Michelle Brasier – It’s a Shame We Won’t Be Friends Next Year 4 1/2****

Michelle Brasier isn’t just a name on a poster — she’s something of an Australian cultural institution. The girl from Wagga Wagga — which, she gleefully informs us, is the teenage pregnancy capital of the world — has bulldozed her … Read More

Stuart Murphy: Little Earthquakes 4****

Stuart Murphy takes the stage.. several times — it’s clear this is completely improvised. He talks us through his recent catastrophic audiences, and it sets the tone for the evening. At 23:30, in a room of maybe 15 or 16 … Read More

Simon Evans : Staring At the Sun 3***

This may seem like an odd title for a show in Edinburgh and Simon explains that the title is taken from Coleridge’s epic poem Kubla Khan. Oh that explains it! The relevance is lost on me and perhaps most of … Read More

Chloe Petts – Big Naturals 5*****

Chloe Petts is fast becoming a Fringe institute, 3 previous critically acclaimed Fringe shows, sold out signs from the get-go. And now she is a reluctant role model.

Chloe has a packed hour mostly featuring her love of the ‘lad … Read More

Tiff Stevenson – Post-Coital 4 ½ ****

It has been quite a number of years that I have been seeing Tiff Stevenson perform at the Fringe and it is a guarantee that it will always be a quality hour and this is no exception.

With a late … Read More

Scatter: A Horror Play 4.5****

I don’t like horror — but Scatter blew my socks off.

A compelling, horrific story told with elegant pacing, confidence, and clarity. It begins simply: a young man, a chair, and a backlight. Calm, earnest, and completely relatable, he sits … Read More

John Robertson’s The Dark Room – 5*****

Back to the Fringe with its ever growing cult of followers, John Robertson’s The Dark Room is once again delighting and terrorising audiences as they try to navigate through its fiendish maze of multiple choice options to, potentially, finally, … Read More

Stamptown – 4****

It was at the point when a group of people in morph suits with baseball caps and gold chains were rave dancing while a man did some impeccable spins on his roller-skates as the crowd sang along to a … Read More

Sophie Banister- Let Me Be the Cool Aunt 4****

This show is set in one of the most comfortable Fringe venues I have ever been in so sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

Sophie starts the show with guitar in hand and a singalong which cleverly gets the … Read More

Ian Smith: Foot Spa Half Empty 5*****

It’s Tuesday lunchtime*, yet the room is full and the crowd eager.  Ian Smith is clearly happy that his regulars are back and that his fame is spreading, but especially that the quality of his flyers have been remarked upon … Read More