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Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Riddles Court
2nd - 24th Aug 2024

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…

Oliver Coleman: Goof

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Edinburgh Fringe
Underbelly, Bristo Square
31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024

Coleman comes onstage, gets straight into it.

Ellyn Oliver + Jessie Dipper

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Edinburgh Fringe
Hope City Church Edinburgh
10th Aug 2023

Back again after a sell-out show at Fringe 2022, folk, soul and jazz-influenced singer-songwriter Ellyn Oliver guarantees a time of gorgeous vocals and thoughtful songs.

Brian Kellock / Colin Steele Play Oliver!

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Jazz Bar
4th - 12th Aug 2023

Pianist Brian Kellock and trumpeter Colin Steele are amongst Scotland’s foremost jazz musicians.

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

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London Fringe
The Bridge House Theatre
26th Jan 2023

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, …

Ellyn Oliver + Amy Papiranksy + Unoma Okudo

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Edinburgh Fringe
Hope City
27th Aug 2022

A showcase of some of Scotland’s rising Scottish female singer-songwriters.

Oliver! Jr

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Edinburgh Fringe
theSpace @ Niddry St
25th - 27th Aug 2022

Footsteps to Theatre (in association with Cumbria Curtain Call) present a youth production of Lionel Bart’s classic musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist.

Death of an Author

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Nicolson Square
22nd - 27th Aug 2022

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…

Lionel Bart's Oliver!

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Edinburgh Fringe
Rose Theatre
5th - 16th Aug 2022

Captivate Theatre brings this timeless musical to life in this West End version of the classic Dickens’ novel with some of the most memorable characters and songs ever to hit the s…

Oliver Coleman: Sublime

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Edinburgh Fringe
Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore)
4th - 28th Aug 2022

Nominated – Best Newcomer, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2019.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Brighton Fringe
The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
21st - 22nd May 2022

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.

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

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UK Regional & Tours
Online Event
1st Oct 2021

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…

Oliver!

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre
13th - 25th Aug 2019

Captivate Theatre brings Lionel Bart’s timeless musical back to the Rose Theatre.

Oliver!

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Brunton
8th - 10th Aug 2019

Lionel Bart’s Oliver! remains one of the most-loved British musicals ever, combining Dickens’ classic story and characters with a sensational and unforgettable score.

What’s the Big Idea? Playwriting Workshop with Oliver Emanuel

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Edinburgh Fringe
Fringe Central
4th Aug 2019

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.

Oliver!

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Edinburgh Fringe
Hill Street Theatre
2nd - 11th Aug 2019

Come along and indulge yourself in Lionel Bart’s original Oliver! This youthful cast brings his songs and dialogue to life as they sing and dance their way through Dickens’ squalid…

OLIVER SAMUELS CELEBRATES 70 with 56 East Avenue

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London Fringe
The Broadway Theatre, Catford
15th - 16th Jun 2019

Oliver Samuel is the undisputed king of comedy and arguably Jamaica’s most compelling theatre voice with a colourful mastery for the Jamaican style; Oliver Samuels…

Shit-faced Showtime: Oliver with a Twist

Beginning with an amusing introduction from the on-stage showrunner, Shit-faced Showtime: Oliver With A Twist sets out its premise.

Sh!t-Faced Showtime: Oliver With a Twist!

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
27th Mar - 12th Apr 2019

The professional pissheads behind international hit, Shit-faced Shakespeare, bring you their sell-out musical knees-up extravaganza .

Sh!t-faced Showtime: Oliver with a Twist

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
27th Mar - 12th Apr 2019

Will you see an arseholed-Dodger, a fuddled Fagin or even an out-of-it Oliver? Each night a different actor will get drunk before the show, when they’ll attempt to perform an hou…

Sh!t-Faced Showtime: Oliver With a Twist!

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
27th Mar - 12th Apr 2019

The professional pissheads behind international hit, Shit-faced Shakespeare, bring you their sell-out musical knees-up extravaganza .

OLIVER! (1968) CERT PG

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UK Regional & Tours
Hertford Theatre
20th Feb 2019

Wednesday 20th February, 1.

West End Magic Presents... Oliver Tabor

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West End
Museum of Comedy
29th Sep - 24th Nov 2018

West End Magic presents: A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.

Sh*t-Faced Showtime Presents: Oliver with a Twist!

