Jessie Nixon : Don’t Make Me Regret This – 5*****

In her one woman, Fringe debut, Jessie Nixon, single handedly lights up the room like Strictly GlitterBall, with her amazing show “Don’t Make Me Regret This”.  It’s a rapid-fire routine, interspersed with poetry corner, all delivered by a very … Read More

Matthew McKew : Screws Now Included – 3***

Matthew McKew is quite a tour de force, after suffering a rather traumatic head injury, and losing the ability to read and write, it’s incredible that he’s now performing his one-man stand-up show, “Screws Now Included”.  After losing his … Read More

Cyn   4****

Cyn, staged in the intimate Mint Studio at Greenside@George Street, is a powerful and resonant piece of new Welsh writing that played to a packed audience on its opening day. Written by Sam Rees, who also takes on the … Read More

No Sugar No Milk (Prototyping) – 5*****

No Sugar No Milk (Prototyping) drops us into a bustling Hong Kong cha chaan teng, where waiters in crisp whites turn everyday service into circus, dance and martial-arts theatre. Five performers volley and stack an absurd, yet amazing-to-watch, tower … Read More

The Box Show – 5*****

The Box Show is a punchy, family-friendly percussion adventure where four colour-coded misfits coax music from whatever the scrapyard (and a giant, blinking recycling machine) spits out. Red swaggers with a “jacket of power”; Blue thinks things through; Green … Read More

Treeeeee – 3***

Treeeeee compresses a tree’s 500-year life into a brisk 50 minutes, performed solo (sort of) by Christiaan Hendriksen in the small Daisy room at Underbelly, Bristo Square. Framed by the folkloric Green Man, the piece plants a pine cone, … Read More

Phil Cooper : And Such – 3.5* (WIP)

I enjoy seeing a “Work in Progress” show, seeing what jokes land and what miss the target.  I have to say in Phil Cooper’s show “And Such (WIP)”, there are way more hits than misses.  Which leads nicely on … Read More

Comedy Club 4 Kids 3.5***

Comedy Club 4 Kids is exactly what it says on the tin. A fast, friendly hour of Fringe stand-ups that the whole family will enjoy; it has a different line-up every day. On this occasion we had Sikisa host, and she got … Read More

Karen Dunbar 4.5****

This is Karen Dunbar’s return to the Edinburgh Fringe for the time in almost 2 decades.

Best known as a star of the brilliant Chewin the Fat and the Karen Dunbar show she seemed absolutely thrilled to be back on … Read More

Robyn Reynolds: What Doesn’t Kill You 4****

Robyn Reynolds is debuting in the Edinburgh Fringe this year after winning Best New Comedy award Melbourne Fringe in 2024. She was visibly delighted to see a sold-out room and spent the first few minutes telling us how happy that … Read More