Rosie Jones: Inspiration
I admit to being biased and unbelievably proud of Rosie Jones who has more challenges than most in terms of delivering stand-up comedy. She openly admits to loving her disability, which gives her licence to embarrass work colleagues who use the disabled toilets and confesses to dribbling on anybody she dislikes! We saw how Rosie’s […]
Rose Matafeo: Sassy Best Friend
For me, last year Rose Matafeo was The One That Got Away. I could not fit her into my overpacked review schedule and missed her hit show Rose Matafeo is Finally Dead. Everybody was talking about it and I missed it. So this year I made sure Rose Matafeo: Sassy Best Friend was on my […]
Samantha Baines: 1 Woman, A High Flyer and a Flat Bottom
Following on from last year’s Edinburgh Fringe sold out run, 1 Woman, a Dwarf Planet and 2 Cox, Samantha Baines is still into science. However, this year in order to balance out her 2015 Cox [Brian] obsession she has focused on three women scientists who, like many women, have been consigned to the ‘lost’ pile […]
Lucy Porter: Choose Your Battles
Lucy Porter treats the audience to her 11th Edinburgh Show with a personal look at how she deals with conflict. She explains her avoidance of conflict with numerous amusing anecdotes; but she is so confident in her delivery, that one cannot imagine being her afraid to argue her case! She refers to her parenting skills […]
