2013 Edinburgh Fringe

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Will You Hold My Hand? is the new show from musical comedy rising stars We Are Goose - wordsmith Timothy Goose and guitarist Richard Hughes, who sing funny songs about a range of subjects.

Will You Hold My Hand? is about We Are Goose's comedy hero, Scottish surgeon and anatomist John Hunter (1728-1793), the revolutionary scientist who brought major advances in the studies of human teeth, digestion, gunshot wounds and venereal diseases, which have had a lasting impact on modern medicine.

Less well known however, is Hunter's darker side: despite being the leading doctor of his day as Royal Surgeon to George III, his ethically dubious approach raised eyebrows then as now - think graverobbings and murders. Add to that his bouts of wild experimentation, botched attempts at cryogenics and transplantation, an obsessive love of animals, a self-innoculation that went horribly wrong and an over-familiarity with the star of a travelling freak show... and you have one comedy legend.

Give We Are Goose an hour to tell you the 100% true story of John Hunter through a range of witty songs which pastiche a multitude of styles, from blues, doo-wap and klezmer, to 'a rapid animal rap that really has to be seen' (***** Five Stars, Broadway Baby). Think Flight of the Conchords crossed with a Royal Institution Christmas Lecture - it's a Horrible Histories for adults!