Gilded Balloon, EdinburghThe physical assault Deol underwent in the US informs a set that comes alive when the audience join her search for agencyWho wouldn’t want to hold the fate of those who’ve wronged them in their hands? The American justice syste…
Continue ReadingYounger audiences may not recognise people comedians are impersonating but some performers say there’s still plenty to work with“If I see somebody become famous, and they’ve got tremendously predominant mannerisms and they speak a certain way which is…
Continue ReadingWalkout by authors over fossil fuel links plus controversies about identity, racism and sexism are hot topics at politically charged eventWhen Jessica Gaitán Johannesson led a mass walkout at an Edinburgh book festival event last weekend, she told the …
Continue ReadingWhat’s the funniest thing on the festival fringe? No, not politics, but painful introspectionNominations for the prestigious Edinburgh comedy award, to be announced on Wednesday, are likely to include a few standup routines that sound about as funny as…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup makes his fringe debut with songs, set-pieces and self-acceptance in a winning showDo we need more gay heroes? Daniel Foxx thinks so. If you are watching a movie, and “you can’t tell which one of them is meant …
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup makes his fringe debut with songs, set-pieces and self-acceptance in a winning showDo we need more gay heroes? Daniel Foxx thinks so. If you are watching a movie, and “you can’t tell which one of them is meant …
Continue ReadingZoo Playground, EdinburghUS actor-writer Griffin Kelly proves a performer to her fingertips with this highly physical comedy showFor the first few minutes of Griffin Kelly’s playful solo show, the dialogue is made up almost entirely of miaows. As two k…
Continue ReadingA dazzling drama about women slipping the surly bonds of male-dominated Nasa joins Essex poetry, New York silliness and Lorna Rose Treen’s laugh-fest as second-week treatsI first encountered the poet Luke Wright a decade ago, when I lived in Oxford and…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe smoothest of standups offers polished punchlines in a warm and perfectly wrought hour on imminent parenthoodNo comedy expertise is required to deduce, the moment she steps on stage, what Janine Harouni’s show is likely…
Continue ReadingPhotographer Murdo MacLeod captures an eye-catching array of comedy, dance and theatre shows as the arts spectacular continues Continue reading…
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