Liam Tulley takes Baldilocks to Edinburgh Fringe 2025
Stand-up comedian Liam Tulley is set to perform Baldilocks at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, showcasing a darkly witty and self-deprecating take on adulthood’s chaos and absurdities. His solo show will run daily at Just the Tonic @ The Mash House, in the Bottle Room, until 24th August, with performances at 3:30 pm.
The Scotsman gave Baldilocks a solid three-star review, noting Tulley’s “bleak perspective and default misanthropy” consistently amused audiences.
Liam Tulley: Baldilocks ***
Just the Tonic at The Mash House (Venue 288) until 24 August
Deadpan and downbeat, Liam Tulley nevertheless consistently amuses with his bleak perspective and default misanthropy. Impassively, he despairs at the jobs he’s had, his myriad health conditions and negotiating online dating as a bald man. A former care worker, who, fortunately, made a big mistake without consequences, but also grew accustomed to death, Tulley is not someone who radiates joie de vivre. Anxiety has led to a series of other, comically debilitating, self-perpetuating conditions for him that he sadly relates in depth, his knackered body conspiring against him and affording him a weary fatalism. When he tells you about signing up to dating apps, you already know he’s a lamb to the slaughter of judgement. And so it proves, his feelings blithely crushed by human insensitivity and the brutal, Darwinian analysis of the algorithms. His material about intimate medical examinations never strays too far from the humiliating template laid down by countless middle-aged, male comics. Yet when he unexpectedly, finally, has some romantic success, snatching a score draw from defeat, he’s on a more equal footing with his partner. And the relatable details of nature finding a way and a memorable, recurring visual image ensure that this solid debut ends surprisingly uplifting.
