Reading Time: 2 minutesPicture this: you’re seventeen. You’re a twink. You’re the hottest 17-year-old twink that’s ever existed. And then bam! You get it. A Grindr notification. From a blank profile. A 26-year-old man... Oh what the universe has in store... Now, four years, copious amounts of weed, a gender transition and several high doses of psychedelics later, Ryann Lynn Murphy tells a story about a girl who got groomed.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter 10 years of comedy, Thanyia was finally set to do her long-awaited, anticipated debut hour at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Everything was going to plan. Then August happened.
A show about mental strength, the female body and how awesome the NHS is in Scotland.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesA must-see fringe debut from US comedian Laurie Magers (Netflix’s Obliterated, Upright Citizens Brigade) about the time she dated an incarcerated multi-felon.
Reading Time: < 1 minute ‘Chilling and superbly written’ There are few plays that dare to be as boldly experimental and haunting as Devil’s Point, a forty-five minute horror by Laura Milton. Utilising an unusual form of storytelling, shadow puppets, amidst…
Reading Time: < 1 minute'If I'm in a lesbian relationship when I'm older, I want you to be the sperm donor' Claire says to her best friend Dan, while drunk at a uni party. 'Okay, it's a deal'. Flash forward ten years and the two friends are making good on their promise. Having your best friend be your sperm donor – what could go wrong? Big Sofa Theatre presents a queer rom com
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRachel Kaly got her first period the same day Saddam Hussein was hanged. She has also been to hospital over 300 times for various psychological treatments. Are these two facts related? Probably. Rachel’s critically acclaimed debut Fringe show returns to perfectly explain why she is so mentally ill.
Reading Time: < 1 minutePickled Republic is a surreal one-woman theatrical cabaret show for adults, created and performed by Ruxy Cantir, exploring our deep-rooted need for purpose. Encased in a pickle jar, Ruxy uses exceptional clowning, puppetry, mask theatre, and movement to portray a plethora of characters, asking deep existential questions and offering ridiculous answers.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter thirteen years, Kiwi comic, podcaster, and TV icon Rhys Darby returns to the stand-up playground with a side-splitting show about how even today’s sharpest technology still can’t touch the dumbest stuff that humans can do.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHaving dragged best friend and maid of honour Grace (Lauren Lewis) along in her wake, Every Great Man centres around the duo’s attempts to talk things out as her husband waits at the altar – is this just a case of last-minute nerves, or something more?
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The Hotly Anticipated 4th Debut Hour from rising star, Andy Barr” is a deliciously spiky treat that will scratch the itch of the jaded Fringe goer.