Comedy
Adrian Choa: It takes a lot of talent to pull off a comedy adaptation of George Orwell’s ‘1984’. To somehow turn an ominous narrative which explo...
Tom Hackett: This off-kilter two-man show from Australia is one of the unexpected highlights of this year’s Fringe. It’s a surreal sketch show in which...
Chris McCall: So, will the Oxford Revue of 2009 go on to match the success of previous alumni such as Al Murray and Michael Palin? The short answer is no. The perf...
Colleen Patterson: Will Hodgson introduces himself as a man of contradictions: a straight bloke who wears nail polish, a former skinhead with Care Bear tattoos. He&rsquo...
Frank Lazarski: "It’s not that I don’t like men," bellows Susan Calman in the opening five minutes of this show, "it’s just that I find them all utt...
Jess Winch: Only at the Fringe could you go and watch a show where two sock puppets sing and swear at each other and love every second of the experience. Superbly...
Lyle Brennan: If you’ve been paying attention to the torrent of print surrounding this year’s Festival, no doubt you’ll have come across the decla...
Chris Williams: They’ve been threatening to die for some years now so it’s surely nothing short of a miracle that Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden have retur...
Comedy | Theatre
Lyle Brennan: Attempting to talk to six performers from as many different shows in a single sitting is, at best, a challenge. Having just stepped off the set of the...
Evan Beswick: Something terrible has happened. The erudite, witty, loquacious contestant on Radio 4's long-running Just a Minute has been kidnapped. It's surely not...
Fern Brady: It’s roughly 15 minutes into Pappy’s Fun Club’s World Record Attempt and something feels…wrong. The laughs are there, the per...
Nick Eardley: Sean Hughes is getting older, and he's angry about it. As with his return to the stand-up circuit in 2007, this year's offering sees Hughes ranting hi...
Simon Mundy: After distinguished service with Edinburgh University’s acclaimed ad lib comedy troupe The Improverts, Freya Slipper and Liz Black are used to p...
Oliver Farrimond: A quick straw poll amongst most Britons will reveal a deep-seated dissatisfaction with our trains. Older generations would offer a eulogistic assessme...
Frank Lazarski: Tiernan Douieb’s promotional literature features himself surrounded by zombies. It looks almost as if, although scared, he is readying himself t...
