While the Fringe is awash with returning heroes every year, we’ve taken a look at the top up and coming comedy and theatre acts set to make their debuts in Edinburgh this August.
With the Edinburgh Festival Fringe still the biggest arts festival in the world, new comedians, writers and actors are all desperate to announce themselves to the entertainment world by appearing in the Scottish Capital in August.
Among the new acts making their Fringe debut this year are stand-up comedian, author and writer of smash-hit West-End comedy Death Drop, Holly Stars, who has finally made time in her schedule to swing by Edinburgh for August. Her debut hour at the world’s largest festival, Justice for Holly, is pure stand-up with a side of hairspray, lashes and leopard print.
Also popping their Fringe cherry are Australian comedy sketch show queen Yozi, German-based Libyan stand-up Mustafa Algiyadi and New York City-based comedian and actress Maeve Press- who starred in the critically acclaimed Everything’s Gonna Be Okay and the award winning film Theresa Is A Mother on Netflix.
Among the new acts making their Fringe debut this year are stand-up comedian, author and writer of smash-hit West-End comedy Death Drop, Holly Stars, who has finally made time in her schedule to swing by Edinburgh for August. Her debut hour at the world’s largest festival, Justice for Holly, is pure stand-up with a side of hairspray, lashes and leopard print.
![Following the celebrated residency of her alternative cabaret show Fool’s Moon at Soho Theatre, theatre-maker, designer and clown, Paulina Lenoir makes her highly anticipated solo comedy debut in a dreamlike and absurdist tale of birth, life and death told through the eyes of a poetic idiot.
Puella Eterna is a ridiculously grandiose, delusional poet on a quest to resolve life’s most profound questions. In her search for eternity between the pages, Puella sets out to perform a whole lifespan from conception to the after-life, racing against the limits of time. Clowning meets performance art, cabaret, poetry and fashion in this surreal and philosophical comedy hour. Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna, 10pm, Assembly Roxy - Downstairs, July 31 - August 25 (not 12th or 19th). Tickets: £7.50 - £11.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/06/17/17/05/Paulina+Lenoir%3A+Puella+Eterna.jpg?trim=120,0,2081,0&crop=&width=800)
21. Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna
Following the celebrated residency of her alternative cabaret show Fool’s Moon at Soho Theatre, theatre-maker, designer and clown, Paulina Lenoir makes her highly anticipated solo comedy debut in a dreamlike and absurdist tale of birth, life and death told through the eyes of a poetic idiot. Puella Eterna is a ridiculously grandiose, delusional poet on a quest to resolve life’s most profound questions. In her search for eternity between the pages, Puella sets out to perform a whole lifespan from conception to the after-life, racing against the limits of time. Clowning meets performance art, cabaret, poetry and fashion in this surreal and philosophical comedy hour. Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna, 10pm, Assembly Roxy - Downstairs, July 31 - August 25 (not 12th or 19th). Tickets: £7.50 - £11. | David PickensPhoto: David Pickens