30th Jul 2025 to 25th Aug 2025 | |
9.30pm | |
George Square Gardens 57 George Square, Edinburgh South EH8 9JU |
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From £11 | |
Event organiser/part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe | |
Visit the event website here | |
Garry Starr is back and he’s hell-bent on saving books from extinction.
Literature! Literature! Literature! It might not rhyme with anything but it's still very important. Garry Starr is back and he's hell-bent on saving books from extinction by performing every Penguin Classic novel ever written. Mostly naked (but with flippers). Comic wunderkind Starr takes us on a literary adventure through the world's most iconic works of fiction.
From The Little Prince to Moby Dick and everything in between, nothing is safe from being lampooned with the utmost nincompoopery. 'A very funny man who is peculiarly averse to wearing trousers' ***** (Scotsman).
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