August 2026

  • Pyg

    Pyg

    Describ’d as “Pygmalion meets Black Mirror meets Beckett”, I was already in the queue to get…

  • Big Tobacco’s Pinocchio

    Big Tobacco’s Pinocchio

    All four of them wrote & produc’d the show, & I would have loved to be…

  • 10A: The Fitting Room

    10A: The Fitting Room

    The fitting room becomes a wonderfully apt little female microcosm – an intimate, exclusively female space…

  • The Boline Inn

    The Boline Inn

    Eilis Mulholland is also the director, & she serves us a feverish play which rarely settles,…

  • Uralic: Language of the Minoans

    Uralic: Language of the Minoans

    Historical investigator Damo Bullen has done it again! This time he has discovered the true origins…

  • An Echo in the Void

    An Echo in the Void

    Everything becomes task, interrogation & uncertainty. One explosive incident involves a military procedure which the characters…

  • The Real Housewives of the Zombie Apocalypse

    The Real Housewives of the Zombie Apocalypse

    The Real Housewives element concerns seven glamorous vixens, each dress’d in a slightly different colour, chatting…

  • Meka Mo: New York City Dreams

    Meka Mo: New York City Dreams

    I guess, deep down, Meka is a master anthropologist, a cultural commentator whose chosen medium just…

  • The Sound Within with Eisenberg and Stern

    The Sound Within with Eisenberg and Stern

    The central avatars are presented as bespectacl’d ladies of a certain age, possessing genuinely funny banter…

  • Gutter

    Gutter

    Gutter is billed as the world’s first bouffon comedy night, born in the filth of South…

  • Why I Love American Solo Shows!

    Why I Love American Solo Shows!

    There is something about this Off-Broadway solo stuff that makes me really understand what it must…

  • Jacob Hatton: Ruins

    Jacob Hatton: Ruins

    The modern world, Hatton suggests, is a world of lies. “This train has Wi-Fi,” for example…

  • Imogen Andrews: The Unlikeable Worms

    Imogen Andrews: The Unlikeable Worms

    There is a secret, unwritten law of physics that affects all Fringe-goers—I call it the clock-factor.…

  • Serena Smart: Little Miss Sunshine

    Serena Smart: Little Miss Sunshine

    Her comedy is sharp, while her ability to engage begins immediately as she enquires after the…

  • Spare Room

    Spare Room

    This hard-hitting reality is soon brought sharply into focus. Jodie makes the life-changing decision to apply…

  • Lil’ Miss Kate – Ward of the State

    Lil’ Miss Kate – Ward of the State

    Then we were away—galloping forward rip-roaringly on the back of Fiorello thro’ a fully-scripted homage to…

  • Eryn Tett: Tasting Menu

    Eryn Tett: Tasting Menu

    Then comes the Main Course, & Tett pulls a masterstroke. It might seem counterintuitive to suggest…

  • Afrique en Cirque

    Afrique en Cirque

    Afrique en Cirque is a glorious collision of arts & abilities, celebrating African culture through death-defying…

  • I Made You a Mix Tape

    I Made You a Mix Tape

    The physical weaving in & out produces some glorious moments. Joyous processions emerge, collide & disappear…

  • Lilla Multipass: Woman(33)

    Lilla Multipass: Woman(33)

    A major part of Woman (33) is getting the crowd to participate, & she does it…

  • Mel Hudson: Richard Ashcroft Revived My Libido

    Mel Hudson: Richard Ashcroft Revived My Libido

    Mel comes onto stage wearing a too tight red dress, but flaunting her womanhood in ways…

  • Emma Doran: Emmaculate

    Emma Doran: Emmaculate

    This domestic world forms the fleshy matter of the show, with Emma chatting mainly about family…

  • A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery: Knives In

    A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery: Knives In

    All 170 or so people in the room were soon engaged. Everyone was handed a document…

  • Notes: The Comedy B-Sides

    Notes: The Comedy B-Sides

    We then got five comedians, all ostensibly looking through their phones. I’m not entirely convinced they…

  • Edith Alibec: The Void

    Edith Alibec: The Void

    I simply bask’d in the glow of Edith’s illuminative performance. What a joy! As I’ve already…