Fifty years before the Edinburgh Seven, in the early nineteenth century a young student from Cork, Ireland, entered the Medical School at the University of Edinburgh. Matriculating barely in their teens, James...
I always find it hard to properly talk about the shows I really love. What is there to say, other than you need to pay money to see them asap? Fringe veterans...
In Jack Skipper’s debut show he lays out his stall of exactly what he is: a grafter. First of all a grafter as a carpet fitter, then on TikTok and now in...
Njambi McGrath is a Kenyan woman who’s had enough of charity. She’s got words for teenagers on gap years, and I wouldn’t mess with her about Bill Gates. Her set is singular...
Reflecting on it, memory has been discussed for longer than I can remember – but never before with any kind of focus on a comedic stage. Gilligan has found a universal topic...
Josh Thomas is the creator of the fabulous TV series Please Like Me and Everything's Gonna Be Okay. He's started doing stand up when he was seventeen. Tell us about your show....
Alfie Packham is not the sort of comedian to shout at you to get his point across or deliver his lines with a maniacal energy, he likes to take his time, give...
I’VE been coming to the Festival for more than 30 years but this was my first time seeing Fringe legend Arthur Smith. And this terrific hour made me realise that this has...
Paddy Young cuts an intentionally sweaty, nervous figure onstage. His self-deprecating style of humour is paired with a vaguely reptilian charisma to put the audience off their guard and assail them with...
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