Reviews
Jonny and the Baptists: Eat the Poor
Well-written, on point musical comedy, carrying an impassioned message
The Saturday Show
The Stand once again provides a fun-filled Saturday night of laughter
The Play That Goes Wrong
Aberdeen welcomes the best comedy play seen on stage for a generation.
Spamalot
Slightly reminiscent of a school production, but thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless
Uncles
Burnistoun pair Robert Florence and Iain Connell bring famous Glaswegian banter north
William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (Abridged)
Reduced Shakespeare Company romp is heady, bawdy, thrilling and highly satisfying
Jamali Maddix: Chickens Come Home To Roost
Former student comedian of the year wins Monkey Barrel over with easy style
Richard Gadd
Award-winning Scottish comedian draws from personal trauma to create powerful performance.
Simon Munnery: Standing Still
Things fall apart, but the centre still holds for one of stand up’s finest practitioners.
Iain Stirling: Onwards!
Edinburgh born comedian is home and pulling no punches.
Jim McCreadie & Calum Wark
Latecomers to the circuit opt for the old school in festival debut
Zahra Barri: Talk Like An Egyptian
Clash of the cultures material from half-Egyptian, half-Irish comic
Lauren Pattison
An entertaining early draft of what promises to be an entertaining Fringe show
Coulrophobia
A hilarious, innovative and boundary-pushing piece of clownish theatre.
100 Acts of Minor Dissent
A catalogue of defiant deeds that’s both heavily political and highly puerile.