LEICESTER SQUARE
THEATRE
LOUNGE June - July 2014 6 Leicester Place, London WC2H 7BX
BOOKING LINE 08448 733433 leicestersquaretheatre.com @lsqtheatre
It’s that time of year again, Edinburgh is on the horizon and the Lounge is crammed with sneak previews of what you can expect from some of the best comics on the circuit. We’ve got Edinburgh returns from Ian Smith, Rob Auton and Anna Morris, surreal sketch comedy from the likes of zazU and Lead Pencil, and the next show from Absolute Radio’s Christian O’Connell. TOAST winner Lynn Ruth Miller is back with Not Dead Yet in July, and finalist in the New Musical Project Tamar Broadbent brings us her next hour! Meanwhile, they’re not Edinburgh previews but we still love them, with John Godber’s Bouncers, an added date for the phenomenally popular Dances with Dogs, and workshops from Funny Women to name a few, not to mention the final weeks of the HHHHH new musical, De Profundis...
n Edinburgh in the Square – Edinburgh Preview Show!
6 Leicester Place, London WC2H 7BX
BOOKING LINE 08448 733433 leicestersquaretheatre.com @lsqtheatre
JUNE DE PROFUNDIS Until Sunday 8 June. £18.50, £15.50
“Brookshaw’s performance is flawless”
HHHHH Remote Goat. A musical adaptation of the letter Oscar Wilde wrote to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, from his prison cell in Reading Jail. Paul Dale Vickers sets the words of one of English literature's greatest wordsmiths to a stunning score to tell a story of love, loss and freedom.
“Alastair Brookshaw, quite simply mesmerising as Wilde” The Stage
LEWIS SCHAFFER: American In London Sundays to 27 July, various times £10 The award-winning New York comic takes on England. Lewis Schaffer isn't a tourist. He isn't here on business. He's a hostage.
n ED EALES-WHITE: Champions Revisited
Monday 2 June, 7pm £6, Conc £5 After no demand whatsoever I'm revisiting my 2012 Edinburgh character comedy show Champions. Combining the best of that and a bunch of new characters and sketches with added acting from the brilliant Jon Pointing.
n NJAMBI MCGRATH & MARK SILCOX: Bongolicious & Honesty is the best policy
Monday 2 June, 9pm £6.50, Conc £5 Njambi McGrath is the acclaimed Kenyan comic short listed for the BBC New Comedy Award. This is the much awaited one woman show en route to Edinburgh festival. Mark Silcox is the Asian comic nominated for Leicester Mercury Award 2014 and winner of the King Gong Comedy Store Manchester.
BARRY CASTAGNOLA IN: The Donny Donkins ‘AS (hopefully soon to be) SEEN ON TV!’ Tuesday 3 & Wednesday 4 June, 7pm £8 Undisputed* King of Comedy Donny Donkins brings a live TV show to The Leicester Square Theatre. It will literally be a bit like Parkinson, Live at the Apollo, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, Saturday Kitchen, Beadle's About, Watchdog and Panorama - all rolled into one! *disputed
n IAN SMITH: Flappable
Tuesdays 3 June, 9pm & 22 July, 8.30pm £5 After a hugely successful debut, award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC2’s Popatron, BBC3’s Sweat the Small Stuff) returns with his new show. It’s a collection of stories and silliness about uncertainty… or is it? (It is). It'll be a lot of fun.
n CHRISTIAN O’CONNELL: Breaking Dad
5, 7, 20 & 26 June and 18 & 19 July, various times £6 10-times Sony Award Winning DJ Christian O’Connell returns. O'Connell is a dad on the edge and if you’ve ever been a dad/had a dad/known a dad, this is the show for you. A show featuring beloved pet death, pensioner sex advice and the inherent evil of Peppa Pig.
DANCES WITH DOGS A Comedy Scratch Night by Lily Bevan & Sally Phillips Friday 6 June, 8.30pm £12 Due to popular demand, Dances With Dogs returns for one more night. Character bits and pieces scribbled on the backs of napkins taken from Pret by Lily and Sally. With guest appearances from appearing guests.
FUNNY WOMEN ADVANCED COMEDY WORKSHOP Saturday 7 June, 10am £65 For introductory workshop graduates or public speakers with some experience to hone their performance ready for the stage. If you've enjoyed a previous workshop and want to learn more or want some extra polish on a current performance, then this is the workshop for you.
