The Silky Pair: Jealous People

3 Stars ***

The Silky Pair are collectively Kathryn Bond and Lorna Shaw and together they deliver an hours worth of sketch comedy and music with a added extra of balloon modelling in an acting space about the size … Read More

Don’t Trust Salmon – Fin

3 stars ***

In a small stuffy basement theatre space a small audience gathered to giggle at a series of sketches unlinked to each other and mostly not about salmon (or fins). Highlights, for me, included the one about … Read More

Chris Mayo’s Panic Attack

4 stars ****

This gentleman describes himself as a forty-year old man in the body of a twelve year old gymnast, but the thing which really struck me as I watched his gestures emphasise his words, is … Read More

Matt Green:-Too Much Information

4 Stars ****

I have been watching Matt Green perform since 1999, yes 12 years so how come he doesn’t look a day older than then?

What ever the reason he is still turning out funny and entertaining shows … Read More

Cul-De-Sac

4 Stars

****

Dictatorship can exist in many settings but in a quiet, seemingly respectable, English upper-middle class cul-de-sac? Unlikely would be the answer. However, where there is expected conformity and for those unwilling to conform, any resulting intimidation … Read More

Free Run

5 Stars

*****

The ensemble 3RUN come to the Fringe with much hype and expectation – millions of YouTube hits, world records and the first staging of this street art form in the UK. There is also the promise … Read More

Roar

4 Stars

****

Part hilarious farce, part historical costume drama, part drawing on the tradition of Greek tragedy and part musical theatre, the whole mix of styles in Roar works wonderfully well. Set in the 17th Century London, the … Read More

Carey Marx: Laziness and Stuff

5 Stars *****

I’m willing to bet that if a straw poll was taken amongst his peers for the funniest comedian Carey Marx would come out very near the top, so why is it that he is not a … Read More

Splendid Isolation

5 Stars *****

Nick Ward’s play is an adaptation of Heart of Darkness and Outpost of Progress by Joseph Conrad.

Ward’s piece uses the Conrad material to excellent effect, an almost abstract and at times darkly comic experience of … Read More

Chris McCausland: Big Time

4 Star ****

This is the third time I had the chance to see Chris McCausland in the Fringe and I’m pleased to say the third time I’d enjoyed his show.

For those who don’t know Chris is a … Read More