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John Arthur Sweet @johnmonologist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A few days late, but thanks to everyone involved with @buxtonfringe.bsky.social. It's such a delightful Fringe, and I'm overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and exuberance and joyful spirit. Looking forward to a return trip ASAP.

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*Silver Pine Productions*🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊🏾 @silverpine.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We did tell you it was good. Huge congratulations to @teepeeprods.bsky.social for winning Best Drama at @buxtonfringe.bsky.social with Tell Me Where It Hurts. (Huge congratulations to all the other winners too. It’s been a cracking Fringe.)

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Polis Loizou 🐺 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Uh... I just found out I won the award for Best Actor at @buxtonfringe.bsky.social. 😶 "Gobsmacked" doesn't cut it. Thank you so much!

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Buxton Festival Fringe @buxtonfringe.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Last day of Buxton Fringe 2026 😭 Still plenty to see! www.buxtonfringe.org.uk/diary2026.html

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Buxton Festival Fringe @buxtonfringe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Heading into the final weekend of Buxton Fringe 2026 and there’s still loads to see … www.buxtonfringe.org.uk/diary2026.html

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John Arthur Sweet @johnmonologist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This review of my show @buxtonfringe.bsky.social warms the cockles of my heart, particularly the line about it being part of a « rebellion against big tech »! @undergroundvenues.bsky.social www.buxtonfringe.org.uk/reviews2026t...

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Buxton Festival Fringe @buxtonfringe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Heading into the final weekend of Buxton Fringe 2026 and there’s still loads to see … www.buxtonfringe.org.uk/diary2026.html

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*Silver Pine Productions*🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊🏾 @silverpine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Really enjoyed @teepeeprods.bsky.social Tell Me Where It Hurts yesterday. Got a deservedly good review too. Three more performances at @undergroundvenues.bsky.social WMC. Catch it at @buxtonfringe.bsky.social while you can - it's off to Birmingham on Sunday.

REVIEW: TELL ME WHERE IT HURTS

Two years ago, Tayla Kenyon and Tee Pee Productions brought ‘Fluff’, their multi-award winning show about dementia, to Buxton Fringe. Where it promptly won another award.

Now the same team is back at the Working Men’s Club with their next production, Tell Me Where It Hurts, a comedy drama about Chrissy, a woman suffering from pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder.

On paper, this looks to be a harder sell than Fluff. Awareness of PMDD is minimal, despite nearly a million women in the UK alone suffering from the condition.

But Tee Pee Productions have created a belter of a show that also just happens to highlight some fundamental issues. Chrissy is the roiling, pulsing heart of the story while the other two performers convincingly juggle the remaining roles between them.

Chrissy’s story is compelling - and wearily familiar. It is a story of, not so much women’s invisibility, but their inaudibility. Chrissy is surrounded by pleasant people who say they want to help her but who somehow never really listen to her. Again and again and again. Whilst routed very much in Chrissy’s present, the play looks both backwards and forwards to illustrate this inaudibility and suggest the consequences that it has had before and may have again. And somehow, through all this, it is still very funny.

The cast of three perform wonderfully, with the two supporting actors dancing nimbly around the focal point that is Chrissy. The clever production makes excellent use of the small space.

Tell Me Where It Hurts is an enthralling show that will take you on a helluva ride. There are three more performances in Buxton before it goes to the Midlands. It’s a terrific way to round off this year’s Fringe. Don’t miss it.

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Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org · 22/07/2026

"The arts should be treated like eating your five a day... fundamental to children's wellbeing." We've tracked the decline in arts GCSEs and A-levels for years. The problems take root in primary school. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Lack of access to arts in West Midlands affecting young people - report

A report claims an "arts entitlement gap" is getting worse and fewer teenagers study the arts.

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Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org · 22/07/2026

We need the arts to be: 🌱 Available from childhood 🔓 Accessible to all 🗺️ Thriving everywhere

Pink chart of purple background showing that the enrolment in arts GCSEs has reached its lowest recorded level in 15 years.

Chart showing the breakdown of how individual arts subjects have made up the overall decline from the previous slide: Art & Design -4%, Design and Technology -74%, Media / Film / TV Studies -54%, performing / expressive arts -72%, dance -60%, drama -48%, music -35%.

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Buxton Festival Fringe @buxtonfringe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Still time to catch Rob again for Late Night Dirty Scrabble!

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Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Tonight's treat at @buxtonfringe.bsky.social is the sold out Rob Rouse & Tom Wrigglesworth's The Unlikely Weightlifters show being recorded for their podcast of the same name. Courtesy of @undergroundvenues.bsky.social and Buxton Working Men's Club 😁

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Polis Loizou 🐺 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

UPDATE: heading for a sellout 🥹

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Polis Loizou 🐺 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Heading to a performance that's 75% sold. Nice way to end my time @buxtonfringe.bsky.social!

