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 FringeLife at the Molecular Level
As you wander from the Gilded Balloon Teviot, past the Grolsch Green and down to the Smirnoff Underbelly, it’s easy to forget that the Edinburgh Fringe... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
InvAsian Festival: It Ain't All Bollywood
Bollywood films frequently make it into the UK top-ten, and Hollywood studios have started moving into the commercial Indian film industry. It Ain’t al... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeClockheart Boy
The most memorable fairy tales are often the ones that don’t succumb to a happy ending. Dumbshow, the theatre group behind the hugely imaginative Clock... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeYasser
Those with an interest in politics, Shakespeare and metatheatre will greatly enjoy el Gardi’s passionate performance of this thought-provoking play Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeKarl Spain: Life Is Sweet
It is a truth universally acknowledged that other people's health problems make for diabolically boring conversation. Whether granny's arthritis has been giv... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Adventures of Buttboy and Tigger
Sat among a well-dressed, predominantly male audience while watching the apparent re-enactment of the racier scenes from a particularly explicit gay porn fil... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008
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Edinburgh Fringe
Jason John Whitehead: The Joker
Sweat and rainwater dripped ominously to the floor in disturbingly large quantities. Something was not quite right that evening in the dark, echoing tunnels ... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Rhod Gilbert & The Award Winning Mince Pie
Rhod Gilbert runs onstage, unshaven and apologising. "I’m sick," he mumbles as he swills his lager and darts his eyes. His voice is loud but oddly deli... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jim Jeffries: Hammered
"A lot of female reviewers have been giving me two stars," Jim Jeffries exclaims, after an hour that has chiefly consisted of misogynistic musings on miserab... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Wilson Dixon Rides Again
Despite there only being one Stetson in the room, Wilson Dixon’s audience of mostly middle-aged couples and boisterous young men gives this fake Countr... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
'Departure Lounge' by Dougal Irvine
Birds, booze and beaches: it’s the perfect holiday formula for the thousands of Brits that visit the Costa del Sol every year. It’s no different ... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Borderline
There's an awful lot of mixed messages flying around in Borderline. What is billed as a “One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest for the ecstasy generation&rdq... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Sideshow: The Weirdest Show on Earth
Watching this the show on a Monday, it is hard to get a good sense of the atmosphere it might generate on peak nights, but with ten well-behaved people in th... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Adventures of Pink Peter
Oh dear. When a former children’s television presenter resorts to dressing up as a woman—worse still four women—for the sake of a cheap lau... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Bad Dog Variety
The variety show is a lost art. Gone are the days of Sunday Night at the London Palladium, and few mourn their passing. Mawkish comperes, cheesy acts, toot... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008