Li Jin Hao’s award-nominated Edinburgh show, *Falling from a Moon*, is praised as a confident and inventive exploration of nostalgia, memory and the challenge of living in the present. Moving between his current life in London, his childhood in China and youth in Singapore, and an unresolved past romance, the stand-up uses myths and sharply observed jokes to examine the pull of looking back.

The review describes the show as a significant advance on Li’s 2024 debut, with a more assured stage presence and consistently elegant writing. Its routines range from public transport and language to virginity and classical myth, while its central message is that dwelling on the past can be harmful; the reviewer’s main reservation is that the ending states this theme too explicitly. The show runs at Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, until 30 August.