EDINBURGHIN THE

SQUAREA season of

sneak previews

in the Lounge

LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE

Can't make it to Edinburgh?

Can't wait for Edinburgh?

Fear not because Leicester Square Theatre ishosting a season of EdFringe sneak previews in the cosy Lounge.

We've got it all - from musical comedy withRachel Parris to sketches from The Pin andback again via some TV and Radio favouritesincluding Christian O’Connell and GylesBrandreth….

P.S. We’ll be soothing your post-Fringe blueswhen we return from the festival forEdinburgh In The Square Part II this September.

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EDINBURGH IN THE SQUAREJUNELivid Failure and Diary of a Serial Internet Dater Saturday 1 June 9pm | £7 Double bill from BBC New Comedy Award 2011 finalist MarkRestuccia and Metal Hammer Podcast host Stephen Hill.

Ivo Graham: BinocularsMonday 3 June 9pm & Wednesday 3 July 10pm | £5Debut show from So You Think You’re Funny? winner, LeicesterMercury Comedian of the Year nominee and Chortle BestNewcomer nominee.

Rachel Parris: The CommissionWednesday 5 & Friday 21 June 7pm | £6Rachel gets commissioned to write songs. In this darkly twisteddebut the award-nominated musical comedian performs some ofthe songs she wanted to send.

Funny Women London Nights presents: Comedy showcase and Suzy Bennett: Dancing on Thin IceSaturday 8 June 9pm | £10, Conc £8

Marlon Davis: Crackin’ UpMonday 10 June 9pm | £5A brand new hour of soul-baring comedy. ‘A compelling Storyteller whose anecdotescarry the elusive stamp of urban authenticity’.The Scotsman

Max & Ivan: The ReunionTuesday 11 & Thursday 13 June 8.30pm & Wednesday 3 July 7pm | £5Fresh from their Barry Award 2013 nomination – the Foster’sAward-winners spin a bewitching narrative sketch comedy tale oflove, loss and shatterproof rulers.

Simon MunneryWednesday 12 June 9pm | £7, £6A night of new material from this very special comic talent. “One of the most consistently original and imaginative minds in comedy” The Guardian.

The Beta Males in… Superopolis Friday 14 June 7pm | £6, £5The Chortle Award nominated sketch-storytellers present a previewof their brand new epic, set in a city full of superheroes.Monday 1 July 7pm with Joseph Morpurgo: Lunacy and charactercomedy from the Chortle Award nominated Austentatious man.

The Working Men’s Club Monday 17 June 8.30pm | £5Comedy, variety and music. Darts, bingo & a meat raffle. An hour oftop turns and silliness as we attempt to save t’club from closure.

Nat Luurtsema: Here She BeTuesday 18 June 7pm | £5A lose-your-shoes funny new hour of stand-up from Nat-from-Jigsaw.

Rachel Parris

Alan Hudson: Magician or Superhero? Wednesday 19 June & Thursday 11 July 8.30pm | £5 Expect funnies, powers that look like magic and audienceparticipation. ‘Hudson is an astounding comic, magician and mind reader’ HHHH Three Weeks

Eric Lampaert: Two Tickets to the Gum ShowThursday 20 June 7pm | £6T4 Rising Star 2012, Life’s Too Short, Cardinal Burns & The Midnight Beast.

Ellie Taylor: Ellievison and Patrick Morris: Standing Up and Saying ThingsSaturday 22 June 7pm | £5Star of BBC3’s Snog Marry Avoid Ellie Taylor previews her brandnew show. Joined by Patrick Morris.

Ellie Taylor

Christian O’Connell Saturdays 22 June 8.30pm, 6 & 13 July 7pm | £6The debut stand up show from the 8-time Sony Award-Winning DJ(Absolute Radio Breakfast Show).

Sad Faces Threw A PartyMonday 24 June 8.30pm | £6, £5You're late. We're out of snacks. Now put on this hat and pretendto enjoy yourself. Brand new Edinburgh preview from the sketchteam heard on BBC Radio 4Extra’s Four Sad Faces.

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre:In SpaceTuesdays 25 June, 2 & 9 July 7pm | £10, Conc £9Stars of stage, screen & Youtube bring you a new show of songs,sketches, socks and violence with a Sci Fi theme.

Lloyd Langford: GalootWednesday 26 June 7pm | £8Ga-loot noun \g�-�lüt\ Slang. A fellow, especially one who is strange orfoolish. A stand-up comedy show about embracing your inner bellend.

