Points of view: theatre, comedy and news
For all intents and purposes, the morning is quite a jarring time for comedy. Alex Prescot’s Cosy may just be the exception that proves the rule, providing the blueprint for how stand-up can still be enjoyable before midday as long as it follows the same general rules of a children's show; light, wholesome and plenty of music.
Pepper&Salt chats to Lulu Popplewell about her sophomore Fringe hour, Love Love, and all that the show encompasses, the meaning of love and the forms that Popplewell explores over the course of the show.
In the run-up to the Fringe, Andy Barr took a moment to answer some questions from Pepper&Salt about ‘The Hotly-Anticipated 4th Debut Hour from Rising Star, Andy Barr’, his new show. This hotly anticipated interview covers Barr’s new show, character comedy and what it is like to procrastinate your Edinburgh Fringe debut.
Matt Winning is set to bring his show, Solastalgia, to the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe. Here he joins Pepper&Salt to talk about his new show comedic storytelling, his solution to climate change and the -potentially - unsung heroes of solving it.
Pepper&Salt speaks to Tamsyn Kelly about her new Edinburgh Fringe hour, Hot Titty Bungalow, and to get more qualitative information to once and for all settle the Edinburgh - Glasgow Rivalry. Featuring, the quintessential Glasgow experience and what it is like to strike out West on your own.
Comedy is a rather complicated beast, and no show perhaps exemplifies the challenges that a comedian may face over the course of a show’s lifespan better than Alex Kealy’s The Fear. Whilst a classic example of observationist humour covering the political and personal spectrums, the number of contextual issues over the course of the hour outwith the material ultimately detracts from the overall performance and unrestrained enjoyability of the hour.
Bean - Spiller and Gigglemug-er, Alex Prescot, his new brings show, ‘Cosy’, to the Edinburgh Fringe. Before doing so, Prescot chats to Pepper&Salt about making his comedy debut, building an audience - interaction based show and the theory behind musical improv.
Pepper&Salt joins Alex Kitson to discuss the tricky second hour, ‘This Is Water’, that he’s bringing to the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe. Our on-the-ground reporter gets existential and we have to (gently) remind them that this is a comedy show and that existentialism is really not the vibe. They don’t listen. Read the results below.
Before bringing her new show, She-Devil, to the Edinburgh Fringe, Jain Edwards stops by Pepper&Salt to discuss the thematic relevancy of her show, misogyny and the constant of womanhood over the course of human history.
Liam Withnail joins Pepper&Salt to discuss his upcoming Edinburgh Fringe hour, Big Strong Boy, growing up and making comedy audiences cry.
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