Viggo Venn: Only One 4★★★★

Viggo Venn pops a cardboard version of himself out to open the show to the audience. Wiggling his fingers, he gets us to cheer, and immediately draws us into his playful game.

This is clearly a tight little set that … Read More

Matt Forde Project Holy Moly 5*****

For years now Matt Forde has been producing the goods when performing his trademark political satire through any medium available, TV, radio, his much-vaunted podcasts and of course live on stage. Forde has an uncanny ability to identify accents and … Read More

Katie Norris: Mother Succubus 4★★★★½

Katie Norris teases the crowd mercilessly and hilariously, oh didn’t learn social skills during Covid? Roasting a love hungry woman in the front row – right on the line of fear and funny. Everyone in the room is shaking with … Read More

Rob Preston: Amazing Global Solutions 4★★★★½

Rob Preston’s Amazing Global Solutions is a complete one-off. Our main narrative is slowly going bonkers pub quiz host, but from there we go through some of the most left-field sketches I have ever seen in my life. They are … Read More

Annie Wobbler Revisited – 5*****

Annie Wobbler was originally written by Arnold Wesker in the 1980s for Nichola McAuliffe. With some updates to reflect modern society, Nichola brings Annie Wobbler Revisited to Edinburgh and delivers a mesmerising piece of theatre exploring toxic relationships, … Read More

Tarang Hardikar: if I’m not wrong 4.5****

Tarang Hardikar, if I’m not wrong, is one of the most interesting, strange-angled, joke-jammed comedians at the Fringe, playing a hilarious show to ( for the level of quality) an outrageously small audience. In his Edinburgh debut, Hardikar takes his … Read More

Planet Of The Grapes – An Epic, Tabletop, Sci-Fi Adventure 4****

The master of ceremonies explains how it all works, and centre stage there is a large diorama where the puppeteers set up each scene with wonderful inventiveness, using dialogue loosely based on Planet of the Apes, but, of course, now … Read More

Pilate: The Lost Gospel – 5*****

Maxwell Caulfield gives a mesmerising performance as Pontius Pilate in Michael Punter’s compelling Pilate: The Lost Gospel.

The play gives an imagined opportunity for one of history’s most maligned figures to give us his side of the story of the … Read More

Keeley Hazell – Everyone Has Seen My Tits 4****

Keeley Hazell was probably most famous as a Page Three glamour model back in the day hence the show title, featuring also in a number of ‘Lad Mags’. This is her story. Starting off with Keeley having to audition for … Read More

The Spencer Jones Experimental Kids Show – 5*****

Spencer Jones is a master of absurdist comedy, well established in comedy as a ‘comedian’s comedian’; every fan with children will be thrilled to see his name appear when they search for children’s shows at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Jones … Read More