The Week on Stage at Edinburgh Fringe: Amy Gledhill, Colin Hoult, Vir Das, Age Is a Feeling
A guide to comedy and theatre from the final week of the Fringe
Colin Hoult: The Death of Anna Mann – Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★☆
Colin Hoult is waving goodbye to his most famous character, fading actor Anna Mann. The comedian has been performing in a cheap wig and slightly dodgy eye make-up as Anna for years. Now he’s going out with a bang heard across the Edinburgh Fringe.
Anna, an actress, singer and welder – because you’ve “got to have a back-up” – tells us that she was once the “creme de le menthe of society”, and speaks in a luxurious purr as she walks us through her life. There are recollections from her childhood, in which she struggled to fit in among “a sea of drab”, and her not-quite-stardom on the stage and screen.
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