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LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE
Can't make it to Edinburgh? Can't wait for Edinburgh? Fear not because Leicester Square Theatre is hosting a season of EdFringe sneak previews in the cosy Lounge. We've got it all - from musical comedy with Rachel Parris to sketches from The Pin and back again via some TV and Radio favourites including Christian O’Connell and Gyles Brandreth…. P.S. We’ll be soothing your post-Fringe blues when we return from the festival for Edinburgh In The Square Part II this September.
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EDINBURGH IN THE SQUARE JUNE
Livid Failure and Diary of a Serial Internet Dater
Saturday 1 June 9pm | £7 Double bill from BBC New Comedy Award 2011 finalist Mark Restuccia and Metal Hammer Podcast host Stephen Hill.
Ivo Graham: Binoculars
Monday 3 June 9pm & Wednesday 3 July 10pm | £5 Debut show from So You Think You’re Funny? winner, Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year nominee and Chortle Best Newcomer nominee.
Rachel Parris: The Commission
Wednesday 5 & Friday 21 June 7pm | £6 Rachel gets commissioned to write songs. In this darkly twisted debut the award-nominated musical comedian performs some of the songs she wanted to send. Funny Women London Nights presents:
Comedy showcase and Suzy Bennett: Dancing on Thin Ice Saturday 8 June 9pm | £10, Conc £8
Marlon Davis: Crackin’ Up
Monday 10 June 9pm | £5 A brand new hour of soul-baring comedy.
‘A compelling Storyteller whose anecdotes carry the elusive stamp of urban authenticity’. The Scotsman
Max & Ivan: The Reunion
Tuesday 11 & Thursday 13 June 8.30pm & Wednesday 3 July 7pm | £5 Fresh from their Barry Award 2013 nomination – the Foster’s Award-winners spin a bewitching narrative sketch comedy tale of love, loss and shatterproof rulers.
Simon Munnery
Wednesday 12 June 9pm | £7, £6 A night of new material from this very special comic talent. “One of the most consistently original and imaginative minds in comedy” The Guardian.
The Beta Males in… Superopolis
Friday 14 June 7pm | £6, £5 The Chortle Award nominated sketch-storytellers present a preview of their brand new epic, set in a city full of superheroes. Monday 1 July 7pm with Joseph Morpurgo: Lunacy and character comedy from the Chortle Award nominated Austentatious man.
The Working Men’s Club
Monday 17 June 8.30pm | £5 Comedy, variety and music. Darts, bingo & a meat raffle. An hour of top turns and silliness as we attempt to save t’club from closure.
Nat Luurtsema: Here She Be
Tuesday 18 June 7pm | £5 A lose-your-shoes funny new hour of stand-up from Nat-from-Jigsaw.
Rachel Parris
Ellie Taylor
Alan Hudson: Magician or Superhero? Wednesday 19 June & Thursday 11 July 8.30pm | £5 Expect funnies, powers that look like magic and audience participation.
‘Hudson is an astounding comic, magician and mind reader’ HHHH Three Weeks
Eric Lampaert: Two Tickets to the Gum Show
Thursday 20 June 7pm | £6 T4 Rising Star 2012, Life’s Too Short, Cardinal Burns & The Midnight Beast.
Ellie Taylor: Ellievison and Patrick Morris: Standing Up and Saying Things
Saturday 22 June 7pm | £5 Star of BBC3’s Snog Marry Avoid Ellie Taylor previews her brand new show. Joined by Patrick Morris.
Christian O’Connell
Christian O’Connell
Saturdays 22 June 8.30pm, 6 & 13 July 7pm | £6 The debut stand up show from the 8-time Sony Award-Winning DJ (Absolute Radio Breakfast Show).
Sad Faces Threw A Party
Monday 24 June 8.30pm | £6, £5 You're late. We're out of snacks. Now put on this hat and pretend to enjoy yourself. Brand new Edinburgh preview from the sketch team heard on BBC Radio 4Extra’s Four Sad Faces.
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: In Space
Tuesdays 25 June, 2 & 9 July 7pm | £10, Conc £9 Stars of stage, screen & Youtube bring you a new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence with a Sci Fi theme.
Lloyd Langford: Galoot
Wednesday 26 June 7pm | £8 Ga-loot noun \g - lüt\ Slang. A fellow, especially one who is strange or foolish. A stand-up comedy show about embracing your inner bellend.
