2025 reviews
Alex Prescot: Cosy
Cosy is an improvised musical comedy show written and performed by Alex Prescot about losing his double act partner. Using the audience to craft the show allows the audience to feel invested in the material and is extremely impressive to witness. Prescot is a talented musician and improviser who never falters in his delivery and…
Macbeth: The Musical
Macbeth: The Musical followed the classic Macbeth story through rewritten pop songs. The song choices really worked with the plot and were funny; enhanced by the incredible singing. However, the humour was too tongue in cheek with the actors being too knowing which cut down the joke and ended up making the show less funny…
God Is Dead and I Killed Him
In God Is Dead and I Killed Him, Callum Patrick Hughes takes the audience through his journey with religion, spirituality and the spirit world. Callum uses very traditional storytelling mixed with music played on guitar which creates an intimate feel and draws in the audience allowing us to emphasis and follow Callum on his journey.…
The Comedy of Err-ARRS!
The Comedy of Err-ARRS! told the classic Shakespearean tale set in the world of pirates. The pirate theme worked well but was under utilised with the theme only showing up through costumes and set rather than being truly worked into the story and language. The original Shakespearean language was used which is always great to…
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CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation
You, the audience, are the detectives and along with one of the improvisers you are studying the crime scene and interviewing the potential suspects to discover who murdered the victim and why. The murder victim’s name, the weapon used to kill them and the career of the victim are all up to the audience to…
Gang Bang: The Mafia Play
The Italian mob are mostly moving to America but one family gets on an all-inclusive Thomas Cook cruise to Blackpool. Skipping forward in time the play shows the death and subsequent fighting and back-stabbing of the two men who might succeed as the head of the family. One of the men is the son of…
The Importance of Being… Earnest?
The traditional play of The Importance of Being Earnest but the actors are slowly replaced with members of the audience. The trick with this show is it still manages to convey the plot with fewer and fewer members of the cast and little to no onstage scripts. Towards the end of the play there were…
Best Man
Cathal gives the best man speech at the wedding of his best friend John and his new wife Rebecca. The speech begins to go wrong as Cathal examines his own love life and exposes the various nefarious activities he and John used to do. Using members of the audience to portray all the members of…
I Wish You Well
The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski-Trial Musical I Wish You Well follows the Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial of 2016 in which Ms Paltrow was accused of causing a ski accident that left a man permanently injured. Ms Paltrow was eventually found not guilty and after the verdict, left the courtroom crossing briefly to the prosecution and whispering…
How Can I Help You?
How Can I Help You covered the dating life of Callum Patrick Hughes, his ADHD diagnosis, the links to music in his life and how he has come to understand love. The mixture of music and stories felt traditional but the transitions between the music and the stories were sudden which made the music feel…
Burning Down The Horse
The play is set inside the trojan horse as you, as the audience, are all soldiers alongside the actors. Some of the soldiers are less keen to go to war and organise a coup. The show is very funny with good audience interaction which adds to the feeling of being a part of the narrative…
Alex Kealy: The Fear
Alex Kealy: The Fear covered Kealy’s fear of death but mostly his nerves and tendency to overthink other people’s thoughts and opinions about him. The screen broke for the show I was at and this really threw off Kealy. Where he was in his stride the routine was funny and could have been interesting. It…
Hold On To Your Butts
Hold On To Your Butts is a show where two actors and a foley artist recreate Jurassic Park. The show was really funny, although I have not seen the original film I was still able to enjoy the performance. I believe that seeing the film would only have increased my enjoyment of the show as…
Alex Prescot: I’ve Got A Song About That
I’ve Got A Song About allows Alex Prescot to showcase his musical talents to sing about audience members and their lives. The improvisation is impressive as is the ability to manage all types of audience members and their personalities. Jammed in a tiny room for an hour, Prescot’s ability to entertain, was fantastic and not…
Professor Where?
Professor Where follows the head writer of the TV show ‘Professor Where’ as he is beginning to detach from the show he loves due to the pressures and stresses of writing. He is then transported into the universe of Professor Where and goes on an adventure with The Professor and his female companion and rediscovers…
Rat House
The play follows a local council as it tries to solve the problem of the drop in literacy rates amongst cyclists due to a rail line being built cutting off the cycle path just before the library building. The use of audience interaction was incredibly funny and helped to create a unique ending for this…
Tweeds
Tweeds follows a student hunting group who take on a new member. On the first outing the new member accidentally shoots the head of the club. When the club meets again the head returns from the dead and doesn’t appear to realise she has been shot. The show had an interesting storyline but it was…
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change chronicles various individuals and couples as they follow relationship moments such as first dates, getting married and dating again after the death of your partner. Four actors play all the characters and the show has a few stand out songs and a lot of funny moments particularly at…
Solve It Squad
Solve It Squad follows a teen crime solving group made up of Esther, played by Lauren Lopez, Scrags, played by Joey Richter, Keith, played by Gabe Greenspan and Gwen, played by Ashley Clements. When their dog is murdered they split up. The story joins them as adults as they try to reopen and solve the…
Come Dine With Me: The Musical (Edinburgh Fringe)
Come Dine With Me the Musical follows the producer Mary, played by Daniele Coombe, cameraman Roy, played by Tom Bowen, and sound man Teddy, played by Harry Chandler, who are trying to film the 1000th episode of Come Dine With Me. If you don’t know the original reality show it pits four contestants against each…
Our Little Secret: The 23&Me Musical
This one man musical follows the true story of Noam Tomaschoff who discovered his father was not his biological father upon taking a 23&Me DNA test, which he bought because it was on sale. His parents asked him not to tell anyone and along this journey of reidentifying himself Noam discovers the identify of his…
A Jaffa Cake Musical
The Jaffa Cake Musical follows a fictionalised version of the real trial between McVities and HMRC over whether Jaffa Cakes are cakes or biscuits and the tax implications of this decision. The music had a few stand out songs including the prosecutors arguments and the HMRC “villain” song. Whilst this was a fun hour of…
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