September brings several shows back through for the 2025 Tallinn Fringe Festival, so if you missed them the last time around, here’s your chance!
Charlie Mulliner returns to Heldeke! with character-driven Love Hunt from 11-13 September at 1900. Here’s what we had to say in February:
Mulliner’s presence and storytelling fill the room, not just the stage, and like any drunk girl in the queue for the toilets, Amber makes swift friends of audience members. What follows is a new-friend-supported journey through half a dozen characters and even more scenarios as we join Amber on her forays in the dating scene for the first time in a decade, peppered with specifically-British quips and universally-brutal truths.
In addition to the two-hander Asian Fusion with Vivek Ravi, Thao Cao is doing one-off performances of her solos after their Tallinn Fringe premieres in 2024.
Marmalade is at Heldeke on 14 September at 1500:
Cao’s approach to identity politics means no one is safe from criticism and taking the piss as an equal opportunity prospect. From the stamplickers of Australia to the madmen on German train platforms, Cao carves out a space where gender, race, and sexuality are a part of the conversation, rather than the sole punchlines. Her show is really just scenes from a life, as similar and as different as it might be to yours. It’s just funnier when she’s telling it.
Confessions of a Comedian is at Heldeke! on 15 September at 1900.
Entertainment, however, was the focus of the show — or rather, what people seek out for entertainment, and why. From true crime to TikTok, beach Speedos to bestiality, Cao examines what makes us laugh and why. Her unique pacing and placid demeanor underpin clever storytelling with some punchlines landing long after the joke was first set up.
Author: Laurie
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