Marlon Solomon’s new one-man black comedy Conspiracy theory: A Lizard’s Tale about conspiracy theory and links to rising antisemitism, racism and extremism has just kicked off at the Edinburgh Fringe. The show centres on Solomon’s “bizarre and terrifying” journey through the dark underworld of conspiracism as a Jew (and, of course, reptilian overlord of the human race).
“It’s a show explaining the relationship between conspiracy theories and antisemitism, and it talks about how that’s got into mainstream British politics,” he says.
“A lot of Jewish people woke up in 2016 and started seeing antisemitism on their social media feeds and didn’t really understand it and have had to learn about it. The show is the audience watching me learn about what antisemitism is.”
Writing a comedy about such a dark subject came with “great difficulty” but Solomon says “doing the show is the cathartic bit” as he is “taking revenge on the antisemites.”
