Space hoppers and superstars: Edinburgh festival 2019 – in pictures
Our photographer Murdo Macleod has been seeking out the wildest, weirdest and best shows during the second week of the Edinburgh fringe festival Continue reading…
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Edinburgh fringe roundup: smut, stalkers and supremely silly slapstick
From the big stage to a dripping cave and someone’s front room, performers run the gamut from light to darkIt was a sticky, stormy and rain-soaked first week at the Edinburgh fringe, but nevertheless, the fizzy verbal pitches that accompany the confett…
Continue ReadingJack Rooke review – eyebrow-raising stories about love, sex and friendship
Assembly George Square Gardens, EdinburghIn this intimate show backed by a live harp, the effortlessly charming comedian expounds on platonic, brotherly and romantic love At one end of St Pancras train station is a neon pink sign by Tracey Emin that re…
Continue ReadingKate Tempest review – this isn’t a gig, it’s a reckoning
Leith theatre, EdinburghThe performance poet absorbs all of the uncertainty and anger of our times, and pours it into ferocious, apocalyptic music that both wounds and healsRarely can a room have felt so alive. With her Mercury-nominated mix of spoken …
Continue ReadingZoë Coombs Marr review – a brazen hour of mind-bending meta-comedy
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe Australian absurdist lays waste to standup convention with glee and skill – but is she too clever for her own good?No gimmicks, promises Zoë Coombs Marr: no message, no arc, no politics. We know her best as “Dave”, th…
Continue ReadingMicky Overman on comedy and violation: ‘How could a man masturbate during my set?’
I was told a man had been masturbating during my show. I’ve since heard of two other performers it has happened to. Isn’t comedy meant to be a space where we can safely express ourselves?A comedian friend of mine told me that being on stage is the only…
Continue ReadingJosie Long review – the mother lode of love, joy and laughs
Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh The standup tenderly hymns the joys of new parenthood in this delightful, tightly focused showHaving a baby is about as far from unique an experience as it’s possible to get, so it’s impressive how Josie Long makes it her p…
Continue ReadingThe LOL Word: the queer collective transforming comedy
That feeling when you get misgendered by a barista … The LOL Word proves there’s a place for comedy that isn’t straight or male with a heart-rendingly hilarious Edinburgh showJodie Mitchell is slowly moving around the stage, blowing into a microphone…
Continue ReadingCourtney Pauroso: Gutterplum review – the latest sexy clown from Dr Brown
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghMore anarchic comedy, sexual frankness and in-yer-face clowning from the director behind Natalie PalamidesIs there a more singular style in comedy than Dr Brown’s? The shows in which he’s had a hand – his own, culminating i…
Continue Reading#HonestAmy review – warmth, stoical wit and a flavour of fortune cookie
Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Kathy Burke directs Amy Booth-Steel’s feelgood, if cliched, ukulele-assisted chronicle of cancer and PTSDFive years ago, Amy Booth-Steel was a jobbing actor, when she was diagnosed with stage three cancer and told she could be…
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