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...
Theatre
Evan Beswick: Well, you can't say you've not been warned: Little Johnny's Big Gay Musical is pretty damn gay. Told through original songs as well as snippets of fam...
Lyle Brennan: Two centuries after Nikolai Gogol’s birth and two years after Fail Better first adapted his classic short story, this account of mental decline ...
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...
Sara D'Arcy: A short video clip notwithstanding, this four-man stand-up show is in fact devoid of references to Edinburgh's interminable tram works. Sadly, it seem...
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...
Ben Judge: Part Star Trek spoof, part verbatim theatre—using extracts from interviews with real people affected in some way by mental illness—and qui...
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...
Sara D'Arcy: Metamorphosis depicts a hard-working young man, Gregor Samsa, who is transformed into an insect after the pressure of work and supporting his family b...
Sara D'Arcy: Arranged by Norwegian choreographer, Ina Christel Johannesson, A Visitation is a dramatic piece of dance loosely featuring a supernatural plot in whic...
Sarah Clark: Impressively energetic, this hotchpotch of a play written and directed by Nicholas Moran is too ambitious; styles clash and weaken an already ambiguou...
