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
Diary of a Nobody review - SkinnyFest1
Well, this is What Happened To The Likely Lad who didn't fall feet first into a primetime BBC1 cop drama. While James Bolam pays the bills by playing the sam... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Festivals
Both sides of the bar. SKINNYFEST 1
Treat the unfolding ménage àtrios like a Ramsay Street love affair... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Shows
Blackwatch
Superbly captures the essence of Scottish soldiers through the acting, accents, dialogue and humour. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Shows
Black Jew Dialogues - Skinny Fest 1
The Black Jew Dialogues sounds funny on paper. Woody Allen is a funny man, as is Chris Rock. However in this instance, the combination of two of the great co... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Shows
Bitches and Money
Ice Cube once rapped: "life ain't nothin', but bitches and money." Apparently though, Ice's prose was really meant to sum up the thoughts of a 19th century s... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Festivals
Food SKINNYFest 1
Ladies and Gentlemen: it is, most assuredly, time to rattle those pots and pans. Theatre company theimaginary body won plaudits, many stars and a Fringe Firs... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Festivals
Particularly in the Heartland modified SKINNYFest 1
A gloriously shambolic play of epic proportions, Particularly in the Heartland is likely to relieve many fans of the TEAM and its director Rachel Chavkin. Re... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Festivals
Into the Hoods SKINNYFest 1
Perfect for younger audiences Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Festivals
Myosung: Streetdance SKINNYFest 1
Hip hop, break dance and bamboo form the beginning of this show, which woos its audience from the start. Bodies move as though pulled by forces outside them,... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Interviews
Stewart Lee on 'Talk Radio'
I had trouble with 'Jerry Springer: The Opera' so that made me think about how jokes work and what annoys people and why should you be allowed to say particular things, and that does dove-tail quite nicely into 'Talk Radio' Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Interviews
Strangers on a Train
While theatrical adaptations of novels are less common than cinematic ones, the fiction of Patricia Highsmith appears to possess a remarkably long stage life. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Shows
Bussman's Holiday @ The Assembly Rooms
The comic relief adequately facilitates the communication of what would have, at least in part, been an otherwise harrowing tale Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Festivals
Edinburgh International Fest - Budapest Festival Orchestra performing Bartok and Stravinsky (SkinnyFest2)
Bela Bartok wrestled with his government for the right to perform his music; Igor Stravinsky fled a premiere when fistfights filled the aisles. It's difficul... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Interviews
What is... Burlesque?
Glamour has come back into the club world of with a bang, through the medium of burlesque. Men and women are now able to cast of their bland clubbing uniform... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Shows
The Jungle Book
This production lacks the knowing jokes for grown-ups abundant in so much children's theatre - rather refreshingly, this kids' play is actually for kids. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006