Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom a nude life-drawing class to a Colombian kidnapping, with help from his Ghosts co-star Lolly Adefope, Smith-Bynoe uses audience members’ stories to comic effectThe involvement of big-time performers such as Kiell Smit…
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel, EdinburghThe Mancunian manchild shows wild commitment in a show about dyspraxia, drug use and internalised homophobiaWe say we want men to talk about their mental health, Dan Tiernan has noticed. Is this what we had in mind? The joke is …
Continue ReadingChurch Hill theatre, EdinburghA furious and unsettling Shakespeare reboot exposes colonial violence and demands accountability for crimes against Indigenous people‘Aren’t you sorry you forced me to learn English?” If that sounds more like The Tempest’s…
Continue ReadingThe cult 2000s sitcom accrued obsessive fans and celebrity guests before being abruptly cancelled. Now, 20 years on, its star and writer return with a stage revival – but they insist it’s no victory lapDrugs, gangs, kidnappings, police corruption, murd…
Continue ReadingThe cult 2000s sitcom accrued obsessive fans and celebrity guests before being abruptly cancelled. Now, 20 years on, its star and writer return with a stage revival – but they insist it’s no victory lapDrugs, gangs, kidnappings, police corruption, murd…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA wickedly amusing fringe debut considers the relationship between comedy, feminism and sexinessCan you be funny and good-looking? You’d think the question barely needs asking – but Elouise Eftos has done so, and received …
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAt 34, the comedian has ditched the shy self-abasement for diss tracks and politics – even if his set is inspired by his fondness for orangeWith Orange Crush, Ivo Graham promises us either his best ever standup set, or a c…
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel, EdinburghIn an uneven show, one of the most intriguing comic voices of his generation tackles sex, race and British identity‘I used to be a cool young comic with cool young fans,” bewails Jamali Maddix. He’s certainly one of the most int…
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel, EdinburghIn an uneven show, one of the most intriguing comic voices of his generation tackles sex, race and British identity‘I used to be a cool young comic with cool young fans,” bewails Jamali Maddix. He’s certainly one of the most int…
Continue ReadingSeven of the eight nominees for best show have not previously been nominated in the same category at the ‘Oscars of live comedy’Standup about infertility, jokes about a Georgian gourmand, and an experimental clowning fever dream: the shortlist has been…
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