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 FringeThe Origin of Species...
In trying to appeal to too broad a church, this appraisal of Charles Darwin's life and times falls a little short of its potential Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeEast 10th Street: Self Portrait With Empty House
Brought to the UK by the multi award-winning Richard Jordan Productions, East 10th Street is the autobiographical piece from the former poster-boy of New Yor... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Plagiarismo
Richard DeDomenici is a performance artist whose artwork is cerebral, accessible and subversive; traits conspicuously absent in this one-man lecture. Addres... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Wayside/Riff
Cutting edge and complimenting each other perfectly, Sperling and Diallo have succeeded in creating a fresh and exciting showcase of contemporary dance Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Rap Guide to Evolution
Following up on his critically acclaimed reworking of Geoffrey Chaucer's masterpiece in The Rap Canterbury Tales, Canadian actor and rap artist Baba Brinkman... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Chronicles of Long Kesh
For the most part, this story of hardship in HMP Maze (aka Long Kesh) is fairly orthodox in its prison saga methods. Opened in 1971 for the internment of Nor... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh Fringe
David 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 Fringe
Lochhead 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 FringeAlistair 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 FringeThe 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 Fringe
Icarus 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 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Adam 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