British Comedy Guide

2021 Edinburgh Fringe

John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations

  • Comedy (absurdist / sketch show)
  • 9:30pm (60 mins)
  • 6 & 13 Aug 2021
  • Assembly Roxy (Central)
  • £10
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139: Assembly Roxy
Room: Central

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Following two culturally deeply unsettling, sell-out smash-hit runs in 2018 and 2019, this mind-bogglingly awful (and disquietingly successful) idea for a comedy extravaganza returns to the Fringe. JLR wrangles together an all-star cast of the best comedians and worst idiots into creating a never-before-seen adaptation of an unadaptable text. Previous catastrophic attempts include Francis Fukuyama's discredited political treatise The End of History, post-structuralist Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse, the iTunes Terms and Conditions, Ulysses and Á la Recherche du Temps Perdu. 'Fight for a ticket' **** (Telegraph).

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Edinburgh Fringe 2021: a crazy comedy experiment

Thanks to Covid, stand-ups at this year's slimmed-down festival have been unable to refine their routines. The results are wild.

Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 10th August 2021

Performances

Date Time Venue
6th Aug 2021 21:30 Assembly Roxy (Central)
13th Aug 2021 21:30 Assembly Roxy (Central)

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