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Fringe goers looking for some humour amongst the drama will find plenty of options in Buxton Fringe’s large Theatre category.
Firm Fringe favourites Black Liver have a new show, Devilled Eggs. At the Dakota Guest House, hosts Roman and Prudence regale audiences with stories of notoriety, comedy and tragedy. Expect sketches, song and poetry - every room is a character with a tale to tell. Billed as a radio play with light music, The Adventures of Alex & Thais, is set in a Buxton that has returned to pre mobile times with the internet slower than slow. The show’s heroes return from the dead to save the day.
In HǾLÌDÅŸ, the phenomenal physical comedian David Hoskin brings to life a colourful cast of over 20 characters in a hysterical, surreal tale of one man's attempt to travel the world in mime. Meanwhile in The Life & Rhymes of Archy & Mehitabel, poor Archy, trapped in the body of a cockroach, reflects on the insanity and inanity of humanity as he records his memoirs on a newly discovered typewriter. Patrick Kealey’s one-person show celebrates the humour and satire of New York's Jazz Age.
Life Under the Sun Part 1 from Strangers and Exiles explores the biggest question of all - What’s the point? Featuring underpants, pompous manservants, self-deprecating witticisms, an existential crisis and one giant hangover, the show asks 'What good is it to gain the whole world but lose your soul?' Also asking big questions are Fringe regulars Joe Sellman-Leava and Dylan Howells in It’s the Economy, Stupid! Armed with a board game and a camera, they calculate how their lives have been shaped by the economies they grew up in.
Fo those who like their humour on the dark side, ReZ Theatre Company are literally in the dark in Airbell. Deep beneath the ground, hiding in a pocket of air, two friends try to figure out what to do with their lives, before the oxygen runs out in a dark comedy about growing up and finding one’s place in the world. At the other end of life’s spectrum, a woman untangles the traumatic past that shaped her present in Fluff from Teepee Productions. She explores her unreliable memories, and brings darkly-comic characters and distressing events to life with humour and profanity.
Fringe goers should get ready for a side-splitting, fourth-wall breaking adventure in Life's Little VicToms from Page 2Stage Creatives in a sit-com-meets theatre masterpiece follows a middle-aged couple who just can't catch a break, as they tackle the ups and downs of everyday life. Another family has problems when they move into a haunted house in The Canterville Ghost: The Musical. In this musical re-imagining of Oscar Wilde’s beloved story, the resident spook determines to scare them off, but instead, the family torments the ghost in this hilarious and family friendly tale.
Fringe chair Stephen Walker says: “It’s good to see some light-hearted entertainment as part of this year’s diverse and exciting theatre programme.”
Further theatre treats can be discovered on www.buxtonfringe.org.uk and on the free to download Buxton Fringe App.
The Fringe wishes to thank High Peak Borough Council, its Fringe Friends and the town’s many Fringe supporters and venues.
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