RSA Edinburgh preview: Tom Towelling & Celya AB
Tom Towelling and Celya AB close out the RSA's June preview season with new Edinburgh-bound shows, performed live at RSA House one month before the Fringe.
Why we picked this
The final night of the RSA's June preview run, with Tom Towelling and Celya AB closing out a season that has quietly become one of the better ways to track who's worth watching at Edinburgh before the reviews land.
The RSA’s Edinburgh Preview Season closes on June 25 with Tom Towelling and Celya AB, the final night of a four-week run that has become a reliable early indicator of who will make noise at the Fringe. Both performers bring new hour-length shows to the RSA House stage, with Edinburgh just weeks away.
Celya AB has been one of the more talked-about voices in British comedy over the past few seasons, developing a style that blends personal narrative with an acute sense of absurdity. Tom Towelling brings a different energy — more physically rooted, with a sense of craft that tends to land quietly before the full effect registers. Sharing a bill at RSA House, they make for a final evening that is worth catching before the shows pick up festival momentum.
The preview format at the RSA is informal by design: a small room, early runs of work in progress, and an audience that has sought out the show before any critical framing tells them what to think. That openness is the thing the format offers, and June 25 is the last chance this season to experience it.