Comedy
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...
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...
Theatre
Adam Knight: Let’s be clear from the start: The School For Scandal is deliciously infectious. This reviewer left the theatre with an almost overwhelming desi...
Junta Sekimori: “Run from the beast, run from the beast, run from the beast…” As the audience enters the room, Badac Theatre Company’s Steve...
Richard Hanrahan: What a comedy show promises and what it delivers can be worlds apart. Des Clarke's Clarxism is apparently intended almost as a political manifesto, bo...
Lucy Jackson: This far-fetched yet entirely uninspired piece of family-centric drama is baffling in almost every way. Ageing sweet shop owner Cid and her daughter ...
Ella Hickson: One Scot, one Londoner, do France – whilst trying to negotiate the effects of maternal death. The two lovely lads, (one has to fight the urge to...
Tom Crookston: It seems like the word is already out on Ginger & Black. Thanks perhaps to recent appearances on E4 and BBC3, as well as supporting Simon Amstell ...
Evan Beswick: There exists a piece of music by the composer Gavin Bryars in which the looped singing of an unnamed tramp rises above an increasingly dense cacophony...
Lucy Jackson: In the future, we will all be judged by our genetic code. In the future, someone will have discovered a gay gene, a paedophile gene and a rebellious g...
Louise Black: Helix Dance certainly have an almighty task on their hands. Bringing to the Fringe Damned Beautiful, their interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s The ...
Lucy Jackson: On the cusp of a new era, with the Mystery Plays and their ilk rapidly losing their appeal to a Renaissance generation, Christopher Marlowe’s ne...
Hannah Thomas: A poky caravan might seem a strange choice of venue for your average Fringe production, but then the aptly titled The Caravan is no ordinary play. As...
Richard Dennis: Choosing a local New Zealand rugby team as the subject for a play is not as daft an idea as some might imagine. The sense of loyalty and camaraderie ...
Ciaran Healy: As you walk up the stairs into the dimly Pleasance Courtyard's dimly lit auditorium, a sheaf of paper is thrust into your hands. It is a program. In...
