THE Great Yorkshire Fringe has added a new location for its second festival to complement the hub of activities around Parliament Street’s temporary village green.
The White Rose Rotunda, The Turn Pot and The Tea Pot return, newly joined by The Gillygate Shed at The Gillygate, Brian Furey’s pub in Gillygate, where acts will perform between July 15 and 30, at assorted times between 2pm and 10pm.
If you have never seen the funny side of tax, let Moneyweek commentator Dominic Frisby confound you as he “makes tax sexy for fringe-goers” on Thursday and Friday at 7pm.
I’ve Started So I’m Finished is the start of Alistair Williams’ story about a man who will either set the world of stand-up comedy on fire or die doing what he loves, but being psycho might be a bit of a problem on the way on Friday at 8.30pm.
On Saturday and Sunday, at 4pm, Nick Hall brings a vivid world of spying, suspense, seduction and Scrabble alive in the one-man Cold War thriller Szgrabble! at 4pm.
In Knock Knock on Saturday at 8.30pm, Damian Kingsley presents his debut solo show about identity, pretentiousness and the heartfelt desire to punch his best friend in the face, as part of a 120-date tour taking him from Land’s End to Edinburgh with no money or transport.
Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School York hosts The Ministry Of Silly Sketches, a life-drawing class that doesn’t actually teach you anything, which will take place on Sunday and on July 24, from 7pm to 10pm, while Jack Harrison’s absurdist piece of theatre, Damned, has 7pm performances on July 18 and 19, wherein three people on the edge of the world rely on order and duty just to see them through the day.
Tom Ward and his less than impressed cat
Whimsical Harriet Dyer visits The Gillygate Shed on July 18, at 8.30pm with We’d Prefer Someone A Bit More Mainstream, revealing her desire to be a lone, off-the-grid wolf, and the next night’s 8.30pm slot is filled by Danny McLoughlin’s Phillip Was Right, where he realises a bad thing in his childhood was probably badder than he thought at the time.
De Profundis, on July 20 and 21, at 7pm, is a one-act, one-man musical dramatisation of Oscar Wilde’s love letter from his Reading Gaol prison cell; Lynn Gerrard mixes dark humour, poetry and stories in The Grumbling Gargoyle on July 20, at 8.30pm; Will Duggan arranges all his “grubby little opinions” into the hour-long A Man Gathering Fish on July 21, at 8.30pm and Tom Ward interweaves his love of voices, sound effects and unsung heroes in Sex, Snails And Cassette Tapes on July 22, at 7pm.
Further shows that night will be Alfie Brown at 8.30pm and Jamail Maddix’s Chickens Come Home To Roost at 10pm.
There also will be Jonny Pelham’s Fool’s Paradise on July 24, at 2pm in which he thought he was happy, went to therapy and now he’s not so sure; Amy Gledhill’s Making A Show Of Herself, with the aid of beans and biscuits, on July 25, at 8.30pm; and Ed Patrick: Junior Doctor on July 30, at 5.30pm, an insight into the challenges and occasional blind panic of working for the NHS.
The Great Yorkshire Fringe: box office, 01904 500600 or greatyorkshirefringe.com
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