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Janine Harouni: Man’oushe at Edinburgh festival review — deft dispatches from the third trimester

★★★☆☆Catch Janine Harouni’s new show while you can. Not only has there been a four-year wait since the American comic’s tremendous solo debut here, in which she outlined her differences from and reconciliation with her Trump-supporting father, but she is more than eight months pregnant. She should make it to the end of the run – but jokes that the front row is the splashback area.

And yes, her pregnancy – and why it’s important to keep going like she is, after serious problems along the way – is very much a part of this second show, as is her marriage to the father of her child, the Irish comedian and film-maker Andrew Nolan. The stakes, you’d think, couldn’t be higher, and the themes

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