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...
Adrian Choa: When excitingly flicking through the glossy pages of the Fringe Catalogue one is frequently met with the listing of an Oscar Wilde play. These product...
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...
Joe Bunce: The Boy Friend, Sandy Wilson’s classic pastiche of relationships in the roaring twenties, is an oft-performed classic in the world of amateur th...
Ella Peterman: Collabor-8 Productions premiere at the Fringe with their harrowing and thought-provoking play Hangover. The play opens on a typical morning for the ch...
Rose Wilkinson: Sketch shows are all about having fun – and there is no doubt that this is what the Superclump team are doing with theirs. The performance may n...
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...
Marthe Lamp Sandvik: Phil Nichol’s latest Fringe offering is anything but quiet, his deranged mixture of quickfire puns and soft songs leaving some members of the au...
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...
