Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show (rating 5/5) A small company performs a series of five ten-minute comedies selected from three menus on different days, each one accompanied by free coffee, croissants and strawberries. Bite-Size Breakfast is a delicious highlight of the Fringe for the 12th year and features new and well-crafted writing that is fast-paced and […]
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Comic genius in a game of making things up
Paul Merton’s Impro Chums (Rating 4/5) Returning to the Fringe after a one-year absence, Paul Merton’s Impro Chums is the show you can rely on even though it changes every evening. The trick is to have the best improv comics in the business, and Merton’s long-established reputation mean that’s a given. He’s joined by Lee […]
Smith delivers fantastic tribute to his late father
Arthur Smith : Syd (Rating 5/5) Every comedian apparently has a ‘dead dad show’ in them, and this is Arthur Smith’s, but as you would expect from a comedian of Smith’s standing it’s different from any dead dad show you’ll have seen before. The show is not Smith’s reflections on what the death of his […]
Stand-up show goes on, late ‘n’ live and kicking
Maybe it’s just my age, but the Fringe doesn’t seem to be the same drink-fuelled, twenty-four-hour hedonistic party that it once was. When I first played the festival in the early nineties, it seemed that everybody was drinking until four in the morning at the Gilded Balloon’s legendary Late ‘n’ Live before heading over to […]
A rich production played with great finesse
The Marilyn Conspiracy (rating 4/5) It’s more than 50 years since Marilyn Monroe died and the manner of her death continues to be the subject of speculation. Was it really suicide, or was there something more sinister going on? Her connections with John and Robert Kennedy, and their subsequent deaths only adds to the rumour mill, […]