Tessa Coates: Get Your Tessa Coates You’ve Pulled 4****

This show starts at a solid ‘good’ and improves immediately from there to achieve ‘excellent’ about half way through. Material and presentation aside, this is almost entirely due to Ms Coates’ skill in grabbing the audience by the emotions and … Read More

Tiff Stevenson – Sexy Brain 4.5 ****

I thought I knew who I was going to see prior to entering this show. I have been watching Tiff Stevenson perform for more than a decade, so why am I watching a ‘Karen’? Tiff expounds on the fact that … Read More

Njambi McGrath: Black Black 3***

I overheard another audience member at the end of the show remark upon the fact that Ms McGrath had chosen to do this show here, I think with the implication that it was a brave and perhaps risky choice. Ms … Read More

Glenn Moore- Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, Glenn I’m 64 5*****

Glenn Moore has always been a comic you can rely on since he first graced the Fringe back in 2016 and is always one of the first comedians I set out to see, so it was no real surprise to … Read More

I Am Not Victoria Wood 4****

What does a Victoria Wood tribute act do when the work dries up? This dilemma forces Maddie North, runner up to Lennie Henry in ‘Better Than The Real Thing’, into a box room at her mother’s house. To keep her … Read More

Bacon – Pip Utton 5*****

This year’s fringe is blessed with another stand out performance by Pip Utton. On a sunny afternoon in the Pleasance Rear Courtyard venue, Pip enthralled his audience with his fascinating portrayal of Francis Bacon. As the audience arrived at the … Read More

Ben Pope: Dancing Bear 4****

Ben Pope seems like a lovely, warm fellow, without a cynical thought in his head or malice for anyone. He didn’t even have anything particularly negative to say about the sassy, nonchalant ghost, just accepted it, decided to find it … Read More

Superhero Academy – Environmental Adventure! – 5*****

“Awesome” was the verdict of my nine year old, and from the happy faces and queue for photos afterwards, she wasn’t alone in that opinion.

This was part ‘training camp’ part lesson in being environmentally friendly, and all lots of … Read More

Anna and Helen: Stuck in a Rat 4****

Anna and Helen get everywhere in this show, burbling about on stage as we file in, handing hapless and terrified reviewers party poppers and key roles in their introductory sequence, doubling up with exquisite timing via a video link, and … Read More

Wireless Operator – Silksheen Productions – 5*****

As we enter the venue, we are also boarding a Lancaster Bomber about to embark on a raid over Germany in 1944. The engines are already running, ready to take off, but our view is only of the internal wireless … Read More