Fringe diary 2025
I feel lazy for only a doing a week at the fringe this year. In previous years, Young Richards would do all three weeks, 8 shows a day, and barely notice it (apart from the 'shingles year'). I could still do that now, I reckon I'm in quite good shape but Aggie needed a holiday, and straight after that we had to attend the wedding of a close mate, and everything just seemed to land awkwardly in August. So here I am, just up for the final week, 8 days, 2 shows a day like the lazy part-timer I am. The shows were 'No Dreams' (which ran in Durham recently, as well as opening in France before that and a brief Cambridge run...it's a sleepy, slow little show and I was a bit worried about how it would go down in front of lively fringe audiences) and 'There's a Band Playing...' (my Leicester Comedy Festival show, which has also had runs at the Brighton and Bedford Fringes, as well as house shows etc - it's a loud show, booked for a central, loud room, I we...