August 2026
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Pyg
Describ’d as “Pygmalion meets Black Mirror meets Beckett”, I was already in the queue to get…
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Big Tobacco’s Pinocchio
All four of them wrote & produc’d the show, & I would have loved to be…
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10A: The Fitting Room
The fitting room becomes a wonderfully apt little female microcosm – an intimate, exclusively female space…
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The Boline Inn
Eilis Mulholland is also the director, & she serves us a feverish play which rarely settles,…
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Uralic: Language of the Minoans
Historical investigator Damo Bullen has done it again! This time he has discovered the true origins…
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An Echo in the Void
Everything becomes task, interrogation & uncertainty. One explosive incident involves a military procedure which the characters…
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The Real Housewives of the Zombie Apocalypse
The Real Housewives element concerns seven glamorous vixens, each dress’d in a slightly different colour, chatting…
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Meka Mo: New York City Dreams
I guess, deep down, Meka is a master anthropologist, a cultural commentator whose chosen medium just…
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The Sound Within with Eisenberg and Stern
The central avatars are presented as bespectacl’d ladies of a certain age, possessing genuinely funny banter…
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Gutter
Gutter is billed as the world’s first bouffon comedy night, born in the filth of South…
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Why I Love American Solo Shows!
There is something about this Off-Broadway solo stuff that makes me really understand what it must…
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Jacob Hatton: Ruins
The modern world, Hatton suggests, is a world of lies. “This train has Wi-Fi,” for example…
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Imogen Andrews: The Unlikeable Worms
There is a secret, unwritten law of physics that affects all Fringe-goers—I call it the clock-factor.…
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Serena Smart: Little Miss Sunshine
Her comedy is sharp, while her ability to engage begins immediately as she enquires after the…
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Spare Room
This hard-hitting reality is soon brought sharply into focus. Jodie makes the life-changing decision to apply…
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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…
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Eryn Tett: Tasting Menu
Then comes the Main Course, & Tett pulls a masterstroke. It might seem counterintuitive to suggest…
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Afrique en Cirque
Afrique en Cirque is a glorious collision of arts & abilities, celebrating African culture through death-defying…
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I Made You a Mix Tape
The physical weaving in & out produces some glorious moments. Joyous processions emerge, collide & disappear…
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Lilla Multipass: Woman(33)
A major part of Woman (33) is getting the crowd to participate, & she does it…
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Mel Hudson: Richard Ashcroft Revived My Libido
Mel comes onto stage wearing a too tight red dress, but flaunting her womanhood in ways…
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Emma Doran: Emmaculate
This domestic world forms the fleshy matter of the show, with Emma chatting mainly about family…
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A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery: Knives In
All 170 or so people in the room were soon engaged. Everyone was handed a document…
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Notes: The Comedy B-Sides
We then got five comedians, all ostensibly looking through their phones. I’m not entirely convinced they…
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Edith Alibec: The Void
I simply bask’d in the glow of Edith’s illuminative performance. What a joy! As I’ve already…