Christian O’Connell
n ROB AUTON: The Face Show
Monday 9 & Tuesday 10 June, 7pm £5 This is a comedy/theatre/talking show about faces. This show is suitable for anybody who has a face or has seen somebody with a face. Following on from 2012’s ‘The Yellow Show’ and 2013’s ‘The Sky Show’ this August Rob will take his face and head and the rest of himself up to the Edinburgh Fringe and talk about faces for an hour a day for the best part of a month. These two shows are previews of that event.
n MOSTLY COMEDY Doggett & Ephgrave’s Comedy & Music Club
Tuesdays 10 June & 8 July, 8.30pm £10, Conc £8 A grab-bag of stand-up, sketches and music from some of the finest acts on the scene, hosted by small-town comic duo, Doggett & Ephgrave ('A keen eye for the absurd. Polished, natural comedians.' – Camden Fringe Voyeur). June sees an Edinburgh Preview from Richard Herring while in July there will be an Edinburgh Preview from James Acaster.
Rachel Parris
n PACO ERHARD: Worst. German. Ever.
Wednesday 11 June & Thursday 24 – Saturday 26 July, 7pm £7, Conc £5 Outspoken German comedian Paco Erhard returns with his edgiest and most personal show yet. It's the story of his life: travels, sex, drugs, mistakes, adventures, tears and just how crap he is at being German.
SOL BERNSTEIN is Still Standing Wednesday 11 – Saturday 14 June, 9pm £12 Sol Bernstein has been entertaining audiences for over 70 years and he’s “still standing”. Go see him before it’s too late!
n SCENE SELECTION
Thursday 12 June, 7pm £8.50, Conc £6.50 Scene Selection offers a smorgasbord of comedy from the title menu of hilarity. One girl. One guy. Not digital, but extremely versatile. No subtitles, but lots of new angles. Bonus Features included. Play?
n RACHEL PARRIS: Live In Vegas Thursday 13 & Friday 27 June, 7pm £7, Conc £6 Critically acclaimed musical comedian Rachel Parris (Thronecast, The IT Crowd, Austentatious, BBC Radio 4) delivers her trademark comedy anthems and a hilarious set of new characters to present an alternative version of a glamorous Las Vegas show.
n BURKE SHIRE
Saturday 14 June, 7pm £7 Burke Shire is a multi-media character comedy show from the funny muscle of Jo Burke. Jo is a SYTYF & Golden Jester Semi-Finalist and is one third of comedy sketch group FunBags. This is the first 'outing' of her Edinburgh show and is therefore 'a work in progress'.
SONGS FOR THE HEART, HEAD & TOES New British musical songs by Lizzie Freeborn Sunday 15 June, 2pm £7.50 Lizzie Freeborn's songs are crafted to please singers and audience alike. Drawn from wide-ranging influences, using strongly melodic phrases & harmonic interest to carry fresh and sophisticated lyric writing fusing with original books to produce atmospheric story and picture painting.
n CROFT & PEARCE
Sunday 15 June, 5pm & Friday 25 July, 8.30pm £8 People loved their Edinburgh show last year. Let’s see what they’ve managed to cobble together for 2014
BOUNCERS by John Godber Mondays 16 & 23 and Tuesdays 17 & 24 June, 7pm £12, Conc £6 Four girls out to have fun. Four lads out to pull girls. Four blokes who've seen it all - and then some! See the world from the point of view of four hilarious Bouncers who each have their take on the world of men, women, cocktails, dance floors, hairdos and how to survive the male toilets.
n ZAZU: Parallel universe sketch show
Monday 16 & Friday 27 June, 9pm £5 zazU: some think it's simply a sketch show, others know the truth is far less excusable… zazU is a parallel universe. Created in 1857 by Tim zazU, it's a whole world with a little village mentality. New rules, new customs and a very new fashion sense, zazU is both strangely familiar and memorably strange.
