Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Jacob Nussey / Phil GreenFriday, 08 August 2025
Jacob Nussey, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ Write about what you know, comics are told, and in Primed – his Fringe debut – Jacob Nussey does just that. He describes to great comic effect what it was like in the three years he worked in an... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Rob Auton / Saaniya AbbasThursday, 07 August 2025
Rob Auton, Assembly Roxy ★★★★ The stage is littered with 30-odd large white cards bearing words such as “love”, “believe” and “push”. Rob Auton comes on stage and tells us he’s CAN, a former motivational speaker, and in the following... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Monstering the Rocketman by Henry Naylor / Alex BerrWednesday, 06 August 2025
Monstering the Rocketman by Henry Naylor, Pleasance Dome ★★★★Henry Naylor doesn’t hold back in his latest Fringe offering, an entertaining monologue in which he examines The Sun’s treatment of Elton John in the 1980s, an era when tabloids... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: Lost Lear / ConsumedTuesday, 05 August 2025
Lost Lear, Traverse Theatre ★★★★A rehearsal room; a tense preparation session for a production of King Lear, provocatively gender-swapped; a troublesome diva in the title role; and a near-silent understudy barely able to contribute.Dan Colley’s... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Alison Spittle / Christopher Macarthur-BoydTuesday, 05 August 2025
Alison Spittle, Monkey Barrel ★★★Alison Spittle is fat, she tells us at the top of the show. But not as fat as she used to be. And that’s the premise of BIG, in which she describes why she has been overweight since she was eight years... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Rhys Darby / Alex StringerMonday, 04 August 2025
Rhys Darby, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★Rhys Darby, the New Zealand actor and comic best known as Murray Hewitt in Flight of the Conchords, is back at the Fringe after nearly a decade away with The Legend Returns.It’s an elaborate tale about... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: I'm Ready To Talk Now / RIFTSunday, 03 August 2025
I’m Ready to Talk Now, Traverse Theatre ★★★★There are, inevitably, certain challenges when reviewing a one-to-one immersive show that’s already pretty much sold out its entire Edinburgh Fringe run (though there are rumours of some last-minute... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: Alright Sunshine / K Mak at the Planetarium / PAINKILLERSFriday, 01 August 2025
Alright Sunshine, Pleasance Dome ★★★★★Edinburgh writer Isla Cowan’s deceptively powerful solo show begins as an almost affectionate tribute to the city’s Meadows, fittingly just a few minutes down the road from the show’s venue – its yummy... Read more... |
Summer Laugh review - five comics gear up for the FringeMonday, 30 June 2025
Appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe has long been an expensive gig for comics. But while stand-ups may need only a microphone to ply their wares at the world’s biggest arts festival, the costs they have to bear – among them venue charges,... Read more... |
Nina Conti: Whose Face Is It Anyway?, Brighton Dome review - a melee of jubilant spontaneityMonday, 10 February 2025
“I really am the repository for all your shit,” Nina Conti’s famous Monkey hand puppet tells her. Monkey may have a point.The brilliance of Conti’s ventriloquism is that it seems to burst, unedited, from her id. Filth, surrealism and lightning-fast... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2024 review: Joe Kent-WaltersSaturday, 24 August 2024
Joe Kent-Walters has been given the DLT Entertainment Best Newcomer Award in the 2024 Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and deservedly so, for Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: LIVE!!!! The show is a blast.It's set in a working men's club in Rotherham... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2024: Edinburgh Comedy Awards winnersSaturday, 24 August 2024
Amy Gledhill won the Don and Eleanor Taffner Best Comedy Show, the main award at the 2024 Edinburgh Comedy Awards for Make Me Look Fit on the Poster. The show has variously been described as “bawdy comedy delivered with a blush”, “a funny woman... Read more... |
