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
Saving Tania's Privates
It's a brave performer these days who takes to the stage without a gimmick. It's hard to promote a show with no angle. Whether it's a comedy magic act, or ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Confessions & Obsessions of a Thirtysomething Divorcee
Melanie Sherwood’s one-woman play is predictable and uninspired Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Invasion Festival: Soul Traders
In this era of the Andrew Lloyd Webber, reality-talent-show contaminated, pop musical, the good old days of dazzling tap-dance routines, catchy melodies and ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Not Stalking David Tennant (aka Having It All)
Like Jerry Springer before him, David Tennant probably won’t have time to come to Edinburgh and see the show bearing his name, after all it’s ver... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Expert at the Card Table
The lights are dimmed, a piano is tinkling in the background and a gentleman sits in a well-cut waistcoat reading a book beside a green card table. The gentl... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dogs Barking
Love, revenge, violence and an awful lot of alcohol: all the ingredients necessary for an exhilarating drama. Written by Richard Zajdlic, creator of the BBC ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008
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Edinburgh Fringe
Golden
This show markets itself as a “political satire based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth.” You wouldn’t guess that from watching it. The idea o... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Moliere's Tartuffe
Immediately censored after its first performance in 1664, Tartuffe is a contentious play which relentlessly targets figures of religious authority. But with ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Happy Savages
Happy Savages is an interesting and well-acted play which successfully portrays the emotional intricacies of modern relationships Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
PoeJazzi: Spokenworld
Performance poetry, when done well, is so different from reading verse on a page. It should be vibrant, eclectic and powerful – a vivacious mix between... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Simon Callow - A Festival Dickens
From the second Simon Callow parts the curtains his presence fills the room. He's packed out The Assembly's Music Hall, a 400-capacity venue on George Stree... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
I Wanna Be Loved By You
Who really was Marilyn Monroe? I Wanna Be Loved By You tries to answer this question. Charting her life journey, from Norma Jean’s rise to fame up to h... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dance Base Presents ... Alan Lucien Øyen & X Factor Dance Company
Dance Base provides a glass-clad and stainless-steel-lined sanctuary from the Fringe crowds. What the building promises in terms of "trendy," the shows provi... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Boy from Centreville
“The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say” Lifted from Edgar’s final speech in King Lear, th... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Riot Showgrrrls Club
After leaving The Riot Showgrrrls Club, I present one of the “labia cakes” I have acquired—that is, a fairy cake decorated with a gumdrop c... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008