Freestyle Love Supreme

I don’t know what I thought I’d see with this show, but it certainly wasn’t what I’d expected. If I’d been told I was going to see six American rappers called Love Style, I probably not have gone, being somewhat … Read More

The Fred MacAulay Show

Fred McAuley is somewhat of a Scottish Institution. He is multi talented, being a stand up, a TV presenter and hosts a daily radio show on BBC Radio Scotland.

I first saw him at the Fringe I suppose 12 years … Read More

Fiona O’Laughlin

Aussie Sheila Fiona O’Loughlin introduces herself as the most uncool comedian on the Fringe being over forty, married and a mother of five.

Uncool maybe, but she is certainly funny with numerous stories based mostly on her extended family and … Read More

Faultless and Torrance Take Their Faces Off

Judith Faultless and Alys Torrance are a pair of comediennes who we previously saw in 2003 in the much acclaimed The Flirt Lab. They have impressive cv’s including radio and television, not to mention their work on the comedy circuit … Read More

Shazia Mirza: Between You and Me

Shazia Mirza is almost unique in the fact that she is a female Moslem stand-up comedian and her show this year is built on and around that she is trapped between two worlds. Her ethnic community do not approve … Read More

Uncle Orchard & the Seagull Sisters

The inspiration for this show is Checovian, long drawn-out discussions about doing things and looking for love, stories without resolution. Eric Schrode has taken/amalgamated several of his better-known plays, extracted scenes and storylines, mixing them up into a modern … Read More

The Show in the ‘Bro

A bunch of students decide to take a Fringe show to Edinburgh, or Edinbro’ as producer Otis calls it, the only problem is they are stymied by Andrew Lloyd Weber for their original idea, and Drama Queen Jacob, and … Read More

Under the Blue, Blue Moon – Cambridge Footlights

Cambridge Footlights have been around for ever, and have a world class alumni of past performers, you’ll know the names as well as I. They have a huge following and I usually describe as a slightly more mature audience … Read More

Slaughterhouse Live’s Yard of Battenberg

I must admit last year I was assigned to see Slaughterhouse live and was not looking forward to it, but, having seen the show I loved it, so I was really looking forward to this years version. The four … Read More

The Soap Kitchen

Imagine sitting on your couch in your sitting room watching a soap opera for which you have decided on the main ingredients for the evening. Add five talented performers with slightly warped minds and you get ‘The Soap Kitchen’. … Read More