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Edinburgh round-up | 9 August 2018

Plus: Lucky's speech is performed brilliantly by Garrett Lombard in the Lyceum's Waiting for Godot

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  • Trump Lear

    Pleasance Courtyard, until 27 August

  • Waiting for Godot

    Lyceum, until 12 August

  • Dominic Frisby’s Financial Game Show

    Gilded Balloon, until 26 August

  • Angry Alan

    Underbelly Cowgate, until 26 August

  • The Political History of Smack and Crack

    Roundabout @ Summerhall, until 26 August

Trump Lear is a chaotically enjoyable one-man show with a complicated premise. David Carl, an American satirist, has arrived on stage to perform King Lear when Donald Trump’s voice interrupts him from the wings. The President threatens to kill him unless he delivers an accessible version of the Shakespeare classic ‘that isn’t boring’.

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