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

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

The beauty of the Edinburgh Fringe lies not only in the sheer amount of shows on offer but also in the recommendations of others. Someone may suggest seeing a show that hasn’t even come across your radar, but let me tell you, sometimes a recommendation can lead you to something great. Afronauts was a show that I hadn’t come across in the vast lists of available productions, but upon a recommendation I decided to give it a go, and it was one of the greatest surprises of the fr

When it comes to shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, it would be stranger and harder to find a show that doesn’t feature audience interaction then one that does, but no other features quite as much as the work of Highly Suspect who construct and perform murder mysteries where the audience are the detective and have 70 minutes to catch the killer. In Abbasolute Murder, it’s filming day for the Continental Song Contest and you are in the viewing room. The Host Hugh Eurovision, along

Wonder, Jadoo, Hex, The Remarkable Ben Hart and now The Labyrinth; five years of attending the Edinburgh Fringe and five years of having my mind well and truly boggled by the one and only Ben Hart. A magician like no other, who takes you on a journey like no other, seamlessly blending storytelling, legends, comedy and incredible magic into something extraordinary, completely such mind blowing magical achievements that there really is no point trying to work out how he does it

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

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