Firstly, here are today’s Picks of the Day: Randy Feltface: First Banana The Fringe’s favourite purple puppet is only here for three days this year, but who needs to do a full Edinburgh Festival Fringe run when you are a star of Netflix and NBC with a global fanbase? In this new show, Randy argues that things have gone downhill for the human race since 10,0000 years ago when the first bananas – which were the world’s first fruit, according to some experts – appeared on Earth around that time. At the time of writing this, the run was mostly sold out, so book fast. Assembly Rooms, tonight and tomorrow, 10pm; tomorrow and 11 August, 5.
10pm. Up Lates One of the joys of the Edinburgh festivals every August is showing up to something not knowing exactly what it is you’re going to get. It’s a rather more common experience in some of the slightly ramshackle corners of the Fringe, but tonight and next Friday the EIF is offering what it describes as “a surprise line-up for a night full of inspiration, as a variety of ideas, genres and performance styles come together in the sociable surroundings of the Hub”.
It sounds a lot like a more civilised Late ‘n’ Live event (though it is also more expensive, with tickets starting from £25). The Hub, tonight and 16 August, 10.30pm Songs of the Bulbul This is the new show by Aakash Odedra Company, whose Samsara was a 2022 EIF highlight.
Bulbuls are common songbird in Africa and Asia, and Odedra’s new show draws on a an.