Theatre
The Skinny theatre guide to plays, musicals, and theatre festivals throughout Scotland. We bring you the latest news in Scottish theatre, with highlights and reviews. Get backstage access with The Skinny's exclusive playwright, director, and festival curator interviews.
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Festivals
Allegience - SKINNYFEST 2
Just before the second performance of "Allegiance" begins an announcement is made over the Assembly speakers; "We would like to remind that you that smoking ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Festivals
Marlon Brando's Corset' = SKINNYFEST 2
To put it like an affable midwife, Guy Jones' script is a tad silly... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Shows
The Receipt
A receipt for coffee is the ultimate symbol of modern pointlessness but for Wiley it becomes something to make sense of and something to hold on to. Wiley w... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Shows
Midnight Cowboy
Joe Buck is a spectacular contradiction àbright-eyed, wholesome and trusting by nature, but a gigolo by trade, and at no point is it suggested that this should be an impossible combination. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Festivals
Dance Base Show 1...Iskander, Curve Foundation, Karl Jay-Lewin & Michael Popper (skinnyfest 2) dance
In this diverse program of four, it is the charged atmosphere, the delicate use of pace and pause found in 'It's About Time', that captures your attention. ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Marijke van Warmerdam: First drop skinnyfest1
Somewhat radically in the world of contemporary art, Marijke van Warmerdam's First drop exhibition does not have an agenda. It appears to make no political s... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Festivals
The Interview - SKINNYFEST 1
It's the future (or is it?) and the work-life balance has gone seriously wonky. Loving relationships are giving way to contracts drawn up by the state at a v... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Talk Radio SKINNYFest 1
Nestled snugly in the steamy intestinal tract of the festival's newly inflated purple bovine, talk show host Barry Champlain (Phil Nichols) has a sweaty, ove... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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SKINNYFEST 1 Pumpgirl
A great production of Abbie Spallen's new play, replete with country music, thick Northern Irish accents, car grease and fucking, this story is set in Armagh... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Festivals
Radio - skinnyfest 1
Radio is a story of the birth, life and death of one young man's American dream, all told in a perfectly manageable 45 minutes. As anti-Americanism is second... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Petrol Jesus Nightmare #5 (In the Time of the Messiah) SKINNYFEST 1
The small amount of violence we see àshocking in its brevity and intensity àstems from religion, corruption and greed, which inside the house feel oddly disconnected from the war raging in the streets. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Past Half Remembered SKINNYFEST 1
Romantic comedy isn't generally a genre associated with early 20th centuryRussian history, but the company of NiE manage it beautifully. Therelationship betw... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Blackwatch skinnyfest1
Superbly captures the essence of Scottish soldiers through the acting, accents, dialogue and humour. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Shows
Blackwatch 1
Superbly captures the essence of Scottish soldiers through the acting, accents, dialogue and humour. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Festivals
Janey Godley's 'Point of Yes' SKINNYFEST 1
After receiving widespread plaudits for "The Point of Yes", Glaswegian comic Janey Godley has now brought her one woman, two-character play to the fringe. Ch... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006