THE QUINT FONTANA SHOW Tuesday 17 June, 9.30pm £8 He’s alive! Once the blue eyed boy of 80’s British pop, now a bona fide showbiz legend Quint brings you a monthly night of songs, stories, tears, laughter, delusions of grandeur, heavy drinking and occasional bouts of rage as well as some of the finest acts from the world of show business who are still prepared to work with him.
n LEAD PENCIL: In Full HB
Wednesday 18 June, 7pm & Thursday 24 July, 8.30pm £10 A sketch show that is literally sketched. Lead Pencil is a comedy troupe raised on Art Attack and re-runs of Saved By The Bell and held together with sticky-back plastic. Louise Beresford, Maddie Rice and Dave Bibby pack their LOLsRoyce with a brand new colourful and nostalgic crew of characters, songs and sketches they made earlier.
n JONNY AWSUM’S SEXY NOISES
Wednesday 18 June, 9pm £5 Jonny brings his smash hit feel-good comedy show to Leicester Square Theatre. Armed with his trusty guitar, Jonny lifts the lid on the Sexy Noises heard through his Travelodge wall and finds out if his audience can honk like angry swans!
MEET THE CLIQUE Thursday 19 June, 7pm £8 Meet The Clique - A diverse group of glamorous characters meet at their weekly 'self-help group' for unusual addictions. Throughout the show you see the characters collaborate to tell you their individual stories in this exciting, cheeky and comic cabaret act.
IVY PAIGE: Kiss & Sell Thursdays 19 June, 9pm & 24 July, 10pm £10 Ivy Paige, Cabaret Star Showgirl welcomes you into her Cabaret Club for a heady night of intimate revelations and salacious songs. Featuring live music from Pete Saunders from Dexys Midnight Runners.
n THIRTY DANCING
Friday 20 June, 8.30pm £8 Sophie is a grown up. She doesn’t know how this happened. What she does know is she isn’t married with 2.4 children, doesn’t own a Victorian semi and will probably never be a prima ballerina. But nobody puts Sophie in a corner. A cabaret show from the star of hit series Raptured.
n THE PIN & GOOSE Edinburgh Preview Double Bill
Saturday 21 June, 6pm £6.50 The Pin had two sold out runs at the Fringe in 2012 and 2013 & won the award for Best Show at the 2013 London Sketchfest. Now they're back with an hour of guff. Goose (An Odd New One-Man Comedy Whodunit) One man. New comedy. Whodunit (give or take). Live music score. An alphabet of characters. Whopping reveal. All a bit sideways.
zazU
n GUILTY SECRETS: Vicky Arlidge Live Saturdays 21 June, 9pm £10, Conc £8 Nominated for the Funny Women Best Show award 2013 and with over 30,000 YouTube hits under her belt, Vicky is often compared to Victoria Wood and Bill Bailey. Using a ukulele, piano, violin, sombrero, feather duster and fake moustache, Vicky performs along with her own animations.
An Evening with the Sondheim Society and HOWARD JENKINS Sunday 22 June, 6pm £15 Join the supremely talented Howard Jenkins for a sophisticated and entertaining journey through the music of Stephen Sondheim and other American greats.
n CHRIS TURNER: Pretty Fly
Tuesday 24 June, 9pm £5 Archaeologist digs hip hop. After four sell-out runs with Fringe favourites Racing Minds (Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised), 1 million+ views on YouTube and sold out tours to Australia and India, BBC New Comedy Award finalist Chris presents his debut solo show!
SHEILA SIMMONDS & The Quest for the Golden Name Badge Wednesday 25, 9pm & Sunday 29 June, 5pm £12, Conc £10 After sold-out performances with The Supreme Fabulettes, Sheila Simmonds returns to the Leicester Square Theatre with her debut one-woman show. Already a semi-popular “recording artiste” & a home-shopping TV sensation in her home town of Woolloomooloo, Australia, Sheila finds herself invited to the UK by QVC to promote her unique products on her own prime-time show along with the promise of an illustrious gold plated name badge.
n ANNA MORRIS: Would Like To Thank… Wednesday 25 & Saturday 28 June, Wednesdays 9 & 23 July, 7pm Acclaimed character comedian Anna Morris (BBC1’s Outnumbered) presents her first Edinburgh previews. Would Like to Thank... is the follow-up to her smash-hit debut 2012 sell-out show Dolly Mixture
“A great debut…beautifully crafted” Independent
n DAVID ELMS: Nurture Boy Thursdays 26 June & 10 July, 7pm £6 Thoughtful romantic David Elms whispers it from the rooftops in this, his charming and inventive debut show. Expect songs, some chat and romance (little surprises, big gestures, bit with a Rubik’s cube, etc.)
