Umbrella Birds: Sketches in a Shop Changing Room - Fringe 2009
13/08/2009 … The Umbrella Birds are a rare and wonderful breed, an all-female sketch group who artfully and hilariously reflect the ups, downs and non-events of modern womanhood…
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Thu 13 August 2009
The Hotel - Fringe 2009
13/08/2009 … The Hotel is one of those high-concept Fringe shows you really ought to sign up for, if only for the experience alone.
Dan Atkinson: Death by a Thousand Pricks - Fringe 2009
13/08/2009 … The previously shambolic Dan Atkinson has discovered a new sense of purpose with his 2009 Fringe show, delivering an impassioned argument against emotional repression.
Tiernan Douieb: 28 Years Later - Fringe 2009
13/08/2009 … That his audience are in a soporific state cannot be blamed on this chirpy comic who has to battle a little to keep their afternoon alive.
Cardinal Burns - Fringe 2009
13/08/2009 … Cardinal Burns is a fun little sketch show, with imaginatively daft ideas performed with panache by two-thirds of the acclaimed Fat Tongue team.
William Andrews: Nitwit - Fringe 2009
13/08/2009 … Some things are so out-and-out bonkers that the star system of reviews seems hopelessly inadequate.
Long Tooth - Fringe 2009
13/08/2009 … Mixing historical reenactments with sketch may not be everyone’s idea of fun but Julie (Trudi Jackson) and Liz (Vivienne Gibbs) like nothing better than pretending…
The Grandees: The Grandees Way - Fringe 2009
13/08/2009 … AFTER last year's delightfully odd debut, Box Of Cricks, it seemed reasonable to expect good things of this comic trio's follow-up, but The Grandee Way, sadly, fails…