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Frankie McNair is new to Edinburgh, arriving from Australia with a show that comes highly recommended by reviews, oversees awards nominations, and word of mouth. The actual performance lived up…
When it comes to world-building Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma deserves some kind of an award for covering the most ground in the shortest time period.…
I’m currently half way through Rich Hall’s excellent autobiography Nailing It at the moment and so when I spotted that he was playing the Teviot Debating Hall I had no…
I scheduled 10 shows to watch on August 21 as, to misappropriate a John-Luke Roberts quote, an experiment in whether someone can do that. They were all at the Monkey…
Amy Matthews starts this afternoon by lampooning how difficult middle-aged men have it, before hitting us with a couple of really great bits about sneezes and jam. I haven’t seen…
Susie McCabe has had a terrible year. Her marriage ended, her dad died (but I wouldn’t call this a Dead Dad show, not enough tears), she had to arrange a…
Starting with a completely incomprehensible impression of the Oracle of Delphi performed over the uplight of an under-chin torch is a bold move. We’re less than a minute in and…
Comedy is often best when it’s specific, and Caitriona Dowden has built a career on this principle. Her first hour was about Medieval theology; her second about apocalyptic dread, and…
An outsider’s perspective is often an advantage in comedy – an immigrant talking about a country where they didn’t grow up, a queer person dissecting the dominant straight culture, a…
A man stands on a stage and tells some stories. It might take an hour and forty, he says, but he’s not sure as he’s only said this all the…
Sarah Stringer
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