Articles by Alanta Colley

Sarah Bennetto's Storytellers' Club

This show is a little different from what the rest of the Festival has to offer.

The Cleek

The Cleek, an all-female sketch troupe, formed after its members met at Chicago’s Second City Training Center.

Night of the Living Tories

In this hour of fine free comedy Joe Well combines his two greatest loves; political satire and zombies.

Susan Murray's F*ckwit Club

The feisty fire-headed pocket rocket Susan Murray is here to reveal the breadth and depth of just who possesses membership to the F*ckwit Club.

Carey Marx: Abominable

Carey Marx is back this Fringe with adroit observational comedy, analysing a veritable rainbow of taboo.

The Spork Conspiracy

This young rag-tag bunch of misfits share with us an eclectic mix of sketch, stand up, and general tom-foolery.

All Star Stand-Up Showcase

If you’re in the mood for some bawdy, laddish comedy then this is the show for you.

Danny Buckler: Punch

Danny Buckler is incurably absorbed in the world of fantasy.

FunBags a Go-Go!

Funbags are a high energy, lung-busting comedy trio here to deliver a hot serving of social commentary through the power of sketch.

Brydie Lee-Kennedy Repeats On You

Brydie Lee Kennedy is not short on life experience.

Nik Coppin - Mixed Racist

With a black father from Barbados and a white mother from England, Nik Coppin has grown up with a foot in both worlds.

Susan Calman: Lady Like

Eight years since her Fringe debut, Susan Calman reflects on her Fringe journey, noting the packed 300+ room that she’s playing to during this performance is a far cry from how…

Wilkinson Ford: Kagoolio

Wilkinson Ford is the collective machination of Nicola Wilkinson and Claire Ford, combining their twin talents as actresses and comedians in an enchanting sketch comedy, Kagoolio.

Will Mars: As Good As My Audience

The premise of the show is simple; Mars has abandoned self-doubt and concluded he is a good comedian; he’s decided that this one is on us; the audience, to enjoy the show or not.

Ant Dewson and Mark Silcox: Life in the Bus Lane - Free

Everything seemed against this performance from the start.

Loretta Maine: Strong Independent Woman (Unless I Am Very Tired)

Loretta Maine is the comic creation of British comedian Pippa Evans.

WOMANz

Tessa Waters is back this festival with the new solo show, Womanz.

Elephant Room

If you’re bored of the type of magic that always produces the same old tropes (predictable card tricks, dull magician banter in matching suits, tired efforts to build an air of m…

Seann Walsh: Seann 28

Brighton based comic, wild and woolly Seann Walsh is back in Edinburgh and playing to full houses at the Cabaret Bar in the Pleasance Courtyard.

Alex Horne: Monsieur Butterfly

It’s unclear for a good quarter of the show what Horne is up to.

Mark Watson: Flaws

Watson is back after a short hiatus from Edinburgh; a little more world-weary and adult, but in no way less hilarious.

David Trent: Live at the Pleasance Courtyard

David Trent enters to thunderous music and revs up the crowd with a flurry of fist pumps and screaming; only to cut it all off with a delightfully anticlimactic start to the show.

Russell Grant: Strictly Edinburgh

The stage is adorned with a pair of angel wings, a velvet couch and a large book covered in sparkles with ‘My Life’ adorned on the front.

James Acaster: Recognise

Acaster strides onto the stage with purpose; his floppy fringe and corduroy jacket giving him the mild air of an English schoolboy.

Bec Hill in... Ellipsis

Bec Hill is packing positivity to the hilt.

Luke McQueen: Now That's What I Luke McQueen

Things are not going well for Luke McQueen.

EastEnd Cabaret: Sexual Tension

Eastend Cabaret pays homage to the well-established tropes of Cabaret and they do it well.

Hannah Gadsby: The Exhibitionist

Australian award-winning comedienne and author of the successful Australian television art doco Hannah Gadsby’s Oz, Hannah Gadsby is back this Edinburgh Fringe with a fresh batch…

Neil Henry's Impossible

There’s a hint of showbiz in the air as Neil emerges in a matching two piece checked suit, white leather shoes and a giant magician’s smile.

Beardyman: One Album Per Hour

Review
★★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2013

The mouth of a million sounds BeardyMan brings his beatboxing brilliance to Edinburgh with an extremely ambitious new project.

The New Wave

Review
★★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2013

There are quite a few variety nights kicking about this comedy festival, but this one proved to offer the most unique and high quality selection that I’ve encountered so far.

