Simon Evans: Dressing for Dinner
Edinburgh Fringe review by Jay Richardson
23/08/2019 … The brave new world of identity politics seems a subject almost deliberately engineered for Simon Evans’s withering, recessed-eyeball scrutiny.
Fri 23 August 2019
Rob Kemp: Moonraker 2: Moonrakerer
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
23/08/2019 … After losing his way with a previous attempt to follow up the cult, copyright-infringing hit The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp has regained his mojo with this giddily silly…
Vince Atta: Massive Attack
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
23/08/2019 … Vince Atta’s a warm, cheeky and gregarious host – not to mention a great beatboxer.
Lucy Pearman: Baggage
Edinburgh Fringe review by Jay Richardson
23/08/2019 … A challenge you can undertake with committed, absurdist shows like Lucy Pearman’s is trying to spot the tiny seeds of genuine feeling that seem to have inspired…
Izzy Mant on being polite
Extract from her Edinburgh show
23/08/2019 … Izzy Mant talks about being cursed with ‘resting polite face’ in this clip from Chortle's Fast Fringe.
So You Think You're Funny? Final 2019
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
23/08/2019 … At 32 years old, So You Think You’re Funny? has been going for much longer than most of last night’s finalists have been alive.
Esther Manito: Crusade
Edinburgh Fringe review by Paul Fleckney
23/08/2019 … There is no shortage of shows about motherhood at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe (with Jessica Fostekew topping the lot), so it’s unfortunate that Esther…
Russell Kane writes his memoirs
...based on his relationship with his alpha-male dad
23/08/2019 … Russell Kane has written his memoirs about stepping out of the shadow of his alpha-male father.