A Simply Beastly Murder – 4.5****/5

Things don’t get much more quintessentially English than Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series with their four plucky mystery-solving pre-teens and equally plucky dog roaming unsupervised around the countryside solving mysteries and consuming lashings of various picnic foods. And, conversely, … Read More

David Elms Describes a room 4****1/2

David Elms wanders onto the stage and, in a low-key, affable way, easily makes us chuckle and then laugh regularly while explaining the shows format.

The premise of the show is pretty simple: he needs us to help him describe … Read More

Sophie Duker – Hot Beef Injection – 3.5***

Sophie Duker is a woman on a mission, exploring every nook and cranny of female sexuality, relationships and womanhood in her aptly titled show, “Hot Beef Injection”.

It’s fair to say she’s had more than enough male dating disasters that’s … Read More

Don Quixote (Is a Very Big Book) – 5*****

Cervantes’ epic novel from the 17th century is notoriously impossible to adapt, with seemingly more films being made about how difficult it is to make a film of Don Quixote than actual Don Quixote movies. So it’s a bold choice … Read More

TO BE FRANK – 4****

There’s never been a shortage of adaptations of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein – argued in many a student essay to be the first ever science fiction book. The creature, sewn together from the body parts of various corpses remains one of … Read More

NewsRevue 4****

If you are anything like me and find the ‘real’ news is never anything than depressing, then this hour of satire and mayhem could be just the ticket. Canal Cafe Theatre are once more bringing their tried and tested formula … Read More

Ahir Shah – Golden 3 ½ ***

Ahir Shar. A previous Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and a regular panelist on the likes of Mock the Week amongst a host of others is regularly packing out the Pleasance 1 with his latest offering Golden. Filled with anticipation I … Read More

Collaborator 5*****

There’s something very personal and beautiful about this performance. You may read that the physicality is brilliant, the staging, costume changes, lighting, etc., but the reality is two human beings have spent the last 20 something years dedicated to one … Read More

Crybabies : The Scaring 5*****

White hot comedy group Crybabies, consisting of Michael Clarke, James Gault and Ed Jones, are once again bringing their parody horror play The Scaring to the Edinburgh Fringe and the results are a scream (complimentary). Once one of the church’s … Read More

Dee Allum: Raumdeuter 4****

A fire alarm had gone off an hour before the show, and the Pleasance had to be evacuated, but credit to the staff: they have handled it brilliantly, getting things back up and running quickly. Allum herself is coolness personified, … Read More