Fringe Review – Tutu (rating: 4/5) Ballet is not for everyone but I love the athleticism, and these six guys are finely tuned dancers. They are classically trained but they totally take the P out of dancing. This is a show which capitalises on the discipline, but incidentally makes comedy out of it. In any […]
An exuberant power play with Govey and Boris
Fringe Review – Brexit the Musical (rating: 4/5) A world premiere is always exciting and the hype surrounding this one ensured that the Venue C1 on Chambers Street was sold out. In the current era of electioneering, fake elections, fake news, referenda, we all need cheering up. Brexit the Musical is an exuberant and scathing […]
King’s Men deliver burst of youthful energy
Fringe Review – All the King’s Men (rating: 5/5) Dimmed lights and a genuine buzz around the sold-out Chambers Street C1 venue greeted the hotly anticipated return of this all-male troup. There was a frisson in the audience as the nine a cappella singers, veterans of TV’s Pitch Perfect and all students at King’s College, London, […]
Caulfield on the money with gutsy new show
Fringe review – Jo Caulfield: Older. Wiser. Smarter. Meaner (rating: 4/5) A comedy stalwart of the Fringe, Caulfield has been treading the stand-up scene here since 2001 and kept coming back even after that first season when she saw a guy urinating on her pristine fringe poster. Indeed she loves Edinburgh so much she moved […]
Hill serves up delightful menu of comic genres
Fringe review – Bec Hill, Out of Order (rating: 5/5) This is deconstructed comedy in which Hill offers the audience a menu from a board on stage and they choose the order of the gags. Hill who hails from Adelaide is a fairly fresh face on the stand-up scene. Her previous credits include Dara O’Briain’s […]