ants: This Is War
If you’ve been paying attention to the torrent of print surrounding this year’s Festival, no doubt you’ll have come across the declaration ... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh Fringe
Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden at their Pique
They’ve been threatening to die for some years now so it’s surely nothing short of a miracle that Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden have returned to ... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Marcus Brigstocke: God Collar
Brigstocke’s material comes from the big questions about god and religion – and his irritation merrily pokes fun at the hypocrisies and misogynis... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
David O'Doherty: David O'Doh-Party
When David O’ Doherty, armed with his Yamaha Portatone 260, begs the anticipant audience to ‘lower their expectations’, he knows all too we... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
After the Bomb
Impressively energetic, this hotchpotch of a play written and directed by Nicholas Moran is too ambitious; styles clash and weaken an already ambiguous plot.... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Shadow Within
The promotional materials for Alan Ferrett's new play would have audiences believe that it “explores the dark ambiguities of belief and exposes the sha... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Sound of My Voice
In this incredibly resourceful adaptation of Ron Butlin’s 1987 novel, Glasgow’s Citizen’s Theatre group provide a beautiful yet unbearably ... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Frisky and Mannish's School of Pop Erin McElhiney Review
How to describe Frisky and Mannish? Take some pop songs - the more commercially successful the better - and with your own not inconsiderable keyboard and voc... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Felicity Ward's Ugly As A Child Variety Show
Felicity Ward was ugly as a child. She was also intelligent and geeky, and now gives us an account of what it was like for her to be afflicted with all of th... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Amazing Adventure Stories of Todd Womack
The bulk of Todd Womack’s material comes from his travels around South America. He has good stories and for the most part they are well told - I find m... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009