Falling: A Disabled Love Story
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Falling: A Disabled Love Story

★★★★★ Aaron Pang’s geeky confidence sends out a tidal wave of good vibes as he enters the room. With real wit and a genuine ability to connect with his audience,…
Mending Nets
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Mending Nets

★★★★ There were many collective intakes of breath during Janis Mackay and Nada Shawa’s hour of storytelling, dance and poetry. Together they brought this gentle calm, like they sprinkled some…
Ted Hill: 110 Percent Normal
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Ted Hill: 110 Percent Normal

★★★★★ Sometimes a reliance on multimedia in comedy, is a surefire way to paper over a lack of material. Ted Hill not only refutes such an idea, he uses his…
We Are Overloaded
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We Are Overloaded

★★ As you step into the small attic room of the Edinburgh Photographic Society, you’d be forgiven for thinking we were seeing a collection of portraits that spoke to a…
1, 2, 3. SHIT. THAT’S MY OCD.
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1, 2, 3. SHIT. THAT’S MY OCD.

★★★★ We are in a OCD group session, yet a mirror-ball hangs from the ceiling, twinkling. A voice speaks, asking if anyone wants to share. From the audience Bibi stands…
Shaparak Khorsandi: Scatterbrain
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Shaparak Khorsandi: Scatterbrain

★★★★ ‘If you don’t know, this is a show about ADHD’, Khorsandi states at the top of the show, prompting some murmurs from the Radio 4 ready audience. Luckily, Shappi…
Under the BoardDwarf
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Under the BoardDwarf

★★★ It can be a hard task reviewing stand-up comedy at the best of times. Yet, in a market which is so overcrowded it’s fit to burst, we need original…
I Dream in Colour
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I Dream in Colour

★★★★ We walk in to find Sophie asleep in her bed. She’s stirred from bad dreams of childhood. Memories of her parents taking her from Brunei to Toronto as a…