Birthday Girls: Sh!t Hot Party Legends

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The Birthday Girls surely attended a special boot camp to get this show honed for Edinburgh, as they’ve got some serious new moves going on. Is there such thing as a booty camp? Sh!t Hot Party Legends is pretty much what you’d imagine would happen if a girl band struggling for gigs turned to comedy instead—you know, like most actors do—and turned out to be shit hot with the funnies too.

Striding sassily onwards from Lady Garden in 2013, this in-your-face trio’s latest Edinburgh hour is thunderously good fun, as long as you don’t turn up with a banging headache, in which case you’ll probably have an absolutely horrible time. Sitting in the front row with an alcoholic beverage, nice shoes or any obvious possessions is asking for trouble too; but don’t worry, you’ll get them back (maybe not the drink).

Rose Johnson, Camille Ucan and Beattie Edmondson look to be having a whale of a time here, bumping, grinding, twerking, then breaking off for some absolutely barking sketches. There’s a passionate love story involving Ucan’s hair, a fabulously sinister sacrifice class and a nice out-of-character bit about a bad-influence auntie. Meanwhile Ian Rankin has apparently been made aware of the running gag that paints him in a radical new light. If he turns up to check that out it will officially be the most awkward moment at this year’s Fringe.

A little nit-picking: some of these sketches could do with stronger endings, rather than just hurtling into further gyrations. But otherwise the Birthday Girls are nit-free.