Adam Riches: The Captain

High concept comic Adam Riches made a first foray into ‘proper’ theatre with his Fringe show of last year, Jimmy, an incredibly intense one-man-show about tennis player Jimmy Connors’ legendary 1991 comeback. Now he returns to Summerhall for more intensive character study seriousness with The Captain, a new show about the celebrated Victorian soldier and swimmer Captain Matthew Webb, aka the first man to ever swim the English Channel. Expect a great yarn and to be exhausted just looking at him.