REVIEW: Rob Auton: CAN (An Hour-Long Story)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA captivating and surreal comedy about the heights of motivational speaking
Category Comedy
REVIEW: The Addams Family
Reading Time: 2 minutesStarring Alexandra Burke as Morticia, Lesley Joseph as Grandma, Clive Rowe as Uncle Fester and Ricardo Afonso as Gomez, everyone’s favourite kooky family are back on stage this summer in THE ADDAMS FAMILY.
REVIEW: Thanyia Moore: August
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.
As seen on Mock the Week, Alma's Not Normal, Celebrity Mastermind, Richard Osman's House of Games, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, and more.
REVIEW: Do You Accept These Charges?
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.
REVIEW: Hospital Hour
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.
REVIEW: RHYS DARBY: THE LEGEND RETURNS
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.
REVIEW: Unscripted Shakespeare
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew York based improv company Thorn and Petal Stick has been quick to show what they’ve got up their lacey Elizabethan sleeves at this year’s Fringe. And the pleasantest non-surprise of any deliciously good improv show? It’s different every night.
REVIEW: Daniel McKeon: Boyboss
Reading Time: 2 minutesDaniel McKeon’s debut hour “Boyboss” takes the form of a seminar loosely based on how to fail in the best way, and to successfully reach the title of ‘Boyboss’.
REVIEW: Kate Owens: Cooking With Kathryn
Reading Time: 2 minutesKate Owens’ show “Cooking with Kathryn” is a show about Kathryn, a woman from the American South who has inherited a TV cooking show, hosted in the basement of her local church, after the recent death of her mother.
REVIEW: Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead!
So get ready for Horrible Histories live on stage with the best of Barmy Britain!
Can you beat battling Boudica? Will King John be a martyr for the Magna Carta? What if you caught the putrid plague? Can Parliament survive gunpowder Guy? Would you stand and deliver to dastardly Dick Turpin? Escape the clutches of Burke and Hare and take a terrible trip with the Night Soil Men!
It’s the history of Britain with the nasty bits left in – to entertain the whole family this Summer!