Freddie Meredith: Need a Light? at Pleasance Courtyard (Baby Grand)

Actor and character comedian Freddie Meredith makes his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with Need a Light?, a character-led comedy set entirely in the smoking area of a nightclub. The show centres on an overly friendly, nameless character who doesn't smoke yet always has a lighter, inserting himself into other people's nights with intense eye contact and unsolicited conversation. Over the course of one increasingly chaotic evening, the character keeps shifting and testing out different versions of himself in front of the audience. Meredith has earned fans including Rich Fulcher and Jamie Demetriou, with Harry Hill naming him as one of his favourite working comedians.