Following previous award-winning shows, Tim Key returns with a curious, hit and miss blend of poetry, music, film-clips, stand-up and audience interaction.

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Actor and comedian Tom Price is an engaging, funny stage presence and on the evidence of this show, has considerable potential for a bigger comic career.

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US actor and comedian Hal Sparks is facing a daunting prospect: it’s late Friday night and there are only a couple of dozen punters in the audience. But if he’s disappointed he doesn’t show it and one of the best things about Sparks is his infectious enthusiasm.

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Russell Kane is quite simply one of the most naturally talented comedians to hit the Fringe in recent years. From the sublime to the ridiculous, he mines a rich vein of humour from his own life, which he delivers with more energy and wit than almost any of his peers.

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An hour of songs about the bubonic plague doesn’t sound like a particularly enticing proposition. And Ten Plagues – in which Marc Almond plays the nameless Londoner wandering through pestilence-ridden London – certainly isn’t a Sweeney Todd style jaunt through a dark but tuneful narrative.

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Affable Irishman Regan is back and for those unaccustomed to his gentle observational humour, the only shock will be how laidback and gentle it really is.

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Adjectives like inventive, ingenious, beautiful, moving and funny are frequently overused during the Fringe, but this show deserves all them. It’s also ambitious and heartfelt.

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For a debut solo stand-up show at the Fringe, Chris Martin shows an admirable confidence and professionalism.

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Billed as an anarchic but very civilised hour of chat, stand-up and party-pieces’, Allen’s style of comedy is certainly civilised. His clipped, sarcastic delivery suits the English tea-party set nicely, sounding ever so proper in an introductory ten-minutes of stand-up and audience interaction.

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A musical based on the works of influential sci-fi author Ray Bradbury has real potential given the ongoing relevance of his themes – notably the impact of technology on our lives – and the fact that his work, however futuristic, is rooted in human emotions.
Unfortunately, 2116 – a blend of musical, dance, physical theatre and [...]

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