Edinburgh Fringe 2026
Katie Pritchard is Sir Elton Scone
Katie Pritchard
Genre: Comedy
Venue: Hoots 5 Nicholson Square
Festival: Edinburgh Fringe
Low Down
Katie Pritchard’s Sir Elton Scone keeps things playful, inclusive and deliberately ridiculous, where winning matters far less than being willing to join in the fun.
Review
Katie Pritchard as Sir Elton Scone is playing at Hoots Nicholsons Square Hoots 5 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2026.
We are greeted by the wacky Sir Elton Scone at the door to the intimate Hoots 5. The immediate impression is that this is going to be colourful and high energy. Scone is dressed somewhere between a traditional circus clown and a children’s TV chef. Sprinkle into that a few nods to the style of the actual Sir Elton John, such as the iconic glasses, and we have the formula for Katie Pritchard’s bombastic alter-ego, Sir Elton Scone.
The premise is that Scone is running a game show event in a TV studio kitchen that revolves around a number of madcap competitions, songs and games, each accompanied with an incomprehensible and at times utterly arbitrary scoring system. It all adds to the fun.
There’s a definite nod to the unwaveringly bonkers gameshow atmosphere that was first seen in a mainstream setting via Bob Mortimer and Vic Reeves’s Shooting Stars. It doesn’t take long before the audience realise that it’s not going to be about the final score but rather the zany journey they are all going on to get there. The tasks work best when the audience is fully on board, sometimes they are and at others there is definitely some trepidation regarding stepping onto the stage. However, it’s all good fun and very gentle on needs of the audience with Pritchard ensuring the she is always the butt of the joke.
Pritchard is an energetic and committed performer who throws herself into every ridiculous task with abandon. It would be interesting to know if there were tech issues on the performance that was attended – if not, then volume and mic control might need a bit of work in such a small space. There is a deliberately homemade quality to much of the chaos, which fits perfectly with the eccentric TV gameshow aesthetic and gives Sir Elton Scone plenty of charm. It’s silly, colourful and knowingly nonsensical. Pritchard works hard to keep everyone involved without ever making participation feel uncomfortable. The games may be arbitrary and the scoring system almost entirely meaningless, but that is rather the point. Sir Elton Scone is a playful hour of good-natured nonsense where winning matters far less than being willing to join in with the fun.
