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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.
Pepper&Salt spends an interview with Sam Nicoresti before she brings her new show, Baby Doomer, to the Edinburgh Fringe, deconstructing her deconstruction of the human experience, philosophising about absurdism and the general state of the world.
Xhloe and Natasha are gracing the Fringe once more with their presence and bringing all three of their consecutive Scotsman Fringe First - winning shows - And Then The Rodeo Burned Down, What If They Ate The Baby and A Letter To Lyndon B. Johnson Or God : Whoever Reads This First - back to Edinburgh. But first, they penned a correspondence to Pepper&Salt detailing what happened before the rodeo burned down, who, what, why and how they ate the baby and who read the letter first, Lyndon B. Johnson or God.
In the first interview of the season, Amelia Hamilton joins Pepper&Salt to discuss her plans for her Edinburgh Fringe debut - Forget Me Not - the pre-apocalypse party and Daveed Diggs’ words per minute.
Apart from Will Robbins’ penchant for the odd pun or one-liner, the majority of the muted humour in With the Best Will in the World lends itself to a rather stilted hour where we constantly fight to stop our thoughts from wandering elsewhere.
The tenement walls of Edinburgh are full of ghost stories, multiples of haunted houses in the one city. In Haunted House, Eleanor Morton talks about just the one - the city at large- and the spirits that flock to its streets every August.
Tarot: Shuffle is a sketch comedy show that uses the mystical power of tarot and fate to pull the hour together.
All that glisters is not gold in Bebe Cave’s The Screen Test, as she peels back the curtain on the mirage created by history and myth surrounding the film industry in the mid-1900s.
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