Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Patsy Ferran takes on Eliza in Pygmalion, Andrew Scott plays multiple characters from Uncle Vanya and Mlima's Tale tells a powerful tale of the ivory trade. Here's what's in store on stage C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Assembly George Square, EdinburghThe Australian comedian makes it immediately clear you are in safe hands with a show of sketches and characters
It's a thrill when a comic you're seeing for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghSchoolteacher-by-day Tothill's foppish persona is a delight and his thesis, that hedonism died with the Reformation, is convincing
There are newcomers on the fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe conceit in the comic's fringe debut is that his sleazebag persona has been #MeTooed and returns with a barrage of bad-taste jokes
"Too dark and weird for m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AM[SHARE]Monday, August 21, 2023
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghRamoso delivers an irresistible show featuring dozens of characters in sketches, improv and a comic play
Sketch is usually a team game " and you could believe there'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:43PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAbdulrashid is emerging as one of comedy's most honest chroniclers of life's complexities and contradictions
There are few acts in Edinburgh right now quite lik…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 20, 2023
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghThe physical assault Deol underwent in the US informs a set that comes alive when the audience join her search for agency
Who wouldn't want to hold the fate of those…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 19, 2023
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup makes his fringe debut with songs, set-pieces and self-acceptance in a winning show
Do we need more gay heroes? Daniel Foxx thinks so. If you are wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe smoothest of standups offers polished punchlines in a warm and perfectly wrought hour on imminent parenthood
No comedy expertise is required to deduce, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AM[SHARE]Friday, August 18, 2023
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghSome gags are queasy and others are thrillingly bleak from the Mancunian comic whose outbursts are often directed at himself
This cramped space at the back of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Pleasance 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 world
Funny Women winner 2022…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 17, 2023
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAssuming the guise of 'an old-school entertainment type', this fringe debutant is hypnotically unusual
The fashion is for fringe newcomers to deliver solo shows…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13PM[SHARE]Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh In an affecting set, the comic reflects on his younger brother's death and the importance of holding loved ones close
It is said that comedy is tragedy plus time " …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup delivers an energetic set about trying to live up to his parents' expectations and the ethics of his corporate day job
"I am unhinged!" There's nerv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37AM[SHARE]Having built his reputation as a comic and podcaster on his candour about anxiety and addiction, Robins is facing a new comedy challenge " happiness
'There is no greater sorrow," as Dante ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghHenry Naylor's well-intentioned drama about deaths in care homes lets anger cloud its judgment
Hyde, Manchester, in the 1990s. Frank and Georgie's 78-year-old mum ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe nerdy comic takes his standup in a new direction with this partly participatory show but it doesn't exploit his strengths
He may be making his 10th Edinburg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghA clown by trade, Masli here sets about tackling the audience's problems. Her leftfield efforts to ease them are one of this fringe's true tonics
At any given …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PM[SHARE]Monkey Barrel @ the Tron, EdinburghAsh's audacious conceit dares to find the funny side of tragic events, and partly succeeds, until this rawly emotional show slips comedy's moorings
If you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:13AM[SHARE]After the pain of the Covid years, the festival has returned with a roar. It can make a new standup's career " if they are willing to sleep in a nuclear bunker and expose their own trauma
So…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55AM[SHARE]Monday, August 14, 2023
Theatre Royal, GlasgowDelivering his own 'origin story', with interruptions encouraged, Acaster skilfully pieces together big-yield routines from inauspicious beginnings
We all learned some…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 13, 2023
Assembly George Square, EdinburghSeventies spy novels, sexually frustrated poultry, an April Fools' Day breakup … it's all here in the sophomore show from Rosie Nicholls and Sullivan Brown…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49PM[SHARE]Assembly Roxy, EdinburghThe US writer, comedian and actor's cabaret show includes potent songs about sexuality, identity and police violence
Triple-threat doesn't begin to describe the abili…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:37PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAudiences will fall for upbeat stooge Magliano, who delivers a fun, well-wrought follow-up to last year's sellout show " and ends on a perspective-shifting twis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 12, 2023
Assembly George Square, EdinburghGrace stars as the Black Widow actor to poke fun at cross-racial casting, in an intricate takedown of fixed identity that will leave your mind buzzing
'An ac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2023
Monkey Barrel, EdinburghUnpicking relationships with swagger and a dash of Hannah Gadsby-esque introspection, the standup seems ready for the big league
Olga Koch has turned 30, and " per t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThough she emerged as 00s comedy royalty, Allen's show about kicking back against dull domesticity only raises a few smiles
How to calibrate your expectations o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMoving beyond the gag about Rishi Sunak which dragged her into a media storm, Navabi's first fringe show introduces us to a comic of promise
Leila Navabi underw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2023
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghPlumbing the realms of the unexpected, O'Neill plays both parts of a clowning double act, masterfully testing the limits of freak-out comedy
'One banana, two ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghThe comic relives being a carer for a lovably eccentric adopted uncle in a heartfelt show that demonstrates caring's reciprocal flow
The "dead dad show" is a fringe come…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07PM[SHARE]Monkey Barrel at the Tron, EdinburghThis part-improvised, largely mimed and entirely chaotic comic play about guinea pigs and bank robbery is ramshackle fun
Edinburgh comedy award-nominated …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AM[SHARE] 
