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Struggling to decide what to see this August at the Edinburgh Fringe? Check out these recommendations for shows at just one of the festival's many performance spaces.
Dogs Are Better Than People
, written and performed by Sarah Hunter, and developed and directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson, is an eccentric romp through drinking, bad men, and fabulous dogs who each tell Sarah s story. But why, you may ask, does Sarah Hunter truly believe that Dogs are better than people? Could it be the canines in her life might be better at telling the truth about life s trials and tribulations, as well as the many joys, they have experienced with her in life?
In tribute to all her knowledgeable dogs over the years, the writer/performer decided to let them tell her story. Lilly the Airedale. along with the Chiweenie duo Koa and Louis the Fourteenth, and several others spill all about her humorous journey - beginning with her divorce in Chicago, frustration, bad relationships, to revelation and celebration in finding a working relationship in sobriety with Matthew, the man who appreciates both her and her dogs.