REVIEW: Dee Allum – Raumdeuter @ Pleasance Courtyard Upstairs
Reading Time: 2 minutesDee Allum isn’t afraid to take risks and frequently approaches her comedy from the angle of ‘saying it how it is’.
Category Festivals
REVIEW: Target Audience @ Pleasance Courtyard
Reading Time: 2 minutesA writer’s big break arrives in the most unlikely of places: a mega-corporation several layers deep beneath an undisclosed parent company.
REVIEW: The Librarians: A Very Serious Comedy @ The Pleasance
Reading Time: 2 minutesA dilapidated library is on the brink of closure, an inspector is due to arrive, and the leadership structure is in complete disarray.
REVIEW: Mike Wozniak @ Assembly Hall
Reading Time: 2 minutesMike Wozniak is a charming, effusive and lovely man – but one you would never ask for directions.
REVIEW: Simon Munnery @ The Stand
Reading Time: 2 minutesNow in his 40th year at the festival – and 27 years at The Stand and counting, the godfather of alternative comedy returns again – still experimenting and testing the boundaries of the absurd and silly.
REVIEW: Mark Simmons: Jokes At Noon @ The Liquid Room
Reading Time: 2 minutes“There is no great meaning to pull out from this tight hour - it’s just very funny.”
REVIEW: Pierre Novellie: OK, One More Then Bedtime @ Monkey Barrel 3
Reading Time: 2 minutesPierre Novellie’s sharp, incisive observations see him performing two distinct shows at this year’s Fringe: a best-of compilation, and Okay, One More Then Bedtime, which explores the wedding and Japanese honeymoon that bookended his packed tour schedule over the last year.
REVIEW: Aidan Greene: Stuttermilk Pancakes @ Underbelly
Reading Time: 2 minutesAidan Greene’s big heart and warm laughter make him a firm favourite on YouTube’s The Try Channel, eating, drinking and playing games on-camera.
REVIEW: Good With Faces @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 2 minutes'This claustrophobic confrontation between a mother and social worker has a few too many twists to be believable but is most compelling when it forces the audience to sit with its moral ambiguity.'
REVIEW: Sitting (In Silence) @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 2 minutesSitting (In Silence) opens with a spiritual gong, which reverberates around the beautiful old anatomy lecture theatre at Summerhall.