Louise Jones

Aug 24, 2024 | threeweeksedinburgh.com | Louise Jones

ED2024 Comedy Reviews ED2024 ReviewsIsabelle Farah wants to make sure the audience is comfortable. She checks on the crowd throughout the show to re-establish plot points, checks we’re following, mocks “wanker” jobs (rightly). After a while this seems to hamper the show actually progressing. Farah’s plan is to recreate the tale of Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar and the love for his queen Amytis, with a caveat that accuracy isn’t everything.

Aug 24, 2024 | threeweeksedinburgh.com | Louise Jones

ED2024 Comedy Reviews ED2024 ReviewsThere is a lot of promise in Titi Lee’s debut hour at the Fringe, but it’s uncertain as to what kind of comedy Lee wants to present. There’s stand up, storytelling, dance pieces, a comedy song about identity – you could call Lee a real renaissance performer. It’s clear that a lot of this show has been lovingly stitched together with Lee’s family at the centre, but like with a beloved family quilt it can be easy to see the seams here.

Aug 24, 2024 | threeweeksedinburgh.com | Louise Jones

ED2024 Reviews ED2024 Theatre ReviewsSequestered sex-worker Jules delivers her own sermon about the hypocrisy at the heart of the church in this historical drama. Jules takes up the mantle of anchoress, and as a representative of underground culture is literally repressed within a small cell for the show. Tanwen Stokes writes and performs Jules: she pours vivacity and vulgarity into the role, which results in a character who’s feisty, disgusting, and sympathetic.

Aug 23, 2024 | threeweeksedinburgh.com | Louise Jones

ED2024 Comedy Reviews ED2024 ReviewsAt my friend’s wedding her auntie Carol swore, drank everyone under the table, danced all night, and still looked glam the next day. Jojo Sutherland is an auntie Carol. She takes a dig at parenting differences, and the ways in which she could better understand where her mum was coming from, in this hearty hour of stand up.

Aug 22, 2024 | threeweeksedinburgh.com | Louise Jones

ED2024 Comedy Reviews ED2024 ReviewsA compilation show of other Fringe shows proves a fantastically witty, silly and emotionally rich one-person piece, and we have Abby Wambaugh to thank. You know somebody has impeccable comic skills when they’re able to bring whoops and cheers to a deliberate calm right out of the gate, and they’re then able to reconjure that huge laughter minutes later. Wambaugh radiates goofiness and charm.