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Alice Brine: Brinestorm ★★★☆☆

Affable comic with material that darts around from tricky childhood to TV chefs
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Alice Brine: Brinestorm ★★★☆☆

A number of comedians at the Fringe have been sharing their recent diagnoses of ADHD. Alice Brine got hers aged 15, and in Brinestorm she explains how a childhood was packed with clues that something about her was a bit different, and she recounts an accident with nail polish that rapidly and unexpectedly spirals into chaos as she fails to mitigate an escalating disaster.

Fittingly (and Brine admits this herself), her focus flits about all over the place. A routine about Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson appears from nowhere and disappears without trace, and she repeatedly returns to her persuasive theory that everyone in the world has one of only two types of face.

The show works best when she settles on a subject, such as the frivolous Facebook page she set up in 2010 which has unexpectedly taken on a life of its own. Occasionally, her affable mask will slip to reveal a darker side, and the show concludes with a hilariously contentious story about drunken revenge on an ex-boyfriend that Brine only gets away with on the strict assumption that its ludicrous outcome is entirely fictional.

Gilded Balloon Teviot, until 28 August, 4.20pm.

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