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Alex Franklin: Kiss Me x
★★★★★ OMG! Alex Franklin, where have you been all my life! At first glance, Franklin gives the energy of many Gen Z stand-ups, knowingly egotistical in a funny, Tik-Tok, meta…
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A Different Kind of Heartbreak
★★★ Let me caveat everything I’m about to say with the simple that Athanasia Kontou is awesome, and a refreshing talent. She’s constructed an original hour that takes us through the…
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Stayin’ Alive
★★★★ Vicky Oxley bursts onto the stage as Maggie, a fast-talking bundle of nerves and blunt, hilarious observation. We see her longing to get up on the stage of the…
(We indulge in) a bit of roll play
The main stage at Glasgow’s Tramway is almost like an air hangar, this formidable giant black-box almost makes the actors seem small by comparison. But for once size does matter,…
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Limp Wrist & The Iron Fist
★★★★★ It’s so rare to go to the theatre and feel you are part of a living, breathing experience. The vibrancy of meeting characters that you are at once familiar…
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Joe Tracini: Ten Things I Hate About Me
★★★★★ It’s something of miracle what Joe Tracini achieves in his hour. To take one of the most stigmatised and misunderstood mental health conditions, Borderline Personality Disorder; and give an…
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Edy Hurst’s Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Himself
★★★★★ ‘What you’ve loads of stand-ups coming out of a cauldron at the Fringe?’ Shouts Edy Hurst to a bewildered audience as he, indeed, does emerge from a brilliantly constructed…
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Moving On… Really, Really Slowly
★★★★ ‘I prefer to do silly things with props, rather than talk about personal things’ so Stephen Catling opines in his new hour. Don’t worry there is plenty of the…
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Cameron Sinclair Harris: PLANETS!!!
★★★ Have you ever wanted to know what kind of personality Mars has? Whether Jupiter is a basic bitch or where Neptune falls on the Myers-Briggs Scale? Luckily Cameron Sinclair…
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Cartoonopolis
★★★★★ Lewis Ian Bray’s love letter to his brother Jack is a high-energy one-man play that never dips during its 70 minutes. Bray embodies his brother, his parents, a cartoon…