Richard Fry: O Starry Night 4.5****

Stories about people going through difficult and awful things shouldn’t result in an entertaining, informative and above all, uplifting show, but Richard Fry pulls that feat off with aplomb.

This isn’t stand up in the laugh-after-every-few-sentences style. This is storytelling; … Read More

A Table Tennis Play – Walrus/Theatre Royal Plymouth – 4****

In a wonderfully bleak, vaulted venue, a table tennis table takes centre stage with a pit full of table tennis balls separating the audience from the stage. The setting is an old basement air raid shelter under a big house … Read More

Art Heist – Poltergeist – 4****

Three different burglars prepare to steal a painting from an art gallery, all for different reasons and all by adopting different methods of entry. Rosa is disguised as a chef and manages to gain access through the service entrance to … Read More

John Robins:- Hot Shame 4.5****

John Robins shared the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 with his ‘break-up show’ and he is back this year selling out big rooms and exhibiting all the skills and more with his 2018 offering Hot Shame. Robins classes himself as … Read More

Stewart Francis:- Into the Punset 4****

For more than twelve years Canadian funny man Stewart Francis has been retaking delighted audiences up and down the country with his oh so clever gags, puns and one-liners, but beware he is stopping at the end of the year. … Read More

Basil Brush’s Family Fun Show 4****

I remember Basil Brush from my childhood with Mr Derek and Mr Roy and the cheeky fox hasn’t changed a bit although he has a new side kick, Mr Martin, played by Martin Cable Reid who was a Britain’s Got … Read More

Felix and the Scooterman:- Self-Help Yourself Famous 3***

So what happens to popstars when the hits dry up? Many things I suppose but the two remaining of The Hoosiers, Irwin Sparkes and Alan Sharland have reinvented themselves as former pop sensations Felix and the Scooterman, and are running … Read More

Flo and Joan:- Before they are Screaming 4****

Yes Flo and Joan are actually sisters, but you wouldn’t immediately guess that by looking at them. Neither are they really called Flo and Joan, but that doesn’t matter. What they are is very talented women who know how to … Read More

Bubble Show – Milkshake and the Winter Bubble 4****

Kurt Murray and Lulia Benze, aka Dr Bubble and Milkshake create a brand-new theatre show every year. For 2019 they perform an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl using puppets, costume changes and of course lots of … Read More

Rubbish Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4****

The problem with reviewing shows with a seven-year old is that we sometimes disagree on what constitutes a great show – which is very much the case with this show. The Rubbish Shakespeare Company is a quartet of hilarious and … Read More