n LUCY FREDERICK & THE CLAW OF ANXIETY
Saturday 28 June, 9pm £10, Conc £8 Just when you thought it was safe and you hoped you were cool, there comes… ANXIETY CLAW! Join Lucy Frederick (Funny Women Award Finalist 2012, Amused Moose Laugh Off SemiFinalist 2013) for an hour of stand up about the tell-tale signs that you might not be as socially able as you thought you were…
The Music of JOE LOUIS ROBINSON Sunday 29 June, 7pm £14 The Music of Joe Louis Robinson showcases the songs of the exciting contemporary composer of Cyrano de Bergerac. Join Joe for an intimate performance by West End talents of a selection of his works.
n MERCEDES BENSON PRESENTS… The Pleasure is Yours Monday 30 June, 7pm £7 South London mum of three, Mercedes Benson takes a break from shopping in Lidl to introduce some of her closest friends. OK… She hardly knows them. But she has it on good authority that they're alright. Mercedes’ alter-ego, Gemma Layton is a Laughing Horse and Funny Woman semi-finalist. Her music video, “Shopping in Lidl”, recently went viral…in a good way.
BLUES & BURLESQUE: Hotter Than Hell Monday 30 June, 8.30pm £10 Enter the door and find yourself immersed in another world . The Club has been closed for years since the “incident” but somehow you can still hear the sound of the piano echoing throughout the empty premises ...It may sound a little spooky but it’s actually a lot of fun as we are taken back to the Cabaret show that used to be here and learn what happened to Vicious Delicious and Scarlett Belle and Pete Saunders. Following 2 sell out years in Edinburgh and a Fringe Commendation for best Cabaret Show. Jay Foreman
JULY
n JAY FOREMAN’S Disgusting Songs for Revolting Children (and other funny stories) Tuesday 1 July, 7pm £7, Conc £5 Charmingly sickable songs, stories, poems and lots more from the multi-award winning comedian. For the whole family from small children to massive children (grownups).
n LYNN RUTH MILLER: Not Dead Yet
Tuesday 1 & Sunday 6 July, 8.30pm £7, Conc £5 Lynn Ruth Miller is 80 years old. She's lived a lot and nearly died a few times too. The 2013 TO&ST (Time Out & Soho Theatre) Cabaret award winner guides us through eight decades of triumphs and failures, wit and wisdom and the dinners that kept her going throughout.
n HENNESSY & FRIENDS: Murmurs
Wednesday 2, 7pm & Monday 28 July, 8.30pm £5 Brand new characters, riotous sketches and all the usual nonsense! Dispelling rumours of a break up, this ‘blackly funny three way sketch romp’ (The Scotsman) are keen to show that their personal tiffs will not get in the way of bringing you their ‘delightfully screwy’ (The Guardian) brand of sketch comedy.
n ANDREW RYAN: The Life of Ryan
Fridays 4 & 11 July, 7pm £6 Irishman Andrew Ryan is 31 years old and could not be happier, or could he? In his new show ‘The Life of Ryan’ the Corkman discusses where life has led to so far, where he wants to go, and his frustrations in trying to get there.
n ELLIE TAYLOR: Live Friday 4 July, 8.30pm £6 Join Ellie Taylor (host of Snog, Marry, Avoid BBC3, team captain Fake Reaction ITV2, 8 out of 10 Cats Channel 4) as she cobbles together an hour of stuff into an actual stand up show. If you like stuff that's silly, rough around the edges and more importantly, funny, then this is fo' you fo' shizz. Word.
n THE PIN
Friday 4, Saturday 5 & Friday 11 July, 10pm £7.50 Last year The Pin won the 'Best Show' award at the London Sketch Festival. There's a slim chance you'll have seen them knocking around on BBC3, ITV and Channel 4. This is their new hour of friendly guff.
