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1998: Phil Nichol
This eponymous third show was supposed to have been called Phil Nichol is Brigitta Von Trapp but a move to the Pleasance with the Off the Kerb agency meant that I dispensed with fancy titles and wore a suit in the publicity material. The show, however, continued stylistically with short sharp character monologues and songs[…..]
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Categories: Edinburgh, Standup.1997: Phil Nichol Is A Spy
was my second Edinburgh Fringe show a year later, 1997, again in the Gilded Balloon’s Wee Room. It continued stylistically with short fast-paced monologues and songs, however, in this show I thread a long personal story throughout the monologues. It was the story of an emotional breakdown that I had suffered in Cork, Ireland caused[…..]
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Categories: Edinburgh, Standup.1996: Phil Nichol Is Schizo
was my first solo Edinburgh Fringe show that I performed daily in the Wee Room at the Gilded Balloon in 1996. It was a mad mixture of short fast-paced monologues and songs with no costume changes and only brief blackouts between each character. All the thirty-some characters in this show were related by their questionable[…..]
