Jazz Emu: The Pleasure is All Yours – 5*****

Returning again to the Fringe, Jazz Emu – the debonair musical maestro alter-ego of comedian Archie Henderson – has a new show that is designed to do one thing, make his entire audience fully gruntled.

A social media sensation, Jazz … Read More

Carlos Sandin: Pull My Goldfinger – 4****

When I went to go see a clown show about James Bond, I wasn’t expecting it to start with a fully naked man imitating an ape knuckle-walking around the stage and then assembling a clarinet to the strains of Thus … Read More

A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception – 5*****

Detectives in the 1920s are, for whatever reason, an evergreen pasture for theatre productions (just look at the Mousetrap). Adding to that ever expanding oeuvre is the not-so-neatly-named A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception from Shoddy Theatre and … Read More

Achilles, Death of the Gods – 5*****

A classical tale of romance and tragedy, Achilles, Death of the Gods is a masterclass in storytelling from writer and performer Jo Kelen.

In this powerful one-woman show Kelen retells the story of Achilles, the greatest warrior of the Greeks … Read More

Dune! The Musical – 5*****

Frank Herbert’s series of epic sci-fi space opera novels, the Dune series, could graciously be called Lord of the Rings for the type of nerd who prefers Star Trek to Dungeons and Dragons. Most recently, of course, they have been … Read More

Lucy Churchill- Big B**bs Long Legs 4.5****

From the age of ten Lucy became self-conscious about her body, her 6ft 4” father and large chested mother passed on their attributes to Lucy and the result was a 5ft 11” blonde female with plenty to offer up front! … Read More

Cabbage the Clown: Cinemadrome 4****

Cabbage has beautiful make-up, and that’s a trivial comment because the rest of the show, but it really is objectively lovely, and it also enlarges any expression Cabbage has, throws it to the back of the room. Its precision and … Read More

Joe Tracini: Ten Things I Hate About Me 4****

I confess I had never heard of Joe before seeing his show (sorry, Joe!) either from Hollyoaks (never seen it) or the social medias, and in the flurry of blurbs, this one was only half remembered. None of this matters; … Read More

Lily Blumkin: Nice Try 3***

Lily Blumkin tells us that in real, non-Fringe, life she’s a writer’s assistant, and hopefully she gets to do some writing in that role. It’s in the writing that this show really shines. Lily’s got a flair for storytelling, and … Read More

Baker Street Ladies – Slade Wolfe Enterprises Limited 5*****

For over a century now, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories of the celebrated master detective Sherlock Holmes have continued to inspire generations of writers to ask questions about the man. Bakers Street Ladies, a new one-woman production from Lexi Wolfe … Read More