Gilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh This is a fun and feverish journey, with well-crafted comedy and screaming guitar, through the star’s career so farIn an industry that claims to be inclusive, it’s so easy to feel tokenised. For musician and comedian Ch…
Continue ReadingCabVol @ Monkey Barrel, EdinburghA fringe fling is the backbone for a mischievous set with deft jokes and a fresh perspective but some of this material needs another draftAyo Adenekan’s ascent has been swift. Last year, the rookie comic cracked a joke …
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Daniel McVey merrily recruits the audience for a fun hour of cosy crime that bleeds into cosmic horrorWith a title like that, perhaps it’s no surprise that this afternoon’s show is sold out. Who wouldn’t want to find out …
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Daniel McVey merrily recruits the audience for a fun hour of cosy crime that bleeds into cosmic horrorWith a title like that, perhaps it’s no surprise that this afternoon’s show is sold out. Who wouldn’t want to find out …
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis one-man comic play, told at breakneck speed and featuring West Side Story-like dance-numbers, is highly entertainingIt’s as if Joseph Morpurgo had never been away. The Londoner made a splash on the fringe a decade ago…
Continue ReadingtheSpace Triplex, EdinburghFour skaters enter into feral competition in this darkly funny yet flimsily plotted play about female teenhoodThe title refers to the figure-skating legend and Olympian who, in the noughties, captivated the US with her perfor…
Continue ReadingSummerhall, EdinburghHannah Maxwell quits doomscrolling and turns her attention to tech bros’ targeted assault on democracy and our smartphone-addicted complicityLast year, Hannah Maxwell laid out three blueprints for an Edinburgh fringe hit. In her sh…
Continue ReadingSummerhall, EdinburghVengeance for a slaughtered pig is the starting point for a riotous parody that suggests the meat industry poses an existential threat to human survivalThat’s my next hotdog ruined. Shakespeare’s “too solid flesh” is squeezed into …
Continue ReadingPleasance Dome, EdinburghThis is a spiky, interrogative and surprisingly conventional set from an act who usually pushes standup to its limitsYou can fall victim to your own high standards – and few comics have set higher standards than Jordan Brookes….
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel, EdinburghA comic on the verge of the big time offers a ‘very silly hour’ around the highways and byways of her lifeA former winner of the Sean Lock award for comic originality, Harriet Dyer richly delivers on that promise of oddity in he…
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