Rachel Kaly: Between Us (A Crowd Work Show) 4.5****

Rachel Kaly opens Between Us in what I can now see is her typically low-key fashion. She barely seems to be trying. There is almost no sense of prepared material, and certainly none of the usual desperation to come out … Read More

James Tricket: Split 3***

James Trickey is clearly an excellent writer and a witty young comedian. His stand-up is packed with set-ups and punchlines centred around his Cambodian / English origin, and the story of his older father meeting his mother. There really is … Read More

Don Toberman: Ping-Pong Champ 5★★★★★

Gaulier-trained showman Chase Brantley has compressed what was last year a lovely shiny rock into a pure diamond.

When I had friends coming through the Fringe for one show only, this is the show I chose to take them to. … Read More

Baby Lame: Hit Me Baby One More Lame! 4****

Baby Lame’s Hit Me Baby One More Lame! is the story of one performer’s affinity with Britney Spears, taking us through outer space on one of the most imaginative clown-drag odysseys I’ve ever seen.

Lame is outrageously funny, oscillating between … Read More

Kanpur:1857 5*****

There are few performances I can think of which start with a more powerful image than a frightened prisoner strapped to the mouth of a cannon, waiting for it to fire and this is exactly how Kanpur: 1857 begins. A … Read More

One Man Musical – Flo and Joan 4½ ****

Having had successful runs both in Edinburgh and London this delightful show, written by Nicola and Rosie Dempsey, aka Flo and Joan have brought it back to the Fringe this year , as before, it is selling out daily. Edward … Read More

Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge 4****

There can be no doubt that Elf Lyons has a whole range of talent at her disposal. I first saw her doing straight stand up almost 20 years ago on a shared bill, through a myriad of award winning solo … Read More

Cecily Hitchcock : Family Recipe 4****

Cecily Hitchcock’s family recipes do feature in her debut Fringe hour of comedy but there is so much more her to unpack. Much of Cecily’s very quirky observations are of growing up in the uninspiring millennial new town of Cambourne. … Read More

Dracula: Lucy’s Dream 5*****

A gothic fever dream, Dracula: Lucy’s Dream takes Bram Stoker’s tale and flips it 180 degrees, a choreographed, inhuman puppet show like no other, putting Lucy Westenra front and centre in a dark exploration of desire, sensual control and psychological … Read More

Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show 4****

Paul Merton, probably most famous for being a captain on BBC’s Have I got News for You has been a top Improv comedian for eons and together with his wife Suki Webster, also a star of the genre, are as … Read More