Dan Nightingale: Love in the Time of Cholesterol
Thursday 27 June 7pm | £8 World class stand up and hilarity, from the star of John Bishop’s Only Joking, on love, life and general humorous misuse of an existence.
PowerCouple: stand-up comedy from Stephen Bailey & Gary John Senior
Friday 28 June 9pm | £5 PowerCouple is not a tale about being gay: it is much worse than that, it’s a tale of being in a relationship.
ROB CARTER: MURDER
Saturday 29 June 7pm As seen in Channel 4's Fresh Meat and Peep Show, Rob Carter brings you his very own brand of immaculately clumsy, flirtatiously twisted, musically inspired comedy.
Foil Arms and Hog: Sketch Comedy II
Saturday 29 June 8.30pm & Sunday 30 June 6.30pm | £6 Irish sketch-comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, pot of gold, potato. You racist. Foil Arms and Hog
JULY John Gordilo: Cheap Shots at the Defenceless Mondays 1 & 8 July 10pm | £5
“A grown-up comic who combines emotional intimacy with high quality gags” The Guardian.
Jay Foreman: No More Colours
Tuesday 2 July 8.30pm | £6, £5 Musical comedian Jay Foreman returns with his first brand new hour of songs, poems and indescribable musical wizardry since supporting Dave Gorman’s 2011-2012 tour.
Maddy’s Many Mouths
Tuesday 2 July 10pm | £7 An outrageous one-woman show written and performed by Maddy Anholt – a woman of many parts! Croft & Pearce
The Working Men’s Club
Croft & Pearce
Thursdays 4 July 8.30pm & 25 July 7pm | £8
"Sketch comedy at its very best" Alistair McGowan
SIMON EVANS: LEASHED Thursday 4 July 10pm | £5 The star of Celebrity Mastermind, Live at the Apollo and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow with more “sizzlingly entertaining, beautifully crafted, devastatingly funny gags” The Guardian.
Tom Appleton: Keeping The Doctor Away
Friday 5 July 7pm | £5 Talking about the perils of being born into a swampy gene-pool.
Luke Wright: Essex Lion
Friday 5 July 8.30pm | £6, £5 Luke Wright returns with romping satirical verses about people seeing what they want to see.
Paco Erhard
Paco Erhard: Djerman Unchained
Friday 5 July 10pm | £7 German comedy desperado Paco Erhard takes a stand.
The Lost Letters of Cathy G as read by Paul Harry Allen
Saturday 6 July 8.30pm | £10 Whilst in a junk shop, I stumbled across a wad of forgotten letters. A mixture of stand-up and storytelling, I’ll share my quest to find more.
Tamar Broadbent: Almost Epic
Saturday 6 July 10pm | £5 Join Tamar on a musical detour everywhere from cyber-stalking in the library to headlining at the local village hall.
Tony Law & Amy Hoggart
Monday 8 July 7pm | £7, £6 A night of new material from Tony Law and Amy Hoggart as Pattie Brewster.
Benny Davis: The Human Jukebox
Wednesday 10 July 8.30pm | £8 The Axis of Awesome’s Benny Davis presents his break out solo show!
Caroline Hardie: Does My Face Look Big In This
Wednesday 10 July | £6 Join Caroline Hardie and a cast of quite literal unknowns for a show of characters and stand up about people - and you. Thursday 18th July 10pm with Fraser Millward Fast-paced sketch and character comedy.
Mat Ricardo: Showman
Thursday 11 July 7pm | £8 The UK’s most successful juggler shows what you can achieve if you devote all of your adult life to showing off!
Aisling Bea
Thursday 11 July 10pm | £5 Debut stand-up show from Irish comedian, winner of So You Think You're Funny? 2012 and Amused Moose Semi-Finalist.
Tony Law
Nik Coppin: Mixed Racist
Friday 12 July 7pm | £7, £5 The globe-trotting British-based comedian brings his interesting, relevant and funny anecdotal show about race issues back home.
The Pin
Friday 12 July 8.30pm | £5 The Pin preview their two-man sketch comedy act before returning to the fringe following last year’s sell-out run.
Farce Noir presents… The Big Sheep
Sunday 14 July 6pm | £6, £5 The fast-paced multi-character comedy Hitchcock would have made if he was a funny feminist who did theatre.
John Robins: Where Is My Mind?
