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FestivalsSquirrel Party
Squirrel Party is nuts. If ever a show could go from tame to wild, nay, mad in 50 minutes, this one certainly does. Structured as a parody of an 80s kids' TV... Read more »| 24 Aug 2011 -
FestivalsArmageddapocalypse: The Explosioning
Anyone who has seen their share of action films or TV series will have some inkling about the standard formula – the clichéd characters, stock s... Read more »| 24 Aug 2011 -
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Movin’ On Up! With Politically Erect
Written by and starring Ben Anderson, Alex Kempton and Sam Jacobsen, sketch group Politically Erect have themselves a very clever, astute and funny group of ... Read more »| 24 Aug 2011 -
FestivalsScrewed All Over Again
Free shows like this are what make the Fringe so much fun. These four comics bounce off one another, whipping through stacks of character-led sketches with a... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Catie Wilkins: A Chip Off the Odd Block
By her own admission, Catie Wilkins' voice is dry, detached and easy to mistake as an indication of sarcasm. As she heralds her arrival onstage with one of t... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
FestivalsMatthew Highton: Shadowed Vagary
As the room darkens, the lights begin flashing and the War of the World’s soundtrack plays. This is weird. It goes on for what seems like ages, an... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011
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Joe Bor: In Search Of The Six Pack
The mysteries of sexual attraction are notoriously difficult to pin down and define. In Search of the Six-Pack is set in motion by a video montage, casting J... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Which One's Fergal?
On stage, there is a man wearing an ostentatious hoodie and a baseball cap with ‘Skillz’ sharpied on, talking in a Brummie accent and claiming to... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Ester and Son: Happiness
Ester And Son. Esther Rantzen. That slightly lame joke is part of a cunning disguise, intended to make you think you're watching a shambles when you're actua... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Caroline Mabey: One Minute Silence
Right from the off, Caroline Mabey wants you to feel part of the show. She greets each of us individually as we enter and welcomes us to her training course,... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Abi Roberts: Takes you Up The Aisle
This is a genuinely odd show, and even at the end of it I still wasn’t 100% sure what genre it was. In her fifties-style wedding dress, Roberts narrat... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Phill Jupitus: Stand Down
It's a Fringe tradition, seeing a big TV name attempt to 'return to their standup roots' only to die on their hole night after night, leaving their audience ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Barry and Stuart: Show and Tell
Victims of the Fringe programme's all-encompassing 'Comedy' section, Barry and Stuart's Show and Tell is eminently entertaining, if not exactly what you woul... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Ahir Shah: Astrology
In last year's How I Escaped My Certain Fate, Stewart Lee wrote that seeing the up-and-coming Ahir Shah affect a mental breakdown while wandering amongst the... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Abie Philbin Bowman: Pope Benedict, Bond Villain
Abie Philbin Bowman nods humbly to two inspirations: the Marxist peasant in Monty Python & The Holy Grail; and his own sister, an 'emotional ninja' and s... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011