Edinburgh Fringe Festival: The weird, the whacky, and the wonderful
An aubergine, a naked magician and Jesus Christ on a BMX stroll into a bar … is this the start of a strange joke? Well, yeah, but it is also some of the performers you might find at The Last Drop bar in Edinburgh after a day’s work at this year’s Fringe. The arts festival has some of the best cultural shows in the world but one of the joys is experiencing the absurd, the obscene and the absolutely hilarious. Even if it comes at the cost what boring people call “sanity”. To bring you the oddest and most unique performances at this year’s Fringe, produced by people who turn a shoulder to the mainstream, we have scoured through hundreds of shows to bring you the weird, the whacky, and the wonderful.
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