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 two.

“Brave, funny, tough and beautiful writing” – The Guardian

“This woman is genuinely talented” – ★★★★ The Times

★★★★ – The Telegraph | ★★★★ – Metro | ★★★★ – The Fly

November 1983, the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war. Comedian Joe ‘Pops’ Pooley is headlining his local comedy club and no one’s laughing. August 2012: 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? An interactive theatre piece set in an eighties comedy club. Devised by Time Out award-winning writer and performer Ross Sutherland.

“Ross Sutherland is one of the most exciting new voices to emerge on the Fringe this year. A real star in the making” – ★★★★ The Independent

“The talented Ross Sutherland brings philosophy, physics and fun together in a highly entertaining view of society, which transcends the obvious, scintillates with originality and packs a hard-hitting intellectual punch” – ★★★★★ Broadway Baby

Experimenting with a tiny camera and big screen, Simon Munnery presents his latest stand-up show for 2012. Featuring Simon’s wonderful mix of stand-up, sketches, poems and his latest creation, a new type of audio-visual entertainment entitled ‘fylms’. As recently seen on BBC2′s Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle and heard on Radio 4′s News Quiz. Chortle Innovation Award Winner, British Comedy Award Nominee, Sony Radio Award Winner, Perrier Award Nominee.

“He’s nothing less than a genius” – The Guardian

“There are more brilliant ideas in one of his shows than most comics manage in a lifetime” – The Times

“A scintillating brew of poetry, monologues, stand-up, songs and general silliness… Reveal both his genuine mastery and unadulterated love of language” – ★★★★ The Scotsman

“He does more with the English language than many great novelists” – ★★★★★ Edinburgh Evening News

“Simon Munnery, the God particle of alternative comedy” – Chortle

“Simon Munnery is an ever-innovative Fringe institution” – ★★★★ The List

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 the world is filled with imaginary flat mates, underground Compliment Clubs and Satanic jazz bands – that’s the story.

Coelacanth (pronounced see-la-kanth) was adapted for BBC Radio Four, won a Herald Angel Award in 2005 and earned Ben a Best Actor Award nomination from The Stage.

“Storytelling as funny as it is beautiful” – ★★★★ The Guardian

“Irreverent, inventive and hauntingly beautiful” – ★★★★ The Times

“Surreal and charming… clever and witty without being overbearing. This is a show of quietly confident quality with a poignant ending full of resonances. This is thought-provoking stuff” – ★★★★ Metro

La Concepta ‘restaurant conceptuel‘ (devised by Simon Munnery) is a uniquely genuine ‘pop-up’ restaurant originally devised for the Edinburgh Festival 2011. It is able to literally spring up unannounced across town from within two large trunks. Once you have booked your table, a member of restaurant staff shall call you to let you know where La Concepta has sprung up that day.

Lovers of haute cuisine are greeted and served by a diligent staff of four (all played by Simon Munnery) at La Concepta. Head Chef Munnery promises a varied menu of conceptual dishes comprising dishes of art, jokes, songs, anecdotes, aphorisms, audio installations, choreographed dances and more. Sous Chef Munnery will be prepping every dish. Maitre d’ Munnery will be ensuring your dining experience is magnifique. Trainee Chef Munnery will be hoping to keep out of the way and not ruin things again..

“A delicious opportunity to enjoy a performance from a real pro, served directly to your table” ★★★★ - The Independent

“The fringiest Fringe experience of 2011″ - The Guardian

“All the rigmarole of haute cuisine without the shame of eating” - Maitre d’ Munnery

As seen on BBC2′s The Culture Show

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 who write, perform and deliver a hand-written, carefully boxed, souvenir copy of every customer’s poem (open or wrapped).

It is conceived and managed by Show + Tell and Tim Clare. Funded by Ideastap. Designed in collaboration by Niall Gallagher (House Of Jonn) and Nicola Read (815 Agency). With additional design elements by Ellen Turnill-Montoya (Ellen TM).

Previous appearances include; the London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre, Port Eliot Festival, Edinburgh Festival, End Of The Road Festival and Wenlock Poetry Festival.

“The Poetry Takeaway is a nice idea and a fun way of bringing poetry to people” – The Stage

“The Poetry Takeaway project is a terrific innovation. At a time when the performing arts are facing their cruellest cuts in years this is an ingeniously creative way to – quite literally – take poetry to the people.”
Bruce Dessau, Arts Critic, Evening Standard

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, complete sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival, comes John Osborne’s debut storytelling hour partly adapted from his acclaimed book Radio Head (Radio 4’s Book Of The Week). The hit of the Edinburgh Festival comes to Jackson’s Lane in London in October; and tours the UK in February 2012.

“Shy and awkward but with a keen eye for a killer line and the significance of the trivia of daily life, Osborne sits somewhere between Tom Wrigglesworth and Daniel Kitson, which a very good place to sit. I could have listened for hours” – ★★★★★  The Independent

“Beautifully-written, funny and poignant… Just as John Peel’s records changed his life this lovely, simple, beautifully executed show has enriched ours” – ★★★★★  The Scotsman

“One of the Top Ten Theatre Highlights of the Edinburgh Festival… Funny, perceptive and charming” – ★★★★  The Telegraph

“One of the loveliest things you’ll see all year” – ★★★★  The Herald

“Genius… A comic highlight” – The Guardian

“I heartily recommend John Peel’s Shed. It is a gentle tale of one man’s passion for obscure music and the radio which has been compared to the work of Daniel Kitson” – Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard

“John Osborne captures the intimacy of the medium, the startling human connections and priceless stories. Its an uplifting if occasionally twee story that makes a classic, nostalgic fringe piece” – Total Theatre

★★★★ Sunday Express
★★★★ Edinburgh Evening News
★★★★ What’s On Stage
★★★★ Fest Magazine

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, Radio 1′s The League Against Tedium and Radio 4′s Where Did It All Go Wrong? As on BBC2’s Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. British Comedy Award Nominee, Sony Radio Award Winner, Perrier Award Nominee.

“There are more brilliant ideas in one of Simon Munnery’s shows than most comics will manage in a lifetime” – The Times, 2011

“Simon Munnery is nothing less than a genius” – The Guardian, 2011

“He remains a weird and wonderful maverick. Probably one of the funniest things you’ll see this year” ★★★★ – The Metro, 2011

“He does more with the English language than many great novelists” ★★★★★ – Edinburgh Evening News, 2011

“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 panel shows, lavish riders, comedy masterclass leadership and commercial product endorsements, and would like to share a few of these plans with important industry people across the country. Aczel’s had two sell-out runs at London’s Soho Theatre, three sell-out Edinburgh Festival runs and several Radio Four appearances. This is first national tour.

“Aczel turns unprofessionalism into an artform. A real attraction.” ★★★★ - The Times

“Britain’s greatest entertainer… the future of comedy” ★★★★★ – Time Out

“One of the most original acts in years. An hour in his company is a joy” – The Guardian

“One of the finest hours of comedy I’ve ever seen” – The New Yorker

“One of the most inventive and memorable comedians working today” – The Scotsman