Hellraising poets and Fringe veterans Leyla Josephine (Hopeless, Daddy Drag) and Colin Bramwell (Umbrella Man) present GUBSMACKED, a brand-spanking new live event showcasing the best of writing in all its magical forms. Debuting exclusively at the Summerhall Fringe 2023, audiences will be treated to performances from both up-and-coming talent and luminaries from the worlds of … Continue reading Have a Gander – Gubsmacked
https://youtu.be/CF12_NMo4Mo Showcasing the top spoken word talent the festival has to offer – from the laugh-out-loud funny, through the wonderfully surreal, to the thoughtful and emotional – Loud Poets continue to prove that spoken word has something for everyone. Each show features a unique line-up and Loud Poets’ classic fist-thumping, pint-drinking, side-tickling, heart-wrenching style of … Continue reading Have a Gander – Loud Poets: Best of Fringe
Award-winning comedian David Ian makes his Edinburgh Festival debut at this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his show ‘(Just a) Perfect Gay’ at the Just The Tonic Caves for the month of August.‘(Just a) Perfect Gay is a show about searching for belonging when you don't fit in. Growing up gay in a small town … Continue reading Have a Gander – David Ian: (Just a) Perfect Gay
Former data scientist now New York-based stand-up comedian, writer and humourist Ginny Hogan makes her Edinburgh debut with her show ‘Regression’ at the Gilded Balloon Teviot for the month of August. 'Regression’ takes you on a decade-long drunken road trip as Ginny attempts to get her life together by the time she's 30. She's got … Continue reading Have a Gander – Ginny Hogan: Regression
Thunderstruck concerns the legacy and mythology surrounding folk musician, composer and innovator, Gordon Duncan, who tragically died in 2005, celebrating fully a working-class Scottish man who transcended his art. Written and Performed by Fifer, actor and bagpiper David Colvin who was a member of the original cast of the National Theatre of Scotland Play, Black … Continue reading Have a Gander – Thunderstruck
Josh Weller came to London to 'make it big' in music. And then... he didn’t. The show is a love letter to music, a break-up letter to the industry and an hour of high-octane stand-up from a man ready to stare his younger self in the face. Age Against the Machine charts a decade of … Continue reading Have a Gander – Josh Weller: Age Against The Machine
A hilarious and life-affirming story about how one free session with a life coach and a death threat changed Matt Price's perspective on everything. The death threat wasn't from the life coach as that would be bad for business. But it was caught on CCTV. In this journey, Matt tells you why he's happy to … Continue reading Have a Gander – Matt Pirce: As Seen on CCTV
What's the worst lie you've told? How far would you go to keep it a secret? Tom is a charismatic people-pleaser, an expert in empathy, but someone who struggles with the truth. Join him in this hilariously honest solo show as he seeks to exorcise ghosts, confess his deepest darkest secrets and somehow un-f*ck his … Continue reading Have a Gander – Tom Moran is a Big Filthy Disgusting Liar
'Make my words reside in your language as if they never knew any other.' Marlowe, murder… Morocco? The truth behind Shakespeare is steeped in blood and political intrigue, but now Christopher Marlowe is ready to tell all. Matchmaker Theatre Productions present a provocative new production that asks: who was the real William Shakespeare? Christopher Marlowe, … Continue reading Have a Gander – The Real William Shakespeare… As Told By Christopher Marlowe.
The only thing Adam and Blake have in common is a friend one is trying to avoid, and the other is trying to save. When Adam’s defence unfolds a reckoning of Blake’s morality, she must come to terms with the fact that she may never reach who she’s chasing. Think you're a good person? Think … Continue reading Have a Gander – Midnight Building
