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Theatre

Edinburgh Fringe highlights: world-class improv, Bible study and an hour with a gentle genius

Lucas Hnath’s The Christians analysis religious feeling with high seriousness and sympathy and transfers to the Gate next week

29 August 2015

9:00 AM

29 August 2015

9:00 AM

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Pleasance, until 30 August

The Christians

Traverse, until 30 August

John Lloyd: Emperor of the Prawns

Assembly Checkpoint, until 30 August

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical offers a brand new song-and-dance spectacular at every performance. It opens with a brilliantly chaotic piece of comedy. A theatre producer on stage telephones Cameron Mackintosh and pitches him a new musical. Mackintosh answers and the producer invites ideas from the audience. ‘What’s the setting?’ Someone yelled ‘Late-night sauna’ at the performance I saw.

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