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 Ben Dover: Innocent Until Proven Filthy
Britain's foremost pornographer arrives for his show armed and ready. Bounding up the centre aisle wielding a video camera, the crowd visibly recoils at the ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeAidan Bishop: No Sissy Stuff Review
Aidan Bishop introduces his late night show as an exploration of his masculinity without any “sissy stuff.” What follows is a show with a lot of ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Uk Festivals
The Arches Comes Alive
A new monthly feature gives you the Skinny on a Scottish venue. This month: The Arches Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Niall Browne & Elaine Malcolmson: All Kinds of Everything
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> This charming comedy duo from “Nireland” (North... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Tom Basden: Now That's What I Call Music-Based Comedy
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Musical comedy runs a double risk – of a performer be... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeBridget Christie: My Daily Mail Hell
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> You'd think that working in the Daily Mail’s gossip c... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh Fringe
Alexis Dubus: A R*ddy Brief History of Swearing
Gleefully encouraging his 5 o’clock crowd to cry out their favourite swearwords, Alexis Dubus opens A R*ddy Brief History of Swearing to his sniggering... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The week in Charlotte Square
Fest's roundup of the literary goings on of the past few days Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Stripped bare
Its title looked to many like a cynical publicity stunt – but Fucked has proved to be one of the theatrical finds of the 2009 Fringe. Fern Brady talks to the women responsible for a sensitive, intensely moving treatment of female sexuality Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeAccidental Nostalgia
There’s something slightly amiss about Cameron Seymour’s lecture on her forthcoming psychology book, How to Change Your Mind: A Self-Help Manual ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Broken Records at Queens Hall: Review
This was always going to be something very special. Putting the majestic Broken Records in the grand, atmospheric surroundings of the Queens Hall made for th... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Djupid (The Deep)
Life at sea is hard. For one fisherman, it's a life made considerably harder when his ship capsizes, killing the rest of his crew and leaving him alone; bobb... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Orphans
Family, eh? Helen and Danny, two youngish urbanites, have just sat down to a nice romantic meal when Liam—Helen’s younger brother—bursts i... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Oh! What a Shitty War
For those who didn't think Team America was liberal enough comes this: an alternative history of warfare, with puppets. Rammed with gags for those for whom S... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
About the Scots
Bruce Fummey is a comedian who would like to be considered “thoughtfully offensive.” Whilst the second word of this tag fits like a glove, he fal... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009