Pythonesque Comedy by a Dry Surreal Geordie Bloke who has ADHD 4****

I love when performers nail the title and the blurb, and the show you see is exactly the one you were expecting to see. Even better when the quality of the show is high and it delivers as promised, excellently. … Read More

The Faff Chronicles 4****

Erin McKinnie is Scottish (Perth) and takes full advantage of her accent, with rolling rs and punchy vowels. It imparts a musicality and verve to the show that Ms McKinnie justifiably relishes, and it’s nice to hear a local accent. … Read More

Catherine McCafferty: (Not) That Bad 4****

Catherine McCaffertey has pizzazz and attitude and sass and brings the audience on side in about three seconds flat. She’s lovely, and very pragmatic, and her pragmatism is wielded as her comedy weapon. She’s also upfront and brutally honest in … Read More

Will Shea, Won’t Shea 4****

Will Shea, Won’t Shea is a really well written, directed and performed queer rom-com that lovingly parodies all the tropes rife in the best of them – falling in love with a best friend, road trip upended by a snowstorm, … Read More

Colin Hoult: Colin 5*****

Colin Hoult has been a fringe stalwart performing as his alter ego Anna Mann. To whom we said goodbye 2 years ago. Now Colin is back with a new show all about well, Colin. Fans of Anna Mann, a camp … Read More

John Luke Roberts: John-Luke-A-Palooza! 5*****

John Luke Roberts starts his show, after a bit of ‘business’ to get his audience into the mood he needs, by proposing that Edith Piaf regretted five things.

The show has no storytelling or narrative arc, being fundamentally about innumerable … Read More

BATSU! – 2.5 **’

BATSU as you will be gleefully told if attending this show is Japanese for “punishment”. The story goes that at one point in the ancient past, Batsu no Akuma, the Japanese Spirit of Punishment, was sealed within a sacred gong. … Read More

Jazz Emu: Knight Fever 4****

Jazz Emu, the arrogant, urbane and oddly 1970’s themed musical mastermind persona of Archie Henderson is an act to keep an eye on. With a strong and ever-growing online following, he’s moving from short TikTok music videos up to TV … Read More

Dreamgun: Film Reads – 4.5****’

Film Reads, like all the best shows, has a very simple idea that is just so perfect it sells itself. The Dreamgun team take a very well known film, rewrite the script to load it full of jokes and then … Read More

Elf Lyons – Horses 5*****

I am always intrigued as to what Elf Lyons can conjure up for each years Fringe performance as this multi-talented comic, actress, clown, mime artist and director always produces something out of the ordinary and this was no exception. And … Read More