The premise upon which this show is based is a promising one: an exploration of society when political correctness has taken over. A family of asylum seekers arrive at Stuart’s council flat and claim it as their own. Slowly but surely they take over his home, his girlfriend and his country all under [...]

A superb production close to both Kubrick’s film and Burgess’ novel. A vision of a dystopic society is created by some masterful touches, in particular the scenes of stylised violence which dance before the eyes[...]

Dancing in the style of your dad at a wedding, comedians Jupp, Murphy and Ker take the stage to perform a series of sketches which veer away from tried-and-tested comedy staples. Expected punch-lines are cunningly replaced by unusual twists in a show which tests the comedic range and endurance of the performers, but pleasingly [...]

“Where was I?… No we’ve done racism – I did that already….”

“Do you have a script? Because this is getting tiring.”

Reminding us that this would not be a show of her father’s comedy, Rain Pryor’s warning was only too apparent as she lost her train of thought and struggled to fill the ensuing silence as her father would easily have done[...]

Jimeoin is an Anglo-Irish export who is very popular in Australia with his stand up comedy, and has even made a movie (according to his website). I only managed to catch him during fringe Sunday last year for around 10 minutes, but it was enough to impress me at the time.

Mime, Comedy, Magic and 250 snippets of music. While El Loco (played by Wayne Slater) never speaks throughout this entire show, the emotional range of playing tunes from Tony Blackburn to Europe’s Final Countdown drives this comedy forwards. Some people may think that standing up and improvising your comedy is a difficult skill. But having [...]

Tom Hodge isn’t a comedian, he doesn’t do stand-up, and his interaction with the crowd and the presentation of his materials will never grace the Perrier. Nevertheless, Confessions of a Jingle Writer is one of the best quirky shows around this year.
Hodge is, as the title suggests, is a jingle writer - those catchy tunes [...]

Performed by two remarkably unalike siamesse twins, this freakshow of sorts – guest staring the one the only “The Biscuit Eyed Lady” – is overflowing with wit, charm and downright filth! Opening the show with a verse or two of ‘God Save The Queen’ did make this Irish reniewer squirm ever so slightly but [...]

Oh look it’s that bloke off the telly that does all the Top 100 shows, doing a Top 100 show at the Fringe. Ah but it’s much more subversive than that. Stephen K Amos, who exudes a confidnece on stage that makes audience interaction look as easy as predicting Bullit would be the top car [...]

Pavel likes blackness: to him the world is an empty, dark place. Pavel has arrived in Edinburgh from a Russian satellite state where men bore their wives to death and staring into the abyss is a teenage hobby. It is on this premise that Adam Buxton makes his long overdue debut at the [...]