Hans Teeuwen

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Introduced to the Fringe in 2007 with the delectably bizarre Amsterdam Comedy Collective, Hans Teeuwen returns to Edinburgh again this summer with new and revised material that is certain to excite the critics and set chins wagging for the third successive year.

As a close friend of Dutch filmaker Theo van Gogh—murdered by Islamic extremeists in 2004 for his views on the treatment of women in the Muslim world—Teeuwen employs his comedy to question our reasoning on the matters of free speech and political correctness.

One suspects that the comic and his publicity people are being deliberately coy about this year’s subject matter – the show is one of the few at the Fringe not to have a title. But knowledge of his previous work would suggest that more absurdist, nonsensical probings of that subjective line between the inoffensive and the disturbing are to be expected.

Though certainly not a straightforward political show, this may be one to take in when feeling a little more cerebral.