Women on top at this year’s Fringe
This was my 15th year of attending the Edinburgh Fringe both as a punter and producer. Over the years, Funny Women has produced shows at all of the major venues, Fringe Central and the Free Festival. We have even performed on the concourse at Waverley Station! This year’s festival celebrated an almost clean sweep of […]
Tiff Stevenson: Bombshell
Tiff Stevenson opens her show, Bombshell by telling us she is not just a ten, she is on Tinder just for the ego boost, but what she is really telling us is that we each should value ourselves and demand our place in the sun: “When I put on make-up, I start as a seven […]
The Kagools win the Amused Moose Comedy Award
Sketch duo The Kagools have won this year’s Amused Moose Comedy Award for their show Tutti, beating over 160 other comedians for the prize at the Symposium Hall at the Edinburgh Fringe. Comedian Mark Dolan hosted the final and the CEO of the Edinburgh Fringe, Shona McCarthy, handed out the trophies. A panel consisting of […]
Cally Beaton: Super Cally Fragile Lipstick
I like a bit of heart-on-sleeve talk and the Fringe is a good place to experiment with how far you can take it. Cally Beaton does a very good job in this honest, touching and brave show about coming out – not just about her sexuality, although this is explored, but about being older, managing […]
Twayna Mayne: Black Girl
This is a show about how nurture can overcome the accident of birth. Twayna and her twin brothers were adopted by a white mother and knows full well that her existence as a ‘Black Girl’ would have been totally different had they remained with their black birth mother. Twayna’s delivers her powerful story in a […]
Desiree Burch: Unf*ckable
Given the title of Desiree’s show I knew that we were in for something full on and feisty. What ensued was an incredible roller coaster of stories and anecdotes from her early life spent working as a dominatrix all without losing her virginity. We hear about this too, but that comes much later. If you […]
