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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…
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Yvonne Hughes: Absolutely Riddled
★★★★ ‘Every 1 in 2’500 people have cystic fibrosis in the UK. Every 1 in 4 people in Scotland is ginger, so I got lucky’. So Hughes explains, mixing facts…
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Doom and Glitter: A Tribute to Tom Waits
★★★★★ It’s not often that you get to go through a teleportation device at the fringe. Sadly we are often all too aware we’re in a pub cellar or a…
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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…
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Tomás Bepalo: What Gets Better?
★★★ You’re invited to a party, because as Tomás says, when you’re Columbian, every minor occurrence means you have to have one, and you’re getting authentic Columbian lollies too! And…
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Abnormally Funny People
★★★★ Now in its twentieth year, this mixed bill show has had many illustrious names grace their line-ups, including many of our own previous nominees and winners! And it’s no…
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A Stan is Born!
★★★ A melodic voice plays over the speakers, so obviously a mum talking sweetly about their baby, clapping along to her singing, and only 8 months old! This baby musical…
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Pierre Novellie: You Sit There, I’ll Stand Here
★★★★ I wasn’t sure what to make of Novellie’s show at first. Opening with a story about moving from one part of London to another, didn’t seem exciting or particularly…
Breaking into Pink Eyeshadow with a Hammer
Autistic performer Paul Vickers (or Twonkey) on the task of dragging up for this year's show Twonkey's Zip Wire to Zanzibar I started thinking about the best way to make things fun and…
I Don’t Want Sympathy
Our 2023 Bounce Award Winner shares a personal story ahead of her show's return to the Edinburgh Fringe. In the Underbelly courtyard I was pitching my show to a potential…