Jim Jam Presents: Biscuits and Impro has the finest selection of biscuits and milk that I’ve seen in any fringe festival show – but that’s not the sole reason to go. With an impressive array of improv comedy presented throughout the night, the show’s responses to audience suggestion caters to your every need, whether they […]

Mention improvisation to even the most experienced actors and there’s the chance they’ll quake. The actors in Improv Conspiracy’s The Harold, though, shake their fears and provide snappy, spontaneous comedy based off audience suggestion and an overarching theme as well. Described as a ‘longform improvised format’, the night’s Harold performance sees the strategy of revisiting three […]

Set against the backdrop of a share house – a situation many of us are only too familiar with – Banana Republic is a humorous depiction of what happens when three friends start up a ‘commune’. An amalgamation of everyone’s assets, consensus decision-making and non-hierarchical structures are defining characteristics of a commune – but in […]

In Spontaneous Broadway: Jubilee, the quips are quick, the songs are fun (if not to the standard of Andrew Loyd Webber), and the mood jolly. Reminiscent of theatre sport productions, the showimmediately brings both the comedy and musical talents of its performers to the forefront. Maintained by the welcoming host Russell Fletcher and the musical director John […]

Dan Nixon is clearly a man of many talents, and the opening night of The Super Normal Life of Aiden Allcock left this reviewer eager to see what he comes up with next. Written and created by Nixon, this mini-musical about superheroes, comic books, friendship, underwear and kick-arse fight training sequences is the theatrical equivalent […]