Tall History Tales that Really Happened
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Andy D is a writer, performer, producer, based in Edinburgh. His comic play Shackleton and his Stowaway was published by Methuen. It was an Ed Fringe Sold Out show in 2018, and also Sold Out at Park 90, London, in 2020. For 2022 he created/adapted Tam O’Shanter, Tales & Whisky, featuring the ‘Gothic’ poems of Robert Burns, which played at the Traverse, The Gaiety Theatre, and The Brunton Theatre, in Scotland. During 2025 he will be playing Everest Mallory 24 (With Stanley) around the UK.
For 2025
Everest Mallory 24
(With Stanley)
Leicester Comedy Festival 7th and 8th Feb
Brighton Fringe 9th/10th/11th May
Keswick Mountain Festival 18th May
Wandsworth Fringe 7th Jun
Edinburgh Fringe 3rd-24th Aug

2020

Tam O’ Shanter
Image ©Alexander Goudie Burns the Bard. Burns the National Poet. Whose masterpiece was, is, and always will be ‘Tam O’ Shanter’ - using comic...
The Tragedy of Mary Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving...
McGonagall
William Topaz McGonagall (March 1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish poet of Irish descent. He won notoriety as an extremely bad poet who...