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
Rome in a Day
A single day to make, create and curate ART Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Hannah Gadsby is Wrong and Broken
This is gentle comedy without pretension - inoffensive and refreshingly honest Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Laura Hird
When novelist Laura Hird left Edinburgh for university in the late eighties, her mother, June, wrote to her regularly. Her letters – witty, entertain... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Oliver August & Guy Delisle
Oliver August and Guy Delisle have wildly different experiences of living in China. August, a Times journalist, learned Mandarin while living in Beijing fo... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Daljit Nagra & Nick Laird
Born in London to Punjabi parents, Daljit Nagra is aware that his poetry fills a certain ‘gap in the market.’ In acknowledging his potential to... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Sparkle
Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter's light-hearted tale has many positive attributes, though regrettably these are often marginalised. Sam (Shaun Evans) and his ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007
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Edinburgh Fringe
Steve Adey @ The Underbelly
After a short technical delay, local acoustic singer-songwriter Emily Scott opens the night with some understated but intriguing balladry. Breaking down the ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
A (Gay Disabled Transexual) Love Story Told to a Ticket Inspector at Alton Towers
An obstacle-littered story of love, with comedy and wheelchairs thrown in Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Return to Reason
The gap between what is promised in the blurb and what you get in practice is a mighty chasm Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
John Otway
When John Otway appeared on muso beard-fest the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 playing his piss-take of the hippie generation entitled Really Free, those in t... Read more »| 14 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
A Light in the North
Michael Kynaston explores the highlights of The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop's exhibition, Magazine Read more »| 14 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Killer Joe
Farcical comedy and uncontrolled violence create a powerful brew in the trailer parks of Texas Read more »| 14 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Patrick Monahan - Feel the Love
Patrick Monahan delivers material with an endearing enthusiasm and ease: what could have been overused topics never fail to raise a laugh Read more »| 14 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Sista She and the House of the Holy Bootay
Sista She's high-energy, booty shaking hip-hop comedy is rather good fun Read more »| 14 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Solitary Fragments
Loss, lonliness and the little things in life are deftly handled in Solitary Fragments, the second outing for Spanish director Jaime Rosales, whose 2003 debu... Read more »| 14 Aug 2007