Maxwell Tyler brings Raymon Briggs’ polar bear to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Name: Maxwell Tyler Name of Edinburgh show: The Bear Venue: Pleasance Courtyard Performance time: 12.00 Show length: 60 mins Ticket price: £7 – £12 Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I went to the university of York to study English, and during my time there performed improvised comedy […]
Ari Shaffir talks about growing up as an Orthodox Jew and ‘escaping’ in his 20’s at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I’m an Aquarius. I like the outdoors and having sex without condoms. I’ve been doing standup comedy for 19 years. I think actors are garbage people so I associate with them only when I get fooled into thinking one of their projects […]
Sketch show PILLOW TALK comes to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? My name’s Ash I’m 21 years old, I grew up in Sheffield, and I’ve spent the majority of my three years at Cambridge neglecting my degree in the pursuit of theatre. My performing background is largely in bad musical theatre… and then […]
Kieran Hodgson talks ‘sugar’ at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I certainly can, if you can pass me the milk! Well it all began with GCSE Drama, and then stopped two years later with AS-Level Theatre Studies. After that, I just sort of mucked around doing sketches at uni, then formed a […]
Russell Hicks brings ‘Love Song for the Viciously Ambitious’ to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? Well, Wilma. My performance back ground goes all the way back to a state fair in the United States where I performed comedy at the age of thirteen years. After bombing for an excruciating amount of time, I gave it up for […]
John Luke Roberts talks about playing 24 fictional Spice Girls at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I’m a reformed stand-up and comedy writer who went to clown school and has ended up as an absurdist character comic who writes jokes. This is my seventh solo show, and my funniest one. Tell me about your show, what it is […]
Holly Morgan talks about bringing MADONNA OR WHORE to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I grew up on the mean streets of Tufnell Park with humus munching middle class parents who liked to bring their kid to the theatre. According to my diary aged 7, my two potential career aspirations were ‘Freelance Actress’ or ‘Town Crier’. […]
Luca Cupani looks to God to help him fulfil his dreams at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? I trained as an actor in Italy (at Scuola Colli in Bologna), then I moved to London. I was looking for a chance to be on stage in front of people and I heard about stand-up open mic nights. They said that […]
zazUtinany talk about bringing their vegetable based feud to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? We are zazU, a fivesome with a love of the surreal and silly. We met doing topical sketch show (and Fringe institution) NewsRevue and didn’t want to stop making comedy together when the run ended. Without the fetters of reality and news, […]
Spies Like Us Theatre talk about the two shows they are bringing to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your performing background? My name is Ollie and I’m co-Artistic Director of Spies Like Us Theatre. We’re a physical theatre company focusing on devised physical storytelling that places movement at the heart of everything we do and this is our second year producing work having […]