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 FringeDavid Leddy's White Tea
White Tea begins with the audience donning kimonos, and the two-woman cast distributing cups of tea. This would seem stranger still if we weren't already dis... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeLochhead and Laula: Love, Love, Love
Theirs is a pairing, Liz Lochhead tells us, which has been bubbling under the surface for decades. A collection of piece from poet Lochhead and songs from tr... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Alistair McGowan: The One and Many
The impressionist stays mostly within his comfort zone in his first Fringe show this decade Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Free Fringe and Free Festival: A beginner's guide
There's this elitist view that if something is free, it's not worth paying for. But the Laughing Horse Free Festival and the PBH Free Fringe are every bit as... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Kosh in The Storeroom
Fringe veterans The Kosh return with a one-woman theatre piece, which, after a slow start, has all the hallmarks of the quality one has come to expect from t... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeIcarus 2.0 Review
Icarus 2.0 is the latest offering from Fringe First winning pair Sebastian Lawson and Jamie Wood. It's a complex, curious tale:a hybrid story combining a Pro... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh FringeAdam Riches: Rogue Males
A near master-class in interactive comedy, Rogue Males is Adam Riches' most accomplished Fringe performance to date Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Rob Rouse
Crude comedy can be a hazardous business. Comedians run the risk of taking things too far and reaching a point at which their audience, rather than seeing th... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Beachy Head Review
In the first few minutes of Beachy Head, two film-makers find something chilling among the hours of footage they've recorded on the eponymous Sussex suicide ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
East meets west
Chasing Dorris Dörrie across Europe, Evan Beswick discovers that the German film director comes well equipped with a keen sense of what makes opera tick Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Space Man
Site-specific theatre is a term "too restrictive" for experimental playwright, David Leddy. Ed Ballard talks to one of theatre's most radical figures Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Streets
It’s now seven years since Mike Skinner, aka The Streets released Original Pirate Material – perhaps the one album spawned from the UK garage exp... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Moth
US poet and crime writer George Dawes Green founded The Moth twelve years ago to fill a gap in New York’s literary scene: he wanted to offer a space fo... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church
It's been seven years since Daniel Kitson won the Perrier Award for his comedy show, Something, but in recent years the comedian has become far better known ... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Hotel
If any Fringe performer from the last decade is to go down in the annals of the Festival's history, it's Mark Watson. His electric stand-up shows might not v... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009