How Late It Was, How Late
Royal Conservatoire graduate Beatrice Farqharson-Smyth debuts her harrowing one-woman show loosely based on James Kelman’s novel. This time, the blindness is not that of the narrator, but of her father who is late with her trust fund payment.
Tickets are £37.98 + Fringe friend donation, although guests are invited to be ‘Bea’s Bae’ and sign up to the Patreon until Daddy finally releases those dividends. The show runs daily from 8:37-8:53am in a disused toilet cubicle of the Assembly Rooms, George St. Readers worried about getting their money’s worth can be assured that it feels a lot longer.
The Lady Boys of Barnton
The ever popular Lady Boys of Bangkok now has a local competitor. The show begins with a group of Scottish trans people just existing until local billionaire Joanne decides she simply must stop them using the toilet.
Or working. Or being recognised under the Equality Act. Or breathing.
Join in the fun as half the audience is encouraged to fight the other whilst billionaires grow richer and the world burns.
The show culminates with a bigoted nurse making a series of jokes about drowned Pakistanis. She leaves the venue to ‘gender critical’ applause for refusing to collect her jacket from the same cloakroom as the Ladyboys.
Chavs! The Musical!
Straight outta Cambridge, the Footlights theatre company get this party started by serving the most local delicacy they could think of: a deep-fried syringe.
But it is the music that makes show such a festival favourite. By the end of the evening, you’re sure to be belting out My Buckfast Brings All the Boys to The Yard; Defying Giro and the finale: Can’t Touch This (performed whilst dangling a bag of Waitrose groceries in front of a food bank queue).
Tickets are £490.50. No DSS.
