Edinburgh festival recommendations

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I remember a thread on here about a non-binary person who wanted people to PayPal them money to get taxis everywhere. They also had their own show involving burgers - I think some on here had seen it. It’s now on at Edinburgh and the Guardian gave it 4 stars. So if you’re in Edinburgh, don’t miss out!

It's on at The Traverse Theatre. For those of you who don't know howthe Official Festival and the Fringe works, anyone appearing at the official Festival is by invitation only. The Fringe for most venues is you pay your venue fee and you turn up. Most Fringe venues apply no quality or artistic control over acts.

The Traverse is a Fringe venue but it's one of the big name venues where the venue will exercise control over who it wants there.

The Traverse was /is a venue which was designed for new and experimental theatre but is now very much mainstream in that there will be an assumption that an artist appearing there has serious credibility.

I have seen some great theatre there and a lot of utter tosh.

And I will be giving this a miss too.

We saw Gusset Grippers which is about your pelvic floor. It's REALLY funny and educational - she's a physio - I've seen her on the telly.

She says stuff about sex based differences and things affecting women without testicles. Bet she's on here.

Was int he afternoon, about 4ish, Gilded Balloon. Got free lube samples , too.

Oh, and Tatania McGrath by andrew Doyle - it was late, 9ish at the Pleasance.

I thought it was good - critics say it's rubbish. Critics are wrong.

Gussie used to be on MN, wrote some stuff on the blog too. I follow her on Twitter. We need more women's physios.

I saw Andrew Maxwell last night and he had a segment on trans issues. Main points:"why can't we be nice, there's only about 10 of them, what difference does it make?" "The alt right, who hate abortion, are pretending it's about women," and a summary of the Fallon Fox incident with the joke,"but why would anyone think that's the TW fault, if you put a heavyweight in against a featherweight we'd blame the officials, right?" All sympathy for FF, not injured woman. There wasn't much laughter at that (female heavy audience uncomfortable with a woman having her head cracked open, possibly). Lots and lots of us having to be nice.

He also mentioned that he waits on Twitter after his shows for reviews, but I'm not on there, if anyone feels like going along and "reviewing," but not piling on as I think the lack of laughter is a bit of a tell anyway, might be worth it.

Not sure if it's a recommendation or not!

Nothing to do with burgers thanks - pretentious wankery tends to do worryingly well with reviewers - but anyone looking for a really good one woman show with no mucking about and quality performing try Emily Carding's 'Caliban's Codex'. She's great.