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 Fringe
David O'Doherty: Let's Comedy
There’s always a worry with so-called ‘DIY’ comedians, defined by the seemingly shambolic, accidental nature of their comedy and their low-... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Kunst ist Scheisse
Kunst ist Scheisse is a cabaret presented by three girls from "The Caravan of Love." Initially asked to locate and poke your spleen, the gland of desire, thi... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Giselle
Adolphe Adams’s nineteenth century ballet explores the alienation and destruction caused social hierarchy. The aristocratic Albrecht falls for the love... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Creation & All That Jazz
Jesus and his entrepreneurial rat pack (Buddha, Ghandi, Jehovah, Lucifer) have royally cocked up Creation. It all began when our unruly messiah spat in a pet... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Hostage
There’s a recurring moral dilemma that haunts the practice of review writing for the Fringe. It concerns the lunacy of being forced to compare fully pr... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Closing Time
Billed as “a play about pubs, set in a pub,” My Own Private Submarine’s site-specific monologue, Closing Time, is exactly that – exce... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008
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Edinburgh Fringe
The Magic Tree
Can a group of boys really be driven to rape a girl out of sheer boredom? In The Magic Tree, the latest play by award-winning Irish playwright Ursula Rani Sa... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
66A Church Road: A Lament, Made of Memories and Kept In Suitcases, by Daniel Kitson
It’s increasingly difficult to describe Daniel Kitson simply as a comedian. His stand-up work has beco more philosophical and emotional in recent years... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Cousins Rivals Queens
The imprisonment and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, was one of the defining moments in Tudor history, and has fascinated... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Slick
Slick is produced by Vox Motus, a Glasgow based arts company which mingles theatre with visual exhibitionism such as multi-media, magic and puppetry. This ye... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Call Me If You Feel Too Happy
A small closet is the hunting ground habitually designated to actors who wish to furnish the Fringe with a monologue. Whilst some of these dank quarters can ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dan March: My Myspace Baby
Dan March has brought to the Fringe another true story to add to the surprising weight of autobiographical comedy invading the venues of Edinburgh. This tear... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Wendy Wason: Things I Didn't Know I Didn't Know
When a stand-up comic has uttered the words “I’m a single mother of two” within the first five minutes of her set, you have a fair notion i... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Mark Watson 2008 Review
Mark Watson, at the reasonably sprightly age of 28, is already a Fringe legend.Winner of the inaugural if.comedy panel prize and nominated for the 2005 Perri... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Mick Sergeant: Ah Shit! It's Mick Sergeant
Mick Sergeant used to build ships. Vocationally and spiritually, Mick is a ship-builder throughout every fibre of his lanky, moustachioed frame. Unfortunatel... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008