Serious Theatre from Serious People
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
17/08/2024 … Perhaps harking back to their youth theatre pasts – or forward to where they might end up if their careers go wrong – actors Charlotte Anne-Tilley…
2024 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sat 17 August 2024
© Cameron Brown Tom Whiston: The Dandy Daniels
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
17/08/2024 … Of all the musical genres to be bastardised into musical comedy, barbershop is a definite rarity, Tom Whiston has a solid talent for harmonies, so why shouldn’t…
James Barr: Sorry I Hurt Your Son (Said My Ex to My Mum)
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
17/08/2024 … James Barr jokes that he used to do dick jokes but now he does trauma –but actually he does both.
Fri 16 August 2024
Juliet Cowan: F*ck Off and Leave Me Alone
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
16/08/2024 … Juliet Cowan tries to tackle structural sexism and the insecurities society instils in young women in this scrappy show, but doesn’t have the tools to do it…
Rob Duncan: The Basement Child
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
16/08/2024 … Former collaborators for the now stratospheric Julia Masli, The Duncan Brothers are receding into darkness a little this year.
Chris Turner: Childish
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
16/08/2024 … Chris Turner always wanted to be a musician or a comedian, and he’s got the paperwork to prove it.
Rhiannon Jenkins: Good Girl
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
16/08/2024 … This is an interesting but unsuccessful variation on the sex clown trope from Rhiannon Jenkins, a Boston-based actor, writer and producer of theatre.
Isabelle Farah: Nebuchadnezzar
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
16/08/2024 … Half-British, half-Lebanese Isabelle Farah has turned to ancient Babylon for this show, billed as a sitcom about Nebuchadnezzar The Great that broadcasters apparently…