Darren McGarvey: Performative Male
Fringe
Saturday 8 August 2026
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Price
£13.00 to £15.00 -
Doors:
14:10 -
Starts:
14:35 -
Finishes:
15:35 approx -
Duration:
60 mins approx -
Age
16+ Accompanied With An Adult
Show Information
Please note, unless otherwise stated, all of our performances are strictly over 18s only
Tickets are supplied by FRIENDLY WORLD PRODUCTIONS LTD, the event organiser. The Stand Comedy Club acts as a disclosed ticket agent and processes payment on behalf of the organiser. Click here to find out more
Performative Male is a sharp, darkly funny examination of modern masculinity. Darren McGarvey dissects the scripts men inherit – toughness, certainty, status – and what happens when the promised rewards never arrive. From working class boyhood to public moral display, he explores how masculinity mutates under pressure, online scrutiny and economic decline. This is neither confessional nor sermon. It is a clear-eyed interrogation of performance itself: how men learn the role, cling to it when it falters and sometimes choose to change. Challenging, humane and unsentimental, Performative Male rejects easy villains, easy virtue and easy redemption.
Guideline 16+ must be accompanied with an adult.
Please note: Stand 1 has Unreserved Seating with Standing Room and latecomers may not be admitted.
Venue Details
Stand 1, The Stand Comedy Club
5 York Place, , Edinburgh, EH1 3EB
0131 558 9005