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
Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath
This play pitches itself just right; the jokes peppering the script make the experience all the more affecting Read more »| 21 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Best of the Fest 24/08 (For Issue 6)
The Top Five works from this year's Festival Exhibtions. Read more »| 21 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Wasted (Y)ears
In this moving autobiographical monologue, an actor recounts a tale of triumph over adversity. Born hard of hearing, Tim Barlow was rendered stone deaf by th... Read more »| 21 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Longwave
Longwave is a rough-cut gem that incites wonder without twinkling opulently. Tune in and marvel Read more »| 21 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Long Walks
Jenny Richards maps the traces Land Artist Richard Long leaves in Edinburgh’s Modern Art Gallery. Read more »| 21 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
John Hegley
You won’t have seen any of Hegley's posters up this year or, come to think of it, last year, but that's only because his popularity and talent transcend the need for any publicity Read more »| 21 Aug 2007
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Edinburgh Fringe
Songs About Vaginas
Jessica Delfino shows that she is much better at using computers to come up with some nifty graphics than she is at writing lyrics Read more »| 21 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Decaffination of Kofi Annan
The weak pun linking Kofi to coffee typifies the witless wordplay that characterises Noel James' show Read more »| 21 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Home Song Stories
The Home Song Stories tells the story of Rose and her two children Tom and May. As their mother, Rose behaves less like a parent and more like a partner in... Read more »| 21 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Oxford Revue
Like the fibre in a balanced diet, one can't help but feel that a few longer sketches might enable the six performers to add substance to their character acting Read more »| 21 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Danton's Death
There is something instantly appealing about a work of art that has been written illicitly. The mystique surrounding Georg B?chner’s 1835 reactionary m... Read more »| 21 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
World's End by Paul Sellar
For a play by such a well-established playwright, it's curiously dull and unrewarding Read more »| 21 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Blame It On Fidel
La Faute à Fidel is a hugely accomplished first feature by Julie Gavras, the daughter of feted left-wing filmmaker Costa-Gavras, which tells the story... Read more »| 21 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Figure 5
Whether they [Figure Five] can convert this effervescence onto record remains to be seen Read more »| 21 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Marcus Brigstocke
Brigstocke is apparently unable to reconcile his evident talent as a comic performer with the unbridled rage his material inspires Read more »| 21 Aug 2007