The Mr Thing Show – 5*****

Mr Thing returns for another year of their live “TV” show with their usual mix of bright colours, live music, silly set pieces, audience interaction and far, far more tech than seems sensible. This year the show is a variety … Read More

RapGPT : Macshane – 4****

Right from the outset, we find ourselves held under the spell of freestyle rapping genius, Stian Macshane and his solo show “RapGPT” as he smashes out an incredibly entertaining hour of music and mirth. One half of Britains Got Talent … Read More

Jeromaia Detto: Giuseppe’s Love Quest 4★★★★

Jeromaia Detto, as Giuseppe Alfresco, is looking for love. In the UK this feels like more dangerous ground than it perhaps is elsewhere in the world. In the current climate we’re incredibly aware of men being creepy, and there’s a … Read More

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