Monday 15 July 7pm & Friday 19 July 8.30pm An hour of raucous stand-up for anyone who's tried to live in the moment, only to realise that moment happened over a decade ago.
Alfie Moore: Viva Alf’s Vegas
Monday 15 July 8.30pm & Friday 19 July 7pm Alfie’s served time as a steelworker, policeman and comedian. The one constant? He’s a gambler. A frank and funny show through glorious, glamorous highs and desperate dark lows.
Nish Kumar: Nish Kumar is a Comedian
Tuesday 16 July 7pm A show about identity, offence and what happens when someone on the internet steals your face. Nominated for Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival
James Acaster: Lawnmower
Wednesday 17 July 7pm Foster's Comedy Award Best Show Nominee 2012. It's time for some low-key stand-up from an angular young man. A whole host of topics is about to get what they've got coming to them.
David Trent: This is All I Have
Wednesday 17 July 8.30pm David Trent still uses a computer and projector to make phenomenal comedy. His total sell-out 2012 show was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Best Newcomer Award.
Bruce Fauveau: Sword and I
Wednesday 17 July 10pm | £8 | Conc £6 Trained at the world-renowned Jacques Lecoq theatre school in Paris, master of physical comedy Bruce Fauveau tells the tale of a man who finds an ancient weapon.
Tom Rosenthal: БПагодаря
Thursday 18 July & Wednesday 24 July 7pm Tom Rosenthal was nominated for Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards. He also went to Bulgaria and changed a bit. Let him tell you about it whilst you drink.
Suzy Bennett: Dancing on Thin Ice
Thursday 18 July 8.30pm & Saturday 20 July 7pm Join the star of the Comedy Reserve 2012 and winner of the Funny Women Award, Suzy Bennett, on her hilarious quest to become a minor celebrity and her slippery journey to become future Queen of the Ice!
Rory and Tim: On the House
Friday 19 July 10pm After failing to attract any serious media attention, confusinglynamed trio Rory and Tim return with a new, commercially viable sketch show that would look really good on E4 or Sky or one of the other channels. Gyles Brandreth
Bobby Mair: Obviously Adopted
Saturday 20 July 8.30pm After supporting Doug Stanhope, appearing on 8 Out of 10 Cats (Channel 4) and Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC3), awardwinning comic man-child Bobby Mair unleashes his first hour on the Edinburgh Fringe.
Jody Kamali: Livewire
Sunday 21 July 7pm | £6 Step into the world of Frank Von Nippleman. He lives between reality and fantasy. A beautiful, yet bizarre character clown show.
Christian Reilly: Songs of Praise
Sunday 21 July 8.30pm | £7, £6 Perrier/Chortle awarded musical comedian presents “blisteringly funny songs” The Stage.
Simon Munnery
Tony Law & Edward Aczel
Monday 22 July 7pm | £7, £6 Tony Law (Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee) and Edward Aczel (“Britain’s greatest living anti-comedian” The Guardian).
Bench Bites
Monday 22 & Wednesday 24 July 10pm | £8 A new and improved version of Bench Bites in preparation for their Edinburgh debut. One park, one bench...lots more bottoms!
Gyles Brandreth: Looking for happiness Tuesday 23 July 7pm | £6 Award-winning raconteur, Just A Minute regular and One Show reporter Gyles brings you a unique one-man show that should make you laugh and could change your life.
Ian Smith: Anything
Tuesday 23 July 8.30pm | £5 The time has come for Ian Smith to pull his socks up to an almost uncomfortable height, and go to Edinburgh with his debut hour.
Alistair Green is Jack Spencer: Sex Addict
Tuesday 23 July 10pm | £6 Near famous media personality Jack Spencer discusses his devastating sex addiction and performs extracts from his almost unbearably moving one man play.
House of Blakewell: Book of Blakewell
Friday 26 July 9pm | £6, £5 The musical missionaries are coming. Armed with catchy tunes and biting satire, House of Blakewell is out to convert Edinburgh.
Simon Munnery & Amy Hoggart
Saturday 27 July 6pm | £7, £6 Simon Munnery, “one of the most imaginative minds in comedy” The Guardian, and Amy Hoggart as Pattie Brewster.
The Cambridge Footlights: Canada
Saturday 27 July 8.30pm | £7, £5 Join “the most renowned sketch troupe of them all” The Independent, in their London preview.