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Fest MagazineThe Burning Question: Adrian Howells
#3 What's it like washing feet every day? Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineJon Richardson: this guy's the limit
Jon Richardson is a perfectionist. Or, rather, as he tells Lyle Brennan on a trip to the Edinburgh's Farmers' Market, a grumpy bastard. Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Doing it for the kids
Brendon Burns loves it, Adam Hills is doing it and there's a dedicated show at the Fringe. Stand-up comedy for children is now serious stuff. It might even be more exciting than its grown-up counterpart, finds Tom Hackett Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Last Night Things Happened...
This year as any other, Edinburgh is abuzz with new writers hoping that 2009 will see them break into the big time. Moreover, punters are willing to take the... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Fest MagazineMatinee
An entertaining piece of dramatic performance presented exactly at midday, Matinee more than lives up to its name. For just over an hour five performers brin... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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Memento Mori
Leicester University Theatre invites us to contemplate our mortality with a production of David Campton’s punchy black comedy Memento Mori, a very Brit... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009
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Fest MagazineThe Bodega Brothers: Afternoon Delight
One of the Bodega Brothers' songs, 'I Don't Want No Cubs', is about how they've got no time for guys who wear badges on their shirt and neckerchiefs fastened... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Ashley Hames: Confessions of a Sex Reporter
When a certain Robert Birkett led Ofcom into an anti-obscenity witch-hunt, he could not have envisioned where it would leave his enemy, Sin Cities documentar... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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The Aspidistras
It’s really difficult to pinpoint what it is about The Aspidistras that makes you grieve for the comedy gold that has somehow got lost along the way. L... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Sammy J: 1999
After storming last year's Fringe 2008 with smutty puppet show Forest of Dreams, Sammy J returns with another musical comedy of a more autobiographical natur... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Russell Kane: Human Dressage
A self-styled “pseudo-intellectual”, Russell Kane uses his comedy primarily to explore and share his specialist subject of human interaction. Hav... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Ross Lee: Not A Lot Of Sex, Lies And Videotape
For 15 years, Ross Lee has been trying to make it big in television. As a child, he filmed himself in his garden, dressed in a wig, squirting fake blood on h... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Gavin Webster's Faldarel
Upon completing his hour-long set, Gavin Webster, for no other reason than that he's a nice chap, stands at the exit of the venue and hands out free bread to... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Philberto: Philberto's Animal
This show charts one man's rise from a dull Portuguese fishing village to the heights of TV stardom after reaching the final of reality show Live On The Floo... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Penny Dreadfuls Present... The Never Man
The Penny Dreadfuls stormed last year's Fringe. A tightly wrought, Victorian-themed murder mystery cum comedy caper, their daft, jokes-a-minute script was a ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009