It is festival season and that means that in the next month there is so many great comedy festivals to look forward to! This month we are looking at some of the great shows that you can see at the Edinburgh Fringe. So take note because we are going to give you all the information you need for just a handful of some of the great shows happening this year!

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Coco The Time-Travelling Tart

Location: Buttercup at Underbelly, George Square (Venue 300)

Dates:  Aug 5th-17th, 19th-24th, 26th-30th

Time: 21:45

Price: £14 Concessions £13

Ticket Link: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/coco-the-time-travelling-tart

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Hello! Tell us all about your show! 

Coco the Time-Travelling Tart is an invitation to tumble through history with a chaotic glamorous socialite who’s lost something extremely important and needs the audience’s help to retrieve it.

Imagine Absolutely Fabulous meets Doctor Who after too many cocktails with The Mighty Boosh.

The show is high-energy, interactive, silly, theatrical and packed with audience participation. We hurtle through different historical eras as Coco reveals the ‘real’ truth about history, scandal, fashion, love, power and human stupidity.

It’s really about re-enchantment. I want audiences to step into a dream world and properly play again.

Camp, chaotic and perfect for late-night Fringe energy.

What other acts are you looking forward to seeing at the fringe?

I love character comedy and immersive theatrical work, so I’m always excited by performers who create a completely distinct world and invite the audience into it. The stranger and more imaginative the better. I love character comedy and immersive theatrical work, so I’m always excited by performers who create a completely distinct world and invite the audience into it. The stranger and more imaginative the better. I’m especially looking forward to discovering the amazing word-of-mouth shows that only emerge on the grapevine when you’re up there. They’re often extremely special.

Have you done the fringe before? What are the key pieces of advice you have been given or would give to new groups or people performing at the fringe.

I have, yes.

I think the biggest thing is remembering we’re here to share work and enjoy ourselves. The Fringe can become overwhelming if you start treating every review or audience number like life or death.

I’m a big believer in focusing on making the show as funny, entertaining and alive as possible, and really using the month to improve it.

Also: see other people’s work. Some of the best moments at the Fringe happen in tiny rooms watching brilliant weird shows you’d never normally encounter.

Get out there and into the mixer, meet people, chat, explore – but don’t force interactions with ‘network’ – let things flow.

And whether you have an amazing Fringe or a terrible Fringe, there’s always another one. Keeping perspective is incredibly important.

Talk us through your daily routine for a day at the Fringe

Toast, tea and the morning papers in bed while checking the stock market. 

Then it’s time for my Victorian strongman-inspired mobility routine before dispatching telegrams to my various assistants and accomplices.

After that I reluctantly sacrifice my soul to social media, reply to messages, post various bits of nonsense online and keep an eye on rival time travellers.

Then coffees, meetings, wandering through galleries, seeing shows, making tweaks to the performance and occasionally disappearing into nature for dramatic reflection.

Before the show there’s vocal warm-ups, costume transformation and perhaps a little chaos around town filming content.

Then it’s showtime.

Afterwards: meeting audience members, Underbelly bar gossip, mild historical scandal and eventually teleporting home to bed, or someone else’s. 

Ok, where is your favourite place to eat at the Fringe?

There’s a wonderful Ethiopian restaurant in Edinburgh which remains one of my most closely guarded secrets. I refuse to expose it to the masses.

Best thing about performing at the fringe?

The completely unplanned moments of magic you discover with an audience.

When a room suddenly catches fire creatively, there’s nothing else quite like it.

Do you bring anything special from home to make it feel more special whilst you are away?

An alarming quantity of pearl earrings.

What are your best hacks to save money whilst at the Fringe?

Do not underinvest in jacket potato toppings.

People panic about accommodation costs and then sabotage themselves emotionally with sad potatoes.

Also:

Meal prep

Bring decent Tupperware

Walk whenever possible

Make friends with other artists

Carry emergency nuts like a Victorian squirrel.

If people want to find out more about you where can they follow you on social media?

@coco.timetart

And Finally in three words – Why should people come and see the show?

Why wouldn’t you?

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