Fringe review: Movin’ Melvin Brown – Chuck Berry Lives! (rating: 3/5) Growing up in racially-segregated America, Melvin Brown used his music to help break down social barriers. In the process he became a huge admirer of another talented musician who took the same route out of the ghetto: Chuck Berry. Berry wrote mainly about women […]
Edinburgh Fringe
Classic dancing with a comedic twist
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]