Edinburgh Fringe Review: Hannah Platt – Cult Classic
Sarah Stringer
Cult Classic is Hannah Platt’s sophomore hour, but she has the skill and presence of someone with far more experience. She commands the room easily, despite being small and self-described…
Sarah Stringer
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Phil Nichol – Aren’t We Lucky
When Phil Nichol was a younger comedian, he was loud, intense, and extremely physical in the way he ran around the stage and into the crowd to jump on the…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Stuart Laws as Michael Caine and Nish Kumar as Christopher Nolan Doing Something For An Hour
Whoever had the idea to make Nish Kumar play the straight man (presumably Stuart Laws) is a genius. It’s far from an obvious choice, given his persona. But watching him…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Sammy J – Hero Complex
The beautiful thing about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, or any Fringe Festival, is getting to see DIY stuff, shows that are messy and chaotic because they can’t be slick every…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Eli Matthewson – Blood Bender
In the first half of Eli Matthewson’s show, he apologizes for being a bit too edgy when some of his stories have mild references to sex. By the end, he’s…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Hajar J Woodland – Hajar, Like Badger
Hajar J Woodland is a singer who’s doing comedy as a way to tell her story of how she got into that. It’s a reminder that comedians tend to be…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Emma Holland – The Dog Dies at the Start
Emma Holland reverses the normal order of Fringe stand-up shows, in which the tragedy happens at the beginning, and she spends the rest of the hour making it funny. This…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Harriet Richardson – Creep
This show has a lot of buzz around it for a debut hour, though Harriet Richardson isn’t new to creative or performance-based work – she’s a performance artist, doing live…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Hasan Al-Habib – Stuck in the Middle (East) With You
Hasan Al-Habib is an immediately intense stage presence. He can jump between accents and voices, slipping fully into the construct that comedy historian Oliver Double calls “instant character”, where a…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Dee Allum – Raumdeuter
This show is ostensibly based around how trans people relate to watching football, though that framing device is used lightly (to the point where I wished it had come up…