Showcatcher

Review
★★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2013

Australian television regular Myf Warhurst hosts this event in the salubrious Palazzo.

Dear Ray

Review
★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2013

Max Diggins is an affable 25 year old urban-based comic who has a 40 something penfriend called Ray who lives in the Isle of White.

The Peculiar Case of Kemsley and Todd

Review
★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
5th Aug, 2013

Harriet Kemsly and Richard Todd form this energetic odd couple as part of the Free Fringe.

Arthur Smith

Review
★★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2013

Arthur Smith resembles Leonard Cohen in more ways than one.

Gamarjobat (ga-ma-jo-bat) Rock Out!

The explosive duo Ketch! and HIRO-PON all the way from Japan are set to blow audiences away with their furious and action packed show Rock On!.

Tony Dunn Against the Psychopaths

Tony Dunn affects the airs of a tutor as he provides us with a fascinating seminar on the nature and behaviours of the world’s psychopaths.

Shelby Bond: People Pleaser

Review
★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2013

Shelby Bond is a self-professed ‘nice guy’ who suffers the wrath of a world that never repays his kind.

Rachel Parris: The Commission

Rachel Parris writes the jingles for the ads that try to sell you unnecessary chattels and the pop shows that make you cringe.

Jon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths

This is a dark, powerful, pathos-laden and hilarious performance.

Lords of Strut

Feast your eyes on this spectacle of spandex, technicolour zebra print and super-sized smiles as these charismatic clowns prance and pose for you in the cheekily titled Sell Out To…

A Pile of Wit

Review
★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
3rd Aug, 2013

This scruffy, scrawny gaggle of youngish lads from Sheffield’s premier comedy troupe The Antics are bent on making sure that Edinburgh Fringe’s improv scene stays perfectly sil…

The Colour Ham

Review
★★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2013

The Colour Ham consist of Colin McLeod the mentalist, Kevin McMahon the magician, and Gavin Oattes the puller of funny faces.

Subtlety with Ed Mayhew

Review
★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
2nd Aug, 2013

Ed Mayhew has a friendly one-man variety show that you could do worse than spend an hour watching.

That Pair: Never Liked Her Anyway

In death, we find mirth.

David Quirk - Shaking Hands With Danger (AUS)

David Quirk, an unapologetic child of the ‘80s, paints the scene immediately with his passion for Guns N’ Roses, leather trousers and idolatry of Slash.

Fast Fringe

Review
★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2013

Are you the indecisive sort who suffers a meltdown at the thought of having to decide between shows from the novel-thick Fringe guide? Are you loath to bend to the will of the more…

Greg Proops

This hardened satirist is back for his 39th round at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Lloyd Langford: Galoot

A man entered the stage in a banana costume.

Gravity Boots

Review
★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
4th Aug, 2013

There’s surreal, there’s even more surreal and then there’s Gravity Boots.

KelFi & FiKel

Review
★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
3rd Aug, 2013

KelFi and FiKel pack a punch with their no nonsense, no holds barred, in your face musical cabaret stuffed with smut and salacious comedy.

Simon Evans: Leashed

Simon Evans is an agitated Englishman who has come to serve up some scorn and air his collection of grievances at this Edinburgh Fringe.

Kieran Hodgson - Flood

Review
★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2013

Hodgson’s The Flood is a character sketch comedy; depicting a gaggle of the odd townsfolk from Lincolnshire’s Gainsborough, each of whom come together to reflect on the one-yea…

Matt Green - Alive

Review
★★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2013

Matt Green is alive.

Graham Clark: Afraid of the Clark

Review
★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2013

The laconic Clark delivers his laid back performance in the belly of the Roxy.

Brett Goldstein Contains Scenes of an Adult Nature

Review
★★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2013

Goldstein kicks off by feeling for the moral pulse of his audience; concluding that his target is ‘dick jokes for skinheads’, but this is an underestimation of Goldstein’s sh…

Chastity Butterworth & The Spanish Hamster

This set sees actress and comedienne Gemma Whelan don her brilliant character creation as Chastity Butterworth, a polished and aristocratic lady with a penchant for discussing bodi…

Ben Verth: What Is This Place?

Review
★★★
Alanta Colley
Edinburgh Fringe
3rd Aug, 2013

Ben Verth is an explosive bounty of hair, personality and cheerful self-deprecation which he amply shares with you in his latest show, What is this place? In this hour Verth explor…

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