Caitriona Dowden : Sesh Head 4****

Oxford’s Caitriona Dowden has clearly taken notes from a review that described her stage persona as pallid and low-energy. This year, she’s deconstructing that persona and turning the dial up to 11, becoming more outgoing and bringing her harp … Read More

The Pig With The Dragon Tattoos – Lance Mao 3 ***

Chinese comedian Lance Mao starts the show by asking the audience, “What brought you to my show?” The answers are all different: through advertising, the premise, or simply stumbling across it, which feeds neatly into his narrative as his OCD … Read More

Sophie Duker – Hot Beef Injection – 3.5***

Sophie Duker is a woman on a mission, exploring every nook and cranny of female sexuality, relationships and womanhood in her aptly titled show, “Hot Beef Injection”.

It’s fair to say she’s had more than enough male dating disasters that’s … Read More

Michael Shafar – Inapproptiate – 3.5***

Australian comedian Michael Shafar has plenty to say in his show, “Inappropriate”, with his keen wit and sharp-eyed observational style. He happily pokes fun at the everyday and has built up a very credible hour long show.

Whether it’s tackling … Read More

Rhys James — Chop Logic 4****

It’s a bold start to the show to slag off the nationally beloved money-saving expert Martin Lewis, but as Rhys James later reflects in a later slagging off of so-called edgy comics: “Maybe I am an edgy comedian”. A rivalry … Read More

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.

Travel … 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.

This is a riot … 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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