one4review | On 04, Sep 2026

Priscilla Patton, heir to a Canadian dairy fortune, is proud to call herself the “most prominent influencer in the Greater Sudbury Area over the age of 40” with her specific brand of lactose-based content (including cheese facial creams). The only cloud in her sky is the ongoing harassment from hateful vegans until an event shakes the very foundations of the dairy industry. Local women are being terrorised by a man wearing only a tiny amount of cheese over his Babybels making lude cheese puns. Desperate to protect women and the good name of dairy (or, at least, regain some of her lost limelight) Priscilla dons her deerstalker and gets ready to catch this cheese pervert.

Starring Arleigh Curran as the titular heroine and José Andres Bordas as everyone else, Catching a Cheese Pervert is, as you might guess from the title, a very silly show and it’s not afraid to lean into the daftness with liberal use of puppets, fun voices and comedy characters. The story itself is a lot of fun and though the identity of the cheese pervert in question will probably be fairly obvious to anyone familiar with cozy crime books, it’s more the haphazard journey Priscilla goes on that makes it worthwhile. Curran’s Priscilla is, ironically, pretty clueless but very likeable, despite being shallow and self-serving. This makes for some great humour as Priscilla flails her way through various suspects and leads, all the while live streaming her efforts to her followers like a beauty queen Alan Partridge.

The writing and direction (from Kayla Kurin and Krista Rowe respectively) is more than good enough to make this a funny and enjoyable romp, though I felt the show hadn’t yet managed to find its core audience the day I was there as the laughs weren’t coming as quickly as you might expect. This might possibly be down to the extremely specific nature of some of the humour, which clearly plays on stereotypes of very specific kinds of Canadian people and situations that don’t entirely translate to the British cultural trough. That said, as the show continued the audience really warmed up and, by the climax, everyone seemed to be on board.

Clever but silly comedy theatre is my favourite kind of Fringe show, and this is a great example of it. Hopefully we’ll be able to enjoy more of the cheesefluencer’s adventures in future Priscilla Patton Mysteries.

****
Reviewed by Tom
Just The Tonic