Comedy | Books
Adam Knight: In the beautiful chaos that we affectionately call the Edinburgh Fringe, there are few certainties. After attending a number of shows, however, it qui...
Fern Brady: Penelope Skinner is a curious person to be around. Like a glowering, sulky child, she responds to initial questions with suspicion. And her ability to...
Theatre
Oliver Farrimond: An ambitious play for its allotted 55 minutes, Your Number's Up throws the full complement of 'yoof culture' stereotypes at its ensemble cast. Beginn...
Hannah Thomas: When classical guitarist Karin Schaupp and playwright David Williamson joined forces to create a play that blended drama and musical performance, they...
Jasper Jackson: Karen Dunbar is far better known for her BBC comedy appearances, but here she brings her comic touch to some weightier material. Adapted from Hugh Mac...
Ella Hickson: "Binaural," meaning for both ears, is the word used by The Puppet Lab to describe their show, Supper. On arrival, the audience is asked to don a pair ...
Comedy
Lucy Jackson: Perhaps there is a generation gap that can’t be bridged or perhaps it’s just me, but the character created by Steve Delaney does not promp...
Yasmin Sulaiman: The art of the one-man play is seldom perfected, but Matthew Zajac’s The Tailor of Inverness comes close. The title may have a Beatrix Potter-like r...
Paris Gourtsoyannis: From all the shouting and swearing, Philip York seems as determined to prove that his one-man apologia for the life of media fiend Robert Maxwell is a...
Lucy Jackson: Midnight on the last day of the year nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, and Scaramouche Jones is waiting to die. Breaking a fifty-year silence, his swa...
Rebekah Robertson: The tragic but brilliant story of one of the nineteenth century’s most iconic painters, Vincent is the much acclaimed theatrical interpretation ...
Junta Sekimori: The Paris-based Jacques Lecoq theatre school boasts worldwide acclaim for its rich teachings in physical expression, and counts among its alumni the f...
