Comedy with a twist at Buxton Fringe

PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release May 18th 2017

In addition to a feast of stand up, Buxton Fringe can offer diverse comedy for every taste, from improv to impressions and sketches to song.

Audiences can choose to learn more about health and safety with Ian Crawford, an adviser from the Steel & Cutlery Manufacturers Association, in his eccentric show, Accident Avoidance Training for Cutlery Users: Level 1, or be taught everything by Mr Grebe a supply teacher on the verge of existential collapse in Donal Coonnan: Mr Grebe is Taking Your Class Today. The Fringe even offers the chance to learn about Spencer Percival, the only Prime Minister ever to be assassinated, in Nick Hall’s acclaimed comedy The Assassination of Spencer Percival.

The Carrot Nabbers by Keith Large tells the extraordinary story of Nightclub bouncer Vinner Hollis as he attempts to recover a 17- foot prize carrot, while the zany Twonkey’s Christmas in the Jungle by Paul Vickers explores what happens to Mr Twonkey when his conniving manager sends him to the Iquitos Fringe for Christmas.

Impressionist James Hurn celebrates 60 years of Hancock’s Half Hour, voicing the entire cast in Hancock’s Half Hour, One Man, Many Voices, or for lovers of improv comedy there is the unmissable Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show, Absolute Improv!’s To Be Continued...

The Fringe boasts more sketch show comedy, with The Monks’ The All New 10 Commandments, based around those famous rules set out in the Bible, and Mike Raffone’s Brain Rinse, Puppetry of the Audience, an immersive comedy show starring you, the audience.

For something slightly different, Darren Walsh and Mark Simmons join forces to present Punel Show, an experimental mock-up TV pilot focused on puns and general silliness, or there is a chance to watch a murder mystery party unfold in LoveHard’s Murdered by Murder, complete with a live music score.

Music and comedy also come together in drag comic Kate Butch’s show Kate If You Wanna Go Butcher, an hour of comedy, songs and games, and Matthew Floyd Jones’ Richard Carpenter’s Close To You, a razor sharp parody of the ultimate Seventies’ piano-player.

Lastly for anyone who cannot decide what to watch, the ever popular Barrel of Laughs returns to the Fringe, offering the finest comedy talent from the UK circuit, for three nights of uncensored, unpredictable fun.

Fringe chair Keith Savage states: “There are challenging situations developing in the world right now. The best contemporary comedy will help us reflect on those developments – to provide a release for our anxieties. On the other hand we might just have a good laugh – and it may be the best medicine!”

The Fringe wishes to thank its sponsor The University of Derby as well as financial supporters The Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust and High Peak Borough Council, its Fringe Friends and the town’s many Fringe supporters and venues.

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