Traverse theatre, EdinburghA high-school English teacher and his former star pupil meet in a brothel in Kieran Hurley’s new playWith this uneven three-hander, Kieran Hurley has fielded two plays in one. The first is a sex farce about a middle-aged man …
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 ReadingPleasance Dome, EdinburghThe polarising comic overthinks relationships and family ties before leading his audience into territory where he’s not after laughsDrew Michael’s first televised set was called “the most polarising comedy special of the year” …
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghNational stereotypes aside, the cordial TikTok star delivers lively cross-Channel observations and adds a soupçon of substanceSocial media rewards high concept, quick-hit ideas, and Tatty Macleod had a peach of one when s…
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…
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…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis fantastically silly show by writer-actors Valen Shore and Alison Zatta reflects on the adrenalised rise to fame for young pop starsOn the face of it, a musical about ’NSync from the point of view of Chris Kirkpatrick …
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis fantastically silly show by writer-actors Valen Shore and Alison Zatta reflects on the adrenalised rise to fame for young pop starsOn the face of it, a musical about ’NSync from the point of view of Chris Kirkpatrick …
Continue ReadingRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghIn Miriam Battye’s comedic tour de force, Her and Him go through the motions of getting to know each otherGiven the survival of the species depends on it, the mating game is surprisingly hard. After so many millennia w…
Continue ReadingSummerhall, EdinburghEloina Haines’ performance considers her own – and other women’s – labia and the obscene pressure to make this body part conformIf the Edinburgh fringe has never really begun until the obligatory shock of full-frontal nudity, this …
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