This is exactly the kind of show that I love the Fringe for. Taking a punt on a late-night, fairly unknown clown who you can find eagerly flyering for his own show right up until the performance. These nights can... Continue Reading →
I first encountered Ivo Graham under very odd circumstances. I was contracting for a start-up and they had invited me to their Christmas party, which, obviously, they had hired a private and very extravagant manor house in Oxford for. On... Continue Reading →
So, how was Mark Watson's final tour preview gig in the new Pleasance Rear Courtyard space? We'll come back to that. For this year's covid-compliant Fringe The Pleasance has transformed its second largest outdoor area (usually a buzzing bar) into... Continue Reading →
As we have mentioned a few times in the past we've wanted to catch Lauren in a live solo show ever since we saw her headline a mixed bill two years ago. Between then and now the world kinda went... Continue Reading →
On this night we had a newbie in tow. I mention this only because she was directly responsible for us seeing this improv troupe. You see, she loves 'live comedy' but had only really seen it on TV… Yes, I... Continue Reading →
This was to be our first proper Edinburgh Fringe show in almost two years and I think we ticked every appropriate box - a cool quirky basement venue, an unpolished work-in-progress show and a clown that we had never seen... Continue Reading →
J, Dre, Seuss, Pepper, Robotnik… these are the names that most quickly spring to mind when I think about doctors I’d spend time with. And yet here I am, waiting eagerly in the audience to see my second Dr turned... Continue Reading →
So this is what happens when you don't read the fine print on a show description. At no point did I expect this to be a show where we're read draft chapters from a book... and yet that is exactly... Continue Reading →
"Sarcasm... Love it" These three words delivered deadpan by our clown for the evening instantly reminded me why I had been so excited to see Yuriko Kotani back on stage. It was a hot day at the Brighton Fringe, painfully... Continue Reading →
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