Marcel Lucont: Les Enfants Terribles – A Gameshow For Awful Children 4.5****

Marcel Lucont (aka Alexis Dubus) has created a winner of a children’s show – indeed it already is award-winning – appealing to children from 3 upwards, while also entertaining the parents.

Leading the children’s gameshow in his … Read More

Pete Heat : Huge 5*****

This is very smart modern magic.  Pete Heat is engaging, very cool, laid back, and very tall!  This has to be acknowledged right from the start.  Just in case, in this small venue, and with all this surreal magic going … Read More

Madeleine Hamilton: Piping Hot 3.5***

With her laid back Texas drawl and sparkly eyeshadow, Ms Hamilton is perhaps not who you’d be expecting to march on stage playing the bagpipes, as she herself acknowledges. But she can play them, and she’s qualified to lead us … Read More

Goose’s Quizzes Elimination Game 5*****

Goose’s Quizzes have been strutting about Edinburgh since 2011 hosting evenings of trivia. They even did their bit on-line during the pandemic and now they are here for the Fringe, bursting with energy, for Goose’s Quizzes Elimination Game. 

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Olivia Xing: Party School 2.5**

Ms Xing is a non-native speaker of English, and though there are some good comedy bones in this show, they were a little obscured – for me as a native speaker – by the non-native prosody and intonation. Any deserved … Read More

10,000 Ideas 4****

This show definitely delivers on the title; it’s also in a tiny sauna of a room where the stage lights are about a foot above the (seated) audience’s heads, so do take in some water. Despite that, and because of … Read More

Nicola Macri: Single Entendre 4****

Confident, warm and friendly performer Nicola Macri doesn’t need to worry about reviewers in the audience of a preview show; on the strength of this first performance, she deserves full houses and (at least) a small constellation of stars.

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Jay Lafferty – Bahookie 5*****

Jay Lafferty has always been an outstanding comedian and a much sought after name on the comedy circuit as well as making frequent appearances on TV and radio, and of course now a regular performer of her solo shows at … Read More

Mario the Maker Magician – 5*****

As we enter we see a box with “Robot magic” centre stage and before we know it a riot of fun ensues. Mario, our charismatic magician bursts onto the stage causing almost instant and infectious chaos in the best possible … Read More

Polko – 4****

Polko is a play set within the confines of a car. There are three main protagonists – Joe, the car owner, Emma his erstwhile schoolfriend and Peter the previous owner of the car. Of the three, Joe appears to be … Read More