one4review | On 16, Aug 2025

After a six-year absence Bec Hill makes a long-awaited return to the Fringe. I would say with her new show, but she is at pains to tell us, even has it projected on a screen, ‘This is not a show’.

She relates that when she signed up to Fringe 2025, she thought she would have a show ready,  but it didn’t transpire.

What we get is a bit of the ’vintage’ Bec, slightly wacky ideas, audience interaction, a brief history of her life, marriage, divorce and living arrangements over the preceding few years.

Bec has always had an element of the surreal about her performances and that is evident occasionally. She is inventive, using mixed media at times. A blowup bed also plays its part trough out, and then of course there are the flipcharts. Ms Hill is a master at producing these which have aways been a delight to the audience and still are today.

I agree that this is probably not yet a show. It is more of a work in progress and is possibly needing a director. It was good to see Bec back. Hopefully it won’t be another six years before this happens again.

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Reviewed by Geoff

Gilded Balloon Appleton Tower Ruby

19.00 to 20.00

Until 24^th August