Reading Time: 2 minutesA masterclass in navigating delicate subjects while still keeping you laughing the whole way through. There’s few things I like more in stand up than a comedian taking you to a dark place, making you all feel…
Reading Time: 2 minutesLondon Fields is a shock to the system that reminds its audience of the thin line between vulnerability and violence. London Fields is a gut-punch. D.K. Mack’s two-hander is an exceptionally told and exceptionally disturbing portrait of…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you have never interacted with Nwadiwe’s content before, what an iconic baptism by fire.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat makes the piece so compelling is Atkin's ability to find humour in the darkest and most uncomfortable places
Reading Time: 2 minutesChris Cook brings his new magic show, Heist: How to Steal A Masterpiece to the fringe this year. He frames it as a show he is still figuring out, but it seems anything but that. It is a slick and well put together hour of trickery that keeps you on your toes.
Reading Time: 2 minutesGarrett Millerick's new show is fairly high concept. It explores the use of AI in comedy and how this can be used to lie to an audience, while terrifying us with the use of it live.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCrime Scene Improvisation returns for its 10th year at the Fringe. This group of performers show their experience, with clever, quickly thought out plots and characters that provide plenty of laughs.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPecking Order is a one-of-a-kind show, something found only at the Fringe. It describes itself as absurdist, which still fails to prepare an audience for the sheer bizarre nature of the show — in the best way imaginable. Five men — or are they one man? — wearing a bowler hat circulate the setting of a waiting room, which also serves as an interrogation chamber, a surgical suite, a care home, and a dozen other places. Each of them are out of place and out of the scene presented. As the play progresses, they begin to remember fragments of their previous encounters, but to no avail.
Reading Time: 2 minutesRichard MacLean Smith brings his podcast Unexplained to the Edinburgh Fringe in a live demonstration of his considerable storytelling prowess. Turning his attention to the enduring mystery of the Flannan Isles, Smith meticulously revisits the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers whose fate has perplexed generations. When the men vanished one night in December 1900, they left behind little evidence and an abundance of questions. Was it a rogue wave? An accident? Foul play? Something altogether stranger? More than a century later, we may never know.
Reading Time: 2 minutesa sharp, confident piece of new writing When the person you lean on becomes the person you have to leave behind: that’s the quiet devastation at the heart of Stunted, Christine Fang’s new one hour two hander about…