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Ross Balzaretti @rossbalzaretti.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

@buxtonfringe.bsky.social Saw @lexiwolfe.bsky.social this afternoon as Mrs Oscar Wilde in a brilliant monologue she both wrote and performed. Outstanding performance of a moving piece.

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The Totally Improvised Company @totallyimprovised.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Next week we'll be at @buxtonfringe.bsky.social performing at @undergroundvenues.bsky.social (and stealing all your water). The World Cup may be ending but we've got the month's funniest fixture with ComedySportz then don't miss the opening (and closing) night of another Totally Improvised Musical!

ComedySportz at Buxton Fringe. Underground @ The Working Mens Club 25th and 26th July 1pm.

5 stars Mix Up Theatre
4 stars Theatre Weekly
4 stars The Derek Awards
4 stars Three Weeks

The Totally Improvised Musical at Buxton Fringe. Underground @ The Working Mens Club 25th and 26th July 4pm.

4 1/2 stars Frankly My Dear UK
4 stars Theatre & Tonic
4 stars North West End
4 stars Corr Blimey

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Jake Yapp @jakeyapp.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It's a BRAND NEW SHOW tonight - I'd say something grand like WORLD PREMIERE, which is technically true, but since we're only down to perform it in Hitchin and Camden it's somewhat overblown to say that. I cannot WAIT to do it, though. It's proper awful.

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Jake Yapp @jakeyapp.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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Jake Yapp @jakeyapp.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

LET'S FIND OUT TOGETHER

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Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org · 18/07/2026

Manchester Recorder Orchestra return to Buxton Festival Fringe for their silver anniversary (25th) #BuxtonFringe concert tonight. I’ll be tootling my tenor again. @buxtonfringe.bsky.social

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Buxton Festival Fringe @buxtonfringe.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Heck of a day in Buxton, today! Buxton Day of Dance - Morris sides performing all around the town 10.30-4.30 Pride Picnic in the Park 1-4pm Draw! Buxton - sketching challenge open to all Fringe Saturday in Pavilion Gardens - an outdoor party with entertainment from Fringe performers 2-4.30pm

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Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org · 18/07/2026

A full night of comedy delights at Buxton Working Men’s Club (or underneath it) from Barrel of Laughs and then local/global legend Kate Butch. I love Buxton Fringe. 😻 @buxtonfringe.bsky.social @undergroundvenues.bsky.social @thekatebutch.bsky.social

Drag queen Kate Butch on the Underground stage at Buxton Working Men’s Club in a black wig, glittery heels and a dress covered in cats.

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Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Highly recommend seeing 👆😂😂😂

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Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

@buxtonfringe.bsky.social continues apace! Tonight's treat is Jake Yapp: Cornershop Showdown @undergroundvenues.bsky.social 👍💪🔥

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Going Coastal with Donald McGinty @donaldmcginty.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thats it for Donald at @buxtonfringe.bsky.social but he recommends you check out @totallyimprovised.bsky.social with their shows ComedySportz and The Totally Improvised Musical at @undergroundvenues.bsky.social!

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Buxton Festival Fringe @buxtonfringe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We’re a week in; what’s been your Buxton Fringe highlight so far? Let us know! ⬇️🧡

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Going Coastal with Donald McGinty @donaldmcginty.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Donald is back at @undergroundvenues.bsky.social tonight for his second @buxtonfringe.bsky.social show! Tickets still available online or on the door. Underground Venues @ Buxton Working Mens Club | 5.45pm

Review for GOING COASTAL WITH DONALD MCGINTY

Do you enjoy long-running, cosy, geography-based television shows? Are you keen on relentless punning? Perhaps you have a soft spot for seagulls or a sub-par Billy Connolly accent.

If so, get yourself down to the Underground Venues at the Working Men’s Club. Donald McGinty is the man for you. Admittedly, his cosy, geography-based television show has hit a couple of hitches lately, as indeed have the seagulls. But no matter, McGinty keeps on keeping on in the face of multiple challenges.

Sean Mason has created a show about a show that references a lot of other shows. It’s about as meta as it gets. It’s also very funny. There are nostalgic reference points aplenty to satisfy Gen Xers and Millennials. But it’s also bang up-to-date. There’s a loose narrative arc which doesn’t matter all that much and a very genuine message behind the whole thing (which does matter but which is never allowed to distract from the relentless punning). Donald McGinty himself is not remotely cosy but a tragi-comic anti-hero, cast in the long shadow of Basil Fawlty or Mr Bean, perhaps.

