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Welcome to the second of our blog series featuring enticing extracts from performers' press releases. Comedy is a huge section at this year’s Buxton Fringe but the variety within it is extraordinary. Read on for news of how three Fringe performers look set to have audiences laughing in the aisles.
For venues, times, ticketing and further information about these and all our Fringe shows, see our What's On listings here. If you are performing at Buxton Fringe and would like us to feature your press release, please get in touch via the marketing officer!
Secret Diary of a Bingo Call Girl 2: The Balls Are Back in Town - Angela Bra
As the founder of her own Absolutely Dabulous Drag Bingo, Angela Bra has seen it all. Hen do high jinx, butlers in the buff, glamorous grandmas and mothers escaping their family for the night. She’s handled more balls than a gynaecologist on a pay-per-view contract and can do it whilst leading the Macarena.
The queen of ball-based bedlam returns to Buxton at Underground at the Working Men’s Club on July 8th and 12th with a brand new show packed with original songs and stories from the front line of the party bingo circuit, wrapped up in a round of her very own “Great British Bingo” and topical stage games.
A multiple award-winner and nominee for both her festival shows and drag performances, in 2025 Angela Bra won “Best Cabaret” at the Bay Fringe Festival, won “Joke of the Fest” at Lancaster Comedy Festival and was a finalist at Mancheser G-A-Y’s premier annual drag competition, “Purple Reign”. Previously, she has won Best Comedy at the Morecambe Fringe, been award-nominated in comedy twice at Buxton Fringe and has been a
finalist in both Mamma’s Drag Battle (Leeds) and The Crown (Manchester), as well as being a venue finalist for Drag Idol in Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham.
Closure Cabaret - Maria Ansdell
Distinguished guests–hold on tight as we try to let go…
Welcome to the Closure Cabaret, a vaudevillian variety show hosted by Razmatastique – your hopefully devoted, French-accented emcee who cannot let her exes rest in peace. Instead, she summons them back for one final encore in pursuit of that ever-elusive promise: closure.
From bad-boy playground pirates to wannabe hip-hop stars and emotionally unavailable illusionists, each former flame returns with a glittering cabaret act–jazz-handed into public inspection. Expect quick changes, original music and riotous audience participation as Razmatastique leads us through an odyssey of romantic misadventure.
Embarking on its first UK tour, including venues in London, Buxton, Chichester and Edinburgh.
Created and performed by Maria Ansdell, this solo clown and character comedy show exposes romance as performance–and heartbreak as something we compulsively replay.
Somewhere between a theatrical fever dream and an emotional exorcism, Closure Cabaret prompts the question: out of everyone we’ve ever dated, who really has the ‘Ex Factor’? She will be performing at Underground at the Working Men’s Club on 20th, 21st and 22nd July.
More about Maria…
Maria Ansdell is a London-based writer, performer and clown from Oxford, trained at École Philippe Gaulier. Her debut solo show, Closure Cabaret, was developed between France and Oxford before sold-out previews in London, an acclaimed Edinburgh run with two 4-star reviews, and further sold-out performances at The Bread & Roses and in Brighton Fringe - which also received critical acclaim. Alongside developing Closure Cabaret, Maria is one of six artists on The Pen Theatre’s Pen Six programme, creating new genre-bending performance work.
***** ‘A rare talent and an exceptional crafter of characters’ ReviewsHub
**** ‘Masterful Clowning’ AYoung(ish)Perspective
**** ‘Surreal and Sharply Intelligent’ RialtoArts
199 Jokes Before Lunchtime: Danny Matinee!
Following his sell-out Edinburgh show in 2025, the family-friendly one-liner merchant comes to the Buxton Festival Fringe for the first time with his latest jokes, props, pictures, and tips on crafting your own gags. He will be performing upstairs at The Old Clubhouse on the 18th July.
7 one-liners in The Times/The Telegraph Best Jokes of Edinburgh Fringe 2025!
Danny Matinee says: ‘I’m really looking forward to the Buxton Festival Fringe – my first visit to Buxton since I came with my grandma in about 1983, on a day trip when we also went to Jodrell Bank. ‘Anyway, I’m fresh from success in the Dungarees Wearer of the Year Awards – I was overall winner. I’ve got a new joke about Marmite – it’s the yeast I can do. And I’m also looking forward to seeing Waiting for Godot – it’s top of my Beckett list.’
***** ‘Finely crafted...slick wordplay’ Edinburgh Reporter
***** ‘A brilliant way to set up your day’ UK Theatre Web
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