Pleasance 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…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghPauroso is an astonishing performer who teases the crowd but her show raises more questions than there’s time to fully exploreVanessa 5000, the creation of seasoned LA clown Courtney Pauroso, is giving us a demo of her man…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom a nine-year-old misfit to Sally Rooney writing a children’s book, Treen’s characters are pitched at a sharp angle to the real worldFunny Women winner 2022. Chortle’s best newcomer. Lorna Rose Treen has amassed a few a…
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghSome gags are queasy and others are thrillingly bleak from the Mancunian comic whose outbursts are often directed at himselfThis cramped space at the back of the Monkey Barrel is where Rob Kemp confined us all with his ch…
Continue ReadingComedians at the festival are enlisting volunteers to join in their acts, creating a warm, inclusive and fun spaceAs I cross the threshold of US comedian Moses Storm’s Edinburgh fringe show, I’m handed a white coat. Now part of an identically dressed c…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAssuming the guise of ‘an old-school entertainment type’, this fringe debutant is hypnotically unusualThe fashion is for fringe newcomers to deliver solo shows all about themselves: potted autobiographies big on identity a…
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