Remember your first week of university?

Those awkward conversations about your where you’re from, the endless repetition of course choice and the terror of chatting to someone whose name you just cannot remember. The drinking, the flirting, the pressure of the first impression.

London got its first Parade in 2007 when Jason Robert Brown's and Alfred Uhry's hard-hitting musical, full of Southern manners and Georgia antisemitism, was staged at the Donmar. The true story at the show's core concerns the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a Brooklyn Jew wrongly convicted by an Atlanta jury of murdering a 13-year-old girl.

There's long been a debate about whether the Holocaust is a suitable subject for comedy. Meryl O'Rourke crashes through it, with this raw, deeply personal, engaging and ultimately cathartic Edinburgh debut solo show that places her family's trauma in Germany shortly before the Second World War at the heart of her racy act.

A nugget of a show, this, inspired by the Israel-Palestinian conflict, which combines biographical, biblical and mythological elements, and sprinkles in a measure of dark fantasy.

On the opening night of this wonderful feel-good show, London was under siege by rioting mobs.