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
Dinner
The Dinner, written by Writers' Guild award winner Moira Buffini, plots an evening in which bitter socialite Paige crafts her guests' downfall with a... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jim Bowen: Look At What You Could Have Won
“In my day we just stole other people’s jokes.” This line neatly summates Jim Bowen's entire show. Fundamentally, this is a nostalgia trip... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Des Bishop: Tongues
Des Bishop emerges from backstage, beaming, looking like your next door neighbour’s slightly hip-hop older brother. His voice is soft but clearly trans... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Wanderlust
With the right atmosphere this could be a really enchanting evening event to set you up for a spirited late night of Fringe festivities. But relying heavily ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Once And For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen
The reason why all adults despise teenagers is announced: we just can’t stand to look at them and remember that we’re old; that we’re never... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Harbingers
Directed by Cambridge Footlights' notable Ed Gamble, this revue is an ever so friendly affair that never jokes at the expense of anyone. Here are three affab... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008
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Edinburgh Fringe
Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective Presents Hans Teeuwen
There is a strong buzz of excitement about Hans Teeuwen in the packed-out crowd at the Pleasance Dome, even before the man arrives on stage. Thirteen months ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Laurence Clark: Spastic Fantastic!
Laurence Clark isn't being offensive by calling his show Spastic Fantastic!, he has cerebral palsy. It's possibly inappropriate to use that as the opening li... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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 FringeGiselle
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 -
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