Fringe 2025 – Loz Dodd: This Can't Be It
Loz Dodd believes he's creating something monumental in this playful, meta show that never quite begins. Slipping through distractions, tangents, songs, and moments where the audience's presence shapes what unfolds – the show is a playful exploration of uncertainty, delighting in losing its own thread while exploring the strangeness of life and our attempts to understand it. Not knowing is both the method and the point. In 2025, 'This Can't Be It' has been performed at major UK comedy festivals such as Leicester Comedy Festival, Glasgow International Comedy Festival and Brighton Fringe. It previews at Edinburgh Fringe from the 10th – 19th August 2025.
Contradictory characters flicker between earnest and absurd, sincere and surreal, reflecting the overwhelm of trying to pin down what matters in a world that never stands still. Beneath it all is a desperate longing for connection and understanding: a search for depth in a culture that keeps us skimming the surface.
Lawrence Dodd
Lawrence Dodd is a london-based alternative comedian and clown who has won over audiences around the UK with his unique blend of spontaneity, sensitivity and 'never-defined but ever-present air of chaos' (Reviews Hub). He has trained with established practitioners such as Julia Masli, Dan Lees, Spymonkey, Dr Brown, Bryony Kimmings and Hannah Bolou.
Lawrence's work draws on the spontaneity and openness of contemporary clowning, the improvisational risk and audience interplay of performance art, and the restless, experimental energy of his years with Housewives – a band known for weaving together abrasive textures and unexpected euphoria. A longstanding Buddhist practice quietly informs his approach, bringing a sensitivity to uncertainty and a focus on presence that runs through the work. As a neurodivergent artist, Lawrence's perspective is shaped by a mind that finds connections and absurdities where others might not, giving the show an off-kilter and unpredictable energy, where tangents and sudden shifts reflect the quality of the neurodivergent mind.
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