The festival’s relentless pace is demanding for performers, especially with an underlying health condition. Three acts explain how their month has goneAn hour before she was due on stage for the first show of her month-long Edinburgh fringe run, Nina G…
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh The Australian standup, nominated for the Edinburgh comedy award, delivers a restlessly zany sequence of songs and thumbnail sketchesPromising a set more memorable than your wedding, Josh Glanc (rhymes with romance) open…
Continue ReadingAssembly George Square, EdinburghThe mesmerising Australian comic’s song-laced, sassy and polemical set is a clarion call for queer expressionHighest star wattage on the Edinburgh fringe? Give that award to Reuben Kaye right away. Best comedy show? Wel…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghActor-playwright Libby Rodliffe plays plate-spinning Bea, desperately working several jobs, in a monologue co-written with Isley LynnJobsworth is billed as a riotous comedy about a woman, Bea, juggling multiple jobs, some …
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh This show about body image doesn’t always hold its focus, but Gledhill has a winning mix of northern mockery and good cheer‘I’ve had some good news, I’ve had some prosecco.” Today’s performance finds Amy Gledhill in a ce…
Continue ReadingBanshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh It starts with boundless energy … then gathers momentum, as this comic’s silliness builds a tale of desperate ambitionRob Copland rockets into the room, pure energy. We’re clapping, he’s dancing. He’s clapping, someone else…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThese games lampooning business jargon and CV exaggeration are relatable and initially amusing but soon start to dragA grabby title and a clear concept sell tickets at the Edinburgh fringe. Australian comedy duo James Schl…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghBeyond its larky interactive stunts and impersonations, the standup’s restart-the-show gimmick coheres into an affecting personal story of redemptionThe First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows, Abby Wambaugh titles her fringe debut. I…
Continue ReadingSummerhall, EdinburghIn a compelling collaboration with Bryony Kimmings, the German company Still Hungry deconstruct, satirise and celebrate the circusThree women are remembering their introduction to the circus as children. It offered not just a world…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Part-clown, part-mime and part overgrown child, Lyons leads us through mythic history to reconnect with a lost world of imaginationIn comedy terms, Elf Lyons has always been less of a thoroughbred, more of a breed apart –…
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