The List Festival Awards: 2009
This article is from 2009.
From chicken sex to naked puppets
Show most likely to help you bond with fellow audience members:
Internal, Mercule Point Hotel. Whether you make new friends or need a support group.
Best comedic guilt trip involving an Irishman in a penguin outfit:
A Betrayal of Penguins, Sweet ECA.
Most exciting depiction of chicken sex:
Chauntecleer and Pertelotte, Zoo Southside. We’re taking our theatre editor’s word for it.
Most heartbreaking use of a father’s predilection for dressing up like a lady:
Everything Must Go, Augustines. One woman’s lovely tribute to her deceased dad. In drag.
Show with greatest number of the act’s former teachers in the audience:
Daniel Sloss at Pleasance Dome.
Room where comedy critics feel least welcome:
Underbelly’s Delhi Belly. One of Susan Harrison’s characters is an embittered and hateful reviewer, while the sound guy for Tiernan Douieb announced (with a reviewer present) that reviews meant far less than word of mouth. We’re coping, sniff.
Most wince-inducing use of a scarlet stiletto:
The S&M number in C!rca, Assembly@Assembly Hall. Yeouch.
Prop most likely to impart salmonella:
One Up One Down, Zoo. Where a raw chicken deputises for a toddling baby.
Most gratuitous nudity on the part of a puppet:
Puppet Grinder Cabaret at Assembly. We didn’t need to see that.
Most-spotted celebrity:
It’s a toss up between Amanda Palmer (who’s been deliberately courting stalkers as she moves around Edinburgh) and Lionel Blair (we don’t think he’s doing it deliberately, but the boy is everywhere).
This article is from 2009.
More: Comedy, Theatre, Music, Dance, A Betrayal of Penguins, Amanda Palmer, Chauntecleer and Pertelotte, Circa, Daniel Sloss, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh Festivals, Everything Must Go, Fringe, Internal, Lionel Blair, One Up One Down, puppet grinder, Susan Harrison, Tiernan Douieb
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