Rachel Kaly: Between Us (A Crowd Work Show) 4.5****

Rachel Kaly opens Between Us in what I can now see is her typically low-key fashion. She barely seems to be trying. There is almost no sense of prepared material, and certainly none of the usual desperation to come out … Read More

James Tricket: Split 3***

James Trickey is clearly an excellent writer and a witty young comedian. His stand-up is packed with set-ups and punchlines centred around his Cambodian / English origin, and the story of his older father meeting his mother. There really is … Read More

Pierre Novellie: Do the One About… 5★★★★★

Pierre Novellie comes out and immediately mocks himself for having done stand-up for the last ten years as a virtual unknown and now doing a “best of” show. As he puts it, it’s like a band you’ve never heard of … Read More

Don Toberman: Ping-Pong Champ 5★★★★★

Gaulier-trained showman Chase Brantley has compressed what was last year a lovely shiny rock into a pure diamond.

When I had friends coming through the Fringe for one show only, this is the show I chose to take them to. … Read More

Baby Lame: Hit Me Baby One More Lame! 4****

Baby Lame’s Hit Me Baby One More Lame! is the story of one performer’s affinity with Britney Spears, taking us through outer space on one of the most imaginative clown-drag odysseys I’ve ever seen.

Lame is outrageously funny, oscillating between … Read More

Lost in Translation 5*****

Take a film script, run it back and forth through a translator umpteen times and then take the garbled mess that it spits back out and read it out on stage in front of an audience. It’s a tried and … Read More

Dreamgun Film Reads 5*****

Dreamgun Film Reads is a basic idea with a fantastic outcome. Each night one of a selection of different parody film scripts is performed live in front of an audience, often with guest comedians and performers who’ve never read the … Read More

Soaked 4****

How much is too much? For Imogen and Rich, a successful professional couple with busy careers and young children, wine has become such an integral part of their lives that it is difficult to imagine their evenings without it. Emma … Read More

Harriet Richardson — Creep 4.5 ****.5

Harriet Richardson is a London-based comedian debuting at this year’s Fringe with her show Creep. Harriet has one hell of a story to tell that just gets more and more bizarre the longer it goes on but don’t worry, there’s … Read More

Bron Lewis — Chaos 4****

Australian comedian Bron Lewis is packing them in Cabaret Bar at the Pleasance for the final night of her sold-out run.

Family dynamics are at the heart of the show. The sheer chaos of family life is mined for some … Read More