DAY TWO
Real Sherlock Holmes Walking Tour - Outside Cigar Box, High St (Venue #215) [90 mins]
A very thorough tour of Conan Doyle's Edinburgh, taking in one of his homes, the University Medical School, and the hospital where he first saw the deductive skills of Dr Joseph Bell, all carried out by an expert guide, Toby Virgo.
[For a fuller write-up, click here]
Sketch Thieves -Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire (Venue #338) Will Mars. [60 mins]
Finding my intended second show - a bio play about John LeMesurier - had been cancelled, I attended another show in the same building. Four sketch groups - Bad Clowns, Beach Hunks, Crizards & Tracy's Leaving Party - first each performed 10 minutes of material, then their riff on one of the other groups' sketches. My favourite was TLP both in their own sketches and in their versions of Beach Hunks' material. The show was expertly compered by Will Mars. Recommended, along with the original - Joke Thieves.
Flo & Joan: Alive on Stage – Cabaret Bar, Pleasance Courtyard (Venue #33) Avalon [60 mins]
Comedy songstresses Flo & Joan (real life sisters, Nicola & Rosie) presented another hour of witty songs and banter, with only one song I'd heard before (the previous evening). They even turned the tables on one of their harshest critics. Can't recommend seeing this show when it goes on tour enough!
Griffin & Jones: Trickorish Allsorts – Liquid Room Warehouse (Venue #276) PBH Free Fringe [60 mins]
Comedy magic double act, Griffin & Jones, pioneers of 'slapdash magic', performed old and new routines to the delight of a select crowd, ending with a straitjacket escape race. Very funny.
John Lenahan: Up Close – The Wee Room, The Free Sisters (Venue #272) Ingenious Fools [60 mins]
Another comedy magician (and voice of 'Red Dwarf's Talkie Toaster), John Lenahan, with 60 minutes of close-up card magic for an audience of 15 in a tiny room. Masterful.
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