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, […]
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Porter’s homespun struggle is crisp and even
Fringe Review – Lucy Porter, Choose Your Battles (rating: 4/5) In an age of sweary, raucous comedians there’s always been something comforting about Lucy Porter. She eases her audience into a routine that isn’t likely to cause them to clasp their ears in embarrassment, or keel over in shock. That said, she slips in the […]
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 […]
Starship’s anarchic hour of sci-fi nonsense
Fringe Review – The Starship Osiris (rating: 4/5) Riotous, yes. Almost anarchic. Was there a script for this? Of course there was, though the cast does almost convince you that their falling out over missed lines and one character’s unhappiness at even being in Edinburgh is genuine. The roars of laughter from a mainly student-aged […]