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Trump, Diogenes, the Mitfords and Malaysian comedy: Edinburgh Fringe round-up

If Rizal Van Geyzel hit the London circuit, he’d be busy every night of the week

Rizal Van Geyzel races through his 60-minute set peppering the material with snatches of Chinese, Tamil and Malay
issue 19 August 2023

The Mitfords is a superb one-woman show by Emma Wilkinson Wright who focuses her attention on Unity, Diana and Jessica. In the early 1930s, Unity became Hitler’s lover and she lived in a luxurious Munich apartment confiscated from a wealthy Jewish family. The Führer, whom she nicknamed ‘Wolfie’, gave her the pearl-handled revolver with which she shot herself in the head shortly after Britain’s declaration of war.

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