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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