Brexit is, nonetheless, a hot topic at the last edition of the Fringe before Britain is due to withdraw from the bloc. Credit Matt StrongeBut, many comedians on both sides are trying to understand and explain, rather than merely mock. In 2018, the festival seems to reflect a nation that is finally coming to terms with the fact that Brexit is happening. Several acts this year have forsworn the traditional structure of a stand-up performance in favor of something explicitly educational. “But if I’d made it in 2014 nobody would have come to see it.”Luisa Omielan’s “Politics for Bitches” sees the English comic attempting to understand a world of Brexit and President Trump.

Source: New York Times August 26, 2018 07:52 UTC