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
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
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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 -
Shows
The Romeo and Juliet Syndrome
A play about lost love, Romeo and Juliet, fairies, librarians, Valentines Day and, worst of all, journalists, may not sound like an ideal way to start your c... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Shows
Oh! What a Shame!
this radical take on Shakespeare fails to engage Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Interviews
I LOVE PLAYS
an artform that forces us to focus and challenge that complacency ought to be valued, not dismissed out of hand Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Shows
Diaspora
The Diaspora festival brings international artists and drama students together in an unusual collaboration between the National Theatre of Scotland and RSAMD, creating a forum to debate Scotland's future as an artistic exponent. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Shows
Henry VI (Wars of the Roses) & Theatre Royal
Shakespeare's biting dialogue (or torrent of insults, if you prefer) is handled with gusto here. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Shows
Cinderella Open Auditions
Do you have what it takes to be the next pantomime superstar? Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Interviews
The Bare Necessities
There is something intrinsically appealing about 'The Jungle Book': the wild jungle setting and brushes with a dangerous tiger awaken primal instincts and the call to nature, but the very colonial ideals imposed on Kipling's jungle make us feel safe. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006