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
5th - 9th Sep 2018

From the professional pissheads behind the international hit show Shit-faced Shakespeare comes an all new cockney knees-up musical extravaganza.

Oliver Coleman: Delicious

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Coffee House
2nd - 26th Aug 2018

Australian funny man Oliver Coleman arrives at the Edinburgh Fringe bringing with him a frenetic hour of silly comedy fun times! It’s a totally good show performed with exceptional…

Oliver Meech: When Magic and Food Collide

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just the Tonic at The Mash House
2nd - 18th Aug 2018

After two sell-out runs, Oliver’s back with his latest magical mash-up.

Shit-Faced Showtime: Oliver With a Twist

With success in the likes of Shitfaced Shakespeare and Shitfaced Showtime, Magnificent Bastard Productions return to the Fringe with their take on Lionel Bart’s 1960 musical.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
1st - 27th Aug 2018

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.

Oliver Jeffers' Lost and Found

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Brighton Fringe
The Warren: The Hat
2nd - 3rd Jun 2018

Once there was a boy and one day he found a penguin at his door.

West End Magic Presents... Oliver Meech

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West End
Museum of Comedy
26th May - 21st Jul 2018

A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.

Oliver Coleman: Variations on a Dream

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
10th - 14th May 2018

In music, variation is a formal technique where material is repeated in an altered form.

Oliver Samuels and Volier “Maffy” Johnson in FRENEMY

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London Fringe
The Broadway Theatre, Catford
28th - 29th Apr 2018

Samuels and Johnson are two of Jamaican theater’s giants.

Oliver!

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre
3rd - 27th Aug 2017

Captivate Theatre brings Lionel Bart’s timeless musical to life.

Ingrid Oliver: Speech!

Ingrid Oliver delivers an hour of speeches in Speech! From a TED talk to the ramblings of a right-wing shock-jock, and all manner of voices in between, the connecting thread betwee…

Ingrid Oliver : Speech

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London Fringe
THE LONDON THEATRE - New Cross
21st Jul 2017

Co-creator and star of Watson and Oliver (BBC Two), as seen on Doctor Who and Plebs.

Oliver Twist

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London Fringe
Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park
17th Jul - 5th Aug 2017

Adapted by ANYA REISS From the novel by CHARLES DICKENS Discover the original story of Victorian London's most famous child with Oliver Twist created for everyone aged six and …

Jokes And Their Relation To The Unconscious

Taken on a whirlwind of what it means to have desires, unconscious and conscious thoughts, Alex Sergeant performed an entertainingly educational stand-up show.

Jacob Hatton: True Brit

Amidst all the current political debates surrounding nationalism, I was curious as to the sort of person that would put on a show called Jacob Hatton: True Brit.

Storyland Author Readings

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Brighton Fringe
Jubilee Library
26th May 2017

Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.

Tracey Tracey

With pronounced teeth and wide eyes, eponymous protagonist Tracey Tracey’s entrance onto the stage paved the way for a larger-than-life, one-woman show from character comedian, N…

Frankenstein: Man or Monster

A refreshingly innovative take on Mary Shelley’s 19th century novel, Augustus Stephens’ one-man performance effortlessly portrayed mental illnesses through the depiction of Vi…

The Maydays present: Happily Never After

Being inspired by fairy tales, Gothic themes and the warped imagination of Tim Burton was all-too-clear in the wide and undeniably impressive range of sketches, theatre troupe The …

Woof Woof Meow Meow

Described as ‘a stand-up comedy brought to you by pet-loving funny guys Simone Belshaw and James Sarek’ in the Caroline of Brunswick’s 2017 Summer Comedy Guide, this performa…

Oliver in the Overworld

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
7th - 7th May 2017

“Tick, tock, tick.

Oliver Twist

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UK Regional & Tours
Leeds Kirkgate Market
10th - 14th Jan 2017

Oliver Twist faces the world alone.

Results Will Vary

Review
★★★
Oliver Lugg
Brighton
The Iron Duke Pub Guesthouse Kitchen & Theatre
27th Nov, 2016

The quartet of performers who make up Pop Heart Productions brought to life a piece of improvisational theatre with several compelling aspects and showed promise for the future.

One for the Road

Harold Pinter’s short play, One for the Road, concerns torture, and you can assume it’s talking about state-sanctioned torture, given Rising Phoenix Repertory’s decision to t…

Single Varietal

Review
★
Oliver Simmonds
Edinburgh Fringe
Spotlites
18th Aug, 2016

Bob Stourton has an orchard.

