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Mat Ewins: Actually Can I Have Eight Tickets Please?
from Fest 2019 Issue 4
by The Skinny
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VENUE: Just the Tonic at The Caves
TIME: 9pm – 10pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £8 – £9
Mat Ewins’ rise in recent years has been wonderful to witness. Previously an almost entirely cult concern he’s been playing to bigger, full rooms at the Fringe since his 2017 show Adventureman 7: The Return of Adventureman was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award. Few deserve the audiences more. The work, much of it unseen, that goes into Ewins’ shows is astounding.
Actually Can I Have Eight Tickets
Please? is a another hour of chaotically energetic comedy. While previous shows followed a tight narrative (while openly mocking the apparent need for a "message" to