Reviews and interviews from Edinburgh Fringe 2015.
Wearing clownish makeup and sporting a wide variety of hats and wigs, sketch duo Lazy Susan promise hijinks of the highest order. Lazy Susan are Celeste Dring and Freya Parker, two capable performers with an excellent […]
You know you’re in for a good time at a comedy gig when a venue staff member hands you a pencil before you go in. When you find a seat, there’s a piece of paper […]
Sam Simmons struts on the stage like Londonite playboy with the day off. He asks an audience member to pick a brand of cereal he has a selection of three from. From then on, Simmons […]
Comedy is a wonderful mechanism to remove uncomfortable boundaries, but now and again sometimes shows on the topic of depression disorder can be a one person’s therapy session or cheapen the topic all together. But […]
Following a successful Edinburgh run last year, sketch trio Massive Dad have pulled out all the stops to make their 2015 outing as memorable as possible. They are introduced as if they are characters in […]
I’ve been a little late to the phenomenon that are the Pin and like a lot of acts I’ve seen this Fringe, I’ve gone in blind. True to the hype that I have heard about […]
As everyone knows, a good sense of timing is crucial in comedy. This review is something of a let down, then, as it comes after Stuart Laws’ short stint at the 2015 Fringe is already […]
Bec Hill announces she doesn’t know how to begin a show after using a flip chart demonstration that is straight from a rudely distorted episode of Art Attack. If genuinely she does feel a lack […]
The friend I brought along to Panjandrum remarked on the way out that Pat Cahill is a ‘very old fashioned kind of comedian’. It hadn’t really struck me before - he takes risks, uses gimmicks […]
Swaggering on the stage as a country bumpkin hobo, Marny Godden has the audience giggling at the get-go and if you were under any illusions that Flap’em On The Gate was a straight lace character […]
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