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
Lost In The Wind
Spectacular and graceful, Lost in the Wind's physical theatre is sophisticated and amusing Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Scaramouche Jones
A clown, battered and bruised across the whole of the twentieth century, finally breaks his silence Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Vincent
While perhaps not out of this world Leonard 'Spock' Nimoy's play delves into some of the interesting aspects of van Gogh's life Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
A Darkling Plain
There are few plays which deliver laughter as well as this one, and few with as much heart or brains Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Rise
Tom Dale’s meditation on modern existence proves to be a compelling spectacle Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Andrew Lawrence: Don't Just Do Something, Sit There!
It is often thought that self-deprecation deters even the most ardent heckler. While “high” comics like Jimmy Carr actively incite interruptions ... Read more »| 03 Aug 2008
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Edinburgh Fringe
Womb Man
A mishmash of postmodernist ideas which might even interest some people Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Discipline and Punish
Hilarity gives way to a darker world in SUDS' exploration of torture Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
21:13
A brief encounter at 21:13 provokes an examination about love across language barriers Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
On the Waterfront
This is, predictably, great theatre, but is perhaps bigger than the Fringe can really accommodate Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Greenstick Boy
“Punk is dead, they buried the corpse under the Eleanor Cross,” spills Greenstick Boy’s ebullient heroine as her reminiscences drift toward... Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Felix Dexter - Not Just Another White Guy Lost In The Shuffle
Given the frightening levels of nutjob Fringe-liberalism on display in Edinburgh come festival season, it’s ironic that I have the Conservative Party t... Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Isy Suttie - The Suttie Show
As she bounces on to the stage with the sunny enthusiasm of a wet-behind-the-ears primary schoolteacher, there’s little sign that Isy Suttie is sufferi... Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jason Cook - "Joy"
An emotional experience second to none in Fringe stand-up. Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jeff Kreisler 08
Political satire doesn’t often travel too well, even when it comes from so familiar a country as the U.S. Anyone who’s watched Jon Stewart’... Read more »| 03 Aug 2008