All In

Here’s what happens in order: A parody of bourgeois conversation by actors in black morphsuits; a light show to the gaiety of the Ode To Joy; unembellished description of said pi…

Ears on a Beatle

Billed as “not simply a docu-drama”, Ears on a Beatle promises perspective on the post-Summer-of-Love, post-Fab-Four decade in which the two protagonist agents find themselves.

Oliver!

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Edinburgh Academy
13th - 14th Aug 2016

Oliver is a well crafted tale which follows the boy who asked for more as he makes his way to London hoping to find his family.

Spaced: Whisky Theatre

Review
★★
Oliver Simmonds
Edinburgh Fringe
Valvona & Crolla Scottish Foodhall@Jenners
14th Aug, 2016

Imagine you’re fifteen.

Under Ice

Lithuanian director Arturas Areima mounts an adaptation of Falk Richter’s play of the same name, Under Ice.

Bend in the River

Deep Water Theatre Collective mount Bend in the River: a tender, Thornton Wilder-esque look at the modest living of lepers.

Fourth Monkey's Genesis and Revelation: Ascension Part 2

Here we go again.

Dreaming Under the Southern Bough

stage@leedscompany mount an original adaptation of Tang Xianzu’s A Dream Under the Southern Bough.

The Rose of Jericho

Kevin Hely stares, bares his teeth and darts along the stage.

Oliver!

The Spiegeltent is a far cry from the workhouse and rarely can a setting have been better used than in this stunning production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! by Captivate Theatre.

The Road to Huntsville

Stephanie Ridings does a lecture on state homicide with drama.

Sins Borne

Absolutely implausible and performed implausibly too: there are moments where Sins Borne’s premise works but they are too sparse.

Isabel(le)

Isabel(le) concerns Isabel Brade, a freewheeling brothel owner with a penchant for dance, and Emma, her great-granddaughter and narrator of the show.

Fourth Monkey's Genesis and Revelation: Ascension Part 1

The Genesis + Revelation cycle by Fourth Monkey promises “traditional Bible stories with a contemporary twist”.

Captured

Forsaken love.

This Evil Thing

Many appreciate conscientious objectors because they seem on the right side of history.

Inferno

Inferno is the first and, arguably, best part of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Nzinga Warrior Queen

When the polyrhythm is heard in Nzinga Warrior Queen’s opening, you know this isn’t a comedy of manners.

Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London

Five-star performance in a three-star play.

Wilde Without the Boy

It’s indefatigably Wilde.

The Unknown Soldier

Centenary productions saturate the Fringe, yet the conceit at the heart of The Unknown Soldier puts it slightly above the masses.

House and Amongst the Reeds

London-based Clean Break fit two plays into one show: House, a tight family drama set in a British-Nigerian household, and Amongst the Reeds, a nondescript tale of homelessness, fr…

Taiwan Season: Solo Date

Looking like a cyberpunk priest, Tsai Pao-Chang’s hero is swamped in technology — AI, encrypted files and dating sites.

Tent

A man and his unseen companion in a tent.

BOBBY WINNER

Ten Storey Love Song

Ten Storey Love Song may be the greatest Fringe show I’ve ever encountered.

Travesty

It’s a bowl of sugar mixed with grit.

Oliver Reed: Wild Thing

When Richard Burton appeared on the Dick Cavett show in 1980, the host would later describe the actor as “already a beautiful ruin.

Last Call

Angst.

Camille

Most Fringe shows think they can squeeze two hours into fifty minutes.

Happy Dave

Bloody Happy Dave.

Mule

Drug-smuggling.

The Communist Threat

It’s 1950 Vienna and two British spies are sent to kill a traitor.

Desert Bloom

Decked out in her Nevada-based caravan, it is initially unclear in what direction Rosa Rita’s tale will take.

Queer Side Story

As he shimmied onto stage, Gregoire Aubert’s performance of Queer Side Story could be nothing other than entertaining.

Gran Consiglio (Mussolini)

Opening in 1943 Rome, Gran Consiglio is set with The Grand Council of Fascism meeting to discuss the deposition of Benito Mussolini.

Piaf: Love Conquers All

This character-driven play from Moving On Theatre had something for everyone.

