A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
If it isn’t your old internet friend, Dr Giggles.
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
It's me again, your old internet friend Dr Giggles.
It's me again, your old internet friend Dr Giggles.
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
A new show from Lou Sanders (as seen on QI, Travel Man, Taskmaster and your Daddy’s ding dong).
A new show from Lou Sanders (as seen on QI, Travel Man, Taskmaster and your Daddy’s ding dong).
It’s me, Loulie, AKA the face that launched a thousand dicks! In this show I’ll examine relationships (all kinds, baby), mental health (other people’s,…
Fresh from a slot on James Corden’s Late Late Show, Lou Sanders breezes into Brighton to blow away the grubby taint of the coronavirus—and your dad.
Loulie, AKA the face that launched a thousand dicks, examines conduct (in the media, baby), mental health (other people’s, I’m fine) and perverts (that one is mainly me, actually).
Lia Hatzakis delivers a multi-character show, playing every member of the Onion family.
Yes, big topics are discussed.
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
Darren Sanders - Silver celebrates 25 years in the comedy industry and delivers as many punchlines per minute as any comedy show within Fringe World.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
It is a rare treat to see surrealist comedy this good.
We’ve all had our penises sat on and this lady gonna talk about it.
A genderless riot from a little old force to be reckoned with.
I never expected not to ‘get’ a children’s show.
Even just turning off Princes Street into the graveyard of St Cuthbert’s Parish Church is peaceful.
For a brief time in my life, I helped primary school children improve their reading.
One can’t help but like Joshua Seigal.
Fans of Marty and Doc beware; the similar title should not make you think that this has any link to the classic sci-fi movies.
In an appropriately darkened room we listened as the wonderfully eccentric Viktor Wynd, multidisciplinary artist and wearer of green-and-yellow-checked suits, regaled us with suita…
Wearing a kilt, a red stripy top and a pair of gold earrings, the bearded Martin ‘Bigpig’ Mor somehow made me think of a Scottish pirate in a children’s storybook.
Hendrick’s Carnival of Knowledge presents itself as a place of knowledge and relaxation, of playfulness and learning.
Watching James Campbell launch into his family friendly stand-up routine makes one wonder why there are not more stand-ups for children around.
Just because a show is intended for children is no excuse for bad acting.
In their fantastic, feast-for-the-eyes costumes – including brightly coloured converses and Oompa Loompa style facepaint – Dolphin School Theatre Company put together a very ph…
Upon entering this show, one was first struck by the grey and white cut-out set which looked like illustrations from a Dr Seuss book that’s gone over to the dark side.
They say to never work with children.
Sadly, this Disney inspired show is lighter and emptier than even Snow White’s mind.
An hour and a half sounds like a long time to keep a group of children entertained for.
This is Macbeth the musical as though it has been rewritten by a Monty Python fan and acted by a drama group, with och-aye accents and just a touch of camp; altogether it makes for…
Ren is performing before the show begins, making up a silly version of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star with the audience’s help.
This is Cinderella, but not as you know it.
Martha McBrier manages to get a lot of mileage from a story which highlights the importance of road safety.
One imagines that the members of the Principio Attivo Teatro are absolutely lethal at charades.
Those who rushed in to Ian Saville’s magic show just before starting were in danger of thinking that the performance had already begun.
This show is something of a smorgasbord of family entertainment.
After challenging the fourth wall in the beginning, Joseph Arkley, in the eponymous role, stood with his two feet firmly planted on the edge of a desk, not moving until the closing…
While Sleeping Beauty and the entire kingdom was asleep who did the dusting for all those hundreds of years? What would happen if the wrong person had kissed her? These are the sor…
Sanders and Co - free. Mixed sketch and stand-up show. Sanders and Co may be a bit jaded but are nonetheless full of beans (no frills baked beans in an absurdist comedy sauce).
I confess that I was not particularly looking forward to this show, struggling to imagine how, as the Fringe guide put it, a show ‘dotted with carefully repeated French keywords�…
The Kohinoor diamond is notoriously supposed to carry a curse which falls on all male owners of the stone.
Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most youth-filled of all Shakespeare’s plays, with the star-crossed teen lovers and their idealistic yet doomed belief than young love can conquer…
‘I knew we should have booked a longer time slot,’ said one of the actors as another struggled to make it offstage while pretending to be a beached shark.
There’s no denying that children enjoy silly sounds.
Don’t let the title of this show suggest to you giant worms or even aliens battling it out; here is war in its loosest sense.
This show is based on the popular CBBC series of the same name, in which magicians go into schools in disguise and pretend to be supply teachers, amazing the pupils in the process.
With only four simply dressed actresses and a range of household objects, Red Table Theatre act out four of Kipling’s tales from The Just So Stories, sticking very closely to his…
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
When I worked at C venues, the Bubble Man had an almost legendary status: he was a guaranteed sell-out every year.
Storytime! felt less like a finely honed performance and more like an Apprentice challenge: in two days come up with a way of entertaining a group of five year olds for an hour.
If all children’s shows were this good we would all be going to see them with or without children.
The Big Bite-Size Play Factory’s Family Creatures may seem an impenetrable sort of name but early into watching this show it became apparent that this was a sketch show intended …
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
Tonight is what the Camden Fringe is all about; two half hour segments from two different comedy artistes offering a peek at what the full hour could be like.