Margolyes & Dickens: The Best Bits
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Margolyes & Dickens: The Best Bits

★★★★ As soon as Margolyes takes to the stage, resplendent in her kimono and glitzy jewels, the audience erupts in applause. She’s beyond a national treasure. Yet, for Miriam, it’s…
Joe wells, smiling, with orange background.
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Joe Wells – Daddy Autism

★★★★ Have you ever been to a Fringe show that starts with the narration from an infamous Autism Speaks video remixed with Metallica? Neither had I before going to see…
Suzette
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Suzette

★★★★ Megan Margaret Moore inhabits Suzette, the epitome of the Hollywood starlet. Beginning with her ‘interview’ with Wade Madsen’s unseen director booming commands, we are transported into a dreamlike world.…
Hannah Platt: Defence Mechanism
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Hannah Platt: Defence Mechanism

★★★★★ There’s always a slight tension when I walk into a stand-up show. I always thought I didn’t like stand-up; I realise I don’t really like middle-class male stand-up!         …
Queer Tales for Autistic Folk WIP
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Queer Tales for Autistic Folk WIP

★★★★ Cerys Bradley’s work-in-progress show is a ‘pick your path’ interactive performance, where an audience member becomes the central character of a highly-detailed fantasy story. Bradley could’ve easily presented this…
Jake Donaldson with a pair of glasses so far in the foreground it magnifies everything.
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Jake Donaldson: Spectacle

★★★ Donaldson gives us the visually impaired Geordie experience, complete with sarky pre-recorded audio description from an ‘actor who should’ve been paid more’. Yet for its integrated accessibility, it’s knowingly…