The Man who discovered the Kama Sutra

Tim FitzHigham’s brand of comedy is frantic. He fires out words like machine gun bullets and his humour hits the target. He celebrates the accomplishments of his hero Captain Sir Richard Burton, the translator of the Kama Sutra. Burton … Read More

Marcia Brown – The Unsung Diva

Tameka Empson’s parody of a fictional Motown singing star works a treat. Marcia Brown is the singer who has worked with all the greats, Marvin and Smokey for example, but don’t mention Diana Ross.  Her comedy patter got off … Read More

Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe

It has been an awful lot of years since this former Flying Pickett first presented this ‘Best of Show’ and it is one of the most enduring to be found in the entire Fringe brochure. The format is the … Read More

Mary Rose

J.M.Barrie’s play Mary Rose is remarkable – part comedy, part mystery and part romance. Theatre Alba’s production does the play full justice. Mary Rose first appears in the play as an 18 year old girl and subsequently as a … Read More

Love in (3) Parts

Yes there are three people on stage but this is no ménage a trios. The three parts of love refer to falling in love, finding things that irritate, then missing them, and this is the basics of the story … Read More

Michael McIntyre: Live at the Pleasance

It was a few years ago that I last saw Michael McIntyre and then he was a definitely up and coming young comic, but was playing in the sauna that is the rather small Pleasance Attic. Things have moved … Read More

Love Labours Won by Ryan J-W Smith  

I am not, and never will be, a fan of William Shakespeare or his work, and I know this makes me somewhat of a philistine, but hey that’s life. The Rogue Shakespeare Company however, well that’s a different story … Read More

Love Intrigues

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Land on my Tongue

Contradictions abound in this comedy of the absurd, written and directed by Hugh Jordan. There is the girl (Helen Plummer) who is fishing in a pond with no fish and who is much older than she looks; there is … Read More

Micky Flanagan – What Chance Change 

Geoff first saw Micky Flanagan some time ago with Nina Conti as they shared a show. This is Micky’s first full Fringe show, it describes his life so far, from school, to becoming a porter at Billingsgate Fish Market, … Read More