__ 14 August - 5 September Not Tuesdays
8 - 9.15pm
The Gilded Balloon Main Theatre 233 Cowgate
Venue 38
Box office
H +l Management 031 226 2151
presents £6.50 I £5 concessions
Eddie Izzar
A talent with a rare lightness of touch, an engaging/y disingenuous charm and an enormous imagination - a comedian who neither screeches or preaches... The skill of a seductive story-teller and a perfect sense of timing... An amalgam of Chaucer, Fourteenth Century ballads, The Goons, Richard Pryor and Billy Connolly. It’s a verbal, life-enhancing, unreproducable humour. The Guardian
Other performers lean tiresome/y on Obscenities, in the quaint belief that swear words retain shock value. But then miraculous/y, an original like Eddie Izzard appears — howling/y funny, utterly mad, destined for greatness.
The Mail on Sunday
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If there was a script, lzzard appears to have ripped it up long ago. As he has grown in confidence and stature — he is perhaps the only fringe comedian without regular television exposure who can fill a theatre. Thelndependent
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