British Comedy Guide

2013 Edinburgh Fringe

Catriona Knox: Player

  • Comedy (sketch show)
  • 3:15pm (60 mins)
  • 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2013
  • Pleasance Courtyard
  • £7.50 - £10
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33: Pleasance Courtyard

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Join this raucous buffoon / critically acclaimed star of BBC Radio 4's Sketchorama and Mission Improbable, as she takes her riotously silly characters through seven circles of hell. Prepare to be played. 'Endlessly entertaining' **** (Chortle.co.uk), 'excruciatingly impressive...a gem' **** (Fest), 'pitch perfect...the room erupted with everything she said' **** (New Current), **** (One4Review.com), **** (Funny Women), **** (BroadwayBaby.com), 'novelty characters bursting with eccentricity' **** (ThreeWeeks).

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The next Joyce Grenfell at the Edinburgh Fringe

She needs to find producers who will shape and develop her career. She may not be the next Chaplin but she's as good as Joyce Grenfell already, if not better.

Lloyd Evans, The Spectator, 17th August 2013

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BBC Radio 4's Sketchorama and Mission Improbable star, Catriona Knox returns to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with her solo show Player at The Pleasance from the 31st July - 26th August. Join Catriona as she entices and challenges audiences with her hilarious sketches and takes her riotously silly characters through "seven circles of hell".

Catriona Knox is a prolific comedy writer/performer and a talented actress. With frequent live comedy performances in London and further afield, Catriona regularly showcases her talent for character comedy, both as a writer and performer, at venues including the Shaftesbury Theatre and Leicester Square Theatre in London's West End.

Catriona is also one third of the all-female sketch group The Boom Jennies who have performed 6 times at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to critical acclaim. Her broadcast credits include BBC One's Not Going Out, BBC Bitesize Shakespeare, BBC Radio 4's Strap In! It's Clever Peter!, The Boom Jennies BBC Radio 4 series Mission Improbable and Sketchorama. Catriona also has her own solo project in development for BBC Radio 4.

Performances

Date Time Venue
31st Jul 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
1st Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
2nd Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
3rd Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
4th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
5th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
6th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
7th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
8th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
9th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
10th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
11th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
12th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
14th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
15th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
16th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
17th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
18th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
19th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
20th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
21st Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
22nd Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
23rd Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
24th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
25th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard
26th Aug 2013 15:15 Pleasance Courtyard

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Excellent Show!!!! Thoroughly recommend. Fast paced, energetic and extremely slick. End to end laughs. Just real talent on display here. A MUST see !

clare mason

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