Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Edinburgh has turned into a therapy session

Highlights from this year's Fringe include an hour of scathing comedy from a nurse and some superb impersonations – but there's too much yelling

The Outrun at the Edinburgh International Festival. ©Jess Shurte  
issue 10 August 2024

Therapy seems to be the defining theme of this year’s Edinburgh festival. Many performers are saddled with personal demons or anxieties which they want to alleviate by yelling about them in front of a paying audience. Professor Tanya Byron puts it like this in the Pleasance brochure: ‘Therapy is where art and story-telling combine.’

This show crashes and burns like the stock market on a bad day.

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