2015 Edinburgh Fringe

The Man

  • Comedy (satire)
  • 10:30pm (60 mins)
  • 5, 7-16 & 18-30 Aug 2015
  • Assembly Rooms
  • £9 - £10
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Come see the birth of a true modern jester, a voice for the people. The Man is a punchy and surreal atomisation of the shadowy controlling forces that shape our modern world. A lone vigilante, The Man ploughs through sacred cows like an allegorical abattoir, doing for preconceptions what battering rams do for doors. 'Diamond hard and needle sharp, superb satire and a persona that is somewhere between the Joker and a 21st-century Facebook Oscar Wilde' (Kate Copstick, Scotsman). 'People should see this, people NEED to see this.' Noel Faulkner (Comedy Cafe).

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Previews: Edinburgh Fringe 2015

So tomorrow it begins, the month-long laugh-fest that is the Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.

yomado, Mumble Comedy, 4th August 2015

The Man answers 10 Edinburgh Fringe Questions

The mysterious creator of The Man isn't ready to reveal his true identity just yet. But what of the man behind the greasepaint...?

British Comedy Guide, 3rd August 2015

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Come and see the birth of a true modern jester, a voice for the people. The Man is a punchy and surreal atomisation of the shadowy controlling forces that shape our modern world. A lone vigilante, The Man ploughs through sacred cows like an allegorical abattoir, doing for preconceptions what battering rams do for doors.

It was high noon on a hot summer's day at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park. Some say they saw a hysterical crowd pulling a shining humanoid through a tear in the fabric of reality. Others insist that it looked considerably closer to a madman, dressed in rubber, crawling out from behind a bin. What followed left many speechless.

For a world saturated with characters from comics, a comic has created a character...

In a backlash of creative frustration and feeling disillusioned with the direction he felt standup was going, a veteran circuit comedian has unleashed an alter ego that stands alone like a mad vigilante torn straight from the pages of its own graphic novel.

Sheathed in rubber, The Man is a plastic figure for a plastic world.

With dystopian undertones reminiscent of the 2000 AD comics, The Man is a bizarre, real world comedic avatar built from trickster tropes and pop culture imagery mashing up everything from a Legoland joker to the Clockwork Orange misfit. But there is a method to the madness as The Man rises on the festival landscape as a new and unique beacon of hilarious dissent.

Performances

Date Time Venue
5th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
7th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
8th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
9th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
10th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
11th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
12th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
13th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
14th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
15th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
16th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
18th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
19th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
20th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
21st Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
22nd Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
23rd Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
24th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
25th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
26th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
27th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
28th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
29th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms
30th Aug 2015 22:30 Assembly Rooms

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