n CHRIS MARTIN: Responsible Nonsense
Saturday 5 July, 7pm £6 Fresh from supporting Milton Jones and Russell Kane, Chris Martin (Dave’s One Night Stand) brings his brand new show to London. Chris uses his uniquely twisted logic to tackle all the “big issues”…
n JOEL DOMMETT: Live
Saturday 5 July, 8.30pm £6 Joel is one of the fastest rising stars on the UK comedy circuit having gained rave reviews for his debut solo Edinburgh show, Neon Hero, in 2011 and this his second show Nunchuck Silver Medalist 2002 in 2012. Joel was also in Skins on E4 but his hair was different and he doesn't like to talk about it.
n LADIES LIVE LONGER: VolunteerOlogy
Sunday 6 & Monday 7 July, 7pm £5 Award Winning Ladies Live Longer return with their Brand New Cult.....er... show! Let them convert you to VolunteerOlogy.
Hennesy & Friends
n CTRL+ALT+DELETE BY EMMA PACKER
Monday 7, 8.30pm & Saturday 19 July, 7pm £7 Why can’t people for once, NOT act the clichés they are? Meet Amy Jones, 25 from Brixton. A diamond in the rough with a passion for Politics, The Spice Girls and Bruce Forsyth! CtrlAlt-Delete is a unique insight in to the life of a young girl growing up in society today, where morals and manners are a thing of the past.
n FALL GIRL
Tuesday 8 July, 7pm £8 Hayley is desperate. She keeps getting conned. Plus the voice in her head is a girl with a guitar who turns her failings into rhyming couplets. A musical comedy about getting scammed, and getting gumption written by and starring ‘Sitcom Trials: So You Think You Write Funny’ winner Rosie Holt.
n ALAN HUDSON: Trick Teaser
Wednesday 9 July, 8.30pm £10 Magics, funnies and participation from one of the UK's most loved comedy conjurors. No theme, no bullshit - a collection of his bestest tricks and some new ones.
n LIAM WILLIAMS & GOOSE Edinburgh Preview Double Bill
Thursday 10 July, 8.30pm £6.50 Less pathetic now, Williams follows his Best Newcomer nominated debut with a free show about money. Let Edinburgh tremble. Goose (An Odd New One-Man Comedy Whodunit). One man. New comedy. Whodunit (give or take). Live music score. An alphabet of characters. Whopping reveal. All a bit sideways.
n FOIL ARMS AND HOG: Irish Sketch Comedy
Friday 11 & Saturday 12 July, 8.30pm £6 Ireland's top comedy sketch trio, as seen on RTE. Potato, potato, potato, pot of gold, potato. You racist. Sold-out Edinburgh Fringe ‘09 -‘13. Fast paced mix between sketches and stand-up. Wickedly twisted characters, unpredictable scenes and high energy performances.
n DAVID MORGAN: Social Tool
Saturday 12 July, 7pm £6 David Morgan (Sweat the Small Stuff BBC3, Fake Reaction ITV2) doesn't know how to deal with problems forced on him thanks to compelling but dangerous social tools. Discover the best way to dump someone you've never met, respond to time shifted rejection by omission and how to react to live coverage of a party you're not at.
n THE TWINS MACABRE: Small Mediums At Large
Saturday 12 July, 10pm £7 Last seen on BBC3's Live at the Electric and after a run of sell-out séances across London, child psychics Maurice and Ivy Macabre are wanted by police following a string of horrific murders. Dare to witness the infamous siblings as they conjure the souls of the damned through twisted sketches and songs.
n BEASTS: Solo Sundays 13, 4pm & 20 July, 7pm £6 After a sell-out run in 2013 and hot off the back of their Radio 4 debut, BEASTS return to Edinburgh with a brand new hour of inspired silliness. Drunk on the power of last year's success, the quarrelsome trio have decided to break free from the shackles of the group and go it alone. Three shows. One room. Too many egos. Too little time.
n JODY KAMALI: One Man Variety Show
Sunday 13 July, 7pm £7 A spectacular variety show featuring a plethora of unforgettable characters performed and hosted by one man from Bristol. A barnstorming hour of physical and character comedy. Directed by Aitor Basauri of critically acclaimed clown theatre troupe Spymonkey.
n CELIA PACQUOLA: Let Me Know How It All Works Out
Monday 14 & Tuesday 15 July, 7pm £8 Nominated ‘Barry Award’ for Best Show Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2014! Multi-award-winning comedian Celia Pacquola has always been obsessed with the future, but planned for none of it. She has, however, planned to return to this year’s Fringe with her most revealing stand-up show to date.
n THE KAT AND JON APPEAL
Monday 14 July, 8.30pm £10, Conc £8 Kat (face of a scullery maid), Jon (80's jawline) have both been described as funny a combined total to 9 times, so they are very hopeful for the future. Debut solo half hours from two bright young comics. Expect characters, skits and two people 'just being themselves'.
