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
And On Your Left... Ruth Bratt
A small, intimate room in the Pleasance Dome provides the setting for Ruth Bratt to launch herself into this hectic, character-based comedy show. A veteran ... Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeSimon Brodkin is Lee Nelson
At last year’s Fringe,the newcomer Simon Brodkin played a series of characters in One Man Comedy Club. Brodkin delivered funny, mannered monologues in ... Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeTom Allen
The title of Tom Allen’s new festival offering leads one to expect something at least a little bit Freudian. And from the opening confessional, that s... Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeBully
The Gilded Balloon's forsaken turret is where you have to go to claim what must be one of this year’s Fringe’s most special treasures Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeLynn Ferguson - Heart & Sole
Gifted storytelling and strong character acting combine for the love story between a woman and a fish Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Aluminum Show
An odd spectacle of dance and metal which will won't foil to excite Read more »| 03 Aug 2008
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Edinburgh Fringe
Two Episodes of Mash
“Basically we’ll come out, do 11 sketches, then you guys will leave and we’ll go back behind the curtain.” That’s how Joe Wilki... Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dan Atkinson - The Credit Crunch and Other Biscuits
Bounding onstage following a characteristically cynical short film introduction – documenting his own passage to manhood through the greed of the eight... Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Paul Kerensa
A humorously misguided tour through a year of music. Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dannyfest
Replete with interactive gimmickry, Danny Robbins pitches up at this year’s Fringe with Dannyfest, the one-man version of that quintessential British s... Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
P.I.E
Sherlock Holmes and Watson, Inspector Morse and Louis, Hercule Poirot and, well, his moustache: these crime-fighting duos and stalwarts of British televisual... Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Advance to Retreat
The new Retreat! festival promises to showcase the best in Edinburgh DIY pop and folk music. Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Shout When Spoken To
Sweden's Shout Out Louds are the latest in a long line of quality pop groups to make the trip across the North Sea Read more »| 03 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Lloyd Woolf -- Ten Shows I Abandoned
It’s going to be no ordinary show when the comedian greets you at the door and asks how your day has been. The start of Lloyd Woolf’s performance... Read more »| 02 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Reception
Jen Brister and Clare Warde are a funny, touching double act. Set in the "front line" of a radiology department – a kind of everydesk – these rec... Read more »| 02 Aug 2008