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
A Mighty Heart
“How do you find one man amongst all this?” Angelina Jolie asks us as she adopts the guise of Mariane Pearl, the widow of slain Wall Street journ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Meow Meow
Perfect slapstick with a virtuosic broken cabaret routine and an utterly magnificent voice Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
I Am You Are Me
If you are prepared to undergo a half hour of intense cringing at deeply unfunny clowns, you can trump all your friends' claims to have seen the worst thing at the Fringe this year Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Yesterday, When I Was Young
This new comedy follows one woman's journey into the world of whips, basques and bondage - to find her true calling as a dominatrix Madame Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Nick Pynn @ Inlingua
So much talent and so little time, his lack of restraint is his only weakness Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
In The Cities (Dans Les Villes)
Trees; dark, sombre and alone, stand like silent outcasts within the urban landscape. In Catherine Martin’s film, people are likewise outcast, wanderin... Read more »| 16 Aug 2007
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Edinburgh Fringe
Control
There are scenes in Control that we might never know the truth about; the signing of record deals in blood by late Mancunian culture mogul Tony Wilson makes ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Best Picks
This week's best picks from the International Book Festival Alan Guthrie & Stuart Macbride 27/08 18:00 two up and coming novelists who trade in ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Not So Tartan Terrors
Nick Garrard investigates the dark world of Tartan Noir Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Rich Hall
There are few comedians on any circuit or in any city in the world that have the reputation and talent of Rich Hall. As far as stand-up is concerned he's jus... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Documentaries at the EIFF
Can documentaries tell us the truth? Natalia Baal discusses the fine line between fact and fiction, and explores the art of the “the creative treatment... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Hallam Foe
A swathe of hype is forming around this, the latest film from Young Adam helmsman David Mackenzie - with good reason. It is an unfeasibly handsome product,... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Kurt Cobain: About a Son
“Fuck them, they don’t need to know everything about me,” scoffs Kurt Cobain, having a conversation he probably didn’t conceive could... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Italian
Orphans, snow and dodgy looking potato soup are usually a failsafe method of aptly tugging at the old heart strings. Certainly, director Aleksandr Burov does... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
To Die In Jerusalem
When the 17 year old Palestinian girl Ayat al-Akharas tied a belt of explosives around her waist and blew herself up on a suicide mission in Jerusalem, Israe... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007