Seymour Mace – Squeg

3 Star

***   

Seymour Mace is a hugely likeable comedian who has been doing it kinda tough over the last couple of years, so it was good to see a sell out show on the performance I attended.

He always … Read More

Gavin Webster – Bill Hicks Wasn’t Very Good

4 Star

**** 

No one could ever accuse Gavin Webster of not creating an impression. Whether with it is with his somewhat controversial show title or even his imposing stage presence it is a brave person to ignore him. Also … Read More

Chaz Royal’s Sexy Circus Sideshow

3 Star

***

This show is exactly what it says on the tin. An example of circus sideshows acts liberally mixed with sexy burlesque dancers, the whole shooting match loosely held together by Joe Black on the night I attended … Read More

Pete Johansson – Utopian Crack Pipe

4 Star

**** 

Pete Johansson is one of seemingly thousands of top class Canadian comics around at the moment, and although living in the UK for a number of years and he is trying to assimilate  it seems it is … Read More

Dead Cat Bounce – Howl of the She-Leopard

*****

Imagine Journey, Foreigner and Whitesnake somehow combined to make one band with a guitarist/vocalist, bassist and drummer, but the songs they made were about Australian immigration stats, rugby and Christians in love. They even look the part with the … Read More

Playing Politics

*****

This is a five star show all round. The music is impeccable: guitar, vocals, harmonies and solos. The sound across the speakers is great. The songs – which you’ll know the tunes to ‘but not the lyrics’ – are … Read More

Tom Lauri: Good With His Fingers

**

After a slightly wobbly start, this was a very pleasing show. Tom Lauri is indeed ‘good with his fingers’, and classic and simple magic was performed with skill and panache and no, I couldn’t see how he … Read More

Dream/Life

***

This play is a lot less surreal that the fringe blurb might lead you to believe. It actually has a rather classical narrative structure, with a beginning, some conflict, and a resolution. After the first five minutes … Read More

The Great Puppet Horn

****

My only criticism of this show is that it could have done with a bigger screen for the size and shape of the room. Everything else was fantastic. Two men sit to the sides of a screen … Read More

Monkey Bars

*****

The concept of this production is deceptively simple: children’s words about their lives are spoken by adults acting out adult situations. There’s the interview of the famous person, the date, the job interview, the politicians speechifying. There … Read More