This show is an absolute triumph, not only in its own brilliance but also in the perseverance of its performers and producer to make this Fringe debut possible in the face of incredible adversity.
Sing! Zimbabwe is a performance born of the incredible collaboration between the Chitungwiza Harmony Singers and the Tambuka dancers. Together this 30-strong [...]

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Marx is a man on a mission and he is quickly running out of time. His task? To find his ideal partner and marry her by the end of the festival. Possibly an impossible mission and what has he to offer the prospective ladies? How about a pushbike?
Pushing forty, the so far unlucky-in-love comic has [...]

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This interesting adaptation is so much more than just A Midsummer Night’s Dream and yet it is also less. For a start, it is performed in Korean, though there are ten or so lines in English to give an indication of what is happening in the convoluted parts. Those not familiar with the play should, [...]

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Mike Maran and Philip Contini’s adaptation of Louis de Bernières’ novel is not your usual hour and a half play with actors, scenes, expensive stages and fancy props. Instead, they opt for simplicity and have basically decided to re-tell the story much as if you were listening to an audio book. On paper, it sounds [...]

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Last year I was treated to this duo under the moniker of Sabotage. This year they have snuck into the programme with a new show and a new name yet their style remains the same.
Essentially, a quick-fire character bonanza, Mark Chavez and Shanoa Allen once again suck the audience in to their surreal and absurdest [...]

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Anyone vaguely cognisant about comedy over the last 50 years will have known what an impact these two had on its landscape. The Peter Cook film Not Only…But Always at Christmas was another testament to his ”tortured genius”. This production, however, is pulling focus round slightly more to Dudley Moore, showing him to be a [...]

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When the word circus is bandied about people automatically think of a big top filled with elephants, lions or not-so-funny-but-actually-really-scary-clowns but the NoFit State Circus is very different. As well as featuring none of the above, they have done away with seats and instead have an open-plan stage where, as the accordion player tells the [...]

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Dark Horse, Indiana has to have one of the most fascinating and potentially explosive premise on this year’s bill – a futuristic America where women are sent off to war, heterosexuals work in factories and the family men and people of power are all homosexuals. Indiana’s hostility to the genetically inferior straights grows until a [...]

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Despite just being 26-years-old, Paul Kerensa an impressive CV: he has won ITV’s Take the Mike award, plus been a runner-up in a host of other awards; he writes for no less than ten radio shows and his television appearances include Weapons of Mass Distraction and The Weakest Link. With this sort of pedigree you’d [...]

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James is now 28 and he’s getting reflective. Utilising the 7 Up series as a backdrop, Dowdeswell replays the situations of his life to date and contemplates upon their significance in his development.
For those of you unfamiliar with this programme, it charts the lives of people from child to adulthood returning to them every 7 [...]

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