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You can tell Cave has training (and success) as an actor, because her voice and character work is impeccable. There are a couple of dozen characters in Christbride, and minimal costume changes, but ...
Molly McGuinness has a powerful health story to tell in her Fringe debut, but she sensibly chooses not to lead with it. Instead, she first establishes herself a witty chronicler of working-class life ...
The Mayor and His Daughter hail from a town that seems to exist in England’s past, present and future, where the townspeople are vessels for dark forces and the high street chains are eroding away, to ...
Still, Don’t Count on Me is an assured debut, suggesting Trickey’s decision to throw away that secure accountancy job for a fickle career in comedy wasn’t all that rash after all. Especially as ...
8 OUT OF 10 CATS DOES COUNTDOWN: This could be interesting as divorced couple Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont form one of the teams, taking on Rob Brydon and Joe Wilkinson, with Huge Davies in ...
Glenn Moore opens the spigot on his latest harried torrent of jokes before he’s even arrived on stage, relaying a well-known story about Emma Thompson losing her script for Sense & Sensibility in a ...
His persona, if it is a persona, is of a (barely) functioning alcoholic, slightly belligerent toward the idea of the audience enjoying themselves. He deigns to deliver jokes, some of which are rather ...
But unlike those mad, fever-dream adverts that cluster at the bottom of many internet pages, promising miracle fat burning cures or anti-wrinkle treatments developed by a retired pensioner, Bella Hull ...
Narin Oz performs with an inflatable poop emoji at Chortle’s Fast Fringe – but doesn’t mention it. However she does admit she’s having an ‘existential crisis’; talks about the fact she ‘doesn’t do ...
Dotty is an angel imbued with the breath of Satan for balance (her breath is actually a lot better now to be fair – she’s had four teeth out and looks so silly if you look into her mouth. Why are you ...
But Rob Beckett has revealed he was ‘frogmarched’ out of the Rolling Stones legend’s 82nd birthday party for being too drunk. The comic got into the bash at The Rex Rooms in Chelsea as the guest of ...