A show about life, death, longing and reading your parents’ horny letters from the 80s.
‘Arguably the most joke-dense hour you’ll see…Near perfect.’ The Wee Review ★★★★★
In 2025, Milo found a box of letters from the 1980s in the back of his late mother’s wardrobe. Catamaran is a show about love, death and what a human life leaves behind and what bits are torn out and what if most of it is really horny and does anybody know what happened to Jim Lock’s catamaran?
Critically-acclaimed comedian, podcaster and writer Milo Edwards (Frank Off The Radio, The Naked Week, Glue Factory, Trashfuture) brings his latest stand-up hour, Catamaran, to Monkey Barrel for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. In this new show, Milo attempts to grapple with why he wanted to read these letters in the first place, and what to do with the revelations therein. Can you connect with your dead parents a little too much?
Milo Edwards is a critically acclaimed stand-up comedian and podcaster from Essex. He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights and a student comic before moving to Moscow in 2015, where he became a TV performer. From 2018, Milo became a rising star of the UK stand-up scene, with his 2019 Edinburgh Fringe show Pindos (about his time as a comedian in Russia) receiving five-star reviews and the Scotsgay Comedy Award, later being released as a YouTube special in 2023 with over 150k views to date.
His second Edinburgh Fringe hour, Voicemail, had a close to sold-out run at the festival in 2022 and was nominated for Best Show at Leicester Comedy Festival before transferring to a UK tour and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. As well as performing stand-up, Milo co-created the popular political comedy podcast Trashfuture, which has over 50,000 listeners globally and has featured guests such as Rob Delaney, Nish Kumar, Mark Watson, Owen Jones, Franz Ferdinand (not the archduke) and Josie Long. He also hosts the podcasts Masters of Our Domain with Phoebe Roy and Glue Factory with Olga Koch.
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Website link: www.miloedwards.co.uk
Title: Milo Edwards: Catamaran
Venue: Monkey Barrel @ Cabaret Voltaire 1
Ticket link: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/milo-edwards-catamaran
Dates & time: 5th – 30th August (not 21, 22, 23) @ 5.15pm / 17:15
