Kate Cheka — The Last Funny Woman 5*****

Kate Cheka is eight months pregnant and absolutely glowing, both physically and mentally. There’s a real sense that she’s arrived at a point in life where she’s looking back at the journey, while wondering exactly where she’s going next.

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Ava Beaux — The Witching Hour 4****

The self-proclaimed witch of West London is back with a new hour of mystery, mischief and magic, inviting us into her slightly skewed world of sleight of hand, disappearing audience possessions, card and rope tricks, and a surprising number of … Read More

John Kearns — Tilting at Windmills 4.5****.5

Early on in Tilting at Windmills, John Kearns despairs about the fact that 2020 was supposed to be the difficult year; with the backdrop of a global pandemic, it surely couldn’t get much worse. In this show, Kearns shares the … Read More

Mark Silcox: Gold Trading Sucks, I Lost Everything 5*****

Dr Silcox is a broken man. Through bad luck and pure stupidity, he’s lost his entrepreneurial dream, and now he’s trying to reinvent himself as a self-help guru so others don’t repeat the same mistakes.

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Alice Cooper Welcome To My Cabaret Nightmare 4****

Usually, when you get to a cabaret piano bar, you are treated to someone murdering Billy Joel. Tonight, though, Alice Cooper has entered the building. Welcome To My Cabaret Nightmare strips down his songs to their bare bones in a … Read More

1 Dazzling Cabaret 4****

Cabaret is easy to come by at the Fringe; good cabaret is harder to find, and on the resplendent stage we get the best in show, high-class, high-energy cabaret.

Host and comedian Bruce Devlin is a wonderful ringmaster, controlling the … Read More

Ollie West: Discovery (WIP) ****1/2

Ollie West clambers over chairs, a fully committed caveman, The Dawn of Man plays ,this is epic – it’s dark but there are only four of us in the room, so it will take a gargantuan performance to make this … Read More

4 Better or 4 Worse 3.5***

Well, here’s a conundrum, Muslim girl from Kazakhstan, falls for Christian boy from Macedonia, and in “4 Better or 4 Worse”, real life couple, Aisha Amanduri and Vlad Illich, navigate the potholes on this road to love and maybe wedlock.

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Handle with Care 5★★★★★

Ontroerend Goed’s Handle with Care starts with one person in the audience raising what’s on every card on every seat.

It says that once everyone is seated, we should open the box. A woman with her husband and … Read More

Extra Dry 4****

Michelle Renee Johnson’s Extra Dry is an intensely personal exploration of her relationship with alcohol, charting the journey from those first liberating drinks to the point where drinking begins to take control.

The production is staged around an illuminated bar, … Read More