Mixed Doubles

Centring around the lives of four individuals within a fictional village, the fact that the premise of the show was built around a made-up comedy charity festival instantly made th…

Thorn

Detailing the many instances of one finding a metaphorical thorn in their side, Tom Jordan’s first came when he was five.

The History of Everything in 60 Mins (more or less)

Ben Watson’s meet and greet as we entered the theatre made his audience immediately warm to him.

Blues and Burlesque

This clever infusion of comedy and burlesque from Dexys’ former piano man Pete Saunders proved to be a treat.

The Girl Who Fell In Love With The Moon

Puppetry, poetry, dance and live music are interwoven in this splendid succession of stories from five zany friends.

Notflix

Theatre Company Waiting For The Call wasted no time in making us feel included within the show.

Oliver Meech: When Magic & Food Collide

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
9th - 16th May 2016

After two sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, Oliver returns to Brighton with his latest magical mash-up: a comedy magic show packed with mouth-watering, jaw-dropping tricks.

Not Yet Suffragette

Time is of the essence in this absolutely faultless performance from EntreprenHER Productions.

Glengarry Glen Ross

Directed by Roger Kay, Glengarry Glen Ross depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen who have been supplied with the names and phone numbers of some new leads.

My Paper Girlfriend

Animation, mime and speech come together in this neat one-man show about love at first-sight going wrong.

A Talent for Lying

Set in a cafe, this helping from Octopus Soup Theatre initially provides nothing that an audience wouldn’t have seen before.

Owl Time

Inspired by a phrase from Virginia Woolf to describe dusk, Owl Time is a gentle production that provides political punch.

Julius Caesar

Inspired by popular Roman-esque style fetish wear, designer Kelli des Jarlais alongside writer Ellen Carr brings the Shakespearean play into the modern day setting of a feti…

32

Shebang’s 32 follows the lives of lifelong friends Becky and Maisie, from their birth in Staines General Car Park, to the present day and subsequently, the age at whic…

My Dear Miss Terry

Review
★★★
Oliver Lugg
Brighton
Rialto Theatre
7th Apr, 2016

The word ‘Dear’ within the title of this production from Jean Rogers is exactly the right word for the intimate relationship that is evoked from the love letters sent between Ir…

The Theatre Workshop Presents...Monologue Jam!

Review
★★★★★
Oliver Lugg
Brighton
The Iron Duke Pub Guesthouse Kitchen & Theatre
30th Mar, 2016

Tragedy and Comedy blend seamlessly together for this series of monologues performed byThe Theatre Workshop.

The 3 Dancers

Charity Rambert’s efforts across England, Scotland and Wales have successfully showcased their professionalism in the three thirty-minute performances of interpretative theatre …

Lysistrata

Set against the backdrop of modern day, debt-ridden Greece, this modern adaptation of Aristophanes’ Greek comedy Lysistrata, first performed back in 411 B.

Rosie Wilby: The Science of Sex

Brighton’s Science Festival continues to attract packed-out audiences of all ages and this time round it’s the amazingly eccentric Rosie Wilby with her theatrical exploration of …

Mystery at Frankenstein Castle

Time is of the essence as you and your newly formed team are transported to the authentically and adorned castle laboratory from which Victor Frankenstein has mysteriously disap…

Private Lives

Regarded by many as Noel Coward at his best, this production is Director Tom Attenborough’s valiant attempt at Coward’s classic Private Lives and reignites the tempestuous r…

Scott Adsit & Oliver Chris Cant Get Into Level One

Mr. Adsit, a longtime improviser, teams with Oliver Chris for a night of impromptu comedy that promises to defy its title, which refers to a beginner- level improv course.

The Grouch Who Couldn't Steal Christmas

The lean, green, Christmas-hating machine runs wild in this year’s holiday season production from The Fertile Theatre Company.

Golem

Brightness infuses the evening from the off in 1927’s theatrical delight, Golem.

Oliver Twist

Italia Conti Ensemble score an absolute triumph with Neil Bartlett’s Oliver Twist.

Oliver!

With a cast of nearly fifty, there’s no shortage of oom-pah-pah in this dazzling production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! by Stage 84, The Yorkshire School of Performing Arts.

Titus Andronicus

The Cambridge Theatre Collective offer up a largely genderbent production of Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy, set in a high school.

Newcastle Brown Male

Rahul Kohli is not just a skilled comic; he has brains, heart, and guts enough to make Newcastle Brown Male something truly special.

Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy

Brilliantly acted and superbly written, Bismillah! is one of the best shows I have ever seen at the Fringe or anywhere else.

Alice

Shipley College’s Scruffy Penguin Theatre Company provides a riotously energetic rendition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland that has much to recommend as a theatrical exp…

Oliver Suddon – For One Night Only!

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Edinburgh Fringe
Festival Radio
8th - 29th Aug 2015

Oliver Suddon, comedian and broadcaster, hosts a relaxing evening of comedy and music with a variety of selected performers from the Fringe and creates radio broadcast inserts for …

Stand-Up Philosophy – Free

Review
★★★
Oliver Lennard
Edinburgh Fringe
Silk
19th Aug, 2015

Stand-Up Philosophy is a low-key, quirky little Free Fringe show featuring professional philosophers sharing thoughts, answering questions, and trying their hands at comedy.

Mrs Shakespeare

Mrs Shakespeare is a bold and thought provoking show about a woman struggling to find her own identity in a male-dominated world, as told by a gender-bent reincarnation of William …

101 Reasons Why I #@%$ Katie Hopkins

Though billed as theatre, 101 Reasons Why I #@%$ Katie Hopkins is essentially a lecture on odious media figure Katie Hopkins, complete with biography and PowerPoint presentation, b…

Oliver Meech's Improvised Magic Show

Oliver Meech is no stranger to the Edinburgh Fringe, having brought his show When Magic and Science Collide in previous years.

FanFiction Comedy

FanFiction Comedy is a chilled-out hour of laughs that doesn’t try to change the world or do anything radically new with the artform; it’s just having fun, despite a few hitche…

The Leeds Tealights: Discuss

The Leeds Tealights show off considerable performance skills in this slickly choreographed, highly creative, and frequently fantastic hour of sketch comedy.

Magnum Hopeless

George Rowe delivers a decent hour of Free Fringe stand-up that never reaches truly great heights and contains more than a few missteps, but nevertheless contains a spark of someth…

Niamh Marron – Stand Up Chameleon

Effervescent comic and sometime Irish TV face Niamh Marron delivers an unpolished and often forced hour of fairly standard comedy material with occasional witty zingers being the o…

Richard Melvin Presents… Live at The Stand Podcast

Live at the Stand is an opportunity to attend the recording of the podcast of the same name, featuring a rotating lineup of comics performing sets and taking part in games and inte…

Amy Howerska: Sasspot

Reviews have to be written in the context of the cost of the ticket, and while Amy Howerska’s debut stand-up hour is by no means bad per se, it never quite rises to a level high …

What Would Spock Do?

What Would Spock Do? is a well-packaged and lovingly-written show held back from greatness only by a loss of potential emotional depth.

Everything That's Wrong with the Universe

Everything That’s Wrong With the Universe is a one-woman sketch show performed by Gemma Arrowsmith.

Jack Barry: This Title Came to Me in a Dream

In his debut hour of Fringe stand-up, Jack Barry delivers an entertaining and energetic set which, despite his insistence to the contrary, contains an undercurrent of awareness and…

carMen

If visual stimulation is what you’re after, there was no shortage of it in this homosexualised production of Georges Bizet’s opera, though its’ emphasis did result in a lack of p…

Oliver Twist

This is a heartfelt piece of theatre which demonstrates just how far passion and enthusiasm can get you.

Oliver Meech: When Magic and Science Collide 2.0

Oliver Meech’s offering to this year’s Fringe is intriguingly listed under “Cabaret (Magic, Science)”.

Jonny Lennard: Tale Blazer

In his first full Edinburgh show, Jonny Leonard takes issue with stand-up comedians’ perennial bugbear – children’s literature.

Oliver Twist

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Brighton Fringe
The Warren: Main House
17th - 18th May 2014

This delightful physical theatre production set in Victorian England charts a boy’s journey from workhouse to happiness.

Oliver Twist

Review
★★
Robin T. Barton
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2010

Let me declare up front that I was injured during this show.

The Treason Show

Composed of a succession of satirical sketches, this festival special of The Treason Show ridicules all the supposedly powerful members of this planet.

Oliver!

Lionel Barts Oliver! does not, in my opinion, get all the credit it deserves.

Oliver!

It was in June 1960 that the Lionel Bart’s Oliver! took to the stage for the very first time and the show has gone on to achieve great things in the ensuing fifty plus years.

