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Material, Girl – Susan Riddell and Amanda Dwyer 4****
August 10, 2024 | one4review
The Stand Comedy Club is famous for presenting compilation comedy bills most evenings throughout the year. But this was 13.15 . Lunchtime. Okay, how will that work? Not daunted I went along to see an all-woman hour and do you … Read More
The Umbilical Brothers: The Distraction – 4****
August 10, 2024 | one4review
The Umbilical Brothers are Fringe veterans and rightly described in their press as “an international comedy phenomenon”. The two combine mime, physical theatre, clowning and sound effects to create a wide range of silly but clever sketches, usually playing with … Read More
The Importance of Being… Earnest? – 4.5****’
August 10, 2024 | one4review
The premise for this show is as simple as it is effective. A small theatre company (including one or two extremely minor celebrity actors) have staged a production of Oscar Wilde’s classic The Importance of Being Earnest. However, when the … Read More
Abi Clarke- (Role) Model 4.5****
August 10, 2024 | one4review
Abi Clarke was a normal day to day person who one day posted a wacky video with her mum and dad (Shown during the performance), and she became an overnight sensation. Now, off the back of her popularity, she stars … Read More
The State of Grace – 4.5****
August 10, 2024 | one4review
Michaela Burger brings the extraordinary tale of Grace Bellavue, Australian sex worker and activist, to Edinburgh. Far from being forced into the profession, Grace actively chose to be a sex worker, to the initial horror of her parents. She was … Read More
Robin Grainger – Refurb 4.5 ****
August 10, 2024 | one4review
It must be galling at times being in the stand-up industry. You slave away for years and only one person turns up at your opening night. The show that has been honed over many weeks, ignored by most. But lady … Read More
16 Postcodes – 4****
August 10, 2024 | one4review
Jessica Regan warmly welcomes her audience into the Pleasance Bunker and her Irish charm wins us over from the start. Her early life in Ireland was spent with no postcodes (apart from in Dublin) but she has more than made … Read More
Failure Project – 5*****
August 10, 2024 | one4review
Yolanda Mercy is the writer and performer of this often witty and occasionally heart wrenching play, which is the story of Ade Adeyami, a London based, hardworking black female playwright teetering on the edge of being successful. Her play ‘Day … Read More
Etty….In Transit – 5*****
August 10, 2024 | one4review
This play is a beautiful dramatization of Etty Hillesum’s diaries, covering her younger years until her ultimate deportation to Auschwitz. Etty’s story is interspersed with video diaries of Sam Edwards, a mature model and mental health awareness ambassador whose confident … Read More
Sophie Duker – But Daddy I Love Her 4****
August 10, 2024 | one4review
I had often seen Sophie Duker on TV but this was my first time seeing her live. There was a buzz in the sell-out Pleasance Cabaret Bar as Duker, clad in electric blue, danced around the aisles, joshing with the … Read More
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