Imaginary friends, runaway horses and Roger McGough’s take on the Wind in the Willows are among the treats for younger audiences at the festivalSummerhall, 11.30am, until 20 August Continue reading…
Continue ReadingSummerhall, EdinburghThe comic relives being a carer for a lovably eccentric adopted uncle in a heartfelt show that demonstrates caring’s reciprocal flowThe “dead dad show” is a fringe comedy staple. But what about the dead not-quite-an-uncle show? Ben…
Continue ReadingTraverse 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 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 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 …
Continue ReadingAfter routines about orgies from the perspective of an ‘awkward English twit’, the comedian returns with an unironic and open account of carnal pleasureIt is nearly midnight at a packed theatre in Edinburgh, and Simon Amstell is inviting questions at t…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comedian rebrands as angry for her second show, but it’s her likable comic persona that proves irresistibleNot the least achievement of Chloe Petts’ debut show Transience was that it waded into the most heated debate o…
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