Sarah Hopkins

Aug 14, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Sarah Hopkins

Trygve Wakenshaw is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with a massive, whopping, silent bang. It’s been seven years since the mime artist graced the stage (emphasis on ‘grace’), and boy have we missed him. Wakenshaw is solo this time – the baby from his last Fringe endeavour Trygve vs a Baby all grown up – and it’s appropriate seeing as Silly Little Things is an exploration of loneliness, friendship, love and loss. Not so silly at all then, really.

Aug 14, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Sarah Hopkins

Jin Hao Li’s debut hour Swimming in a Submarine is, from start to finish, a complete fever dream. That's appropriate, given this is a show centred around Li’s recurring childhood dreams and nightmares. Although, to say the show is centred around anything as concrete as a dream would be gross misinformation. Li’s presence – his voice, his movement, and his delivery – falls somewhere between the whimsy of a character from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cardi B.

Aug 12, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Sarah Hopkins

Christopher Hall knows his audience, and he knows them well, because this show is strictly for and about The Girlies. Just in case you aren’t sure, The Girlies are bottomless-brunching, Ugg-slipper-wearing, kiwi-strawberry-ice-vaping icons. They love pink gin, Instagram meme pages like Love of Huns, and lolling loads, which Hall, a self-professed Girly since day dot, knows all too well. And, it appears, like attracts like; The Girlies have flocked en masse to Hall’s debut hour Girl For All Seasons.

Aug 7, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Sarah Hopkins

Kathleen Hughes spends Cryptid!, her debut hour, regaling the crowd with a series of small anecdotal events spanning childhood until now which, once woven together, produce the tapestry of her life so far. Except, she tells us, it’s a difficult one to make sense of. This is an hour of existentialism, of a confused sense of self and sexual identity, held together by a metaphor of the metaphysical and a lot of brilliant gags.

Jul 25, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Sarah Hopkins

Sarah Keyworth is a self-proclaimed “people-pleaser,” and it’s somewhat evident; not just in their stand up, but in this interview (“I spoke for so long,” they say, after speaking for a perfectly acceptable amount of time, “I’m so sorry!”). Keyworth has been on the circuit for well over a decade, but their online presence in recent years has bolstered their popularity to dizzying heights.