Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghVictoria Melody uses theatre to unpick the mechanics of the comedy world – with some fascinating discoveries about neurodivergence along the wayVictoria Melody likes to throw herself into things. For previous shows, the pe…
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel @ The Hive, EdinburghThe endearing comic’s Edinburgh debut is a riotously inventive show that blurs notions of race, gender and disability You could call Lara Ricote’s Edinburgh debut GRL/LATNX/DEF formulaic. Its title heralds a statement…
Continue ReadingUnderbelly, George Square, EdinburghIn her show All Change Please it’s marriage, not politics, that’s at the heart of the Mash Report satirist’s finest jokesRachel Parris always knew this might be a show with an identity crisis. Having plied her trade …
Continue ReadingBreak-dancing illusionist Magical Bones and comedian Eme Essien are at the festival with new shows. He teaches her one of his tricks – and gets an acting masterclass in returnOne is a rising comedy star and actor whose solo hour Flat Shoes in the Club …
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAdam Meggido’s play finds the teenage Johnson starring in Shakespeare’s tragedy and gives a taste of his future leadershipOut of his depth as a tragedy unfolds around him: say what you like about Eton College’s 1982 produc…
Continue ReadingAssembly George Square, EdinburghDebut show directed by Jordan Brookes sees Will Rowland and Eddy Hare deliver a familiar odd-couple turn with freshness“The UK’s lowest energy double act,” they call themselves. Which makes the wild west, with its atten…
Continue ReadingPleasance Dome, EdinburghBrokentalkers theatre company and feminist comic Adrienne Truscott joyfully burlesque the ugliness of machismo in art and in lifeThe great male artist may soon be on his way out, and not before time. But Brokentalkers theatre c…
Continue ReadingStand New Town theatre, EdinburghMaking her fringe standup debut after blazing a trail through modelling and activism, Olumide has some promising material but it fails to come togetherFashion model, actor, activist – is there anything Eunice Olumide ca…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn her show The Woman’s Hour, the viral comedy star offers caricatures of burbling backbenchers and a woke-bashing TV hostIn the darkness of our political moment, Rosie Holt’s videos, in her guise as a floundering governme…
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel, EdinburghWith cartoonish flair, the likable comic – one half of sketch duo The Delightful Sausage – revels in the repeated indignity of being ditched for someone elseThe Girl Before the Girl You Marry, Amy Gledhill calls her new show, wh…
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