Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Previews, Battersea Arts Centre

You can enjoy the comedy highlights of Edinburgh Fringe Festival right here in London. Happily for those of us unable to head to Scotland every August, it's a tradition for comedians to preview their new shows at Battersea Arts Centre ahead of the festival. It's an opportunity to discover new talents and enjoy a whole lot of a laughs.

As ever, the line up is a mixture of established comics such as Felicity Ward and James Acaster, and emerging talents, with a wide variety of styles to suit every different sense of humour. Find the line-up here and Culture Whisper's highlights below.

Denim: Work in Progress
8:30pm, 11 July
Drag Queen comedy troupe Denim bring their irresistible brand of sass and sequins back to London after a smash-hit world tour. Forget nights in wathing Rupaul on Netflix and let Glamrou La Denim, Aphrodite Greene, Crystal Vaginova, Elektra Cute & Shirley DuNaughty entertain you.

Adam Riches: Work in Progress
8:30pm, 16 July
Award-winning comic Adam Riches treats us a triple serving of laughs, with a medley of the best material from all three of the shows he will be peforming at Edinburgh Fringe this year. Get ready for a combination of sports movie mash-up, Mediaval romp and character monologue. Whatever happens, with that ecclectic mixuture, you won't be bored.

Graham Dickson: Work in Progress
8:30pm, 24 July
Comedian Graham Dickson (Austentatious) and director Hamish MacDougal invite you to join them in a surreal, silly future where Hollywood is no more. After the cameras and money and glamour what's left. The women have all left, and in their place is a lonely world of men and movie relics.

Ayesha Hazarika: Work in Progress
8:30pm, 26 July
Ayesha Hazarika, MBE may have started out as a stand-up comedian. But her career took a suprising detour when she ditched the regional comedy clubs to work alongside Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband as a Labour Party Special Advisor. The two diverging experiences came together in her successful debut show Sate of The Nation, which made Hazarika a sought-after commentator for papers and TV shows. Come and she what she has up her sleeve next.