Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe straight-talking comic’s debut hour is cheerfully rude and glowing with maternal love, as she describes parenting a son with autismAt a festival with 3,600 shows, some will feel samey. But no other performance is likel…
Continue ReadingOr What’s Left of Us by Sh!t Theatre is a playful and starkly profound hour in which the duo share their bereavements and stir reflections of our ownWhen someone you love dies, the grief can be almost unbearable, but there can also be a sense of someth…
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh Armed with spreadsheets and her usual playfulness, the comic attempts to evaluate the worth of her life so farHas autobiographical comedy reached its apotheosis? You might think so given how Zoë Coombs Marr’s show Every …
Continue ReadingJust the Tonic at the Caves, EdinburghBrown engages in good faith with questions of guilt and remorse, while perceiving bad faith in his critics’ responses to an old routine that included the N-word‘Give me a cheer if you’ve ever experienced remorse!” …
Continue ReadingSatirical musicals are trending at this year’s fringe, but there are plenty of intense one-person shows too, a knockout coming-of-age drama, and the unmissable return of Every Brilliant ThingMy biggest mistake of the Edinburgh fringe wasn’t mixing up i…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard , EdinburghMaking her fringe debut, the comic performs a droll, unsentimental and occasionally heart-stopping pas de deux with the critical voice in her headHannah Platt has body dysmorphia and doesn’t like being looked at – but her…
Continue ReadingSummerhall, EdinburghIn an often raw performance that retains a light touch, Yolanda Mercy delivers a bittersweet and valuable reflection on the theatre industryScroll through the listings on the edfringe app and you’ll find dozens of productions have …
Continue ReadingYounger audiences can choose from fart jokes, dancing lizards, acrobatic bees and plenty of other monkeying aroundPleasance Courtyard, 11.30am, until 25 August Continue reading…
Continue ReadingPleasance Dome, EdinburghRapunzel, Hansel and Gretel and a lot of toilet roll feature as the star Disney+ comedy Extraordinary explores wishes and their fulfilmentAll very well being part of comedy’s current clown boom, you may think, but what are the …
Continue ReadingTraverse theatre, EdinburghLeah Shelton plays her grandmother, incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital, in this one-woman show that draws on research, recordings and videos to link 1960s Australia to todayMrs Gwen Couper is having “delusions” about leav…
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