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New Moon is nothing if not an international advertisement for the hungry virtues of virginity and young people can’t get enough of it
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Theatre
A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
Cock
Restaurants
Kitchen W8 is a bargain for this area, if such sophistication is what you crave
Kitchen W8
Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
Alex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factor
London,
Flawed feminist: Sarah Millican
Sarah Millican
Pleasance
***
Sarah Millican might be playing the same thimble-sized hut as at last year's Fringe, but she has come a long way in 12 months.
A panel-show regular who can hold her own in televison’s testosterone-fuelled bear-pit, this deceptively soft-spoken Geordie excels at being smart, risqué and witty, a marketable package indeed.
Her new show, Typical Woman, dabs a thin coat of high-concept gloss on comedy’s ubiquitous gender debate template.
Millican is the kind of thoroughly modern complex feminist who gets offended when a man admires her breasts but is quietly flattered that he has admired them.
She hates being categorised as a “typical woman”, while confessing she cannot nail a mirror onto the wall.
Instead she puts a mirror up to her fans’ lives, spinning out saucy stories about her own boyfriend that everyone relates to and reeling in the audience with intimate front-row chat.
Though the latter might be harder in the future when she is inevitably playing big theatres.
If the terrain occasionally feels well-trampled, Millican’s expert gift of the gab lifts it way above the norm.
Jon Richardson
Pleasance
****
Jon Richardson is another comedian gigging in a shoebox here yet destined for showbiz big-time.
In This Guy At Night, Richardson reflects on his OCD-ish quest for perfection.
Life never matches his exacting standards so on nights off he stays in watching DVDs.
In fact his ideal first date would be watching a DVD indoors — there is no point splashing out in case it does not last.
A flawed individual perhaps, but a near-perfect set.
Until 30/31August. Information: 0131 226 0000. www.edfringe.com.
Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with venue before booking.
