Laughter the best medicine: comedy at Buxton Festival Fringe

PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release May/June 2008

There is a very healthy comedy section at 2008's Buxton Festival Fringe (July 9-27) boasting a real diversity of rib-tickling performances. Expect:

  • Superb stand up: including Barrel of Laughs and GSOH comedy nights at Underground Venues plus Fringe regular Bill Woolland and Jonathan Ross's warm up man, Patrick Monahan
  • Outrageous fun: Sue Gregory's raunchy production, Lily - Memoirs of a Late Middle-Aged Arty Nymphette; Deranged comic/poet Tam Hinton acknowledges he may well be The Man Who Said Too Much
  • Girl power: Comic characters from the girls at HaHa!Oink; Channel 4 New Comedy Writing Award Winner Helen Keen goes into orbit
  • Life tips: Ex BBC2 Travel Show reporter Matthew Collins tells us How To Make Tax-Free Cash From Your Kids AND Shop For Free at Waitrose; Funny Mummy Kerry Leigh tries to juggle her life and her baby (as it were) in All Change; Private Eye contributor Rick Kelly and TV producer Karen Hannah maintain Life isn't Everything
  • Something eccentric: Comedy meets poetry with Kaebide Theatre's Love Song; Fringe Award-winner Lab Monkey Productions returns with more science, magic and mayhem in Something About Nothing; Whitebone Productions offer madcap adult humour and the chance to meet Clever Peter
  • There are also plenty of humorous productions to be enjoyed listed under Theatre and For Families. Don't forget to plan your Fringe-going using the free Fringe programme, widely available from June, or the website: http://www.buxtonfringe.org.uk, where listings are also published in full. Many shows are bookable from June 1 through the Buxton Opera House (by phone and online).

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