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Day ?? Fri 23 Aug

Being away has thrown the count and me off and I no longer quite know what day it is or what we are doing, but nonetheless a fair range of shows today: Triple Buse, 10:45-11:35, Assembly Rooms box., 12:05-13:10, Space Surgeons Hall Chalk: A Silent Comedy, 13:55-14:40, Greenside Infirmary Knot, 14:45-15:45, Assembly Roxy To Move In Time, 16:05-17:05, Summerhall  Hello? Hello, 17:35-18:25, Space North Bridge  Coma, 19:00-19:30, Summerhall  Sugar, 19:45-20:45, Sweet Novotel More Fool You Part 2, 21:10-22:25, Paradise Augustine’s  Gigolo: Bold, Beautiful, Bizarre, 22:35-23:35, Space Surgeons Hall After bombing up and down to Summerhall twice in a row, today was also a fairly tiring day! Some quality stuff; pick of the day was Knot, which it turned out won a (well-deserved) award.
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Day?? Sat 24 Aug

Nine shows today, not counting one free that we missed getting into; a middling sort of day. Man Number 5, 10:15-11:15, Greenside Infirmary Holy Sh*t, 11:30-12:25, Space Surgrons Hall The Biggest Problem in the World, 13:15-14:15, Sweet Grassmarket  Arrivals, 15:30-16:30, Space on the Mile Drunk Lion, 17:00-18:00, Laughing Horse Newsroom Liminality, 18:10-18:55, Space North Bridge The Hospital, 19:20-20:20, DanceBase Ejaculation, 20:55-21:55, Summerhall  Die or Run, 22:05-23:05, Greenside Nicolson 
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Day 8 round-up (Wed 9 Aug)

People arriving all over the place and a morning of work so only a few shows today: The Penguin Tango, 15:00-16:45, Space North Bridge Comedy In The Dark, 18:10-19:10, Just the Tonic Grassmarket  Bring Back the 80s, 19:20-20-20, Just the Tonic Caves Under The Floorboards, 20:30-21:30, PQA Riddles Court
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Day 7 round-up (Wed 7 Aug)

Today’s selection, while also preparing for a house full of visitors: Butterbum J, 14:25-15:10, Space Surgeons Hall Leopold Vindictive, 15:20-16:10, Space North Bridge My Name is Irrelevant, 17:45-18:45, Summerhall  Being Norwegian, 18:55-19:35, Venue 13 Conversations With Myself, 19:50-20:50, C Cubed Contra, 21:10-22:10, Summerhall Les Quizerables, 23:00-01:00, Just The Tonic Marlins Wynd
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Day 6 round-up (Tue 6 Aug)

Some great picks today including truly impressive circus. Also a long day with our last show finishing at half-past midnight! Starting to feel a touch of Fringe overload... 00, 10:50-11:50, Pleasance Dome Birth, 12:00-13:15, Pleasance Courtyard  War of the Worlds, 15:20-16:40, Pleasance Courtyard  Backbone, 17:00-18:10, McEwan Hall Circa Humans, 19:00-20:00, Underbelly Circus Hub Hold On Let Go, 20:40-21:40, Summerhall  The Bacchae, 22:50-00:30, Paradise in the Vault  Best of day for me was Backbone with incredible feats of strength, balance and control. Running total of shows seen: 55.
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Shaving the Dead

Assembly George Square Studios, 12:30-13:30 As everyone knows, the most natural setting for humour is an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scot in a bar. A close second, though, is an Irishman and a Welshman in a funeral parlour! Conor and Eric are two undertakers, conversing over a coffin about such everyday topics as bestiality, drowning kittens and erectile dysfunction, while they wait for a client to arrive. But who is this mysterious client, and what is really in the box? What are they waiting for? What, indeed, are we all waiting for? Putting the “dead” into “deadpan”, the two actors deliver a performance ripe with bathos and irony that will leave you questioning the meaning of life, death, and well everything really — with several laughs along the way. Recommended!
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Catherine Bohart: Lemon

Pleasance Courtyard, 18:00-19:00 Sharp-edged queer feminist comedy at 150wpm. For me this was pitched just right between the sweet, the sour and the serious. Plus  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ! A top comedy pick for this year.
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