Gilded Balloon Patter House, EdinburghThe onstage ranting of a comedian is interrupted by impassioned accounts of violence against women in Sadie Pearson’s dramaFull Frontal Theatre is a female-led company with a commitment to fighting misogyny. No sur…
Continue ReadingPleasance Dome, EdinburghKate Ireland’s warmly delivered one-woman show considers the pressures of productivity, rules and rewards at school and beyondShe has been given 60 minutes out of her audience’s day and Kate Ireland won’t waste them, she promis…
Continue ReadingMcEwan Hall, EdinburghThe sharply dressed quintet perform acrobatics that often complement the 50s chart hits on the jukeboxFor their fifth season at the fringe, this quintet of Kenyan acrobats are performing to golden oldies, opening with both Chubby …
Continue ReadingPleasance Dome, EdinburghAlexander Burnett and Ellie Whittaker dive into multiple roles in a bubbly show with plenty of audience participationThis highly physical comedy about two competitive swimmers begins at the beginning – not with a referee’s whis…
Continue ReadingPleasance Dome, EdinburghAlexander Burnett and Ellie Whittaker dive into multiple roles in a bubbly show with plenty of audience participationThis highly physical comedy about two competitive swimmers begins at the beginning – not with a referee’s whis…
Continue ReadingtheSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, EdinburghThis playful performance explores loneliness, liberty and life in early adulthood through two adventurous cats and their demanding humansEllie Rose Amit and Charlotte Pine’s comedy about cats includes grooming, a spo…
Continue ReadingChurch Hill theatre, EdinburghA furious and unsettling Shakespeare reboot exposes colonial violence and demands accountability for crimes against Indigenous people‘Aren’t you sorry you forced me to learn English?” If that sounds more like The Tempest’s…
Continue ReadingThe cult 2000s sitcom accrued obsessive fans and celebrity guests before being abruptly cancelled. Now, 20 years on, its star and writer return with a stage revival – but they insist it’s no victory lapDrugs, gangs, kidnappings, police corruption, murd…
Continue ReadingThe cult 2000s sitcom accrued obsessive fans and celebrity guests before being abruptly cancelled. Now, 20 years on, its star and writer return with a stage revival – but they insist it’s no victory lapDrugs, gangs, kidnappings, police corruption, murd…
Continue ReadingSeven of the eight nominees for best show have not previously been nominated in the same category at the ‘Oscars of live comedy’Standup about infertility, jokes about a Georgian gourmand, and an experimental clowning fever dream: the shortlist has been…
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