Will Shea, Won’t Shea 4****

Will Shea, Won’t Shea is a really well written, directed and performed queer rom-com that lovingly parodies all the tropes rife in the best of them – falling in love with a best friend, road trip upended by a snowstorm, … Read More

Colin Hoult: Colin 5*****

Colin Hoult has been a fringe stalwart performing as his alter ego Anna Mann. To whom we said goodbye 2 years ago. Now Colin is back with a new show all about well, Colin. Fans of Anna Mann, a camp … Read More

John Luke Roberts: John-Luke-A-Palooza! 5*****

John Luke Roberts starts his show, after a bit of ‘business’ to get his audience into the mood he needs, by proposing that Edith Piaf regretted five things.

The show has no storytelling or narrative arc, being fundamentally about innumerable … Read More

BATSU! – 2.5 **’

BATSU as you will be gleefully told if attending this show is Japanese for “punishment”. The story goes that at one point in the ancient past, Batsu no Akuma, the Japanese Spirit of Punishment, was sealed within a sacred gong. … Read More

Jazz Emu: Knight Fever 4****

Jazz Emu, the arrogant, urbane and oddly 1970’s themed musical mastermind persona of Archie Henderson is an act to keep an eye on. With a strong and ever-growing online following, he’s moving from short TikTok music videos up to TV … Read More

Dreamgun: Film Reads – 4.5****’

Film Reads, like all the best shows, has a very simple idea that is just so perfect it sells itself. The Dreamgun team take a very well known film, rewrite the script to load it full of jokes and then … Read More

Elf Lyons – Horses 5*****

I am always intrigued as to what Elf Lyons can conjure up for each years Fringe performance as this multi-talented comic, actress, clown, mime artist and director always produces something out of the ordinary and this was no exception. And … Read More

Harriet Kemsley – Everything Always Works Out for Me 4.5****

A packed venue, multiple cameras filming proceedings heralded the arrival of Harriet Kemsley to the stage. The scene is set for her hour. Bounding onto her stage it is fair to say that Harriet grabs the attention from the get-go. … Read More

Elaine Malcolmson – Joik 4****

It has been a while since I have seen Elaine Malcolmson on stage but that was put right when I saw her latest offering Joik. Northern Irish, but living in Glasgow has always been a purveyor of stories, funny stories … Read More

Lucy Porter – No Regrets 4 1/2 ****

Lucy Porter first performed at the Fringe in 1992, she opens with, and has been a virtual ever-present since. She has played all the big venues and gathered a regular army of fans. It was little surprise therefore when hiding … Read More