Baron Vordenburg’s Guide to the Paranormal – Dark Pony Productions 3***

Baron Vordenburg is the world’s leading expert in one very specific thing – hunting and killing monsters. More specifically, vampires. And in the special seminar version of his Guide to the Paranormal, he promises to tell you how.

A play … Read More

Laser Kiwi – Everybody Knows – 5*****

Returning with their brand new show “about ideas that are good, and ideas that are so bad they’re good”, Laser Kiwi bring their own special blend of sketches, comedy, circus acrobatics and weirdness to the Fringe.

A New Zealand trio … Read More

Mick McNeill: I’m Not Anything – 4****

Mick McNeill is clocking up the comedy miles. A regular on the Scottish circuit and fresh from opening for Connor Burns, he’s now stepping up with his debut Fringe hour I’m Not Anything. On this form, he’s showing exactly how that leap … Read More

Daisy Earl: Rattle – 4****

Daisy Earl strolls on with a grin, antennae up and tuned in from the start. She has nothing to prove. The only woman ever to win Scottish Comedian of the Year — which looks impressive on a poster — but … Read More

This is your trial! The fully improvised comedy courtroom 4****

A courtroom set up where the audience accuses their friends and family of crimes and the comedian hosts take on the roles of the judge and lawyers. The others in the audience help decide whether the accused is guilty … Read More

Samantha Day: The Great British Menu (of Petty Complaints) – 4****

Some Fringe shows lean on glitz, lights, and polish. Samantha Day goes the other way — with a lo-fi, almost game-show format that pits the “immatures” against the “matures” in a battle over life’s tiniest irritations. And it works a … Read More

Jazz Emu: The Pleasure is All Yours – 5*****

Returning again to the Fringe, Jazz Emu – the debonair musical maestro alter-ego of comedian Archie Henderson – has a new show that is designed to do one thing, make his entire audience fully gruntled.

A social media sensation, Jazz … Read More

Carlos Sandin: Pull My Goldfinger – 4****

When I went to go see a clown show about James Bond, I wasn’t expecting it to start with a fully naked man imitating an ape knuckle-walking around the stage and then assembling a clarinet to the strains of Thus … Read More

A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception – 5*****

Detectives in the 1920s are, for whatever reason, an evergreen pasture for theatre productions (just look at the Mousetrap). Adding to that ever expanding oeuvre is the not-so-neatly-named A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception from Shoddy Theatre and … Read More

Achilles, Death of the Gods – 5*****

A classical tale of romance and tragedy, Achilles, Death of the Gods is a masterclass in storytelling from writer and performer Jo Kelen.

In this powerful one-woman show Kelen retells the story of Achilles, the greatest warrior of the Greeks … Read More