Comedy
Panti: High Heels in Low Places
✭✭✭✭✩ Sparkling:
Ireland’s reigning monarch sparkles in a performance at the Traverse which is often at odds with its all too civil format.
The Missing Hancocks: Live in Edinburgh
✭✭✭✭✩ Timeless comedy:
At first glance, The Missing Hancocks is a strange idea for a Fringe show – a recreation of the recording of 1950s radio programmes. All that matters, however, is that the result is two separate and extremely enjoyable shows.
Review – The Improvised Panto!
The route was convoluted and the going sometimes harder than it should have been, but Impro FX brought the happy ending home on the opening night of their improvised panto. Eventually.
Review – Eat, Pray, Laugh! Barry Humphries’ Farewell Tour
Foul mouthed, rabidly racist and deliberately disparaging, there are few shrinking violets among the comic characters created by Barry Humphries, whose good-bye tour Eat, Pray, Laugh! is at the Festival Theatre all week.
Review – Noises Off
Laughter comes easily at the King’s this week, where the Old Vic’s touring production of Michael Frayn’s backstage farce, Noises Off, is rattling away at a great pace and energy.
It’s Tuesday, it must be Ednaburgh!
Australia’s most famous export, that’s Dame Edna Everage possums, is to make a personal appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre on Tuesday 26 March.
Review – Avenue Q
* * * * Edinburgh Playhouse Tue 7 – Sat 11 Feb 2012 Rude, crude and breaking all sorts of politically correct taboos, Avenue Q stomps out into the vast Playhouse space as it it had been born to play there. It is hilarious stuff which easily justifies its gimmick – that only three of […]
Æ Review – A Fistful of Mondays
★★★☆☆ St Ninian’s Church Hall: Tue 12 – Sat 16 April 2011. Review by Thom Dibdin It’s a classic case of comedic love and loss up at Comely Bank this week, with a healthy dose of line dancing thrown in, as Edinburgh Theatre Arts stage Joe Graham’s comedy of small town social life: A Fistful […]
Æ News Release – Stand Comedy Club to open in Newcastle
Plans for “the best stand-up comedy venue in England” By Thom Dibdin Edinburgh’s Stand comedy club is to expand its operations, adding a venue in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to its existing venues in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The Stand’s owners, Salt ‘n’ Sauce Promotions Ltd, issued a press release on Monday 24 January, saying that they had signed […]
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