Stand-up comedy, parody, and the like.
Comedy
What happens when you put the Macbeths, Richard III and Juliet Capulet into a psychiatrist’s chair? Dr Bard…
Nina Conti has probably done more to revitalise ventriloquism as a great performance art than anyone else in…
I find it interesting when an American Comedy Star makes their way over to the Festival to peddle their wares.
Dan Willis offers his comedic musings on the 1986 feel-good movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, in which the…
In the run up to the Fringe I get an average of thirty requests per day for a
review in August.
I was sitting in a late night bar, as one does on the Fringe, supping a few cold ones down with a fellow…
As the title suggests, When you Improv on a Star is what you expect; a Disney musical, based purely on…
Casablanca, 1941 – a place to which those fleeing the Nazi regime flock, where human life is cheap and…
Do not let the one star for this show fool you. This is not a bad show. Bad is far too small a word to…
Mark Steel’s in town, for the first time on the Fringe in nineteen years.
Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn are, and are not, a perfectly ordinary couple.
Roger McGough stepped on to the stark stage that was bathed in a warm purple light where he stood at the…
Ed Byrne returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with his new show: Outside Looking In.
In a world where we rely on the ever constant changing in technology to live our lives for us, we all still…
Improvised comedy or Improv “is a form of theatre where most or all of what is performed is created at the…
In the world of magic, women are generally no more than ‘the lovely assistant’. Not so with French cult…
Having been a school pupil not entirely dissimilar to the mint green four walls of the detention room, it was…
After having seen the glamorous trio that is Fascinating Aïda, I have to wonder how it has taken me so long…
I must start this review by declaring a conflict of interests: I decided to review Nick Gibb because I was…
In the music business, when your first album is a critical and commercial smash, there is a lot of pressure…