![]() ![]() After 2018’s award-nominated Duffer and 2019’s terrific Dots, the 32-year-old’s fringe record is strong, and this year’s all-new Ends is one to look out for. This year’s – still at the work-in-progress stage – promises a bulletin on motherhood, birth, mess and heartbreak from the erstwhile Harry Potter star.Īt his best, Ahir Shah’s shows splice erudite geopolitics and tender self-revelation into something highly potent. Its queen is Jessie Cave, whose shows open up her heart likes the pages of a teenage diary. Much of the most breathtaking comedy in recent years has been characterised by oversharing, emotional disclosure taken to the nth degree. Jessie Cave: Work in Progress Just the Tonic Nucleus ![]() His latest looks at Scotland’s history and culture from the perspective of an adopted Glaswegian. Kieran Hodgson: Big in Scotland Pleasance CourtyardĪ familiar TV face on Two Doors Down and Prince Andrew the Musical, Kieran Hodgson is held in high esteem by fringe-goers, after an unbeatable run of shows ( one on Lance Armstrong, one on the 1975 Common Market referendum) that secured the Yorkshireman a trio of comedy award nominations. Might Drew Michael occupy it this year? The Chicago native is one of the US’s “most formally experimental and artistically polarising” acts of recent years, says the New York Times.Īdopted Glaswegian … Kieran Hodgson. ![]() Post- Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, a corner of Edinburgh is forever reserved for “but is it comedy?” shows that shepherd the artform far from straightforward laughs. After that feat of comic delicacy, Petts promises something “ruder” with her follow-up, which addresses “weddings, Christianity, men who like Millwall and calling you all a bunch of virgins”.ĭrew Michael: Drew’s Adventures Pleasance Dome Her 2022 fringe debut, long delayed by Covid, was one of the best reviewed sets at last year’s festival, an artful and intelligent skip through the minefield of modern gender. Welsh up-and-comer Leila Navabi is prominent in this year’s crop of first-timers, with “an audacious punk musical comedy hour about the monopolisation of minority identity for social gain”.Ĭhloe Petts: If You Can’t Say Anything Nice Pleasance Courtyard ![]() If the fringe is for anything, it’s for ferreting out the most exciting new talents, the artists who’ll be small-screen and front-page fixtures in years to come. Leila Navabi: Composition Pleasance Courtyard Prior to an autumn tour, he presents both a polished set, Howl, and a work-in-progress, daily. This year, the ubiquitous podcaster and BBC Radio 5 man is fashioning a new show from a recent very low mental-health ebb. The last time John Robins turned his bad times into standup, with a show about his breakup from Sara Pascoe, he waltzed off with the biggest award in world comedy. John Robins: Howl and Work in Progress Just the Tonic Nucleus This summer, she goes it alone, with a show about “trying to remain cheeky when it’s raining trauma”. Might that fate be in store for Freya Parker? The geordie is best known in comedy as one half – the silliest half – of Lazy Susan. Solo-show glory is often dispensed to those who cut their teeth in sketch groups Phil Wang and Liz Kingsman are two recent examples. Photograph: Faye Thomas Photographyįreya Parker: It Ain’t Easy Being Cheeky Pleasance Courtyard A quarter of a million quid better off, he returns to Edinburgh with two shows: last year’s British Comedian, updated, and a new work-in-progress. Viggo Venn: Clown (Clown in Progress) and British Comedian BlundaGardens and Monkey BarrelĪ fringe mainstay with his double-act partner Zach Zucker and in his solo clown shows, Viggo Venn had been ploughing a perfectly successful but leftfield furrow until this spring, when he became the nation’s hi-vis, shock-haired sweetheart on Britain’s Got Talent. Gillian Cosgriff’s show is up to something similar and, on its wave of positivity, swept all before it at the Melbourne comedy festival, bagging the prestigious main award. Gillian Cosgriff: Actually, Good Pleasance Courtyard Ten years ago in Edinburgh, Jonny Donahoe and Duncan Macmillan made a play about a boy who itemised Every Brilliant Thing to keep life’s dark side at bay. Now, after a cancer-enforced break from performing, the 54-year-old will get a very warm welcome back. Edinburgh was where the Welshman first hit his straps as a standup and his 2008 show Rhod Gilbert and the Award-Winning Mince Pie is still one of the best fringe sets to miss out on the comedy award. ![]()
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