often seen in the street without a hat

It's been a more restrained than usual preview session of the Fringe for me. This is partly because I have booked lots of things for the weekends when people are here with me, so I don't need to do so much at the beginning, and partly because this year there seem to be fewer things I'm really desperately excited about, so I can fit them all in. Most of these (apart from the penultimate and ante-penultimate ones) I chose to see because they were in the £1 members offer from the Stand. I didn't really write at all about the shows I saw last year, and I found that I missed being able to remember the bits, so I wanted to try and write about more this year. They're really not reviews as such, just things I thought while seeing them. Recurring themes in shows this year (so far) are feminism, and the performers undressing.

( Katie Mulgrew. )

( Nadia Kamil. )

( Mary Bourke. )

( Mike Wozniak. )

( Sally-Anne Hayward. )

( Ban This Filth! )

( Festival of the Spoken Nerd. )

( Brendon Burns. )

( Hannah Gadsby. )

( David Morgan. )


Tomorrow: Domestic Science, Hannah Gadsby's art show, Comedy Death, Eric Lampaert, Mark Thomas.