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 FringeRussell Kane: Human Dressage
A self-styled “pseudo-intellectual”, Russell Kane uses his comedy primarily to explore and share his specialist subject of human interaction. Hav... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeRoss Lee: Not A Lot Of Sex, Lies And Videotape
For 15 years, Ross Lee has been trying to make it big in television. As a child, he filmed himself in his garden, dressed in a wig, squirting fake blood on h... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Gavin Webster's Faldarel
Upon completing his hour-long set, Gavin Webster, for no other reason than that he's a nice chap, stands at the exit of the venue and hands out free bread to... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringePhilberto: Philberto's Animal
This show charts one man's rise from a dull Portuguese fishing village to the heights of TV stardom after reaching the final of reality show Live On The Floo... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringePenny Dreadfuls Present... The Never Man
The Penny Dreadfuls stormed last year's Fringe. A tightly wrought, Victorian-themed murder mystery cum comedy caper, their daft, jokes-a-minute script was a ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
My Darling Clemmie
“Behind every great man stands a great woman.” There are few greater men in British history than Winston Churchill – yet for many Britons ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh Fringe
Michael Fabbri
A nervous, fidgety comic at the best of times, Michael Fabbri looks a bit disarmed by the scattered audience of 15 he sees before him tonight. It’s a F... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeStalag Happy
To the piercing cries of air raid sirens and the thundering sound of marching troops, we are welcomed to the Stalag 383, the German prisoner of war camp. Th... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Chronicles of Irania
This one-woman show is harrowing from the outset, as a bloodcurdling intake of breath introduces a monologue from an Iranian mother attacked with acid by a j... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
By Grace
There is little in a standard diet of fringe shows that can prepare you for American high school students performing musical theatre. After watching By Grace... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Matt Harvey: Wondermentalist
Entertaining and refreshing, Matt Harvey has something that more performers should bring to the stage: pure, unaffected humility, undiminished by a conspicuo... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Matt Green: Truth & Pleasure
By his own admission, Matt Green is not the coolest of cats. His baby face sets alarm bells ringing for barmen everywhere (he’s 30), he enjoys blind da... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Luke Toulson: Too Many Last Cigarettes
Towards the climax of Too Many Last Cigarettes, a set based on an occasion in which the comic's irresponsible behaviour caused him to arrive late for his son... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Gerry Howell's Incubation Hour
Gerry Howell likes facts. He says he has seven. For example, did you know that Egypt's pyramids aren't triangles because you've got to be 3D to be a king or ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Gary Little: He Was Only Jail Gay
As the television programme Porridge surely attests, prison life can provide a pleasingly peculiar setting from which observational comedy can arise. Enforce... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009