Doug Segal - 'I Know What You're Thinking' - Edinburgh Fringe Review

He does.

It is very unfortunate that Doug Segal’s run at the Fringe has finished for the year. And not just because it renders this review pretty much useless, coming late after a heavy weekend of rain-lashed, cider drinking festival capers. No, it is a shame it has finished so early because I imagine this would have been the last chance anyone will have to see Segal’s mind-blowing show for free in a shabby, cramped room in a pub as part of the Edinburgh Fringe. Although I am secretly happy to at last be smugly joining the brigade of annoying people who can forever boast about having seen someone first as a free act in a shabby cramped room in a pub during the Edinburgh Fringe.

The Lady Boys of Bangkok - Edinburgh Festival review

The Lady Boys of Bangkok - Meadows Theatre Big-Top - Although the Lady Boys are now a regular fixture at the festival and the ticket prices, although varied, do reflect this, it would still just be rude for The Dung Beetle to bypass Edinburgh's biggest summer party without a word. So, as I beetled about at the free shows a few metres up the road, guest reviewer Sarah Leask flashed the cash and headed down to the meadows big-top to check out the Lady Boys much-anticipated Fur Coats and French Knickers tour.

"After seeing this show, all I can say is that I want to be a lady boy! For two hours I was absolutely mesmerized by these amazingly beautiful ‘girls’ with bodies to die for. Bitches. I mean bastards...ummm...