Christian O’Connell

Dan Nightingale: Love in the Time of CholesterolThursday 27 June 7pm | £8World class stand up and hilarity, from the star of JohnBishop’s Only Joking, on love, life and general humorousmisuse of an existence.

PowerCouple: stand-up comedy fromStephen Bailey & Gary John SeniorFriday 28 June 9pm | £5PowerCouple is not a tale about being gay: it is much worse thanthat, it’s a tale of being in a relationship.

ROB CARTER: MURDER Saturday 29 June 7pm As seen in Channel 4's Fresh Meat and Peep Show, Rob Carterbrings you his very own brand of immaculately clumsy, flirtatiouslytwisted, musically inspired comedy.

Foil Arms and Hog: Sketch Comedy IISaturday 29 June 8.30pm & Sunday 30 June 6.30pm | £6Irish sketch-comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato,potato, potato, pot of gold, potato. You racist.

Foil Arms and Hog

JULYJohn Gordilo: Cheap Shots at the DefencelessMondays 1 & 8 July 10pm | £5“A grown-up comic who combines emotionalintimacy with high quality gags”The Guardian.

Jay Foreman: No More ColoursTuesday 2 July 8.30pm | £6, £5Musical comedian Jay Foreman returns with his first brand newhour of songs, poems and indescribable musical wizardry sincesupporting Dave Gorman’s 2011-2012 tour.

Maddy’s Many Mouths Tuesday 2 July 10pm | £7An outrageous one-woman show written and performed by MaddyAnholt – a woman of many parts!

Croft & Pearce

Croft & Pearce Thursdays 4 July 8.30pm & 25 July 7pm | £8"Sketch comedy at its very best"Alistair McGowan

SIMON EVANS: LEASHED Thursday 4 July 10pm | £5The star of Celebrity Mastermind, Live at the Apollo and MichaelMcIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow with more “sizzlingly entertaining,beautifully crafted, devastatingly funny gags” The Guardian.

Tom Appleton: Keeping The Doctor AwayFriday 5 July 7pm | £5Talking about the perils of being born into a swampy gene-pool.

Luke Wright: Essex Lion Friday 5 July 8.30pm | £6, £5Luke Wright returns with romping satirical verses about peopleseeing what they want to see.

The Working Men’s Club

Paco Erhard: Djerman UnchainedFriday 5 July 10pm | £7German comedy desperado Paco Erhard takes a stand.

The Lost Letters of Cathy G as read by Paul Harry Allen Saturday 6 July 8.30pm | £10Whilst in a junk shop, I stumbled across a wad of forgotten letters. A mixture of stand-up and storytelling, I’ll share my quest to find more.

Tamar Broadbent: Almost EpicSaturday 6 July 10pm | £5Join Tamar on a musical detour everywhere from cyber-stalking in the library to headlining at the local village hall.

Tony Law & Amy Hoggart Monday 8 July 7pm | £7, £6A night of new material from Tony Law and Amy Hoggart as Pattie Brewster.

Paco Erhard

Benny Davis: The Human JukeboxWednesday 10 July 8.30pm | £8 The Axis of Awesome’s Benny Davis presents his break out solo show!

Caroline Hardie: Does My Face Look Big In ThisWednesday 10 July | £6 Join Caroline Hardie and a cast of quite literal unknowns for a showof characters and stand up about people - and you.Thursday 18th July 10pm with Fraser MillwardFast-paced sketch and character comedy.

Mat Ricardo: Showman Thursday 11 July 7pm | £8The UK’s most successful juggler shows what you can achieve if you devote all of your adult life to showing off!

Aisling Bea Thursday 11 July 10pm | £5Debut stand-up show from Irish comedian, winner of So You ThinkYou're Funny? 2012 and Amused Moose Semi-Finalist.

Tony Law

Nik Coppin: Mixed Racist Friday 12 July 7pm | £7, £5The globe-trotting British-based comedian brings his interesting,relevant and funny anecdotal show about race issues back home.

The Pin Friday 12 July 8.30pm | £5The Pin preview their two-man sketch comedy act before returningto the fringe following last year’s sell-out run.

Farce Noir presents… The Big SheepSunday 14 July 6pm | £6, £5The fast-paced multi-character comedy Hitchcock would havemade if he was a funny feminist who did theatre.

