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
Clarkson & Crouch: Away with the Fairies
Clarkson & Crouch, despite their show titles, are certainly not away with the fairies. They might have vivid imaginations, and appear to be a couple of s... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Mort
Death—with a shining scythe, blue lights for eyes and a disembodied voice—is a likeable character, living as he is through a mid-life crisis: he ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Plague! The Musical
Musical theatre is not something which commands universal appreciation. Its formats are well documented, its cliches much parodied. The Musical Comedy genre ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Britt Eckland: Britt on Britt
It’s very annoying when a fellow audience member keeps talking throughout a performance. It’s bad Fringe etiquette and, frankly, it's just rude. ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Return of the Scottish Falcetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Watching a man's hand inside a sock pretend to play a guitar which he calls "Vicky the technician" is quite surreal. That he is singing a song called 'I'm a ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeSteve Hall: Vice-Captain Loser
Poor Steve Hall. For a start, this show takes its title from a nickname given to him as a child by his own father, “because I wasn’t even the big... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008
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Edinburgh FringeLouis CK
Louis CK is a wanker. That’s not an insult: he’ll tell you the same thing himself. In fact, over the course of this unpleasant, offensive and exc... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeTim MInchin: Ready For This?
Tim Minchin is, by now, somewhat of a rock star. And what goes better with rock stars than nostalgia? Well, here’s a big dose of it: Minchin’s sh... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Mr Methane – Fart Attack
Putting the art into fart, professional flatulist, Mr Methane tells Chris Williams of adventures with Keith and Orville and the Grand Emperor of Tokyo Broadcasting Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Four Chords and the Truth
Doug Johnstone and Toby Litt have trained boyhood yearnings for rock-stardom into exposés of backstage truth and onstage myth Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeSlammed, but not Dunked
Bookslam was a noble effort that failed to convince Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
No Country for Old Benn
A sermon in morality from Britain's national conscience is nothing new - but Tony Benn is getting ready to leave the pulpit Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jidariyya
The Palestinian National Theatre has been described by its director as having “a very big name for a very small company”. And as the curtain fall... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Preview: Pendulum
What links the Chemical Brothers, the Prodigy and Aussie beat-masters Pendulum? The answer of course is 'Voodoo People', the Prodigy's classic rave generatio... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Preview: Kate Nash
Chirpy, cheery and perhaps even a bit chavvy, Kate Nash waltzes back into Edinburgh for the inaugural Edge Festival, bringing her unique brand of mockney mon... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008