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 FringeLilly Through The Dark
Lilly Through the Dark's defining characteristics could have hampered its success. A "grown-up fairytale", I feared childlike innocence would lose out to cyn... Read more »| 23 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeDavid Leddy's Susurrus
David Leddy’s audioplay should be available all year round at the Botanic Gardens as an alternative to the traditional audioguide that tells you about ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Bite-Size'd 'Breakfast in Bedlam'
White Room Theatre returns to the Fringe for its third year of ‘Bite-Size Breakfast’ productions. Coffee, croissants and strawberries accompany a... Read more »| 23 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Return of Ulysses
Charles Trenet's 'La Mer' echos through the Playhouse, and seven dancers dressed in black begin a synchronised sequence in the darkness. White strip lighting... Read more »| 23 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeThe One and The Many
A man awaits a visit from the mother he has never met. His anxiety is such that he decides to go for a massage at the parlour on the high street. Little does... Read more »| 23 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeDestroy PowerPoint
For years, Gaffney has been trying to turn the mundane into the interesting through ‘sawn off’ short stories, and now his obsession with PowerPoi... Read more »| 23 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh Fringe
Laura Solon: Rabbit Faced Story Soup
There's a lot riding on Laura Solon's new Fringe show. Having swept to surprise success in the Perrier Awards four years ago with her first outing here, a be... Read more »| 23 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Burning Question: Lloyd Langford
#5: What's so great about the Blues? Read more »| 23 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Balloon Boutique
The most interesting children's tv programmes are always the weird ones. The ones that look as if they could only conceivably have been dreamed up by people ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Luxuria
In a comical contrast to the rich tones of the opening piano soundtrack, the dancers of Luxuria scurry impishly onstage and begin to violently thrust and jer... Read more »| 23 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Death of A Samurai
Told initially through all three eyes of magical forest-dwelling child Mitsume, Death of A Samurai is a kaleidoscopic re-imagining of Love’s Labour&rsq... Read more »| 23 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Shape of Things
The Shape of Things is engaging from the start. At first it might be mistaken for nothing more than a rom-com, but it soon takes a turn for the deeper, ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Russell Kane's Fakespeare
There's a extraordinary amount of Shakespeare rewritten, rejigged and, indeed, regurgited at the Fringe. But as Kane helpfully points out in his openin... Read more »| 22 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Noise Next Door
This year’s Fringe is once again filled with a wide selection of improvised comedy acts. From old favourites The Improverts to The Oxford Imps and Pau... Read more »| 22 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Two Left Hands: Another Mouthful
Sketch shows have a tendency to veer into the world of pure fantasy, and Leila Hackett and Charlotte Hudson's shenanigans as Two Left Hands are n... Read more »| 22 Aug 2009