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 FringeNick Doody: Schizo
Last year, Nick Doody had a revelation. Thrown into a slump by his mother’s death, he found himself contemplating exactly how and why he does what he d... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Chair
As 1940s music fills the air and flashes of light drench the dancers frozen in tableau on stage, a harrowing tale of murder, love and forgiveness begins to u... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The World's Wife
Thanks to the GCSE English syllabus, I bear a grudge against Carol Ann Duffy. My enjoyment of poetry was set back a good few years by the experience of being... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeStill Breathing
In 2004, a troupe of teenage boys thrilled the Fringe with an explosive hour of contemporary breakdance. Albeit carefully choreographed, the show was an obvi... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeJason Byrne: The Byrne Supremacy
There is a row of seven children, all under ten, sitting in the third row. Byrne clocks them straight away. ‘Too late now!’ he cries. ‘We&r... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Controlled Falling Project at Fringe Review
Much like porn films, acrobatic shows are famed for their rudimentary-at-best plots. Too often the narrative seems an afterthought, poorly employed to connec... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh Fringe
The School For Scandal
Let’s be clear from the start: The School For Scandal is deliciously infectious. This reviewer left the theatre with an almost overwhelming desire to r... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Your Number's Up
An ambitious play for its allotted 55 minutes, Your Number's Up throws the full complement of 'yoof culture' stereotypes at its ensemble cast. Beginning wit... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Inside Alan Francis and Barnaby Power
This is a dark and filthy sketch show, where the comic classics of sex and swearing are given sharp and bitter twists through a host of foul-mouthed and foul... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Crave
Sarah Kane is a compass point in the world of edgy student theatre, and this year students from London’s Royal Holloway boldly go where many have gone ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Oxford Imps
Wandering around Edinburgh you may catch sight of a group of buoyant young performers sporting black t-shirts, singing and dancing their way through the str... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Burning Question: Adrian Howells
#3 What's it like washing feet every day? Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jon Richardson: this guy's the limit
Jon Richardson is a perfectionist. Or, rather, as he tells Lyle Brennan on a trip to the Edinburgh's Farmers' Market, a grumpy bastard. Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Doing it for the kids
Brendon Burns loves it, Adam Hills is doing it and there's a dedicated show at the Fringe. Stand-up comedy for children is now serious stuff. It might even be more exciting than its grown-up counterpart, finds Tom Hackett Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeLast Night Things Happened...
This year as any other, Edinburgh is abuzz with new writers hoping that 2009 will see them break into the big time. Moreover, punters are willing to take the... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009