Brassens Et La Femme feels a bit of a cheat, as there is no indication in any of the accompanying flyers or literature that the entire show is performed in French. In some ways I applaud the producers at Theatre du Sablier for having the guts to come to the Fringe and make no exceptions [...]

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Except for a couple of props (swing, Bourbon biscuits, cup of tea; sit at the front if you want one), John Hegley doesn’t bring anything particularly different to his performance as he returns to the Fringe for another year - although this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Hegley is guaranteed an audience when he ventures North [...]

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It’s nice to see a performance where you feel that the person really has something to say, and Dudley Sutton has a lot to say. Talking of his life, he tells of the struggle to keep his ‘inner Pandora’ happy, and the routes he has chosen to do this.
Managing to escape the confines of a [...]

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There’s nothing specifically wrong with Michael McIntyre’s joke: they are performed with professionalism and even managed to raise the occasional titter. The problem is that there is nothing in the show that hasn’t been done before. The girlfriend jokes, the picking out people from the audience as a bit of time filler (and an excuse [...]

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Iranian comic Shappi Khorsandi returns to the Fringe with a show based around her family’s experiences in Britain after they were exiled from Iran. She manages to keep the show pretty light hearted, despite the stories of Fatwa’s and death threats against her father.
Khorsandi talks a lot about Iran and the history of the region [...]

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For those hoping to find a hidden gem at the Fringe this year, you could see a lot worse than Invisible Ink. Housed at Sweet ECA, this intimate venue offers the opportunity to really connect with the performers.
The show comprises of three spoken word artists, all entirely individual and each compelling in their own way. [...]

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At first it was difficult to form an opinion of Tony Carter, as he was jumping around so much and talking so fast that all I could see was Lee Evans with a Geordie accent. Although he didn’t calm down at any point throughout the hour-long performance, it really did get better and better, as [...]

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Since he is most famous for his role in the Adam & Joe show, it’s nice to see Adam Buxton coming to Edinburgh with something a bit different – a character-based comedy show called I, Pavel.
The Pavel in question is an experimental animator from a tiny Eastern European country who has travelled to Britain in [...]

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Set in a small, unnamed town on the outskirts of Glasgow, Use Once And Destroy centres on the relationship between a father and son, and their individual relationships with a young man who they have both worked with.
The structure of this play reads very much like a piece of cinema, jumping between past and present [...]

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This production of Jarry’s masterpiece stands out as an undoubted highlight of the 2005 Fringe.
Set in bonny old ”Scotchland”, this amazing play follows the actions of the evil Ubu as he strives to become king, no matter how many lives are lost along the way.
It is an incredibly physical piece of theatre that builds in [...]

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