Not convinced yet? Come for the 1970s public information horrors, stay for the bad taste jokes about seals, regional accents and cremation. You have one more chance to meet Donald McGinty. Next Thursday, 16th July at the WMC.

Review by Anna Girolami

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Richard Pulsford @richardpulsford.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's your last chance TODAY to see 'Yorkshire Dad, Immigrant Mum' and 'Gold Fashioned Jokes' in Buxton @buxtonfringe.bsky.social (17:30 and 19:00) Tickets from @undergroundvenues.bsky.social here: bit.ly/3RoqIWn

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Chris Neville-Smith @cns-theatre.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

If I'd know Carry On-style innuendo got laughs this easily I'd have done it more often. Thanks Royce @buxtonfringe.bsky.social for probably the best description of It's Not Cluedo I've seen. (Premalink: buxtonfringe.org.uk/reviews2026c...)

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Buxton Festival Fringe @buxtonfringe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We’re a week in; what’s been your Buxton Fringe highlight so far? Let us know! ⬇️🧡

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Polis Loizou 🐺 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Some lovely audience feedback, too (thanks, @christos-k17.bsky.social 🫶). Last chance to catch "You Oughta Be In Pictures" @buxtonfringe.bsky.social on Mon 20th Jul at 2.30pm, @undergroundvenues.bsky.social

The listing for the show, with comments below:
Caught this at Manchester Fringe. Polis has the ability to grab your attention from the minute he steps on stage and immerses you in his story for the full hour. Truly captivating and one of a kind
- CKonstantinou
This is utterly brilliant - go and see it! Polis is a great storyteller, and this is a chilling story.
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*Silver Pine Productions*🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊🏾 @silverpine.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Really, really enjoyed this. There’s one more chance to see this at @buxtonfringe.bsky.social As McGinty himself might say, C U Next Thursday at @undergroundvenues.bsky.social WMC.

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Chris Neville-Smith @cns-theatre.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

IT'S NOT CLUEDO needs YOU-DO! If performing at @buxtonfringe.bsky.social , I'd love to have you as a guest on the show. No preparation needed, just willingness to go along with it And if you want to show off a part of your show, I might be able to work it in. Reply here or DM if interested.

A ? where an It's Not Cluedo guest should be.

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Chris Neville-Smith @cns-theatre.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Polis scoops this for his outstanding performance as a film mogul whose motives start unclear, but you can tell from the outset is able to get away with anything. Two more performances as @undergroundvenues.bsky.social on 13th and 20th July. @buxtonfringe.bsky.social

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Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We have two more talks in this year's @buxtonfringe.bsky.social so if you want to know about #CommunityArchaeology on Thursday evening (16th there will be people to ask! See you there @chrisseddon.bsky.social? Tickets on Eventbrite 😁 #Archaeology #Community #Buxton #PeakDistrict #Derbyshire

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Polis Loizou 🐺 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

2nd chance to catch "You Oughta Be In Pictures" @buxtonfringe.bsky.social! Tonight at 8.30pm @undergroundvenues.bsky.social. Come and feel threatened in a dark room with me 🖤

A balding 40-something man in a shirt, waistcoat and bowtie under stage lights, with a quote from Buxton Fringe review over the image: "Threateningly allusive."

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Going Coastal with Donald McGinty @donaldmcginty.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

See Going Coastal with Donald McGinty at @buxtonfringe.bsky.social this weekend! Tickets available from @undergroundvenues.bsky.social or box office. #WorldFringeDay

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Buxton Festival Fringe @buxtonfringe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Saturday 11th July - - Buxton - - - CARNIVAAAAAAAAAAL (watch out for our big,orange float)

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Buxton Festival Fringe @buxtonfringe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Tomorro, Carnival. Next Sat, big Fringe Saturday in Pavilion Gardens 💥

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Polis Loizou 🐺 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Fringe is the real horror.

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Saturday 11th July - - Buxton - - - CARNIVAAAAAAAAAAL (watch out for our big,orange float)

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Buxton Festival Fringe @buxtonfringe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Tomorro, Carnival. Next Sat, big Fringe Saturday in Pavilion Gardens 💥

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John Arthur Sweet @johnmonologist.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I interviewed myself to get a couple of quotes for the @buxtonfringe.bsky.social blog! And it's interesting (but not at all surprising) to notice that technology's omnipresence in our lives is a theme at this and other theatre festivals this year. buxtonfestivalfringe.blogspot.com/2026/07/hold...

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Hold the Front Page 5 - The great escape - technology at Buxton Fringe

Stewart Taylor is Virtually There Welcome to the fifth of our blog series featuring ever-stimulating extracts from performers' press release...

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