It takes great skill to construct a story from just one single suggestion, making that story last an hour between just two performers and a pianist takes that skill to even higher levels. But this is Graham and Steen, named by Broadway World as the cool guys of improv, and here they are to construct a story so silly, so hilarious and so bonkers that your sides will ache from laughing. Performing at the Edinburgh Fringe for three nights only, I feel extremely lucky that I was

With the Edinburgh fringe, you find yourself desperately trying to see as much as possible and in doing so you have to be quite picky. And when you need your schedule to work out just right, there can be those shows that slip through the cracks simply because the timing just doesn’t work out right. That was the case for me and 5 Mistakes That Changed History, a show I wanted to see but could never make work. But this year, the stars aligned and it finally fit into my schedule

PowerPoints. You hear that one word and suddenly you’re flooded with flashbacks of your school days, work meetings and even that dreaded ‘next slide please’ from the Covid days. But this is PowerPoints like you’ve never seen them before, used not to feed us data and information but instead used in the most creative of fashions to make us laugh. This is PowerPoinDexter, the new show from PowerPoint comedian Ted Hill fresh from his golden buzzer on Britain’s Got Talent. He reac

With thousands of shows covering numerous genres available to choose from at the world famous Edinburgh Fringe, there are countless styles of shows to enjoy and you never know there might be something different and altogether unique that might catch your eye all because you are a fan of the genre. That is exactly what happened to me with the brilliant Solve Along Murder She Wrote as a lover of a good old murder mystery. Murder She Wrote ran for 12 seasons between 1984 and 199

Remember, remember, the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot. That’s the rhyme that everyone knows, about the story that everyone knows. But why would you want to know the truth when you can instead enjoy the chaos that comes with WIT Theatre Company’s hilarious retelling that plays wildly with what we know and flips it entirely in its head? Remember, Remember has been talk of the town this fringe season, selling out the Queen Dome and delighting with its absurd, over

With a little bit of this, and a little bit of that, through several variations, improv could quite possibly be one of the most said and most heard words in the entire Edinburgh Fringe, especially in the flyering zones, but it remains one of the most popular genres out of everything that is on offer. Improv done well can see tickets flying out the door, and if you are lucky enough to have a ticket to see Murder She Didn't write by Degrees of Error burning a hole in your pocke

One of the many things about attending the Edinburgh Fringe year after year is the opportunity both to discover shows and/or performers that you become a fan of and to revisit them year after year. It was a couple of years ago that I first attended a Christopher Hall stand up show, then in Gilded Balloon at the Museum, and it was one of the funniest things I saw that year. So when I found that Hall was returning this year with his new show Pizazz, I knew I simply had to be th

What do you get when you combine two actors with several moments in history, high levels of audience participation and even higher levels of silliness? You get The Past, an hilarious whistle stop tour through history from Cleopatra and the Christmas Football match in no man’s land, to Henry VIII and cavemen. Sean Wareing and Freddie Walker of the Fishing4Chips theatre company don victorian style striped bathing suits and rattle through sketch after sketch, flying with moment

Comedy is perhaps what the Edinburgh Fringe is best known for, and with that comes the flurry of stand up comedians that flock to the city each summer, so many that it can be near on impossible to choose. You have your big names, established and most likely seen on our television screens, and the new talent just starting to make a name for themselves looking up to those big names with admiration. Then somewhere in the middle you have the names that some know and some don’t ne

The story of Noah, his ark and the animals marched in two by two is pretty well known and you wouldn’t think that, with the exception of the 2007 film Evan Almighty, it would be a story that could be converted into a comedy never mind one that is so silly, so ridiculous, so stupid in the best way that it will have you laughing out load and turning around in your seat just so you can try and take it all in. But here we are with our host Nathaniel Jones, playing Noah with a shi