REVIEW: Annabelle James: Annabalism
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnnabelle James’ hour of stand up about the trials and tribulations of moving from Australia mirrors her move.
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REVIEW: Guy Williams
Reading Time: 2 minutesA cathartic hour of rage about the current state of world politics, and the price of mayo Guy Williams is really mad, like really mad. Like the title suggests he is more than a little angry and confused…
REVIEW: Sammy Obeid: WIT SUPREMACY
Reading Time: 2 minutesA masterclass in navigating delicate subjects while still keeping you laughing the whole way through. There’s few things I like more in stand up than a comedian taking you to a dark place, making you all feel…
REVIEW: Fab Goualin: Mixed Messages at 14 Gilded Balloon Teviot – Wee Room
Reading Time: 2 minutesA thoughtful premise squandered by a performance that refuses to be vulnerable about it’s themes. The show starts with Fab standing in front of us, holding the microphone stand tight and telling us how he’s been mistaken…
REVIEW: Adele Cliff’s Topical Early Late Show With Adele Cliff @ Venue 243 Hoots @ Potterrow – The Big Yurt
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re searching for a BBC radio 2 crossed with a 2000s American late show vibe, Adele Cliff has a show tailor made for you. Edinburgh Fringe.
REVIEW: Rosie Holt: The Illegal Aliens Have Landed! @ Pleasance Courtyard
Reading Time: 2 minutesRosie Holt is everything wrong with British politics, or at least she can make fun of everything wrong, while she plays everyone in British politics, simultaneously, in the same scene. It’s non stop, its clever, its stupid at times, and it has it in for everyone in a light hearted satire of what it’s like to be even vaguely wired into UK politics these days. Rosie Holt mainly plays a labour MP who upon receiving the news of an alien sighting - sets upon her plan to achieve first contact, smash question-time and improve her polling numbers. Events following over the next 24 hours play out on stage, from bumbling question time appearances, protests and even a theatre critic pondering the shows ‘deeper meaning’, with every character played by Rosie Holt.
REVIEW: Michael John Ciszewski: Mother, Superior @ Bedlam Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutesPitched as an invitation to pray with him, fittingly inside the Bedlam theatre - a converted church, in the hope that his mother can be made a saint; we are taken down memory lane, a selection of Michael John and his mothers ‘greatest hits’ so to speak.
REVIEW: Alfie Dundas: First Class Panic @ Pleasance
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs the male heir of a wealthy family doing comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe, Alfie Dundas maybe doesn’t have the most unique position in the festival.
REVIEW: Larry Dean: Hellbent @ Pleasance
Reading Time: 2 minutesNumerous award winning shows, fifteen years of Edinburgh Fringe performances, Scottish Comedian of the Year 2013 winner and Celtic fan, Larry Dean is somewhat of a darling of Scottish comedy.
REVIEW: Bloody Mary(s) @ Greenside at Riddles Court
Reading Time: 2 minutesMary has been one of the most popular girls name in Britain for the last five hundred years. Over that time many heroines, villains, scientists, and cut-throats with the name Mary have been born, and only some of them have gotten the time they deserved in the history books spotlight. Bloody Mary(s) asks us the simple question: Which would you bring along to a picnic? And in the process of answering that, perhaps we may rethink how we remember those from the past, and how differently women often take up (or don’t) the spotlight.