The Lost Matriarch 2 – 3***

This is a fast paced sketch show with a message. We are taken to the The Lost Matriarch. It is a world where women are fasculine and men are meminine. It is a concept which is initially hard to get … Read More

Jane Hill – Addicted to Fun – 5*****

Jane Hill is a recovering alcoholic. She used, she tells us in various tales from her past, to be fun. But fun and alcohol were too linked, and when she quit one, the other seemed to vanish.

A career in … Read More

A Political Breakfast – 3***

Host Chris O’Neill introduces us to the panel who will be debating the issues of the day, despite how very early, in Fringe time, in the day it is. The hour doesn’t stop the room being full, with further people … Read More

Adventures in Dementia: Steve Day – 4****

Some shows move you, some shows make you laugh, rare shows manage both – and occasionally, as with this, both in the same sentences.

Steve Day, best known as Britain’s only deaf comedian, does have to start off explaining his … Read More

Nicky Wilkinson: Happy – 3***

As the audience settle in, Nicky Wilkinson hands out sheets of stickers, and the crowd divide themselves into two teams – Movers and Shakers. She also makes it clear that the show is just about being – and making ourselves … Read More

Alistair Williams:- Great White Male 4****

It is true that Alistair Williams falls into the demographic of a privileged white male comedian, but is it his fault? He is trying to forge a career doing something he loves, having given up a far more lucrative job … Read More

Mark Simmons:- Onelinerer 4****

I suppose that it is not everyone that can say that they love a one liner, but judging the crowds attending Simmons gigs there are quite a lot and such fellow comics as Tim Vine, Gary Delaney, Stu Francis and … Read More

Leo Kearse: Right-Wing Comedian 4****

My politics are generally left-leaning, so I went to this show expecting a bit of cognitive dissonance and having to suspend my distaste in order to give a fair review. Turns out I haven’t had to suspend it as much … Read More

The Freedom Machine 2**

Elaine Gallagher presents two of her interests – cycling and the rise of enfranchisement for men and women in the last hundred years – in a lecture/stand up hybrid that doesn’t really work as either. The show starts with five … Read More

Bodily 4****

A word to describe Mr Lane would be ‘underappreciated’, and that word is not hyphenated. He’s got the perfect stage presence to match the kind of comedy he does (utterly self-confident; kinda kooky) and an eye for the silly and … Read More