Another festival favourite and another easy ride. Maxwell kicks off well with a ‘pirates’ humming gag’ that warms up the audience and creates a convivial atmosphere that endures.
The theme of ‘twilight’ is tenuous at best- perhaps he forgot to develop it? – as really the only joke with reference to it, is the story about [...]

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“I’ve done better than Eusden”, is the central theme of Luke Wrights show explaining why he should be Poet Laureate. This quote refers to the universally derided former Poet Laureate, Laurence Eusden. A man who is held in such poor regard that, as Wright informs the audience, his entrance in the normally objective Encyclopaedia Britannica [...]

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If you want to see a display of physical strength, gymnastic skill, spells of slapstick and circus fun, this is the show for you. If you want to see cleverly choreographed, neatly worked, a coherent story with fantastic dance and polished humour, then go and see ”Into the Hoods” by ZooNation.
Your jaw will drop in [...]

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At the beginning of the second stand-up act, Carol Tobin comes on stage and says: ‘Laugh. If I don’t make you laugh, think of something in the past that has made you laugh before, and if you don’t laugh, I’ll cry’. There is a lot of thinking about past memories in this show.
Three stand-up comedians, [...]

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As Rob Heeney points out early on, we (the audience) are his kind of people – week-night drinkers who count sick leave as part of our annual holiday entitlement. The kind of people who know we’re better than anyone on Big Brother, and could beat any of those other ‘idiots’ on The Apprentice easily. Basically [...]

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For an hour, the tiny theatre in the church tower of the Roxy Art House becomes the 1920s Caravan Club: ”the most bohemian rendezvous in London”. Woodstock Taylor is excellent as the club’s chanteuse of a certain age: she belts out bitter-sweet songs written for the play, which sound authentic to the portrayed period.
Arron Wright [...]

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Previewed at Kinkfest, and sponsored by Prong fetishwear, this play explores the emotional path that leads to the S & M scene for one young woman. Three members of the audience are called upon to decide which way the action should go during the play; so the path may diverge on different nights. For example, [...]

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Folk singer, songwriter and storyteller Dick Gaughan sings about struggle with an unmatchable warmth, passion and integrity.
You never feel this is a fevered ego at work, as Gaughan portrays so much of what there is to be proud of being Scottish: the struggles, the resistance to landowners and corrupt governments, the work and much more.
As [...]

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Taylor Mac is everything and nothing you expect from a drag performer. He has all the flamboyant costumes, the makeup and the wigs, what sets this act apart however is the person below this vibrant camouflage.
Where you would normally find dry sarcasm and lip-syncing in a ‘traditional’ drag act, Taylor Mac sings songs full of [...]

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It’s always good to find something new at the Fringe and it’s a distinct pleasure when these new experiences are as enjoyable as Rick Chester’s show.
Presented as a celebrity seminar, the whole premise of this show is that 30s acting ‘legend’ Rick Chester is going to teach the audience how to make it in the [...]

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