2013 Edinburgh Fringe

Mat Ricardo: Showman

  • Comedy
  • 6:50pm (60 mins)
  • 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2013
  • Pleasance Dome
  • £7.50 - £9.50
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23: Pleasance Dome

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Winner of Best Speciality Act at the London Cabaret Awards, and as seen on the Jonathan Ross Show, 'the Derren Brown of juggling' (LoveFringe.com) brings a show packed full of big laughs, serious skills and breathtaking spectacle. ***** (Herald). ***** (FringeGuru.com). ***** (LoveFringe.com). 'It takes more than dexterity to bring this timeless art to the forefront. It takes dazzling showmanship, spot-on comic timing and bucket-loads of style. It takes Mat Ricardo!' (ER Magazine). 'Immensely skilled and very funny' (Time Out). 'Slick, sublime and eloquent' (Skinny).

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Fringe stories: Mat Ricardo (Link expired)

Dapper comedian and Showman Mat Ricardo recounts an amusing (but actually traumatic) story from his time at the Edinburgh Festival[/i] for WOW247.

Mat Ricardo, WOW247, 19th August 2013

Interview: Mat Ricardo

Mat Ricardo has made a huge name for himself in the shortest possible time and there seems to be no stopping the performer. His skill is second to none and from some pretty humble beginings in a East End club Ricardo has shone some impressive and much needed light in to one of our ones prised stage acts...truly unmissable.

The New Current, 8th August 2013

Interview: Mat Ricardo on his Showman persona (Link expired)

Mat Ricardo's Showman persona has been a lifetime in the making, but the beautifully crafted result was worth waiting for, discovers Kate Copstick.

Kate Copstick, Edinburgh Festivals, 7th August 2013

Mat Ricardo interview

Matt Ricardo is a man of many talents - juggler, comedian, host and many more things. We got the chance to speak to him about his show Showman which will be at Ed Fringe this year!

C Morrin, 21st July 2013

Winner of Best Speciality Act at the London Cabaret Awards, and seen on STV's The Jonathan Ross Show, 'the Derren Brown of juggling' is back in Edinburgh - so what does he have in store for us this time?

STV, 9th July 2013

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In both his previous one-man shows (the five-star reviewed Vaudeville Schmuck and the Herald Angel Award-winning Three Balls and a New Suit) Mat told stories from a life spent touring the stages, streets and clubs of the world with his act. This year, "The Derren Brown of juggling" (LoveFringe) brings you the act.

Two and a half decades of work, practice, honing, polishing, brainstorming and attempting - if not the impossible - then certainly the bloody difficult, means that in a world where variety is seen as an embarrassing and unfashionable relic only suitable for talent shows, Mat Ricardo is at the forefront of the re-invention, and re-evaluation of his art form.

Showman is packed with tricks, with genuine displays of danger, of understated dexterous elegance, of thrills, skills, spectacle, slapstick and wit. He presents some old favourites and some signature routines, some tricks that haven't been performed for decades, and some that have never been performed before at all, oh, and one that killed a fellow juggler in 1936.

The leading speciality act of the British cabaret revival, winner of Best Speciality Act in the London Cabaret Awards, and the UK's most successful juggler, Mat Ricardo delivers a show packed full of big laughs, serious skills and breath-taking spectacle.

Performances

Date Time Venue
31st Jul 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
1st Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
2nd Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
3rd Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
4th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
5th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
6th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
7th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
8th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
9th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
10th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
11th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
13th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
14th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
15th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
16th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
17th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
18th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
19th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
20th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
21st Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
22nd Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
23rd Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
24th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome
25th Aug 2013 18:50 Pleasance Dome

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