Edinburgh Fringe debut (30 July - 25 Aug) @ Underbelly

FURNITURE BOYS was just reviewed by The Guardian with a glowing 4-star review for its debut run at Ed Fringe.

The Guardian calls FURNITURE BOYS: “Ridiculous and revelatory”; “witty… ingenious”; “Weitzman’s show keeps revealing hidden depths.”

The Guardian writes: “She also achieves a feat that many fringe comedians don’t manage as she makes a whole out of familiar elements: a wacky concept, heartfelt memoir, multimedia diversions, the story of her show’s own creation and a closing cri de coeur for artistic pursuits. It is a very well-made play.”

Info for FURNITURE BOYS at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Underbelly!

Reviews of FURNITURE BOYS at Ed Fringe:

The Guardian (4 stars); The Student (4.5 stars); The Derek Awards (5 stars); One4Review (4 stars)

Written & Performed by Emily Weitzman

Directed by Kate Doyle

Cinematography by Shih Ying Hu

In absurdist comedy FURNITURE BOYS from writer-performer Emily Weitzman, boyfriends are armchairs, lampshades and futons. Hailed as "hilarious," "weirdly poignant," and "loopily, luminously charming," FURNITURE BOYS explores how furniture endures, but boyfriends – not so much. Blending theatre, comedy, clown, spoken word and furniture showroom, this one-woman show has been called "imaginative, thoughtful, playful, hilarious and relentlessly, infectiously joyous" (The Buzz).

Written and performed by Emily Weitzman, originally directed by Rachel Resnik, and with PEN Award finalist Kate Doyle directing its Edinburgh Fringe debut, FURNITURE BOYS premiered off-Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse Lighthouse Series in 2024 (where it won "Theatre’s Choice"), before taking on the Island Fringe in Canada and Orlando Fringe’s selective FestN4, where it was awarded "The Fringiest Show."

A tale of pull-out couches and break-ups and art-making, FURNITURE BOYS explores the impermanence of a relationship, an artistic project, a person, a chair, a self.

“Weitzman… has a winning way about her," The Orlando Sentinel writes. Calling the show "a meditation on permanence, expectations and letting go… You just might go home and hug your favorite ottoman.”

Edinburgh Fringe debut (30 July - 25 Aug) @ Underbelly

A tale of pull-out couches and break-ups and art-making, FURNITURE BOYS explores the impermanence of a relationship, an artistic project, a person, a chair, a self.

“Weitzman… has a winning way about her," The Orlando Sentinel writes. Calling the show "a meditation on permanence, expectations and letting go… You just might go home and hug your favorite ottoman.”

"Furniture," writes one reviewer, "has never been more moving."