Maia Tassalini: I Was 22 and Stunning at Pleasance Courtyard, Bunker Three

Maia Tassalini brings her debut hour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, using Monica Lewinsky as both muse and mirror to trace one woman's lifelong obsession with the most publicly humiliated woman of the 1990s. Blending stand-up, cultural criticism and theatrical confession, the show spirals through sex, shame, body image, internet cruelty, desire, gossip and the human need to have something happen to you. Before comedy, Maia worked as a plus-size model, giving her firsthand experience of the contradictions of female visibility. The show brings a Gen Z lens to the 1990s, unpacking body image, beauty standards, autonomy and the cultural obsession with endlessly rebooting women's lives.