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
Rich Hall review - SkinnyFest 2
Nobody with a soul can claim to dislike re-heated pizza, but on the other hand only a paltry few will claim that it tastes better than one that's straight fr... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Reginald D. Hunter review - SkinnyFest 2
Reginald D. Hunter may now be a contented resident of London, but he, and his show, continue to be well and truly American. Neither 'well' nor 'truly' is ina... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Tim Minchin review - SkinnyFest 2
I'll never read Prufrock without fondly thinking of my nether regions again! Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dutch Elm Conservatoire review - SkinnyFest 2
Prison has never really appealed to me. Bad food, soap, S&M, yeech. Yet, being in prison with last year's Perrier-nominated quintet, the Dutch Elm Conservato... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Adam Hills review - SkinnyFest 2
Anyone who can sit through an hour of Adam Hills and not come out with renewed sense of optimism and joy is not worth knowing. This is because Adam is a fund... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Russell Kane review - SkinnyFest 2
Like a sugar-coated soft-chew bar called Tourette's, Russell Kane bounds and slithers and twitches around the stage, reminding us that it's important to star... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Edinburgh Fringe
Paul Sinha review - SkinnyFest 2
Paul Sinha is a man blessed with so much natural material that his comedy contempories could carve him up among themselves and dine out on the laughs for yea... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Gamarjobat review - SkinnyFest)
Highly acclaimed 'silent-comedy' practitioners Gamarjobat return to Edinburgh this year with a show that delights and frustrates in equal measure. The openin... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Frankie Boyle review - SkinnyFest
There's all this talk about gay marriage, announces Frankie Boyle in a tone of affected informality. "I don't know what all the fuss is about. I'd have loved... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Justin Edwards review - SKINNYFest 2
That was the shipping forecast. And now there's just time to tell you about another programme coming up on Radio 4. Former Perrier Best Newcomer Justin Edwar... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Four World Cups and One World Pope review - SkinnyFest 2
At times, it's like being in the room with a borderline misogynist. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Simon Munnery column - SkinnyFest 2
An impudent sprite with piercing insight in the middle of the night informed me I was a ghost. It cut me to the quick; I knew I was sick but I hadn't realise... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Will Smith review - SkinnyFest 2
Comfortable middle-class humour for comfortable middle-class people. The largely sweater-wearing crowd were in tittering hysterics over Smith's many foibles,... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Sean Collins review - SkinnyFest 2
A Canadian, Sean Collins is possessed of a classic North American stand-up style: smart black sweater, stool, microphone, and an unwillingness to get carried... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
My Brother And I Are Porn Stars review - SkinnyFest 2
The play's major successes crop up when combining gruesome surrealist imagery with off-beat humour... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006