2019 Edinburgh Fringe

Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big in This?

Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big in This?. Arabella Weir
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17: Assembly George Square Studios
Room: Studio Two

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The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down. Does My Mum Loom Big In This? is for everyone who's had a mother or been a mother, featuring hair-raising hilarious true stories from Arabella's dysfunctional childhood, her perilous career and her life as a single working mother. Devastatingly funny, excruciatingly honest and definitely embarrassing for all of Arabella's relatives, not to mention herself, this is a helter-skelter tour of appalling - and appallingly funny - maternal behaviour.

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My festival: Arabella Weir

"I am extremely good at writing letters of complaint. I have an almost 100% success rate".

The Scotsman, 9th August 2019

Arabella Weir interview

I was a few months pregnant and my Mum asked 'Have you any idea how fat you are?'

Craig McLean, The Telegraph, 5th August 2019

Comedians choose their favourite Edinburgh pubs

Comics choose their top local pubs.

Teddy Jamieson, The Herald, 4th August 2019

The festival's 10 best comedy acts chosen by comedians

Britain's top comedians including Katherine Ryan, Frankie Boyle, Romesh Ranganathan share their tips for this year's unmissable stand-ups.

Alice Jones, i Newspaper, 2nd August 2019

Fringe 2019: festival's 13 best comedy acts to watch

The curtain rises this week on the world's biggest arts festival. We pick the best shows from the thousands taking place over next 25 days.

Alice Jones and Emily Jupp, i Newspaper, 1st August 2019

Arabella Weir on a life of laughs - and her crazy mum

For Two Doors Down star Arabella Weir, finding her funny bone early in life was a way of dealing with the unhappiness surrounding her at home.

Murray Scougall, The Sunday Post, 22nd July 2019

Top comedy shows to see at Edinburgh Fringe 2019

Need to know the top comedy shows to see at Edinburgh Fringe 2019? Check out this edition of pick of the fringe.

Theatre Weekly, 20th July 2019

Interview with Arabella Weir

"I was desperate for attention and performing seemed like the best way to earn a living and get the attention I craved as a show off."

Tom Inniss, Voice Magazine, 14th July 2019

Fringe 10x10: Ten great titles

Puns ahoy!

Chortle, 12th July 2019

Arabella Weir on her aggressively unhappy mother

The actor and comedian has been a fixture on British TV for more than two decades. Now, in her first one-woman show, she unpicks the difficult maternal relationship that shaped her.

Emine Saner, The Guardian, 8th July 2019

+3 interview: Arabella Weir

"Incredibly it IS my first time appearing at Edinburgh - I know it very well outside of the Fringe as my dad was from Fife and my mother from Melrose, so it's been part of my whole life, just not as a performer."

Dan Lentell, Edinburgh49, 26th June 2019

Fringe 2019: Pick Of The Programme - Comedy

BWW reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue has narrowed down her top ten picks in the comedy section of the programme.

Natalie O'Donoghue, Broadway World, 5th June 2019

Performances

Date Time Venue
12th Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)
13th Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)
14th Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)
15th Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)
16th Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)
17th Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)
18th Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)
19th Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)
20th Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)
21st Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)
22nd Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)
23rd Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)
24th Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)
25th Aug 2019 16:00 Assembly George Square Studios (Studio Two)

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