Review – Choir Girl
Choir Girl is intriguing. It begins with Susan sitting and singing her choir audition song. As the show proceeds we hear singing and suddenly we became aware that what we took for recorded underscoring was actually a choir.
Author: heckler
Review – Georgie Carroll: Nurse Case Scenario
Georgie Carroll wants us to know that, when it matters, nurses are very caring and serious professionals. The other ninety percent of the time, though, they giggle and they giggle a lot.
Review – The Ray Charles Experience
Melvin Brown provides The Ray Charles Experience with backing from a gutsy little band that rock the house down as they support the tap-dancing star through a couple of hours of non-stop entertainment
Review – Love in the Key of Britpop
This was absolutely nothing like I expected and the surprise was a great one. I absolutely love the writing of this piece.
Review – Suicide Songs for the Ukulele
You’d be forgiven for expecting a night of macabre ditties from a show named “Suicide Songs of the Ukelele”. Original songs of dark thoughts and personal pain, contrasted with the upbeat tinniness of a uke.
Review – Soursob Bob
Soursob Bob’s opening Fringe gig fell on a 38 degree day, and the venue – a quirky little space tucked underneath Suzie Wong’s Room – was swelteringly warm, but it mattered not as the performance delivered by Bob and violinist Emma Luker was even warmer.
Review – Matt Vecchio’s Battletoad’s Challenge
Seriously, this is the basis for this show, Matt playing his Nintendo to score $20 from his Mum.
Review – Dave Bloustien: Social Contract Redux
In The Social Contract – Redux, Dave Bloustein recounts his all too personal experience with a comedy show gone horribly wrong; so wrong, in fact, that he wound up in court for not being funny.
Review – Cartoobs and Other Typos with your host First Dog on the Moon
If you aren’t familiar with First Dog on the Moon (or FD in Internet parlance) as a political satirist and cartoonist then you’re probably part of the problem…
Review – Abandoman
Abandoman is an entirely improvised show, powered by the audience, their stories and the objects in their pockets and handbags.
Review – 3 Tales of Woe
A shadow puppetry performance seems like a perfect fit for the writings of Poe, Dickens and Lovecraft. They are the masters of the macabre and menacing, so silhouettes are an ideal way to guide you through their stories, without restricting the monsters of your own imagination.
Review – Elephant
Touring their second album: ‘L’, New South Welsh trio Elephant have brought their mammoth sound to the Ed Castle for the Fringe – and they are not messing around.
Review – In Defence of Hipsters
This is a silly show, but the stories are straight from the heart, the laughter is genuine and you’ll get sucked right in to the life of professional hipster Cobi Smith.
Review – Kate Middleton Show Queen
In our modern world of tabloid magazines, reality TV shows and inspirational memes, it is easy to fall for the notion that we all have the chance to be movie stars or royalty.
Review – The Art of Letting Go
This refreshingly funny show was presented in a very simple style, a woman, a piano and a lot of attitude. Not the sort of attitude that gets an airing very often.
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