Jarred Christmas
n THE HOBBIT AND THE CHRISTMAS A Beat Box and Stand Up Comedy Collaboration Tuesday 15 July, 8.30pm £10 Hobbit is an acclaimed Beat Boxer. Christmas is an acclaimed Stand Up. Of course they should do a show together, an awesome show bursting with mouth made beats and mouth made comedy. Hobbit and Christmas will delight and surprise from start to finish.
n STEPHEN BAILEY: Neon Heart
Wednesday 16 July, 7pm £5 Sharp and Sassy, Stephen Bailey, as seen on Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side, is making his highly anticipated Edinburgh solo debut. This is a warm and funny show about finding The One, breaking up, handling it with ‘dignity’ (or lack thereof) and getting back out there – just like Katy Perry with a world tour (but on a budget).
n MARK DOLAN CHANGES THE WORLD
Wednesday 16 July, 8.30pm £7 Are you fed up with corrupt politicians, bloody wars and those long queues at Primark? Mark Dolan gets it sorted in his hilarious new show for 2014, unveiling his revolutionary manifesto for a better world. He’s already being dubbed ‘the white Obama’. Find out why in this year’s must-see Edinburgh show.
n JOSEPH MORPURGO: Odessa
Thursday 17 July, 7pm £5 It's 1983 and the buildings are burning. A petrol-sodden fantasia from Joseph Morpurgo (Austentatious, BBC2's Harry and Paul).
n LLOYD LANGFORD: Old Fashioned
Thursday 17 July, 8.30pm £7 A stand up show about feeling bamboozled by the modern world. Join Lloyd for a brand new hour of gags, anecdotes, riffs and occasional exasperated pleas to the sky. Will contain jokes about CGI, plugs and gang bangs. As seen in second-hand shops up and down the country, on Russell Howard's Good News (BBC3) and heard on The Rhod Gilbert show (BBC Radio Wales) amongst other things.
n TAMAR BROADBENT: All By My Selfie
Thursday 17 July, 10pm £6, Conc £5 Tamar is lonely being Captain of the Jägerbombs. Join her on a quest of self-discovery, featuring a tube ride of shame, a trip to Ayia Napa and some seriously dodgy friend requests. A brand new hour of musical comedy from the girl dubbed 'a female version of Owen Wilson' by a random person on YouTube.
n CARIAD & LOUISE’S CHARACTER HOUR
Friday 18 July, 8.30pm £7, Conc £6 Character Comedians Cariad Lloyd (BBC3’s The Cariad Show, E4’s Cardinal Burns) and Louise Ford (Sky1’s Chickens, BBC2’S It’s Kevin) invite you to meet their bizarre and delightful comedy creations that live in their heads.
n DAMIEN SLASH: Forward Slash
Friday 18 July, 10pm £5 Character comedy from YouTube sensation Damien Slash. With a web-series featured during YouTube Comedy Week and sketches featured on Channel 4’s Mashed, check out characters including Laurence the PC Gamer, the Rude Boy Philosopher, Antoine Speekz and the Mineral Water Critic that have gone viral online and had over half a million views.
FUNNY WOMEN COMEDY WRITING WORKSHOP Saturday 19 July, 10am £65 This is a three hour 'master class' covering how to come up with ideas for your script, characterisation, joke structure, lay-out, presentation and how to get your project in front of the right people - facilitated by Gavin Smith the Creative Director of Development for The Comedy Unit, which partners Funny Women in the Comedy Writing Award.
n FRANKENSTEIN: UnBolted
Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 July, 4pm £8 The dashing and reckless Last Chance Saloon resurrect Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to create a frenetic hour of slick, riotous theatre comedy. With grotesquely twisted pop songs, an assortment of ridiculous characters and a nod to the golden age of classic British comedy, you're in for an electrifying ride!
