Sketch troupe Tarot are back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer with a new show, Shuffle. Their third hour, this show will play in the Pleasance Courtyard from the 31st July until 25th August at 9:30pm, before the gang take the show on tour across the UK in the autumn. All tickets are on sale now.
Shuffle is a show that asks the audience to become the latest member of Tarot, as the super-group casts off their reputation as the royalty of ‘dark comedy’. Together the three nighty-clad sketch-zealots shuffle on stage and weave an absurd and inventive show full of hair-raising characters and rug-pulling punchlines; a surprisingly joyful and silly hour, where the relationship between audience and performer is blurred, Shuffle is so off the cuff, live, and ‘in the room’ you'll wonder if they’re making it all up on the spot.
Tarot said: “We would call it improv but we’ve got some self-respect: this is sketch in nighties. Come watch a new show of big, daft and, above all, live comedy being conjured up in front of your very eyes.”
Since forming in 2019, the troupe has established itself as one of the most inventive and original acts in Britain and won a devoted following, selling out their 2019 Edinburgh Fringe show and a 2020 run at Soho Theatre.
They have appeared on Channel 4’s The Paddock and created and starred in their own BBC Radio 4 show Soundbleed. The all-star team consists of Ed Easton (BBC’s Starstruck), Kath Hughes (Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World, After Life), Adam Drake (BBC’s Lazy Susan), Ben Rowse (#1 Podcast Capital), and director Kiri Pritchard-McLean (All Killa No Filla podcast, Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News For You).
Edinburgh Fringe and tour tickets available at berksnest.com/tarot
TOUR DATES
Saturday 5th October Aberystwyth Arad Goch Theatre
21st-26th October London Soho Theatre (Upstairs)
Wednesday 6 November Guildford Bellerby Studio, G Live
Thursday 7 November Brighton The Old Market
Friday 8 November Bath Burdall's Yard
Saturday 9 November York Theatre@41
Friday 15 November Bristol The Wardrobe Theatre
Saturday 16 November Reading South Street Arts Centre
Tuesday 19 November Exeter Phoenix
Friday 22 November Bangor Pontio
Saturday 23 November Salford New Adelphi Theatre
Tuesday 26 November Newcastle The Stand
Wednesday 27 November Edinburgh The Stand
Thursday 28 November Glasgow The Stand
Friday 29 November Birmingham Midlands Arts Centre
Picture credit: Matt Stronge
