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Monkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh
The frenetic Mancunian turns to quartz in search of inner peace – but his standup remains as crude and self-loathing as ever
I’ve seen two prominent comedians on this year’s fringe argue that your belief system is something you choose. Sign of the strange times, or just a way to justify some far-out comedy? Dan Tiern...
Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh
Ashley Blair and Drew Reilly send up gen Z anomie with hardcore ditties about awkward dinners, megachurches and centaur boyfriends
‘How to feel whole in an empty world?” There are many possible answers to that question, and Megasquirt’s late-night comedy rave workshops a good few of them. But there’s probably no bette...
Shakespeare’s Globe, London
In a lively and deftly designed production, gowns and wigs fit for Versailles give way to plainer disguises as banished courtiers pursue happiness in the country
For a play that pivots around the liberating disguises inside Arden’s bucolia, this production of the Bard’s pastoral comedy begins the dress-up long before it...
Festival theatre studio, Edinburgh
Jaha Koo cooks up street-food treats for two lucky theatregoers as he reflects on how food preserves memory and cultural identity, with the help of a snail and an eel
To get the measure of this slight but sweet one-man show, you need to listen to the singing snail. “In every soil grows a different version of you,...
A succubus, a cycling champ and Sir Elton Scone walk into a bar … and our photographer Murdo MacLeod was there to capture every moment