Shappi Khorsandi is pregnant… heavily pregnant, and worryingly so. Normally this would not be the sort of thing that one would expect to mention but watching someone in their eighth month of pregnancy deliver a fast paced stand up show is akin to playing pass the parcel with a grenade. Despite the significant change to [...]

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Adapted from Max Arthur’s, Forgotten Voices of the Great War, this is a wonderful story about the horrors and hopes during World War Two, taken from five different perspectives: a wife waiting for her husband’s return, an American soldier, an army man on the front line and his senior officer and, finally, a bureaucrat. This [...]

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In 1635 a Spanish writer, Calderon De La Barca wrote a comedy about free will and fate, and how free will creates nothing but whatever you decide, never sticking to rules, conventions of pre-set ideas. This year’s Fringe brings one of the most innovative, thought-provoking and engaging shows in recent years, Fuerzabruta, a show by [...]

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For those of you mislead by the saucy poster, Nina Conti is actually a fabulous ventriloquist. We should get that out the way first and foremost, since she is worried that some of the audience may just come to see her tits.
Her first full length Fringe show is called Complete and Utter Conti, but much [...]

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Written, directed and performed by Clare Titelman, a mildly successful television star in America, she has come to the Fringe with her critically acclaimed dark tale, Lemons are for emergencies only.
The title is a little odd but not nearly as odd as the production, which is a one woman play were she sits in front [...]

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According to a recent Channel 4 survey, Stewart Lee has been voted the 41st best stand up comedian ever. The premise of his show is all about what that means to him and the absurdity that comes with it.
Lee is clearly brimming with self-confidence and intelligence as he walks out, delivering his routine in a [...]

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How can you even begin to praise Stephen K Amos in a way that hasn’t been done a thousand times before? Up there with the Fringe big hitters, Adam Hill and Jason Byrne’s Amos is one of the finest British comedians around and has won a host of comedy awards throughout. He doesn’t disappoint this [...]

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It is not easy task to market a show based on two of the least liked forms of performed arts, i.e. opera and improve theatre. But somehow Impropera not only have managed to fit them together, but they have accomplished the hard chore of making them loved by the audience.
Five minutes into the show, the [...]

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In the short space of five years, Simon Amstell’s popularity has gone from strength to strength. Adored by a generation of students when he used his acidic wit to hilarious effect against unsuspecting pop-stars in Pop World he then managed to convert the rest of Britain into rabid fans when he triumphed as the new [...]

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There not too many stand-up comedians that seem as approachable and friendly as Patrick Monahan. At the end of his show he even stays behind to chat with some of his audience, and all throughout his one hour act he promises not to poke fun at anyone in the public. Turns out it’s not completely [...]

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