Arj Barker - Let Me Do the Talking

Arj Barker - Let Me Do the Talking

Arj Barker, lackadaisical pawnshop owner and fount of urban wisdom Dave in ‘Flight of the Conchords’, is a frustrating figure. 

Sammy J: Skinny Man, Modern World

Sammy J: Skinny Man, Modern World

Sammy J is an Australian comedy singer-songwriter who interweaves stories from his own life with jaunty numbers on the piano, occasionally sipping on his carton of juice as a Frenc… 

Innovative Design

Innovative Design

‘An Innovative Design’ is a twisted, expressionistic ‘Toy Story’ with furniture instead of toys and stark, almost Dogville-esque visuals laced with dance. 

500 Miles

500 Miles

The debut production of new theatre company A Passion for D. 

Green Eggs and Hamlet

Green Eggs and Hamlet

‘Green Eggs and Hamlet’. 

My Face

My Face

Nigel Williams’ ‘My Face’, performed and produced by student troupe Gorilla Suit, is a light comedy about a fictional social networking site and the adolescents addicted to it. 

Frankly Outrageous

Frankly Outrageous

‘Frankly Outrageous’ tells the tale of Frank, Chris and Tom, three dodgy geezers united by childhood friendship and a murky incident from the past which comes back to haunt them at… 

Mike Keat: The Lyin' Bitch and The Wardrobe

Mike Keat: The Lyin' Bitch and The Wardrobe

If you were to cross the endearing double-act surrealism of Reeves and Mortimer and Napoleon Dynamite with the protean character comedy of Marc Wootton and Chris Lilley and infuse … 

For Your Entertainment

For Your Entertainment

‘For Your Entertainment’ is a dazzlingly black exploration of guilt, self-expression and sexuality that touches on paedophilia, masturbation, rape and cancer. 

Laura Solon: The Owl of Steven

Laura Solon: The Owl of Steven

Laura Solon, winner of the Perrier Award in 2005, is a sweet, engaging storyteller, but her new show, a Blytonian adventure story about a quest to retrieve an owl from the island o… 

Emo Philips: Please Witness My Act

Emo Philips: Please Witness My Act

Emo Philips is a peculiar man. 

Wil Hodgson - Punkanory

Wil Hodgson - Punkanory

Wil Hodgson’s ‘Punkanory’ is an erudite, anti-linear, intense social commentary that covers, amongst much else, punk, the Spice Girls, female sexuality, Eastenders, film studies… 

Kvetch

Kvetch

Steven Berkoff’s ‘Kvetch’ is a wilfully bleak look at the lives of five characters and their neuroses, performed and produced by a group of scientists from the Imperial College Lon… 

Hood!

Hood!

Peculius Stage’s ‘Hood!’ is a remarkable a capella-cum-physical theatre interpretation of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, infusing the sinister Germanic overtones of The Brothers Grimm a… 

'Underneath the Lintel' by Glen Berger

'Underneath the Lintel' by Glen Berger

‘Underneath The Lintel’ is a literary and philosophical treasure hunt from acclaimed Irish playwright Glen Berger, recently tasked with penning the script for Julie Taymor’s new Br… 

Kindly Leave the Stage

Kindly Leave the Stage

Kindly Leave The Stage is a metatheatrical farce which fuses the egotism, jealousy and vanity of the acting profession to a play-within-a-play that quickly erupts into itself, blur… 

Dean's Dad's Ducks

Dean's Dad's Ducks

Dean’s Dad’s Ducks is a one-man trip down memory lane with Dean Parkin, told from the comfort of a train seat and punctuated by crackly announcements from the train porter. 

Tim Key - The Slutcracker

Tim Key - The Slutcracker

Tim Key, arguably the most original comedian in the country right now, returns to the Fringe with the show that won him last year’s Perrier Award - ‘The Slutcracker’, a tapestry of… 

Kevin Bridges

Kevin Bridges

Yesterday evening, on my way to see Kevin Bridges, I hadn’t even turned onto George Street when I saw a gargantuan queue snaking down the road from the Assembly Rooms, writhing alo… 

Comedy Bitch: Them is Us

Comedy Bitch: Them is Us

Comedy Bitch opens with a parody of a Jumanji-esque game, in which the audience are invited (or rather, coerced) to take part. 

Terry Alderton

Terry Alderton

Terry Alderton is a comedian with many strings to his bow. 

Keith Farnan: Sex Traffic - How Much is That Woman in the Window?

Keith Farnan: Sex Traffic - How Much is That Woman in the Window?

Keith Farnan is an amiable, shaggy-haired comedian with a conscience from Cork, but his secular, joke-strewn sermon of a set is neither funny nor punchy enough to do justice to the… 

Carl Donnelly: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Carl Donnelly?

Carl Donnelly: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Carl Donnelly?

Sporting Leo Sayer hair, tinted round-lens specs and a Cheshire Cat smile, Carl Donnelly is an eminently likeable 28-year-old blessed with the natural off-beat London wit of Noel F… 

Success: A Success Story - Free

Success: A Success Story - Free

‘Success’ is an inventive, endearing and beautifully observed pastiche of self-help seminars. 

Jonny Sweet - Let's Just Have Some Fun (and Learn Something, For Once)

Jonny Sweet - Let's Just Have Some Fun (and Learn Something, For Once)

What a lovely, original and unpredictable show this is. 

Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words

Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words

Although much of the audience for Bo Burnham’s ‘Words Words Words’ could have been mistaken for extras from the house party scene in ‘Superbad’ (many wearing shorts, and one a… 

Sarah Millican: Chatterbox

Sarah Millican: Chatterbox

Although Sarah Millican tackles such familiar themes as bras, knickers, her boyfriend, her parents, her vagina (which is no castle) and eating, she invests them with enough South S… 

I Wish You Love

I Wish You Love

‘I Wish You Love’ traces the intense friendship between Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich through dialogue and their own songs.