FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The Liar Show
Four Horsemen Of The Apocryphal Hit The Fringe
Edinburgh, Scotland: After two years of spreading disinformation to a loyal yet delightfully gullible following in the United States, The Liar Show has arrived at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. (Underbelly Cowgate, Venue 61 at 18:35, 31 July through 24 August. TheLiarShow.com)
A TimeOut NY "Highly Recommended Favourite," every performance of The Liar Show is unique, featuring a constantly shifting cast of writers and comics telling four short, extremely personal stories that will make you laugh, possibly make you think, and almost certainly make you glad you don't live with them. But listen closely, because only three of these people are telling the truth. The fourth is making the whole thing up. It’s the job of the audience to expose the fraud.
After the tales have been told, all four performers return to the stage and defend their stories as the audience subjects them to a no-holds-barred fact-finding session, refereed by host Andy Christie.
Ballots are cast, the Liar is revealed and those who've guessed correctly win a Liar Show T-shirt; a prize that Andy describes as "worth its weight in fool's gold."
While Liar shows are neither literary events nor traditional stand-up comedy, they are intelligent and funny. How perfectly odd.
Liar Show storytellers have included personalities like comedian and New Yorker Magazine contributor Andy Borowitz, writer and monologist Mike Daisey, called "The master storyteller," by the New York Times, and a cast of real characters including Bill Clinton's joke writer, a disturbingly funny NYC Gang Squad Lieutenant, a disturbingly mordant beautician, or a just plain disturbing lapsed evangelical.
And every performance in Edinburgh includes one or two local Fringe favourites in addition to Liar Show core performers, Ophira Eisenberg (Comedy Central and Canadian TV’s "Comedy Now!") and Peter Lubell (Independent Film Channel, National Public Radio).
Host and creator Andy Christie (who was born in Largs, Scotland and is now returning to his homeland after a decades-long detour) has written for The New York Times and many snooty literary journals. His humour book, I Wasn’t Kidding: How To Commit Suicide So They'll Never Forget It, was published by Random House in the U.S. and the U.K.
Presented by EdCom8 in association with Neil Masters.
Contact:
web: www.TheLiarShow.com
Andy Christie - LiarShow@gmail.com
or
EdCom8 - jon@ukcomedy.com
