Toilet Humour Draws The Crowds At The Edinburgh Festival

The Edinburgh Festival is the world's largest arts festival, and over three weeks every August, it attracts a huge range of performers and musicians from around the world. The Edinburgh Fringe in particular - part of the Edinburgh Festival - showcases experimental works that would never have the chance of appearing at other, more formal festivals....like ?The Umbrella Birds'. Emily, Kate, Kerry and Susanna are four comedians from London. And they're setting Edinburgh alight with their daily show...that's about women's toilets, and is performed in women's toilets. The Umbrella Birds say their show explores the darker side of female relationships, by parodying the extraordinary conversations women have with each other in public loos. EuroVox speaks to Emily Watson Howes about The Umbrella Girls' very British humour, and asks what it's like performing in a portaloo at Edinburgh's world famous festival.



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