Review: Hughie (rating 2/5) With a cast consisting of Edinburgh Comedy Award winning actor Phil Nichol alongside Whose Line Is It Anyway veteran Mike McShane, you may expect Hughie to be a comedy. If you do, you will leave the theatre disappointed. Likewise if McShane is your main reason for seeing the play, you may […]
Byrne delivers a comedy masterclass with no wrong moves
Review: Ed Byrne, If I’m Honest (rating 5/5) Becoming a parent often ruins comedians. There’s a moment in so many of their careers where they do a show based around the joys of parenthood and immediately lose half their audience, because they’ve forgotten the ironic truth that happiness is invariably the antithesis of great comedy. […]
An honest critique of being a female in a male-dominated arts world
Review: The Struggling Life of an Artist (Rating 4/5) While the title of the play may sound like an intense plea for audiences to acknowledge the pain behind the persona of the average performa, the reality of this production is anything but that. It’s a brutally honest, but self-deprecating and humorous show that combines satire, […]
Shelton’s must-see show gets the lowdown on Sinatra
Review: Sinatra Raw (rating 4/5) If The Rat Pack was the party and the drinking, then Sinatra: Raw is the morning after and the hangover. It’s 1971 and Frank Sinatra is on stage in Palm Springs, a place people play twice in their careers; once on the way up and once on the way down. […]
Parsons’ winning formula keeps audiences wanting more
Review: Nicholas Parsons Happy Hour (rating 4/5) Nicholas Parsons is a Fringe institution with his Happy Hour show returning to the Cabaret Bar at the Pleasance for the 17th consecutive year and still playing to sell-out audiences. You don’t achieve that kind of run by novelty value alone. Parsons knows he has a winning formula and […]