✭✭✭✭✭ Tim Key had the showbiz world at his feet, about to appear on Pointless Celebrities and also lined up for the part of a paedophile in an episode of Vera. And then the country went into lockdown, and now two years later he’s back playing student union gigs wearing a tracksuit. Welcome to the […]
Review: Marcus Brigstocke – absolute shower
✭✭✭✭ Marcus Brigstocke is clearly delighted at being able to return to stand-up and to the Fringe after a pandemic-enforced absence, but he doesn’t feel that lockdown was without its benefits, the most notable of which was finally being able to tell parents and relatives that they couldn’t come to stay at Christmas. This hour-long […]
Review: Jon Culshaw is Les Dawson – Flying High
✭✭✭✭ Even if you are unfamiliar with Les Dawson and his place in the 70s and 80s comedy pantheon, this play by Olivier Award-winning writer Tim Withnall and performed by the impressionist Jon Culshaw is well worth a visit. Deliberate mangling of his piano renditions was one of the many things for which Dawson was […]
Review: Charlotte Johnson – My Dad and Other Lies
✭✭✭ Charlotte Johnson’s dad may soon be the former Prime Minister but this show is not about him. The title of the show, and the fact that it’s produced by Nadine Dorries Productions may suggest that Boris is going to loom large, but outside of the story of when she met him aged 14 and […]
Review: This Is Paradise
✭✭✭✭ Set against the backdrop of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement and the uncertainty of whether it could finally bring peace to Northern Ireland, This is Paradise is a monologue that can be seen as a metaphor for the country it is set in rather than just a tale of a troubled past […]