Chris Cox is an enthusiastic “mind reader” that jokes and quips his way through his show with boyish enthusiasm.
Chris Cox is an enthusiastic “mind reader” that jokes and quips his way through his show with boyish enthusiasm.
Manchester based Justin Moorhouse returns to the Edinburgh Fringe, putting his own varied twist on the theme of archetypes and the notion that there are only seven stories in the world and all others are merely variations on these seven.
BBC Comedy Presents is a genius idea in an ever-growing Fringe programme: every night a different, unannounced line up of talented comedians, who are on stage about 15 mins each.
Eight years ago when Dan Antoploski was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award his combination of intelligent word-play and general silliness was a joy to behold.
Let’s get it over with: Daniel Sloss is an 18 year old stand up comedian from Fife . Still with us? Good, you should be.
Here at Hairline we actively hunt out the productions that we like to call, the little gem. These are absolutely incredible performances that for some reason remain firmly under the radar and struggle with only a handful of audience members. Ladies and gentlemen of Hairline the hunt is over.
Barbershopera II is simply that: another Opera (they produced a show last year) performed in Barbershop Quartet style by three guys and a girl. It may seem a bizarre concept, but it works beautifully.
Based on the 1975 play by king of the neurotics Woody Allen, this post modern piece of theatre is all about (deep breath) a play within a play written about a play that doesn’t as yet have an ending and so as to figure out the ending they must ask the audience of the play how it must end! It follows the two leads, Diabetes and Hepatitis, one an actor the other a play-writer as they debate in both ancient Greece and modern day Manhattan, the ethics of storytelling.
Dora wants a baby. Her library is being closed down, and she feels like she’s has nothing to show for her life. Because she is mentally slow, she wants a kid with brains, one who won’t have the difficulties she has had in life.
As the room slowly fills up with spectators walking right by him to take their seat, Wil Hodgson sits undisturbed in the centre of the arena, in front a small pub table, drinking his pint and checking his pink mobile.




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