John Robertson: Sweaty, Sexy Party Party 5*****

It’s something quite special to be present at a show where a comedian’s audience has discovered them, and decided to all attend the same performance. John Robertson’s audience could probably be described as intelligent, relatively sober, well-informed in their show … Read More

Matt Price: Last Night a Weegie Saved My Life 4****

Matt Price greets his audience as they come in the door, seeming genuinely pleased to say hello to people – which is a lovely way to start a show. Matt doesn’t really do belly-laughs comedy (though the few times they … Read More

The Bench by Keir McAllister : – Watch this Space Productions 4****

It is not often that I review theatre pieces during the Fringe but when there is a comedy alumni of award winning comics such as writer Keir McAllister, Paul Sneddon, aka Vladimir McTavish as the actors and Jojo Sutherland directing … Read More

The Marilyn Monroe Story – 4****

Fans of Marilyn Monroe and anyone interested in what this Hollywood icon was all about won’t be disappointed by this show. The story is well researched and provides an excellent insight to her life that includes some shocking revelations that … Read More

The Basement Tapes – Zanetti Productions 3***

If ever a venue was made for a Fringe show, the subterranean Former Women’s Locker Room at Summerhall is the perfect setting for Zanetti Productions ‘The Basement Tapes’. When the audience enter, they are seated in a basement storage room … Read More

Alistair Barrie :- The InternationAL 5*****

If you can navigate you way to this cellar, or is it a cave, buried deep down in the bowels of Edinburgh’s Old Town then you may chance on this absolute gem of a show performed with the style and … Read More

Blackout – New Room Theatre & Platform 5*****

This was a fabulous and disturbing hour of theatre. On a stark white platform 5 actors (3 women and 2 men) give us their life stories as alcoholics, from their early first taste of alcohol, to the love of the … Read More

Ruth Cockburn’s Love Letters From Blackpool – Ruth E Cockburn 4****

As soon as we enter the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at Summerhall we are enveloped in a warm blanket of nostalgia as we are faced with posters of saucy postcards, suitcases and seagulls calling. Ruth Cockburn greets her audience with a … Read More

Alun Cochrane :- You. Me. Now. 4****

Alun Cochrane is not a dynamic comedian. He welcomes us to ‘ an hour of existential gloom’ at the top of his show… hmm me thinks he is not being totally honest here. Cochrane is a guy in his 40s, … Read More

Jo Caulfield :- Killing Time 5*****

There can be few comedians who perform at the Fringe annually that maintain a consistent high standards that Ms Caulfield does and the lady has done it again with Killing Time for Fringe 2018

Mixing the inevitably funny, well observed … Read More