1000 Tiny Birds: 2025 edition

Ahir Shah - Work In Progress

Monkey Barrel, 2025-08-17

Ahir Shah finally comes to Edinburgh with a WIP that actually feels like a WIP, after 2023’s main-prize-winning effort. That’s not a criticism! I’d be loathed to talk too much about details given it’s a WIP, but I’d say there’s a lot of big laughs, a lot of big thoughts, and right now those two exist in broadly separate sections of the show. Not quite two disparate circles in a Venn diagram, but close. When he gets the structure right, this could be better than Ends. Of the big thoughts, they’re eruditely written and performed, and I found them oddly affecting at times, the devotion to the idea of having the person who loves you the most in your life day after day.