Comedy highlights going on sale today include the return of the critically acclaimed daft-hearted John Luke-Roberts with two new shows: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations and the incomprehensible - After Me Comes the Flood (But in French) drip splosh splash drip BLUBBP BLUBBP BLUBBPBLUBBPBLUBBP!!; two time Writers Guild Winner (Best Radio Comedy 2018 & 2019) Sarah Kendall; the young and extremely talented impressionist Josh Berry; stand-up comedy/spoken word from Rob Auton; and Milton Jones (Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo and Radio 4).
2019 also sees the return of Police Cops with their latest comedy blockbuster Badass Be Thy Name; Australia’s favourite comedy twins - The Stevenson Experience; Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorne with their hit show Scummy Mummies based on the Radio 4 podcast and best-selling book; and back, following sell-out runs in 2018 and 2019 is Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody – the hilarious musical adventure starring Tom Riddle and his moody teenage classmates.
Other theatre just announced includes Thunderstruck the tragic and comic tale of the greatest bagpiper who ever lived, written and performed by David Colvin and fresh from sell-out previews at Celtic Connections and Piping Live!; Inflatable Space – an interstellar adventure performed by duo Ean Sheehy and Thaddeus Phillips; Rebecca Vaughan in Dalloway - Elton Townend Jones’s award-winning, magical adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s feminist novel; Hugh Whitemore’s play My Darling Clemmie which celebrates the long, remarkable marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill.
Dance, circus and physical theatre highlights include Berlin’s all-female contemporary circus collective Still Hungry in Raven which confronts the challenges of modern motherhood; and hand-to-hand circus skills from the internationally acclaimed Nikki Rummer and JD Broussé in Knot.
Cabaret highlights just announced include a new late-night extravaganza Best of Cabaret with sultry songs, dance varieties, comedic displays and vivacious variety; Melinda Hughes with her live jazz trio on a sophisticated romp through social and political satire; variety performer Luke Jermay providing personal intuitive readings and future predictions with amazing razor-sharp accuracy; and magician Chris Dugdalereturns on a journey of binary and mind control with a new show Down to One.
Plus, for music audiences singer/songwriter Gary Edward Jones debuts in Edinburgh with his showSomething about Simon reciting the music and unique story of American singer-songwriter Paul Simon.
Younger children will love Mr Bubbles’s extraordinary award-winning The Bubble Show and Goblin’s Hey Diddle Diddle - a hilarious celebration of nonsense featuring puppets, music, flying cows, jazzy cats, laughing dogs, runaway crockery, singing potatoes, farting sandwiches and dancing; and for older children there is Girl Scouts vs Aliens - the greatest low-fi sci-fi comedy adventure on Earth.
Eddie Izzard is also touring with a new stand-up show entitled Wunderbar later this year. Details here.
Tickets for all Assembly Fringe performances are available at www.assemblyfestival.com