n JIM CAMPBELL’S PERSONAL SPACE
Sunday 20 July, 8.30pm £7, Conc £5 A bedroom can be many things; Sanctuary. Workspace. Fort. Here he invites you into his room – not in a weird way - to relive his misadventures. It also has a cool dog in it.
n JULIETTE BURTON: Look At Me
Monday 21 July, 7pm £6.50, Conc £5 Other shows want you to look at them. What will you see if you Look At Me? Award-winning performer Juliette Burton’s been fat, thin and everything between. Now, in this brand new docu-comedy, she’ll change even more! From wearing the hijab to dressing provocatively, being male, obese, old, nude: is what we appear to be who we are?
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n RACING MINDS: Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised Monday 21 July, 8.30pm £5 Racing Minds are back, and warming up for a fifth year in Edinburgh, following their sell-out run in 2013! Anything could happen, but excitement is guaranteed in this improvised comic adventure based entirely on audience suggestions!
n GUILT & SHAME: Going Straight
Monday 21 July, 10pm £6 Depraved comedy duo for every bad decision you’ve ever made. After five star sell out runs, Guilt & Shame return with their brand new show. Parties, murders, bank robberies and Jeremy Clarkson. Wild sketch comedy with crazy dance routines, rapping dwarfs and a disco loving transvestite, Guilt & Shame: Going Straight is anything but.
n ALFIE MOORE: The Naked Stun
Tuesday 22 July, 7pm £5 Former police sergeant turned stand-up comedian, and star of BBC Radio 4’s, It's a Fair Cop, Alfie tasers his way through a brand new hour of hilarious and fascinating anecdotes drawn from his eighteen years on the beat.
n MAX DICKINS: My Groupon Adventure
Wednesday 23 & Saturday 26 July, 8.30pm £7 In November last year I reached rock bottom in my life. I had become a totally boring and passionless individual. Then I found the discount website Groupon and my life changed forever. This is My Groupon Adventure.
n ABIGOLIAH SCHAMAUN: It’s pronounced Abigoliah Schamaun
Wednesday 23 & Saturday 26 July, 10pm £6 The “gloriously candid” (The List) New York comedian returns with a new bundle of saucy tales. This world-travelling, fast-talking, confirmed bachelor of a woman considers her past and present where nothing is off limits!
HUGGERS Thursday 24 July, 1.30pm £8, Family £24 Comedy, cabaret and a huge amount of fun for all the family to enjoy together with performers selected from the best comedians, cabaret performers, children’s entertainers and street-performers on the circuit.
n ABI ROBERTS’ TWERK IN PROGRESS
Friday 25 July, 10pm £7 Hotly-tipped stand-up starlet, Abi Roberts jerks, twerks and acts like a berk in this Edinburgh preview of her debut solo stand-up show Twerk In Progress. Like a shot of neat vodka in the eyeball, expect mayhem, stealth feminism at its finest, pot noodles and Putin.
n DEFYING GRAVITY
Sunday 27 July, 7pm £7.50 Piano, PowerPoint and possibly the biggest finish on the fringe accompany a show that is equal parts bleak and hopeful. Defying Gravity is 2012 Funny Women Variety Award Winner Sooz Kempner's brand new show.
n LIZZY MACE: Overlooked
Monday 28 July, 7pm £6, Conc £5 What do the fourth bear from 'Goldilocks', the disgruntled children's TV presenter and her psychopathic sock puppets have in common? They're all oddballs. They're all underlings. And they're all Lizzy Mace... Catch the cavalcade of character comedy from this award-winning writer-performer!
FUNNY WOMEN AWARDS SEMI-FINAL Tuesday 29 July, 7.30pm £10, Conc £8 Join us for a unique night of comedy where you will see some upand-coming acts compete for a place in the Funny Women Awards Final 2014, and help raise funds and awareness for domestic violence charity Refuge. Come along for a chance to spot the next big thing!
n NAOMI COOPER: That's Probably Enough
Wednesday 30 July, 7pm £5 Naomi Cooper (ImproBabble) returns to the Leicester Square Theatre to present a work-in-progress version of her debut solo show, discussing the merits of correct pronunciation, sexual common sense and chocolate pop tarts.
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