2019

Thornton Heath’s Elliot Steel strides onto Bannerman’s stage with the confidence of a wolf. Tracksuit bottoms on, red bull in hand, what he does next would be sure to infuriate the British media and what […]

Writer-director Daniel Audritt has had success writing for TV programmes and directing his own series Modern Horror Stories for Comedy Central, and now he’s back at the festival to demonstrate his skill as a solid stand-up comedian. For […]

As she begins her performance at PBH’s Free Fringe venue, Sneaky Pete’s, Annie McGrath gives nothing away to us facially. Deadpan on entry through to the end, the tension built here was nothing but masterful. […]

As a queue forms outside Bar 50 (in the canteen area of the Hotel in which it lives), we are greeted and ushered in by Erich McElroy himself. An immediately effervescent character, you can really […]

Eshaan Akbar enters the stage through a gap in the curtain; grinning wickedly, donning an enthusiastic thumbs up. ‘That was my agent’s idea’. The first quip in what was to be a cleverly calculated hour […]

Perhaps Tania Edwards’ new show is named as such because she doesn’t need a wacky and random concept in her headline to keep her show together. ‘Don’t Mention It’ stands out in this sense: it’s […]

Yorkshire-bred sketch duo ‘The Delightful Sausage’ return with their new comedy show ‘Ginster’s Paradise’. Set in a cheery holiday camp that evokes more of an ironic 70’s-themed prison, the narrative follows two entertainers and their […]

I see you’ve got your reviewing notebook! Go on then, fill your boots! Please make it nice though…” Carl Donnelly asserts as we take our seats in the intimate Spiegel Yurt. He needn’t have worried. […]

As Maria Shehata introduces her performance, confidently proclaiming it a ‘storytelling and comedy hour’, we rest easy in the palm of her hand as she chats with us in the intimate Gilded Balloon Old Tolbooth […]