Festival of the Spoken Nerd: Just for Graphs 5*****

This is the sort of show where you’d give them five stars and they’d ask you which specific five, named stars. And I don’t mean in the can’t-think-what-to-get-for-someone’s-birthday sort of name, but the proper scientific identifier. Thankfully, they’d do so … Read More

John Robertson: Let’s Redecorate! 4****

John Robertson’s comedy teeters on the very edge of acceptable, and sometimes it’s as if he’s looking for an audience to say, nope, you can’t have that one, that was too far. Some of his funny is pure … Read More

Scaramouche Jones 5*****

This is an excellent show. The piece itself is good. It was written by someone (Justin Butcher) who has lots of critical acclaim, which, going on the evidence of this show, is all justified. All the bits – … Read More

If Men Ruled The World 3***

It feels like I should start this along the same lines as the spoof “review” that Demitris Deech began his show with, but no; just no.

Deech’s high energy performance definitely gets a yes, however. There was plenty of audience … Read More

Annabelle’s Skirting Board Adventure 4****

Annabelle may be the World’s Smallest Elephant, but it helps to have a few friends on her side. Icarus the Moth is perhaps the worst behaved of these, but even he can be counted on in a crisis. Though, like … Read More

The Princess and the Pea 3***

The simple, traditional tale of the Princess and the Pea is told nicely by this young theatre group. Five performers take on a wide range of roles, from the traditional few in the story, to a whole series of others … Read More

Towards Dolly: A Century of Animal Genetics in Edinburgh 4****

Edinburgh University Library appropriately plays host to this exhibition of the history of genetics, with an unsurprising – but justified – focus on the role of Edinburgh scientists in this ground-breaking work.

It’s not a huge exhibition, but definitely a … Read More

Andrew Watts – How to Build a Chap 4****

Andrew Watts has the difficult task of performing a show about feminism to a mixed audience. He has to tread a fine line between baffled men and women sick of having things “Mansplained” to them. However tread it he does, … Read More

I Hate Children Children’s Show 4****

The show starts even before you go in, with the dramatic opening of a bottle of champagne for the adults. A great start – until they run out before even half the audience are in!

However, the song “Daddy’s on … Read More

Nish Kumar: Long Word… Long Word… Blah Blah Blah… I’m so Clever 5*****

2015. Nish Kumar will turn 30. He will have been in comedy for ten years. He says it really has got to work now. It does. And then some.

Since I first saw him in 2012 I have thought this … Read More