The Trojan Horse is legendary, a mythological tale of trickery, soldiers hidden into a vast wooden horse wheeled into the city of Troy under the guise of being a gift. Referenced on several occasions in tales such as The Odyssey, you would be forgiven for thinking it’s a topic that wouldn’t suit a comedy makeover but theatre company Fishing 4 Chips have taken up residence at the Edinburgh Fringe to prove that soldiers hiding in a wooden horse (that may or may not have had a b

Sometimes at the Edinburgh Fringe, you can find yourself with a gap in your schedule and pondering what to see next. When there is so much to choose from, it is impossible to be aware of everything and difficult to narrow down your options. And that is where the flyers come in, and sometimes on occasion someone handing out those flyers can catch you at just the right time. I was looking for something starting within the next hour to fit in before my next pre-booked show when

What makes being a musical theatre fan so wonderful is that everyone has different opinions and that everyone likes different things, but even so there are some things that we can all agree on and that is that sometimes there are musicals that are just bad. They can be badly received by the critics, be a complete lose at the bank and run for only a handful of performances, but hidden in a pile of terrible can be a little glittering gem; one song that redeems a bad musical. An

When a local memorial bench is discovered destroyed after a heinous act of arson one morning, a sleepy sector of Exeter comes alive with suspicion, accusation and curtain twitching. The neighbourhood watch are up in arms, the hearsay is flying and whilst the police have been notified, there is another prepared to piece together the evidence, comedian Mike Wozniak, who has strong ties to the area. With Mike Wozniak: The Bench, a busy house at the beautiful Assembly Hall are t

The Edinburgh is big, bold and beautiful, and somewhere that provides a stage to big names and new starters. Fresh new talent can find their space there, a launch pad for little shows grown in schools, universities and drama groups that fit in and fly between the big players. Small fish, big pond, you might say, but these fish are swimming upstream. Most definitely in the case of the Newcastle University Theatre Society who present their comical farce Love Labour's Found writ

To quote another hit fringe show '...Earnest?', let's say 'Everyone struggles with Shakespeare'. It's a well known fact that learning and memorising the words of one of history's most famous writers, the great William Shakespeare, is incredibly difficult. The language is complicated and the plot lines a little bit confusing, so you would think that people would be out to make things are easy as possible when it comes to performing the bard, but in the case of Shake It Up, the

Often celebrated as one of the greatest composers in the history of musical theatre, Fringe shows often choose to sing Andrew Lloyd Webber's praises in thank yous and love letters, but musical comedy duo Flo and Joan take things down a different route returning to the fringe with their 2024 hit One Man Musical, which offers a hilarious satirical glance at the life and work of the theatre impresario. As the name suggests, we see just one cast member (albeit flanked by Flo and

What do a writer famed for the creating perhaps the world's best known detective, and a magician most known for his daring escapology have in common? The answer? Spiritualism. But there is one major difference. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a believer, pining his hopes on mediums to reconnect him with his deceased son. Harry Houdini was a debunker, horrified by the rise in fake spiritualists playing on the emotions of grievers. He spent the later years of his life exposing liars

Years ago, libraries acted as community hubs, abuzz with activities and much loved by their visitors. Now, for the most part, they are lonely long forgotten relics of time gone by plodding along and clinging to life as the modern world moves on without them. And this idea forms the premise of The Librarians A Very Serious Comedy written by Matthew Howell and Jack Michael Stacey, a brand new show from A. Cabbage Presents, fresh off the back of their previous fringe success Sp

In a festival that sees magicians performing daring feats, grand illusions and disappearing acts, you would think it would be difficult for a magician to keep the attention of his audience for a hour with little more than a pack of cards as his tools of the trade, but Andrew Frost does exactly that all with a cheeky glint in his eye and friendly demeanour that welcomes everyone in. Andrew Frost has become a firm favourite of the fringe over recent years and now calling the Pl