ongs of Struggle sees a fine collection of Scottish folk singers gather together to celebrate Woody Guthrie’s centenary in an evening of inspiring and compelling music.
Less than a minute into the show and there’s a bomb, some sort of wizard and someone getting punched in the face.
Ladylike gets off to a rather standard start with an introduction to the double act’s caricatured personalities, which aren’t anything novel: Victoria Temple-Morris is arrogant…
By its very nature, the night is never going to be spectacular.
Three for Free is a fun and friendly showcase of new acts, featuring Alex Kealy and Patrick Morris, plus a special guest every day.
It’s rare to come out of a sketch show and have no problem recalling the premise of every sketch.
Matthew Highton will deceive you.
There are two possible reasons why Angela Barnes and Matt Richardson are sharing a stand-up show: a) they’re friends; or b) they both attribute a lot of material to their mums.
It’s a bit of a cliché to say, but Jarlath Regan oozes charm.
The 27 Club is a club in which all members died at the age of 27, explains Jack Lukeman, having strutted onto the stage in sunglasses to a hefty round of applause.
It’s not immediately easy to find any correlation between Macbeth and the deputy Prime Minister, but this new satire from Oxford University creates one with great wit and a marve…
It’s usually a good sign when a sketch group can make you smile before you even enter the venue.
The show gets off to a slick and simple start by introducing each member of HyHo Productions to the stage.
Billed primarily as comedy, it’s only natural to spend the first few minutes of this show wondering where the jokes are.
Likely the most enjoyable corporate seminar you’ll see at the Fringe, Jack and Nikki: Killing Machines is warm and entertaining from the start.
James Christopher’s tactic of combining the show titles of award-winning comedians seems a strange choice.
If ever there was a lesson in the value of being patient, this show is it.
Would Like to Meet highlights in its description its daily change of acts which apparently brings ‘fresh appeal’ to the show every day.
Pam Ford presents a friendly and funny stand-up show focussing on her past career as a hairdresser.
If this show were a child, it might be described as a ‘late developer’.
Right from the word ‘go’ it appears this won’t be the most original sketch show ever to grace the Fringe – the Gubernaculum, a group of Oxbridge doctors, are just one in a …