Award-winning Comedian, Tom Taylor returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with the reprise of the critically-acclaimed, total sell-out (Fringe 2016) first episode of his wonderfully evocative Charlie Montague Mysteries.
Inspired by the Hippodrome’s latest mystery play, rakish aristocrat Charlie takes out an advert offering his services as a consulting detective and, one breakfast later, finds himself on his first case. What follows sees the gloriously inept love child of Agatha Christie and PG Wodehouse, determined to prevent a murder.
The chap dies.
Packed with nonstop laughs from start to finish and a revolving gallery of high society dames and eccentric waiters – all played by Taylor – the Charlie Montague Mysteries are gloriously silly murder mysteries for anyone who ever wished Bertie Wooster was a detective.
Tom Taylor is an award-winning stand-up comedian, musician, writer and actor who has received high praise from audiences and critics alike. After graduating with a degree in Music from the University of York, Tom worked as a composer and lyricist on a number of productions including a new family musical and an adaptation of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge.
A regular on the national stand-up circuit, Tom has been a finalist in numerous comedy competitions including the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny?, the Hobgoblin Comedy Award and, most recently, the Musical Comedy Awards where he won the Audience Favourite Award. Additionally, Tom has supported Simon Munnery on tour and has performed on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 4 as part of the BBC Radio New Comedy Award.
As a solo writer-performer, Tom premiered his first one-man play, and the first Charlie Montague Mystery, The Game’s a Foot, Try the Fish at last year’s Fringe. His second play from the series, The Man With The Twisted Hip, can be seen at Surgeons Hall at 5.05pm each day (except 6th August).
Tickets here.
Venue: theSpace @ Surgeons Hall (venue 53)
Dates: 4th to 26th August 2017 (not 6th)
Time: 3.05pm (3.55pm)
Box office: 0131 510 2384
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