Milo McCabe: The Unflappable Troy Hawke
25/08/2016 … Part of the appeal of Troy Hawke, Milo McCabe's dandified throwback to the 1930s, is that he's always been so incongruous: a matinee idol without the movie contract,…
2016 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 25 August 2016
Stuart Goldsmith: Compared To What
25/08/2016 … Stuart Goldsmith’s sixth solo show is an unfussy hour of down-the-line observational stand-up, revolving around those most identifiable of subjects for a middle-aged…
Pippa Evans: Same Same But Different
25/08/2016 … Pippa Evans won an Olivier Award as part of improvised musical Showstoppers – ‘It still counts!’ she insists – and now she’s bringing some of that West…
Wayne Deakin: Talk Hard
25/08/2016 … Elsewhere on the Fringe, Richard Gadd is making the same kind of revelation that closes Wayne Deakin's show the foundation of his entire, award-nominated hour.
Flo & Joan: Victory Flaps
25/08/2016 … If Flanders & Swann and Flight Of The Conchords and Garfunkel & Oates had a six-way time-travelling gang-bang that somehow mixed all their DNA, the offspring…
Wed 24 August 2016
Jarlath Regan: Arseways
24/08/2016 … Jarlath Regan isn't the first comic hitting his mid-thirties as a father to arrive at the conclusion that his parents were blagging it as authority figures.
Elf Lyons: Pelican
24/08/2016 … What you see is what you get with Elf Lyons.
Paul McMulan: Alcopop
24/08/2016 … There's never normally much obvious pressure on an audience to make a show a success.