Pleasance Dome Archives - One4Review
Joz Norris: You Wait. Time Passes. 4****
August 21, 2025 | one4reviewJoz Norris seems to have made for himself a specialism of thinking himself into knots and putting his shows in danger of disappearing up their own fundament. This show teeters along the edge of profundity, built around a deeply felt … Read More
Rachel Galvo: The Shite Feminist 4****
August 9, 2025 | one4reviewRachel Galvo with this show unapologetically makes a space for comedy by and primary about women. She commands the stage in a way that is emblematic of an apparent trend for women in comedy: doing comedy that is properly their … Read More
Monstering the Rocketman by Henry Naylor 4****
August 4, 2025 | one4reviewHenry Naylor returns to the Fringe with Monstering the Rocketman, a gripping one-man show based on the real-life 1987 libel battle between Elton John and The Sun. In a sold-out Ace Dome, Naylor plays a fictional journalist, one … Read More
One Man Musical by Flo & Joan 4.5****
August 17, 2024 | one4reviewTake your friends and see this show in a crowd, even if they – or you – don’t know anything about musicals, because this is an absolute blast, and you’ll want company to squee and relive the experience with afterwards. … Read More
Luke Rollason, Luke Rollason, Let Down Your Hair 4.5****
August 16, 2024 | one4reviewLuke Rollason’s show is an excellent and very entertaining hour of comedy, performed clown-style by a skinny wiry man in pink with endless facial expressions, doubtless coming from mime training, who really looks the part. Traditionally clown shows are tedious … Read More
Glass Ceiling Beneath The Stars – 4****
August 15, 2023 | one4reviewThis is a dramatization of a film being made about two groundbreaking astronauts in the US – Mae Jemison and Jan Davis. All five cast members take turns in filming the action and so the drama unfolds on the … Read More
Pete Heat : Huge 5*****
August 5, 2023 | one4reviewThis 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
Joz Norris: Blink 4.5****
August 22, 2022 | one4reviewThere’s something about this show that makes it feel like a profound and spiritual experience, but when you reach for what exactly the nature of that profundity was, it dissipates like smoke. There’s so much going on with this show, … Read More
Chris Turner: Rap God 4.5****
August 12, 2022 | one4reviewChris Turner is on the YouTubes, and if you’ve seen his videos, you might wonder how an hour might be filled. Surely whole show of freestyle raps would become a bit repetitive for any but the hardcore hip hop fans? … Read More
The Red – 4****
August 25, 2019 | one4reviewA new play by Marcus Brigstocke, his writing and directing debut, and very much a personal piece of work, given his own past addictions. The setting is the interior of a wine cellar into which enters Benedict, played by Sam … Read More
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