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Show And Tell / The Arches presents Kieran Hurley’s BEATS. BEATS tells the story of Johnno McCreadie, a teenager living in a small suburban Scottish town at the time of the 1994 Criminal Justice Act – a new piece of legislation which effectively outlawed raves, or “public gatherings around amplified music characterised by the emission [...]
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Join Tony Law for some gloriously absurd, loud and ridiculous comedy. Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award 2012 nominated show. Chortle Best Comedy Show Award 2013 winning show. As seen on BBC1′s Have I Got News For You, BBC2′s Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, The Culture Show, Heading Out, BBC3′s Russell Howard’s Good News, [...]
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Molly Naylor – writer of Radio 4’s Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think of You – and The Middle Ones – “Sneakily brilliant tunesmithery” (The Fly) – present a storytelling show with live soundtrack. Using stories and music, together they explore love and fear – the meaning of both and the relationship between the [...]
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November 1983, comedian Joe ‘Pops’ Pooley is headlining his local comedy club and no one’s laughing. April 2013: with your help, his murder is reconstructed. Re-live Joe’s last set over and over and over again. When your time comes, can you die with some dignity? This is an interactive piece of auto-theatre set in an [...]
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Experimenting with a tiny camera and big screen, Simon Munnery is Fylm-Makker. Presenting a beautiful mix of visual sketches, handcrafted animation, music and stand-up, all created and performed live on screen. This is “one of the most consistently original and imaginative minds in comedy” (The Guardian) at his most rewarding, enthralling and avant-garde best. As [...]
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From the imagination of Ben Moor, one of the Edinburgh Fringe’s most lauded comedy writing talents, comes an extraordinary tale of love, loneliness, tree climbing and deeply oblivious fish. She’s a rising star in the sport of competitive tree climbing; he’s a quiet nonentity. How they fall in love isn’t the story. Staying together when [...]
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‘All the rigmarole of haute cuisine, without the shame of eating.’ Simon Munnery’s La Concepta is an excusive non-dining restaurant experience. Its devised and performed by award-winning comedian Simon Munnery. As broadcast on BBC2′s The Culture Show and winner of the Chortle Best Innovation in Comedy Award 2012. Lovers of haute cuisine are greeted and [...]
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The Poetry Takeaway is ‘the world’s first purpose-built mobile poetry emporium.’ It specialises in the production of free, made-to-order poems, delivered and performed to the hungry yet discerning literary consumer within ten minutes or less. Its modelled on your typical burger van and is manned by a rotating cast of the UK’s best poetry chefs [...]
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In 2002, John Osborne won a competition on John Peel’s Radio One show. His prize was a box of records that took eight years to listen to. This is an ode to radio, those records and anyone who’s ever sought solace in wireless. Script edited by Joe Dunthorne (Writer of the novel Submarine). Direct from a five-star, [...]
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Simon Munnery presents a brand new show. A beautiful, extravagant mess of foaming bubble hats, bad guitar riffs, sublime jokes, delightful monologues, homemade engineering feats and an overly ambitious one-man punk musical about the R101 airship of the 1930s. All performed with a plum. Or some other fruit. Star of BBC2′s Attention Scum, London Shouting, [...]
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“Britain’s greatest living anti-comedian” (The Guardian) reluctantly presents a slice of moderately amusing stand-up comedy in order to gain some meaningful television exposure. Acknowledging that he has a reputation for unprofessionalism and unpreparedness, Edward has began to prepare now, for his inevitable rise to showbiz stardom, sometime soon. He has imagined a new life of TV [...]
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Come see the UK’s foremost Simon Munnery impersonator, Simon Munnery, impersonate Simon Munnery as you’ve never seen him impersonated before: accurately. A beautifully honed set of nowhere near the knuckle material about life, death, children and work performed with love, while wearing a suit. British Comedy Award Nominee, Perrier Award Nominee, Barry Award Nominee, Sony Radio [...]
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“They say it is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. Nigel wouldn’t agree…” Using animation and storytelling, a tale of perfect couples that never quite reach their perfection. By the writer / star of Radio 4′s Dad Designs, Chortle Innovation Award Winner and Time Out Top Ten Comedian, [...]
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The Times’ Top Ten Literary Star Of The Year and Time Out Award Winner combines animation with poetic lyricism in his battle with the self-fulfilling prophecy. A true story about time travel. Ross Sutherland’s job is to predict the future. Working for a well-known national newspaper, Ross spends his days surrounded by people speculating on [...]
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“Britain’s greatest entertainer” (Time Out) outlines a few brittle thoughts on ambition, failure and why he would’ve preferred to be an ambassador. Or in theory a rock star. Featuring: SWOT analysis, silence and repetition. Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better. completed a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival (Aug 2011) [...]
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