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James Trickey: Don’t Count on Me review – accountant takes calculated risk in fringe debut

silverguide.site – The comedy newcomer delivers an expertly constructed set with chutzpah – but not all the jokes land with precision…
James Trickey: Don’t Count on Me review – accountant takes calculated risk in fringe debut
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Pickled Republic review – a curious cabaret of jarring vegetables

silverguide.site – Ruxandra Cantir’s cast of gherkins, onions and carrots is conceptually funny but lacks bite…
Pickled Republic review – a curious cabaret of jarring vegetables
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Brigadoon review – there’s no heat in the heather in this tame revival

silverguide.site – This version of Lerner and Loewe’s musical has plenty of energy – bagpipes, big voices, drumming galore – but surely it needed more of a story update?…
Brigadoon review – there’s no heat in the heather in this tame revival
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‘It felt like a scene from The Handmaid’s Tale’: US comics on the dangers of political satire

silverguide.site – As Jena Friedman, Michelle Wolf and Sam Jay perform at the fringe, they discuss the threats to freedom of speech in the era of Donald Trump…
‘It felt like a scene from The Handmaid’s Tale’: US comics on the dangers of political satire
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‘We wondered if it was ethical to adapt it’: can poetry about deaf resistance wow theatre audiences?

silverguide.site – Deaf Republic, a collection of war poems written by the Ukrainian American Ilya Kaminsky, have caused a sensation. Now they have been turned into an extraordinary play…
‘We wondered if it was ethical to adapt it’: can poetry about deaf resistance wow theatre audiences?
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Body Count review – dark laughs in a tale of Bonnie Blue-style sexual extremes

silverguide.site – Issy Knowles considers the phenomenon of sex as a competitive sport with a portrait of a fictional OnlyFans star and her balaclava-clad followers…
Body Count review – dark laughs in a tale of Bonnie Blue-style sexual extremes
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Bella Hull: Doctors Hate Her review – beautifully wrought comedy on having your sanity questioned

silverguide.site – In a precise performance, Hull delivers sharp punchlines, surreal diversions and a dose of the occult…
Bella Hull: Doctors Hate Her review – beautifully wrought comedy on having your sanity questioned
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Nerds review – Steve Jobs and Bill Gates go toe-to-toe in a rollicking rap battle

silverguide.site – The two titans of tech are parodied in a thoroughly fun send-up of the competition between Apple and Microsoft…
Nerds review – Steve Jobs and Bill Gates go toe-to-toe in a rollicking rap battle
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Tim Key: Loganberry review – blissfully funny set from a standup in total control

silverguide.site – Key’s total command of his style, seemingly up in arms about being called middle-aged, is an expert game of cat-and-mouse…
Tim Key: Loganberry review – blissfully funny set from a standup in total control
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I’m Ready to Talk Now review – unsettling bedtime story for an audience of one

silverguide.site – Oliver Ayres tucks you in for an intimate account of his diagnosis with a severe and chronic immune condition, and the effect of transphobia…
I’m Ready to Talk Now review – unsettling bedtime story for an audience of one
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‘It’s a brigade of old gits!’ Miriam Margolyes, Andy Linden and the older performers storming Edinburgh

silverguide.site – At a festival so often dominated by bold young talent, it’s veteran performers stealing the spotlight this year. We meet them – from household names to octogenarian newcomers…
‘It’s a brigade of old gits!’ Miriam Margolyes, Andy Linden and the older performers storming Edinburgh
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Luke McQueen: Comedian’s Comedian review – lord of mischief gatecrashes the popular podcast

silverguide.site – The tricksy standup uses AI to create his own episode of the long-running interview series on which he’s never been invited…
Luke McQueen: Comedian’s Comedian review – lord of mischief gatecrashes the popular podcast
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The Burns Project review – Scotland’s national poet in all his glory and contradictions

silverguide.site – Drawing on private letters and contemporary criticism, Cora Bissett’s imaginative production offers a rounded picture of a complicated man with a colourful love life…
The Burns Project review – Scotland’s national poet in all his glory and contradictions
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Bad dates and bath bombs: 10 of the funniest jokes from the Edinburgh fringe 2025

silverguide.site – The festival’s best joke award may have been binned this year, but the one-liners keep on coming. Here are our favourites…
Bad dates and bath bombs: 10 of the funniest jokes from the Edinburgh fringe 2025
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‘TikTok is like an old-school variety show’: what’s behind the surprising boom in ventriloquism?

silverguide.site – The once musty old art of voice-throwing is back in vogue on stage and online. Its new hip practitioners – plus 1980s TV mainstay Roger De Courcey – explain why their vocal tricks and errant dummies are wowing audiences again…
‘TikTok is like an old-school variety show’: what’s behind the surprising boom in ventriloquism?
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Ohio review – spine-tingling folk harmonies and life’s big questions

silverguide.site – Abigail and Shaun Bengson meditate on family, faith and loss in story and song, featuring a revelatory depiction of degenerative hearing…
Ohio review – spine-tingling folk harmonies and life’s big questions
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The Ode Islands review – a nightmarish head trip unlike anything on the fringe

silverguide.site – Visual artist Ornagh conjures a psychedelic, mixed-reality vision preoccupied with identity, sexuality and body image…
The Ode Islands review – a nightmarish head trip unlike anything on the fringe
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Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak review – a champion of eccentric hobbies and people power

silverguide.site – Victoria Melody’s passion for other people’s passions is in full bloom in a show that finds delight and inspiration in English civil war reenactments…
Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak review – a champion of eccentric hobbies and people power
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Circa: Wolf review – snarling, sexy circus show is wildly entertaining

silverguide.site – Brisbane’s Circa are consummate pros, achieving acrobatic feats edged with animal instincts…
Circa: Wolf review – snarling, sexy circus show is wildly entertaining
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‘Use your other senses’: pioneering show for the blind hits Edinburgh

silverguide.site – Paulo Palado’s pitch-dark production opens up possibilities by putting visually impaired and sighted in the same position…
‘Use your other senses’: pioneering show for the blind hits Edinburgh
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