Oliver Meech: When Magic and Science Collide

Science reveals, magic conceals, but both can inspire a sense of wonder, according to stage magician Oliver Meech.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Review
★★
Joseph Cunningham
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2013

In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.

The Marilyn Monroe Show

Review
★★★
Ashby Lennard
Brighton Fringe
23rd May, 2008

The Marilyn Monroe Show is a new musical written by Michael Dresser and directed by Michael Alvarez.

The Haunted Moustache

Review
★★★★
Ashby Lennard
Brighton Fringe
22nd May, 2008

I remember as a small boy having a strange dream about growing a very long and impressive moustache.

Lady Boys of Bangkok

Review
★★★
Ashby Lennard
Brighton Fringe
22nd May, 2008

What is a Ladyboy exactly? How different the founding principle of The Ladyboys of Bangkok is from any old drag show you see in Brighton.

Fear of Projection

Review
★★
Ashby Lennard
Brighton Fringe
22nd May, 2008

Fear of Projection is the tale of Assistant Lecturer Ed, a troubled academic, who makes a hapless attempt to cover the presentation of a deceased colleague.

Nik Coppin - GSOH Upstairs at Three and Ten

Review
★★★
Ashby Lennard
Brighton Fringe
20th May, 2008

Nik Coppin, London funnyman, was not long back from his hols when we caught him at the Upstairs at Three and Ten.

The Sensational Alex Salmond Gastric Band presents Oliver Pissed

Review
★★★
Hannah Smith
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Aug, 2012

In the second floor of a pub off Grassmarket, a sweaty singer belts out peculiar variations on show tunes from Oliver! This is Oliver Pissed, as presented by The Sensational Alex S…

Oliver Dean and His Fantastic Ego! Live

Review
★★
Joanna Alpern
Edinburgh Fringe
9th Aug, 2012

In this supposedly fifty-minute show, the audience were met with twenty minutes of relatively weak material, often sitting through unjustifiably long stories for their mediocre pun…

Author

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…

Oliver Meech: Live Brain Surgery - Free

Review
★★★
Leila Battison
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2011

I really wanted to like this show.

Oliver Reed: Wild Thing

The problem with one-person shows from an audience point of view is that, if you don’t like what’s going on, you know that no one else is going to come along and perk things up…

Grandma! The Musical

Review
★★★
Oliver Lugg
Brighton
19th Feb, 2016

Felix Zschieschow and Megan Clifton return to the stage as comedy duo ‘Grandma’, and given the evening of continuously bizarre situations that the pair find themselves in, i…

Oliver Maltman's Little Black Book

Review
★
Pete Shaw
Edinburgh Fringe
19th Aug, 2006

I can’t help thinking that somebody, somewhere must have watched Oliver Maltman’s show, Little Black Book, before he brought it up to Edinburgh; but clearly didn’t have the balls t…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Musical!

Review
★★★
Ashby Lennard
Brighton Fringe
13th May, 2009

“Alice in Wonderland,” by Lewis Carroll, has the potential to be turned into a musical for all the family.

Songs For A New World

Review
★★★
Ashby Lennard
Edinburgh Fringe
24th Aug, 2007

The artistic mode known as the musical usually rests on the foundation of a dramatic plot, with passionate music marking the profound and emotive elements of the production’s story…

The Comeback

Review
★★★★
Ashby Lennard
Edinburgh Fringe
19th Aug, 2007

The philosopher of comedy Henri Bergson once noted that it was Mankind’s lack of elasticity in the face of the ominous laws of nature that prompted humour.

The Raymond & Mr Timpkins Revue

Review
★★
Ashby Lennard
Brighton Fringe
14th May, 2009

Golly.

Lady Garden

Review
★★★★
Ashby Lennard
Brighton Fringe
14th May, 2009

In gardens, beauty is a by-product.

No More Miss America!

I originally held out much hope for this production from How to Deal with Rude and Unruly Women, however being there was like serving a prison sentence.

Brexit and Nazi Art: Interview with Ten Storey Love Song’s Paul Smith

Feature
Oliver Simmonds
Edinburgh Fringe
30th Aug, 2016

Bobby Winner Ten Storey Love Song (adapted by Luke Barnes from the Richard Milward novel) is a play cum techno gig about five wretched tower-block inhabitants who deserve better fr...

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