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  • Experts in landing a punchline … Chemo Savvy.

    Chemo Savvy review – cancer comedy inspired by actor Andy Gray is less about death than about rebirth

    Alan McHugh’s play is about grief and the agony of treatment – but also about hope and laughter in the face of adversity
  • Mark Simmons at the Edinburgh fringe

    Mark Simmons’ ship joke named funniest of Edinburgh fringe

    Comedian was in top 10 on three previous occasions – here are this year’s best gags, as voted for by a public panel
  • Tom Brooke and Kerry Condon in After The End at the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh festival 2005.

    ‘Peter Capaldi was punched off his chair’: Fifty years of explosive theatre company Paines Plough

    From locking playwrights up until a drama emerged to dreaming up Sarah Kane’s Crave in a pub; the talent behind half a century of innovation reveal their secrets
  • Amy Kennedy as Elise and Ramesh Meyyappan as old Harry in Love Beyond.

    Love Beyond review – powerful story of dementia plays out like a thriller

  • Jacob Rees-Mogg leaves the count at the University of Bath after losing his seat in the general election

    Jacob Rees-Mogg ‘very strongly’ considering standing for election again

  • Joe Kent-Walters; Olga Koch; Lou Wall; Jin Hao Li

    Edinburgh fringe comedy 2024 week two roundup: I’ve seen 50 shows but am I laughing?

  • The Gummy Bears' Great War

    A Jaffa Cake Musical and The Gummy Bears’ Great War: Edinburgh fringe stages battles with bite

  • Nigamon/Tunai review – utterly unique, magnetic, beautiful and sad

  • Jin Hao Li: Swimming in a Submarine review – soothing meets unsettling in fringe comedy debut

  • Lynn Faces review – offbeat comedy pays punk tribute to Alan Partridge’s PA

  • A winning concoction … One Man Musical.

    One Man Musical by Flo & Joan review – Andrew Lloyd Webber gets ‘a show about me!’

  • Standup comedian Alfie Packham

    Edinburgh unplugged: fire alarms and outages send fringe shows on to the streets

  • Sheeps

    Sheeps: The Giggle Bunch (That’s Our Name for You) review – still crazily funny after all these years

  • Lucy Mangan in Playfight.

    Playfight review – enthralling tale of the ascent to adulthood

  • Hamlet review – deconstructed take on the Danish prince centres people with Down’s syndrome

  • Rollercoaster review – fizzy tricks and funky escapades from a master of juggling

  • Rose Matafeo: On and On and On review – a star-crossed love life laid hilariously bare

  • I Am the Boss review – squabbling siblings’ hijinks at Edinburgh fringe

  • Garry Starr:Classic Penguins.

    Garry Starr: Classic Penguins review – brilliantly ticklish riff on a stack of literary tomes

  • Reginald D Hunter speaking into a microphone on a stage in 2021

    Scottish theatre cancels Reginald D Hunter show over heckling of Israelis

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