Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh The real beasts – not the internet kind – have come to teach us their ways, learn human stuff and dish the dirt on billy goatsIt’s not easy being green. Just ask these two trolls, sporting hoodies, tights and trainers in v…
Continue ReadingtheSpace @ Surgeons Hall, EdinburghNalini Sharma makes an engaging fringe debut, using clowning skills and audience participation in a show inspired by her hospital stay“What’s your favourite phallus?” asks performance artist Sophia Cleary in her fring…
Continue Reading***** (out of 5) I’d seen Julia Masli last year, in her clown show CHOOSH!, which covers her travels from Estonia to London, and which …
Continue Reading*** (out of 5) Set in a hospital with dying patients and their loved ones, Until Death is a solo theatrical clown show that’s also …
Continue Reading****1/2 (out of 5) Now That’s What I Call Silly Billy! After a sold-out run through the UK last year, Aussie goof Josh Glanc has …
Continue Reading**** (out of 5) Claire knows that Claire’s work seems inaccessible, tough to contextualize. Despite moments that you could easily categorize, such as when she’s …
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghA clown by trade, Masli here sets about tackling the audience’s problems. Her leftfield efforts to ease them are one of this fringe’s true tonicsAt any given fringe, a show will emerge that crystallises the festival spiri…
Continue Reading**** (out of 5) Two brothers. 1,000 banana slips in an hour or your money back guaranteed? One chaotically tricky masochistic clown show! Directed by …
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel at the Tron, EdinburghThis part-improvised, largely mimed and entirely chaotic comic play about guinea pigs and bank robbery is ramshackle funEdinburgh comedy award-nominated in 2017, Elf Lyons can’t be accused of treading the conventiona…
Continue ReadingIn her Edinburgh festival show, LA comic and clown Courtney Pauroso plays a latex-clad humanoid pleasure device. But are fringegoers ready to restart her?The last time I saw Courtney Pauroso, she was upside down, legs splayed, doing a naked, spotlit ha…
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