3★★★ Review: Adam Riches – The Beakington Town Murders at Pleasance Courtyard The Beakington Town Hall annual Christmas party ended in tragedy last night when ten tortoises were slaughtered in a tombola drum, under highly mysterious circumstances. Today, an emergency meeting of all atte...
5★★★★★ Review: Desiree Burch – Desiree’s Coming Early! at Heroes @ The Hive “That is a fact. This is a story.” And with this strongest of openers, the tone is set for a creative masterpiece of epic proportions. This is the latest offering from Desiree Burch, a comedian and st...
3★★★ Review: Final Cut at Underbelly There’s a lot to like about Final Cut, which takes the form of a memorial service for writer and director ‘Sir Trevor Brierly’, hosted by two of his oldest ‘friends’, Michaelmas Crouch and Patio Horse. There a...
4★★★★ Review: Troye Hawke – Tiles of the Unexpected! at Underbelly Troye Hawke is a forty-something stay-at-home chronic overthinker-cum-conspiracy theorist, who still lives with his mum, forever avoiding the dangers of the outside world. He does temporarily leave the safety ...
3★★★ Review: Adam Hess – My Grandad Has a Fringe at Pleasance Courtyard If this show’s value were calculated in laughs per minute, it would score very well. It is a high-energy, fast-paced romp of quirky observations and anecdotes, most of which focus intensely on the mundane minu...
4★★★★ Review: Lucy Pearman – Baggage at Monkey Barrel Comedy Baggage is an hour-long, interactive process of high-quality, absurdist immersion. If that sounds up your street, then walk this way. From the second you set foot in the room, bag ‘searches’ and ‘declaration f...
4★★★★ Review: Meddlin’ Kids at Gilded Balloon Teviot Those pesky, meddlin’ kids and that infamous dog have been ‘solving’ mysteries for decades in the hit kids’ TV show… Meddlin’ Kids. But now, after 25 seasons, it’s game over for the gang, as the network unexpe...
3★★★ Review: Sean Patton – Contradickhead at Gilded Balloon Teviot It’s clear, even from his first few minutes on stage, that there’s more to Sean Patton than his brash exterior persona might suggest, a detectable undercurrent of something deeper to come. He has a sparkling w...
