“Until Death” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
*** (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 …
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Josh Glanc: “Collections 2023” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
****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 ReadingClaire Woolner: “A Retrospection” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
**** (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 ReadingJulia Masli: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha review – healing hilarity
Monkey 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 ReadingBill O’Neill: “The Amazing Banana Brothers” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
**** (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 ReadingElf and Duffy: Heist review – harum-scarum comedy havoc
Monkey 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 Reading‘Like a naughty Siri’: friendly sex robot Vanessa 5000 asks audiences to test her powers
In 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…
Continue Reading‘Like a naughty Siri’: friendly sex robot Vanessa 5000 asks audiences to test her powers
In 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…
Continue ReadingCourtney Pauroso: “Vanessa 5000,” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
***** (out of 5) After a sold-out run of her debut show Gutterplum in 2019, Los Angeles clown Courtney Pauroso returns with an all-new production …
Continue ReadingEpisode #434: Christina Catherine Martinez
Christina Catherine Martinez is a writer, actor, art critic, comedian and Los Angeles native who was named in 2020 to Vulture’s Comedian You Should Know …
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