Review: The Big Birthday Show with Magic Gareth
A superior children’s show delivered with verve and vitality and with a lot of skill and with a dollop of kids.
Genre: One Person Show 0
Review: Myra’s Story
One woman, many characters, several tragedies told with the earnestness of truth and the triumph of theatre.
Review: Troy Story
Again the most educative stand-up and a thrilling presentation. Oh and bloody funny on war, male sexuality and the Bechdel Test.
Review: Pandora’s Jar/Honour Among Thebes
The most educative stand-up and a thrilling presentation. Oh and bloody funny on the tragedies.
Review: The True Story of the Little Girl who thought she was The Second Coming of Jesus Christ
Every little girl dreams of being special, but Ellie Rose doesn’t just dream – she knows she’s special.
Review: Hole
Don’t miss the chance to see this transcendent actor prove she possesses another dimension altogether.
Review: Bag Lady
This could develop into something special. Thoroughly recommended as an industrial-strength ice-breaker.
Review: Sacrament
A revelation, superbly written and acted. Comparisons have been made with A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing. I can think of no higher praise either. You must see this.
Review: Living Newspaper #6
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch what this does with the future
Review: New Moon Monologues March
Don’t be lulled by the friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queen of Cups is absolutely a company to watch, and its showcase productions are literally unmissable
Review: Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday
A throwback performance to when Music Hall was King, Queen and Pearly Dreams.
Review: The Donkey and the Rooster
An online story for young people that has all the elements of a classic experience that delights, informs and entertains in equal measure.
Review: San Francisco Fringe Festival 2020 Sneak Peek!
Catch a taste of what's to come at the 2021 San Francisco Fringe Festival!
Review: Mimi Hayes: I’ll be OK
A harrowing tale about dealing with the breakdown of both relationships...and her own body.
Review: My Mum’s a Twat
A one woman show, using her teenage voice to tell the story of being rejected by her Mum who chose a powerful cult over her family.
Review: Goddess
A fun comedy solo show telling the true story of the performer’s previous job as a receptionist at a Tantric Massage parlour, and how she got there.
Review: I Run
A vivid solo performance of a man running furious, powerful and heartbroken into the grief of his dead daughter.
Review: Like Me
A solo talk that investigates the effect that social media has had on our lives from the perspective of one
Review: Jake
An exceptional, multilayered piece that will keep you on the edge of your seat - if not on your toes!
Review: With Child
Claire Pointing expertly performs 6 talking heads characters who are all visibly pregnant; but only one refers to their pregnancy and impending motherhood.
Review: Catching Comets
This was a solo performance telling a story about love, about fear, about the protections that we build up around ourselves that isolate us more than they serve.
Review: Timandra Harkness: Take a Risk
Timandra Harkness is an intelligent and interesting performer, calmly steering us through a show exploring the concept of risk taking, that didn't need to work hard to keep our attention.
Review: How to be Brave
Siân Owen’s one woman play set in Newport is a lively, fun and heart wrenching ride
Review: Beep Boop
A one man mime and physical comedy theatre show with a live digital soundscape, exploring society’s uneasy obsession with online life and the curious delusional pull away from an actually lonely reality.
Review: Umbrella Man
Start your Fringe day with a bang in the hands of a very talented poet and storyteller
Review: Come Out From Among Them
A fascinating theatrical one man exploration of a phenomenon of politics that is the fundamentalist reason why Northern Irish politics continues to fascinate.
Review: The House of Influenza
A solo show of many zany characters exploring what one might do in a suburban zombie attack if an over indulgence in horror movies is your only frame of reference
Review: Taboo
A chilling glimpse into the world of a little known but influential woman from the Nazi era.
Review: John Greening The Silence
The Crypt organisers as well as John Greening really have hit on an ideal recitation.
Review: Cuckoo
A fascinating examination of the South Korean financial crisis with video, a solo performer and not one but three cuckoos.
Review: Woke
A solo evocation of a community struggle that alights the energy of the nights and the unbending desire for freedom.
Review: Caliban’s Codex
a superbly realised piece, vying with Carding’s own outstanding Quintessence.
Review: Too Young to Stay In, Too Old to Go Out!
Nigel Osner delivers an audacious rendition into the vulnerable and egregious lives of those growing in years
Review: The Tailor of Inverness
A story, a thread, a suit and intrigue, bound in a fascinating tale told with a violin and a cracking narrative; Mathew Zajac masterfully weaves and unfolds layers of the stories of his father.
Review: Achilles
A bold reimagining and interpretation of Achilles’ grief and revenge through a superior technical evening of storytelling, dance and song
Review: Baby Face
An uncomfortable night facing uncomfortable truths with comfort coming when you have the decency to condemn the truly indecent
Review: Enough
A violent attack on the social norms which drive self-harm in its many and varied forms.
Review: Mao That’s What I Call Music!
Des Kapital presents a strange brew of pop karaoke and Communist China
Review: Sunshine Boy
A fascinating homage to the world of a true maverick and genius from one of Scotland’s own.
Review: Tonight I Sleep in Peace (or How to Cure Involuntary Nocturnal Bruxism)
"Cell-block Tango" as a solo show with cello
Review: KillyMuck
A brilliant and brutal portrayal of the inequity and generational desperation of the Benefits Class
Review: Gie’s Peace
Inspiring Stories of Courageous Women - An Exploration of War Through Storytelling and Music
Review: We’ve Got Each Other
The Bon Jovi Musical that has it all, except everything that is a tour de force, with lights, an incredible Sir Jon sound track and a narrator that brings it all together without the glitz and aplomb but all the flair.
Review: Ad Libido
A moving, painfully funny, brilliantly crafted one woman show that has everything from awkward sex scenes to teenage diaries to talking Yonis.
Review: Achilles
Fusing dance, physical theatre, prose, and raw, dynamic acting Ewan Downie breathes new life into the ages old tale.
Review: HUFF
A gut-wrenching tale of Indigenous brothers caught in a torrent of solvent abuse in the wake of the death of their mother.
Review: Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany
Moving adaptation of grandmother's book on life in wartime Berlin
Review: bloominauschwitz
A riff on James Joyce’s Ulysses exploring Bloom’s Jewish heritage as he time travels through the 20th century.
Review: The Unknown Soldier
A poignant reminder of the aftermath of war and the unsung heroes it leaves behind.
Review: An Abundance of Tims
The one white male solo comedy show you absolutely should see this Fringe.
Review: There But For the Grace of God (Go I)
A rare instance of an actor knowing exactly how to direct himself. It’s a super-Fringe show well worth reviving, and Welsh clearly puts his life into it.
Review: Megadate
A side splitting new show from Tim Key who is exploring the troubling world of dating
Review: Blank Tiles
A heartrending tragic-comedy one-man show about memory, Scrabble and Alzheimer’s.
Review: Pigspurt’s Daughter
Guardian obituary, 2008. ‘Ken Campbell was one of the most original and unclassifiable talents in British theatre of the past half-century.’ It just happens that his daughter Daisy is both that and far more. She’s one of the most cunning crafters of comedy and storytelling in the anti-business
