Becky Umbers: Big Bad Beck and Three Little Pigs 4****

Becky Umbers is an award-winning New Zealand Comedian with a very unique voice, an audience member describes it as a ‘Kiwi with a cold’ but personally she thinks it sounds more like a Seagull, so when she walks in the … Read More

Eddy Hare: This One’s On Me 4****

Eddy Hare’s comedy show This One’s On Me is a delightful blend of dry wit and wry observations, marking him as a promising new talent in the comedy scene. At 31 years old, Hare describes himself as an “early bloomer” … Read More

Bad Clowns: HOSTAGE – 4****

Let’s set the scene.

The audience have arrived to watch the opening performance of the extremely serious and earnest performance of the equally earnest and serious play The Worrisome Troubles of Timothy Potts. However, this script was stolen and the … Read More

Dr Dolittle Kills a Man (and Reads Extracts From His New Book) – 5*****

As might be obvious from its title, this show is a raging, manic mishmash of character comedy and anarchic jokes. Aidan Pittman plays the famous veterinarian with the ability to talk to the animals as he recounts one of his … Read More

SILENCE! The Musical – The Unauthorised Parody of The Silence of the Lambs 4****

The award winning Silence! The Musical finally comes to Edinburgh. Started life in 2005 at the New York International Fringe Festival and has had multiple productions in Chicago, London, and Off Broadway, gaining a loyal cult following

To the … Read More

Rosie Holt : Why We Were Right – 4 stars.

Comedian Rosie Holt brings her condescending Tory alter ego Rosie Holt MP back to the Fringe.

Things have changed for Rosie Holt MP over the last couple of months. Labour has swept into power, which is horrible timing as she … Read More

Sorry (I Broke Your Arms and Legs) – 5*****

It probably speaks to my disposition that, for whatever reason, nothing sells me on a Fringe show quicker than the mention that it contains a PowerPoint Presentation as it’s main narrative device. In Sorry (I Broke Your Arms and Legs), … Read More

Solve It Squad – 5*****

The pitch of this show is simple – The Scooby-Doo Gang All Grown Up (and Minus the Dog). And that was all I needed for it to pull me in. Scooby-Doo is the sort of cultural artifact that now seems … Read More

Plotters – 4****

Plotters tells the story of four eccentric criminals around the turn of the 19th Century who have a very specialised and specific vocation – bodysnatching. The subject seems an appropriate one for Edinburgh, where fear of body snatching was once … Read More

Buffy Revamped – 5*****

If you’re of a certain age and of a certain nerdiness there is little to no chance you didn’t go through a phase of watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which recounted the spooky adventures of a super-powered teenage girl who … Read More