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2019 Edinburgh Fringe

Catherine Cohen: The Twist...? She's Gorgeous

  • Comedy (cabaret / music)
  • 10:45pm (60 mins)
  • 31 Jul; 1-6, 8-11, 14-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019
  • Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
  • £12 - £13
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33: Pleasance Courtyard
Room: Beneath

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Using only a gold tinsel backdrop and the sheer force of Catherine Cohen's charisma, the Pleasance Beneath basement room is transformed into a New York cabaret club. Catherine uses her fabulous voice to sing dark tales of teenage rejection, slut shaming, and how to hide a dead body. In between songs she flirts with the audience and gives them a searingly honest and hilarious insight into a millennial's outwardly perfect, inwardly bleak life.


A show about living, laughing, loving and losing your debit card five times in one year. Through original songs and stand-up, New York sensation Catherine (with Henry Koperski on keys) explores life as an immortal millennial who is tragically unverified on Twitter. Comics That Sum Up 2019, Guardian. 'Bringing back comedy cabaret in a big way' (Forbes). 'Cohen radiates a gee-whiz star power, Carol Kane-level charisma and enough between-song banter to make Carol Burnett blush', Five Comedians to Look Out For (Time Out NY). 'One of this year's most promising rising comedians' (W Magazine).

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Performances

Date Time Venue
31st Jul 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
1st Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
2nd Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
3rd Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
4th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
5th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
6th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
8th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
9th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
10th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
11th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
14th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
15th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
16th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
17th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
18th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
20th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
21st Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
22nd Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
23rd Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
24th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)
25th Aug 2019 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath)

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