John Robins: Where Is My Mind? Monday 15 July 7pm & Friday 19 July 8.30pmAn hour of raucous stand-up for anyone who's tried to live in themoment, only to realise that moment happened over a decade ago.

Alfie Moore: Viva Alf’s VegasMonday 15 July 8.30pm & Friday 19 July 7pmAlfie’s served time as a steelworker, policeman and comedian. Theone constant? He’s a gambler. A frank and funny show throughglorious, glamorous highs and desperate dark lows.

Nish Kumar: Nish Kumar is a ComedianTuesday 16 July 7pm A show about identity, offence and what happens when someoneon the internet steals your face. Nominated for Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival

James Acaster: Lawnmower Wednesday 17 July 7pm Foster's Comedy Award Best Show Nominee 2012. It's time forsome low-key stand-up from an angular young man. A whole hostof topics is about to get what they've got coming to them.

David Trent: This is All I HaveWednesday 17 July 8.30pm David Trent still uses a computer and projector to makephenomenal comedy. His total sell-out 2012 show was nominatedfor the Edinburgh Comedy Best Newcomer Award.

Bruce Fauveau: Sword and IWednesday 17 July 10pm | £8 | Conc £6Trained at the world-renowned Jacques Lecoq theatre school inParis, master of physical comedy Bruce Fauveau tells the tale of aman who finds an ancient weapon.

Tom Rosenthal: БПагодаряThursday 18 July & Wednesday 24 July 7pmTom Rosenthal was nominated for Best Newcomer at the BritishComedy Awards. He also went to Bulgaria and changed a bit. Let him tell you about it whilst you drink.

Suzy Bennett: Dancing on Thin Ice Thursday 18 July 8.30pm & Saturday 20 July 7pm Join the star of the Comedy Reserve 2012 and winner of the FunnyWomen Award, Suzy Bennett, on her hilarious quest to become a minorcelebrity and her slippery journey to become future Queen of the Ice!

Rory and Tim: On the HouseFriday 19 July 10pm After failing to attract any serious media attention, confusingly-named trio Rory and Tim return with a new, commercially viablesketch show that would look really good on E4 or Sky or one of theother channels.

Gyles Brandreth

Bobby Mair: Obviously AdoptedSaturday 20 July 8.30pm After supporting Doug Stanhope, appearing on 8 Out of 10 Cats(Channel 4) and Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC3), award-winning comic man-child Bobby Mair unleashes his first hour on the Edinburgh Fringe.

Jody Kamali: Livewire Sunday 21 July 7pm | £6Step into the world of Frank Von Nippleman. He lives betweenreality and fantasy. A beautiful, yet bizarre character clown show.

Christian Reilly: Songs of Praise Sunday 21 July 8.30pm | £7, £6Perrier/Chortle awarded musical comedian presents “blisteringly funny songs” The Stage.

Simon Munnery

Tony Law & Edward Aczel Monday 22 July 7pm | £7, £6Tony Law (Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee) and Edward Aczel (“Britain’s greatest living anti-comedian” The Guardian).

Bench Bites Monday 22 & Wednesday 24 July 10pm | £8A new and improved version of Bench Bites in preparation for theirEdinburgh debut. One park, one bench...lots more bottoms!

Gyles Brandreth: Looking for happiness Tuesday 23 July 7pm | £6Award-winning raconteur, Just A Minute regular and One Showreporter Gyles brings you a unique one-man show that shouldmake you laugh and could change your life.

Ian Smith: AnythingTuesday 23 July 8.30pm | £5The time has come for Ian Smith to pull his socks up to an almostuncomfortable height, and go to Edinburgh with his debut hour.

Alistair Green is Jack Spencer: Sex AddictTuesday 23 July 10pm | £6Near famous media personality Jack Spencer discusses hisdevastating sex addiction and performs extracts from his almostunbearably moving one man play.

House of Blakewell: Book of BlakewellFriday 26 July 9pm | £6, £5The musical missionaries are coming. Armed with catchy tunes andbiting satire, House of Blakewell is out to convert Edinburgh.

Simon Munnery & Amy HoggartSaturday 27 July 6pm | £7, £6Simon Munnery, “one of the most imaginative minds in comedy”The Guardian, and Amy Hoggart as Pattie Brewster.

The Cambridge Footlights: CanadaSaturday 27 July 8.30pm | £7, £5Join “the most renowned sketch troupe of them all” The Independent, in their London preview.